The natives at kauai state that the land is there gaining rapidly on the sea, and Mr. Couthouy has no doubt, from the nature of the strata, that this has been effected by an elevation of the land.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles
An hour of very severe work, and energetic use of the knife on the part of the Aino, took me to the top of one of these through a mass of entangled and gigantic vegetation, and I was amply repaid by finding a deep, well-defined crateriform cavity of great depth, with its sides richly clothed with vegetation, closely resembling some of the old cones in the island of kauai.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
"3. It is the island of kauai on which I propose to establish you as an independent sovereign.
"Real Soldiers of Fortune"
Richard Harding Davis