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Definition of Kanakas
1. kanaka [n] - See also: kanaka
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kanakas
Literary usage of Kanakas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"MAORIS AND kanakas. IN the quarter of the globe commonly known as Polynesia the
various influences, natural and artificial, which are everywhere at work, ..."
2. The Argonauts of California: Being the Reminiscences of Scenes and Incidents by Charles Warren Haskins (1890)
"EARLY in the Spring of '50, a number of kanakas from the Sandwich Islands came
up into the mines; hut being of an amphibious nature, they concluded to ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1877)
"MAORIS AND kanakas. IN the quarter of the globe commonly known as Polynesia the
various influences, natural and artificial, which are everywhere at work, ..."
4. History of Australia: From 1787 to 1882 by James Allen (1882)
"At length it began to be suspected that some of these " kanakas" had not been
brought to Queensland with their own free will, but that this " Kanaka" labour ..."
5. Through and Through the Tropics: Thirty Thousand Miles of Travel in Oceanica by Frank Vincent (1876)
"AT HOME WITH THE kanakas. HAWAIIANS are accustomed to pass half of life on or
... You will not always find the kanakas, therefore, by- looking for them in ..."
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