They were well around the island, past Kilauea, when Joe asked, "The Tahiti Nui, do you know it?

Shortly afterwards, they stopped by the Tahiti Nui.

The larger island is Poroiunu or Tahiti-nui (big Tahiti), and the smaller Taiarapu, or Tahiti-iti (little Tahiti).

Tahiti-nui is almost round; and Tahitiiti, oval.

The country gained in tropical aspect as we approached the narrow strip of land which is the nexus of Tahiti-nui and Tahiti-iti, of the blade and the handle of the fan.

From the outset I realized the iniquitous character of the Atua who had tried to destroy or set adrift the people of the presqu'ile of Taiarapu, for they were handsomer and, if possible, more hospitable than those of Tahiti-nui.

Gigantic precipices, high cliffs, and rugged mountains forbade travel, and from a boat only could one see the extreme southern end of Tahiti-nui Marearea, Great Tahiti the Golden, as it was called by its once proud race.

For weeks preparations and rehearsals for a himene nui, a mammoth song service, had been agitating the village.

On the Sunday of the himene nui, I met the French priest as he tied his horse by the door of the Catholic church.

'Les écrits de Voltaire ont certainement nui à la religion, et ébranlé la croyance dans un assez grand nombre; mais ils n'ont aucun rapport avec les affaires du gouvernement, et sont plus favorables que contraires à la monarchie....'

Il est hors de doute qu'en ce point, comme en beaucoup d'autres, mes principes clericaux, conservés dans le siècle, m'ont nui

There, moreover, was living Tamai-hara-nui (Son-of-much-evil), best-born and most revered chief in all the South Island.