Rarotongan

Papeiha lit a fire; the logs were thrown on; the first Rarotongan idol was burned.

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

They walked up the beach under the shade of a grove of trees and said to the Rarotongan king,

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

Rarotongan woman and the cousin of the king, opposed the chiefs and even fought with her hands to save the teacher's wife.

The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

A Rarotongan legend relates that in Hawaiki two new fruits were found, and the _vari_ discarded.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

Turner, obtained in the year 1845 from two native teachers, one a Samoan and the other a Rarotongan, who lived in the south-south-eastern part of

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Mr. F.W. Christian, of the Polynesian Society of New Zealand, whose personal acquaintance with the South Sea Islands and their dialects is unique, is translating "Kapiolani" into Rarotongan.

Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse John Oxenham 1896

Rarotongan language runs current as a sort of Lingua Franca or Sacred

Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse John Oxenham 1896

The Government Printer in Rarotonga also printed such items as a Translation of the Cook Islands Act 1915 into Rarotonga Maori (1915), Trotter's Glossary of English and Rarotongan (c. 1917), and H. Bond James's Rough Notes on Rarotongan (1923).

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

Both could already speak Tahitian, the language used by the missionaries for their religious work, and were able to learn Rarotongan, devising the 13-letter alphabet and written vocabulary during this time, and composing the first hymns in the vernacular.

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

In its second decade, for example, there were articles in Niuean, Tahitian, and Rarotongan, on topics such as traditional tales and chants.

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885