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 Jules Verne 1866

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 Edward Edwards

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

Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River 1913

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 1913

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 1913

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. Frederick O'Brien 1900

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 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

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 Jules Verne 1866

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 Jules Verne 1866

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 Jules Verne 1866