mahaiatea

Updated: May 9, 2025

"She was hinaaro puai." The expression is difficult to translate, but Sappho and Cleopatra expressed it in their lives; perhaps ardent in love would be a mild synonym. At last, after hard struggles, we reached Point Mahaiatea, the "point" of Cook, on the bay of Popoti, which swept from it to the beginning of the valley of Taharuu.

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