ahiahi

Updated: May 6, 2025

You know our chiefs were always being secretly warned that England, which owns most of the islands in these seas, wanted to seize our island." Over the Diadem the dark shadows were lengthening. The daring pinnacles of Maiauo were thrust up like the mangled fingers of a black hand against the blue sky. Noanoa Tiare pointed to them. "The ahiahi comes. Night is not far off," she said warningly.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.