title: The Secrets and Mysteries of Hawaii: A Call to the Soul
author:  Pila of Hawaii 
description: "Hawaii-- the place that all the world knows as paradise, the most remote destination on earth-- may hold a clue for all humanity during this, the most defining moment in history. This book reveals why Hawaii is the crossroads of all our mysteries The Hawaiian people, their legends and culture, even the location of the islands themselves hold a key that could unlock a giant door revealing the pathway for the future of humankind.
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  # Short Stories
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Louis Becke
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  DESCHARD OF ONEAKA
  
  
    
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  SAUNDERSON AND THE DYNAMITE
  
  
  THE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD
  
  
    
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  ## DESCHARD OF ONEAKA
  
  
  (The native pronunciation of Kuria is like "Courier."—L.B.)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Among the Gilbert Group—that chain of low-lying sandy atolls
  
  
  annexed by the British Government two years ago—there is one island
  
  
  that may be said to be both fertile and beautiful; yet for all this
  
  
  Kuria—for so it is called by the natives of the group generally—has
  
  
  remained almost uninhabited for the past forty years. Together with the
  
  
  lagoon island of Aranuka, from which it is distant about six miles, it
  
  
  belongs to the present King of Apamama,2 a large and densely populated
  
  
  a