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Six Months in the Sandwich Islands
June 1998, Mutual Publishing
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Six Months in the Sandwich Islands (Tut Books)
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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
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