morai

• “During his excursion, he remarked a temple similar to a "morai," and which was called by the generic name of Faitoka.”

  Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century

• “On traversing the shore, we discovered a morai, or rather a heap of bones.”

  Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791

• “The word taboo implies interdiction or prohibition from touching the place, person, or thing tabooed; a violation of which is always severely punished, and at the king's morai, with death.”

  Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River

• “Each morai is composed of several miserable-looking little huts, or houses.”

  Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River

• “Passing by all the inferior ones, we at length reached the king's morai, or principal one of the place.”

  Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River

• “The morai consisted of an enormous pile of stone work, raised in the form of a pyramid with a flight of steps on each side, and was nearly two hundred and seventy feet long, about one-third as wide, and between forty and fifty feet high.”

  Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

• “So furnished and accoutred, he divided his citizen soldiers into six morai (7) (or regimental divisions) of cavalry (8) and heavy infantry.”

  Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians

• “An engraving in Cook's narrative represents the interior of this _morai_.”

  Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century

• “The boat which took them soon passed a "moraï" of stones, and a cemetery known as the "morai of Tootahah.”

  Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century

• “Then a hundred voices cried at once, "Stepney morai no Toote," "Stepney the grave of Cook.”

  Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century

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