A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century: Containing Thirty Thousand Biographies and Literary Notices, with Forty Indexes of Subjects, Volume 5 |
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Page 849 - HAWAII; the Past, Present, and Future of its Island-Kingdom : an Historical Account of the Sandwich Islands.
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