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| | Hawaii and Iceland |
 | | Hawaii of course is well-known for it's orchids, however there are many, many other beautiful plants and trees among the islands, such as the feathery-looking Bird of Paradise, Hibiscus, Poinsettia, Banyan trees, Coffee trees, Monkey Pod trees (much prized for woodcarving), and the lovely Lehua blossoms of the Ohia tree. |
 | | In Hawaii the oral histories were kept by the kahunas, the holy men or priests, and they also included long genealogies of royal families which the kahuna would memorize and recite by rote, in the form of a chant called a mele, at certain royal or holy occasions. |
 | | Written histories did not begin in Hawaii until the mid-1800's, with the advent of the missionaries education and religion, most of the writing being done by either the whites themselves, or by the upper class of natives, such as the histories written by King David Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani, the last of the Hawaiian royalty. |
| www.dartmouth.edu /~dam/Writing/Hawaii_Iceland.html (10181 words) |
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