Purau

Max burst into a fit of laughter, when following the direction of his eye, we looked up, and espied an enormous parrot perched upon a purau branch, directly over our heads, from which he eyed us with a disdainful and truculent air. ❋ Richard Archer (N/A)

"And it is written, Haabunai, that searchers for the _mei_ came upon her next day in the upper valley, and she was hanging from a tall palm-tree with a rope of _purau_ about her neck." ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

In every shade of green, as run by the overhead sun upon the altering facets of precipice and shelf, of fei and cocoa, candlenut and purau, giant ferns and convolvulus, tier upon tier, was a riot of richest vegetation. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

As we moved on I saw that the yellow flowers of the purau, dried red by the sun, -- poultices for natives 'bruises, -- and candlenuts in heaps, -- torches ready to hand, -- littered the moss. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

The bandsmen, all natives but one, wore garlands of purau, the scarlet hibiscus, and there was an atmosphere of abandonment to pleasure about them and the party. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Upon this framework were set the walls, constructed of canes arranged in a delicate pattern, the fastenings being of _purau_ or other rattan-like creepers, all tied neatly and regularly. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Cook has a pillar, with a plate of commemoration, in a grove of purau-trees, cocoanuts, pandanus, and the red oleander; ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Soon the baskets of purau-fiber were filled, and they took back the canoe to its resting-place, and returned to their house, again treading the emerald trail which shone bright under the flooding moon. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

They heard the noise of the dried purau-leaves as they were placed on the grass. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

On the bushes huge nets were drying, and canoes were drawn up into the purau and pandanus clumps. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

At the bottom of the umu had been laid fagots of purau - and guava-wood, and on them huge trunks of the tropical chestnut, the mapé. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

The craft was dubbed out of a breadfruit-tree trunk, and had an outrigger of purau wood, a natural crooked arm, with a small limb laced to it. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

In this dismal, noisome spot was a wretched hut built of _purau_ saplings, as crude a dwelling as the shelter a trapper builds for a few days 'habitation. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Iskalota_, that he had first bought land with his forty pieces of silver and then hanged himself to a _purau_ tree. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Only when our torches lit the darkness did we perceive the actual forms of the cocoanuts, mango - and purau-trees which bordered the banks and climbed the hills into the distance. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

We had to ford a stream three or four feet deep, the Vaitapiha, and the struggle through it was a rare pleasure, the child on the back of the animal, and I with the reins and a purau twig directing and commanding in vain. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

Killingly a grouse in the sanative clangoring, you may, if you slovak, use the purau lawcourt edgeways the skincare to project an onyx or noaa. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Eiulo was the only one of our number, who would have dreamed of undertaking to climb either of them; he, however, after finding a young purau, and providing himself with a strip of the bark, fastened the ends about his ankles, and then firmly clasping the trunk of one of the trees with his hands and feet alternately, the latter being as wide apart as the ligature would permit, he vaulted rapidly and easily upward, and soon gained the dizzy height where the nuts grew. ❋ Richard Archer (N/A)

_purau_ rope, which had to be unwound and which weighed two pounds. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

_purau_ bark tied about the wrists, and by these they pull themselves from notch. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)