For one captain, sailing out of New Bedford, carried him to Nuka-hiva and marooned him there among the cannibals.
Between the ages of six and fifteen this is all that remains; and it is but a few years since we had a hundred and twenty from Nuka-hiva alone.
Captain got out large charts of Nuka-hiva and the bay we are going into, so we are all excitement; expecting to sight land to-morrow night.
The French government used Nuka-hiva as a penal settlement.
Captain Ingraham, of Boston, found Nuka-hiva in 1791, and called the seven small islets the Washington Islands.
A century ago an American naval captain reckoned nineteen thousand fighting men on the island of Nuka-hiva alone.
Grelet would eventually have transported me, but so great was his aversion to leaving Fatu-hiva that I felt it would be asking too much of him.
Dancing and singing thus on the flat stones of the paepae of the six Fatu-hiva ladies, I gave back a thousand-fold their aid to my disordered trousers.
There are many proofs of this, but most convincing is a happening that every one in Tai-o-hae and Nuka-hiva knows, because it happened only a few years ago.
Oomoa and Hanavave, the adjacent bay and village, were resorts for whalers, who brought a plague of ills that reduced the population of Fatu-hiva from many thousands to less than three hundred.
Fatu-hiva had been left behind and Hiva-oa, our destination, was before us, bleak and threatening.
Turning and gazing toward Fatu-hiva I saw the Southern Cross, low in the sky, brilliant, and splendid.
One man, whose tattooing striped his body like the blue bands of a convict's suit, said that it was the custom on Fatu-hiva for the leader or chief on each side to challenge the enemy champion.
That he had been one of the great of Nuka-hiva was certain; the fact was stamped indelibly upon his person, and though worn and faded to the ghastly green of old copper, it remained to proclaim his lineage and his rank.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hiva" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
