I made peace between Akuna-Kuna and Iko-Morut, and the chiefs of the latter place concluded a treaty with me.
Another quarrel, and that a bitter one, had to be settled between the people of Akuna-Kuna and the inhabitants of Iko-Morut.
This district is called Iku-Morut, and a few years ago the inhabitants were never happy unless they were at war with the Akuna-Kuna people.
These people received one of Her Majesty's consuls with such joy and good feeling, and so loaded him with presents of farm produce, that his Kroo boatmen suffered severely from indigestion while they remained in the Akuna-Kuna country.
Hina was frequently left with but little protection, and yet from her home in the cave feared nothing that Kuna could do.
The place where Kuna dwelt was called Wai-kuna--the Kuna water.
Moo Kuna is the name sometimes given to a long black stone lying like an island in the waters between the small falls of the river.
Kuna uttered incantation after incantation, but the water scalded and burned him.
Others say that Maui chased the dragon, striking him again and again with his consecrated weapons, following Kuna down from falls to falls until he came to the place where Hina dwelt.
The river in which Hina and Kuna dwelt bears the name Wailuku--"the destructive water.
Kuna heard the crash of the club against the stones of the river bank and fled up the river to his home in the hidden caves by the pools in the river bed.
The Hawaiians told of the annoyances which Hina endured from Kuna while he lived above her home in the Wailuku.
When the writer was talking with the natives concerning this part of the old legend, they said "Kuna is not a Hawaiian word.
The story of Kuna or Tuna is a legend with a foundation in the enmity between two chiefs of the long ago, and also in a desire to explain the origin of the family of eels and the invention of nets and traps.
Kuna became very angry and, uttering great curses and calling upon all his magic forces to aid him, caught a great stone and at night hurled it into the gorge of the river below Hina's home, filling the river bed from bank to bank.
Kuna jumped from the boiling pools over a series of small falls near his home into the river below.
Inflation remained in check and the kuna was stable.
Tough as the hide of Kuna was, it could not save him from the terrific heat generated by the red-hot rocks and lava cast into the pool by Maui.
Hearing the crash of the club and realizing his attempt on the life of Hina had again failed, Kuna turned and fled up the river.
Small wonder Kuna so feared a meeting with this outraged son of the goddess he had sought to drown.
Wasting no time, Kuna started down stream, with Maui in hot pursuit.
Kuna often tormented the goddess Hina in her rocky cave behind Rainbow Falls by sending over great torrents of water or by rolling logs and boulders down the stream.
Kuna had the form of a monstrous dragon, unlike anything in these islands today.
In spite of his magic powers Kunaknew Maui's anger to be far greater than all of them put together; still, he had countless secret hiding-places where it would be difficult to find him.
Laughing loudly at his success, Kuna called on Hina and warned her of her plight, but, still unknowing, Hina slept on until the cold waters entered the cave, rapidly creeping higher and higher until they reached her where she slept.
So great was the wrath of the demi-god Maui at the fell intent of Kuna to drown his mother that he vowed never to relent in his search for the monster, and to kill him on sight.
Diving into one of several deep pools in the river, Kunahoped that at last he was safely hidden.
Long ago, so one legend goes, the much dreaded Kuna (dragon) blocked the gorge below Rainbow Falls with intent to back the waters up and drown the goddess Hina, who dwelt in the great cave for which the falls form a curtain.
Kuna evidently sensed Maui's intentions, for as soon as he saw his great mischief undone he fled to a hiding-place far up the river.
Kuna told them then that Burlai had sent him to proclaim the campaign, and that he himself was ready to come at any moment, with all the forces at Yampol and the Budjak-Tartars to Shargorod, whence they would advance immediately.
Burlai wished to avenge these and recapture the castle; but Kuna said that the final orders of Hmelnitski to march on Volynia prevented these plans, and Bar would not be besieged unless the Tartars should insist on it.
The Bulju Pasha heard all this, And wisely answered to Kuna: 'Forbear, Kuna Aga; forbear To make a raid upon Kotar!
Shortly after this, Kuna Hassan, having recovered from the wounds he had received, gathered again all his chief warriors together.
These continual skirmishes had weakened our oppressors in such a way, and spread so much fear amongst them, that Kuna Hassan never felt sure whenever he left his castle walls.
I know how your heart yearns for Kuna Hassan Aga's daughter, and I should like to be kind to you, and help you in getting her for your bride.
Then came Kuna Hassan Aga, with all his train and a number of slaves, some carrying a palanquin, the others the bridal gifts.
Well, then, about two hundred years ago, more or less, Kuna Hassan was the governor of Knin and of the neighbouring province.
But,' said Kuna Hassan, 'how did the accident happen?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kuna" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
