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English
Pages
278

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Cover of: Six Months in the Sandwich Islands
Six Months in the Sandwich Islands
June 1998, Mutual Publishing
Mass Market Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Six Months in the Sandwich Islands (Tut Books)
Six Months in the Sandwich Islands (Tut Books)
June 1973, Tuttle Publishing
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
1964, University of Hawaii Press for Friends of the Library of Hawaii
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First Sentence

"Canon Kingsley, in his charming book on the West Indies, says, "The undoubted fact is known I find to few educated English people, that the Coco palm, which produces coir rope, cocoanuts, and a hundred other useful things, is not the same plant as the cacao bush which produces chocolate, or anything like it."

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. Where is Hawaii? — Explanations and thanks Page 3 LETTER I. A South Sea hurricane — Black water at last — Oddities of the "Nevada" — Insupportable heat — Our grotesque list Page 6 LETTER II. First view of Honolulu — Sorry rawboned nags — Fantastic fish — Tropical luxuriance — Lush Nuuanu Valley — Enchanted dreamland — The perfection of an hotel — Kindness and bonhomie — Perfumed night Page 13 LETTER III. The last of the "Nevada" — A golden opportunity — Dear old ill-found craft — A remarkable arrangement — The red rocks of Maui — Snow-capped domes — A magnificent coast line — Luxuriant Hilo — Missionary influence — This is all Polynesia Page 28 LETTER IV. The plumy Coco palm — The versatile pandanus — Preternatural green — Writing cavalier fashion — Social customs Page 43 LETTER V. Equestrian problems — A tropical forest — A sea of lava — Pain and exhaustion — A great darkness — Place of everlasting burnings — Iridescent rolls of lava — Hale-Mau-Mau crater — Fiery stalactites — Glories of Hale-Mau-Mau — A very picturesque inn — An irresponsible vapour bath Page 49 LETTER VI. "Too much chief eat up people" — Lomi-Lomi Page 65 LETTER VII. An intimate community — Home life in Hilo — No thought for the morrow — Polynesian cookery — "Kanaka" objectionable — Surfboard riding Page 67 LETTER VIII. Onomea, Hawaii — The Mexican saddle — A busy season — Vacuum pans and centrifugals — The sugar interest Page 73 LETTER IX. An arcadian life — A forest paradise — The ferns of Onomea Page 79 LETTER X. Off for Waipio — A native school — A mannerless kanaka — Windward Hawaii — Perilous Fords — A precipitous Pali — A native repast — Nocturnal diversions — A man of property — Luxury in a Gulch Page 83 LETTER X cont. Majestic surroundings — The joy of full gallop — "Mr. Wallace" — A cruel monster Page 93 LETTER XI. A surf deafened village — The strange "wahine haole" — Boiled foul and kalo — Into the roaring torrent — The dizzy horrors of the tide — Swimming for life — An exigent lasso — The peril over Page 98 LETTER XII. The Hilo missionaries — A great baptism — Tale of a tidal wave — A high priest and priestess — The power of Pele — Kapiolani's challenge — The earthquake of 1868 — A direful day Page 107 LETTER XIII. King Lunalilo — A royal Procession — "The kind chief" — The hookupu — An enthusiastic reception — The gift bearers — Old-time reverence — The king's speech Page 115 LETTER XIV. A visit from a king — A polynesian sovereign — American vulgarisms — The last of Upa Page 125 LETTER XV. Kawaihae Bay — A trans-island tour — Scorched earth — An inhospitable interrogation — A sink of iniquity — The early settlers Page 128 LETTER XVI. A palpable and living dream — Native curiosity — Waimea by sunrise — Atop Waipio pali — Above Waimanu — Waimanu Valley — Entrancing waters — Five flashing cascades — A moonlight stroll — Up to the valley head — A terrifying descent Page 135 LETTER XVII. Lahaina once more — A notice to lepers — Lahaina "family school" — Trials of the sisters Page 147 LETTER XVIII. "The cousins' society" — A perfect climate — Lions of Honolulu — Queen Emma's garden party — Band concert, ices, and tea — A perishing nation — Stores and goods — American influence Page 151 LETTER XIX. The Hawaiian woman — A revolting monster — Bright-coloured fish — "Annexation and Reciprocity" — "Manifest destiny" Page 167 LETTER XX. The schooner "Jenny" — A miserable passage — Physical features of Kauai beauty — The Hawaiian liquor laws — Soft tranquil beauty — A polynesian narcotic — The effects of awa — A "family school" Page 173 LETTER XXI. Koloa, epitome of paradise — A patriarchal home at Makaueli — The Niihau story — A joyous party Hanapepe falls — Inhumanity to horses — The blessing of plenty Page 181 LETTER XXII. A fern forest — Native attitudes — Missionary matters Page 189 LETTER XXIII. "See Hanalei and die" — "Maikai, Paniola!" — Mauna Kalalea Page 193 LETTER XXIV. Maaleia to Wailuku — An island sahara — Crater of Haleakala — Interior of the crater — Unutterable isolation — Pélé's revenge — Patient hospitality Page 196 LETTER XXV. The light on Mauna Loa — An intolerable fascination — An Hawaiian sheep station — Ascent of Mauna Kea — An ancient quarry — A foggy descent Page 206 LETTER XXVI. Bullock horse Kahélé — Kahéle's sociability — Dear beautiful Hilo Page 212 LETTER XXVII. The blue lakelet of Puna — The Molokai settlement — Leprosy in Hawaii-nei — The island of exile — "Governor Ragsdale" — Diet and instruction — A living grave — Scenes in the hospital Page 216 LETTER XXVIII. Excited preparations Page 226 LETTER XXIX. Descent into Kilauea — The two lakes of fire — A fiery engulfment — The "blowing cones" — Horrors of Halemaumau — "The fire's gone out" — Rough accommodations — A picturesque scene Page 228 LETTER XXIX cont. The ascent begins — A waste of lava — Sickening terror — The crater of Mokuaweoweo — Wonder after wonder — A world of fire — My solitary vigil — Eternal solitudes serene — A painful descent — An earthquake shock — A magnificent view — Hilo once more Page 237 LETTER XXX. Characteristics of Kona — A wonderful dreamland — Life on Hualalai — Death of a bullock — "Praying to death" — Last eruption of Hualalai — Rough living — Kona, languid dream Page 248 LETTER XXXI. The cliques — Small criticisms — Farewell, bright tropic dream Page 258 HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS. Taxation — Exports and imports — The educational system — Land use — Agricultural crops — Prospects of the islands Page 265 HAWAIIAN HISTORY. Recent Hawaiian history Page 271

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1964

Classifications

Library of Congress
DU623 .B62 1964

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
278 p.
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5921370M
Internet Archive
sixmonthsinsandw00bird
LCCN
64025669
OCLC/WorldCat
414962
Library Thing
1039007

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