With my best wishes for the success of the Halepa Ra la School

       I remain

       Very Truly Yours

       John Kavanagh

       January 1st 1869 {1869/01/01}   



I echo all the foregoing sentiments

     Truly your well wisher

      E. Pinchard[?]

      Feb 25th/69 {1869/02/25}



E F Bishop lodged here Feb 25th 1869 {1869/02/25}

Samuel C. Andrews        Feb 25th 1869 {1869/02/25}



A. B. Clark 

   Mar 12th 1869 {1869/03/12}



Fr. tea.[?] no

  Ebon. Apr. 20th 1869. {1869/04/20}



Emon wot jikin in, If la yokwe kom o  - 

temjg'[?] dri mwin

   Kom mal



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Sent Friday P.M.

Dear Cousin Robert,

I have on hand, (just rec'd, ) one dozen copies of "The New Golden Chairs"  They are not what I wish, and before returning them, I will ask you if you would like them for your anticipated pupils?

Very resp. &c

Mary  Green

  

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    Nuuanu  Jany 1st 1870 {1870/01/01}



What could be better than to leap a whole year since the first record of last page! So may all failures sink out of sight and remembrance; and this day, too, in which I am moping alone, fearful and unbelieving, with no such attempt to put on record as that with which I commenced a volume, Jany 1st 1864 {1864/01/01}. Doubtless I am wiser than I was then; and this accumulation must issue in kind acts, or it will become morbific. 

 A gun from Punchbowl was fired at midnight to announce the new year. Its echoes rolled up the valley and were terminated by the sound of Sam rolling out of bed, and cautiously moving along the hall and down the veranda to see the other guns of the expected salute. No more were fired; and Sam returned, grumbling "If that wasn't a sold[?], I wouldn't say so. " 



    Jany 9th {1870/01/09}

The week of prayer has been observed according to the programme in the margin, with good attendance on the meetings, and a well sustained if not even increasing increasing interest among those who have taken part in them. Mr Bissell, leader of all the evening meetings, has been matchless in the simplicity, clearness, and appositeness of all of his remarks.

 Our weather for most of the past week, has been a chilling N. E. wind with showers. Robt. Thurston got back from Maui on Wednesday. Just before leaving he went to the top of Haleakala with Willie Shipman for snow.

 Had a choir meeting after church last evening.

 Mr. Bissell preached this morning on the real presence and companionship of Jesus Christ with believers. "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." This evening, on the sin of Saul in sparing Agag. There is but a show of obedience where the least act of disobedience is allowed. The true character may be known by the exceptional acts which crop out from human life. Every allowed sin has its wide reaching relations with a state of total, overwhelming sin.



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     Letters Written



1870 {1870/00/00}

Jany 4th Wm Andrews. Care C. Oscanyan, "Idaho", 66 Broadway, N.Y.

          8th S. A. Thurston     mov.   Makawao

          17th Lee Shepard, "Comet," 149 Washington St., Boston ($4.60)

                   D. Van Nostrand, "Comet," 23 Murray Street, New York ($5.90)

          27 S. A. Thurston,  Manuokawai   Makawao.

Feb    8 Prof R. W. MacFarland.  "Idaho"   Oxford, Ohio.

           11 S. A. Thurston    Receipts {Torbert  $17.-

                         {Clighorn  $18.-

                   I.[?] P. Green      Melodeon $117.   Circ. saws $5@8.-

Mar   7      Sarah

          22(?)  H. K. Goddard  D.C. Murray  ICE, S. Francisco.

          30     Goodnow & Wrightman   23 Cornhill, Boston

April 20    Theo. Tusch  Idaho.  ($1.15)   37 Park Row, N. Y.

                     Roper Caloric Engine Co., 49 Cortlandt St. " "

May   2'd   Sarah A. Thurston   (lot of paid drafts)

           24     Wm Colenso  City of Melbourne  Napier, Hawkes Bay, N.Z.

           23      Wm. Andrews,      Care C. Oscanyan, 66 Broadway. 

June  23      Wm. Colenso      Napier

July   20       Frank F. Stone.   Office  Pac. Ins. Co., S. F. Cal.

           25       Sarah  (a/c current-Phographic lesson.)   Makawao

           31          "       (1 bill & 2 pd drafts.)

Aug   15          "

          22  Lorrin Thurston     (Phonographic lesson.)

          25   T. L. Andrews   Freestone, Scioto Co. Ohio

Oct    11  Sarah  (from "Kilauea" at Maalaea.)

         15  Wm J. Linton  (with photo.)          Detroit, Mich.

         24   Wm. Colenso, (pkge. books per "Wonga")  Napier, Hawke's Bay, N.Z.



1871 {1871/00/00}

Jan    28 Wm. Andrews.  (enclosing ma's & gold draft for $500.-)

             D. Van Nostrand. Moses Taylor  with $6.- in greenbacks.  N.Y.   

             Harpers Weekly. with roll of 2 drawings.  Oceano Midway Is.



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                                                            Letters Received

1870 {1870/00/00}

Jan  15 Sarah Thurston   Makawao.

                   John Kavanagh   (asking loan of drafting book.)

Feb   1   S.M. Moore   Jan. 7.  156 Washington St. Chicago, Ill.

       3   S. A. Thurston  (Encl. draft for $33.-)

                   I.[?] P. Green    (Melodeon question.)

          22        do.  (circ. saw)

Mar  6   Sarah & Lorrin

         30   Wm. Andrews    New York

May    2   Sarah

         23   Wm. Colensa.  Napier, Hawke's Bay, N. Zealand.

                                     Messrs Cruikshank, Smart, & Co. Queen St., Auckland, N. Z.

July  2   N. F. Sayre.  (contribu to Mafawas F Sem.)

                     Sarah

           18   Frank F. Stone. Murray (19) 1 set "Avions" from the same.  Ajax.

Sept   28   Wm. Colenso. N.Z.  (With 1 newspaper & 2 pamphlets.

Oct    19   William & Adele      New York



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  Honolulu, Jany 11th 1870 {1870/01/11}



My work at the shop is still on Roy's rockets, and gives a quiet satisfaction. Daniel Sanford made me a call today. I am thinking ice machines. There was prayer meeting at Fort St. Lecture Room this evening - well attended and interesting. Mr. Bissell read the story of the appointment of cities of refuge among the Hebrews, and noted the points of similarity between them and christian churches.  After meeting I rode to Kawaiahao with Curtis, and called at Dr. Gulick's, where I saw a new book - Ecco Calum - that delighted me though I had time but for a glance. How strangely tastes vary! They beckon from all points of the compass to their human subjects; and one becomes deaf and blind to all influences except that urging him northward, while his comrade as fatefully rushes eastward. Can any individual circle the whole horizon except in wantoness at the outset?  Can  one individual permanently change the course of another?  Can love die, without destroying the lover?



[The following entry was clipped from a newspaper]  "Married.-On Wednesday, the 24th inst., at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev. I. M. Hughes, Rev. Melancthon Hughes, class `64, of Atlantic, Iowa, to Miss Emily A. Mollyneaux of Oxford, Ohio."



  Jany [balance of date covered by clipping]

One twenty fourth of the new [Remainder of this line covered by clipping]

Strong trades came down suddenly yesterday afternoon, and ten schooners have come in today. Bindt came on the "Faery Queen."  No choir meeting tonight - the prayer meeting having been continued long beyond the usual time.  So I went with Mr. Tucker to the barracks, and played a game of chess.



  Monday, Jany. 17th {1870/01/17}

Having had a special notice and invitation from Capt. Gulick, I turned out with the Rifles this evening, in fatigue dress uniform, for a moonlight parade. Our march out of town terminated at the powder magazine; and each man was ordered to shoulder a keg of powder, and we were marched quarter of a mile down the hill again. The kegs contained blasting powder (H. & H. Co.  EMP) damaged by salt water; 33 kegs, or 825 lbs. all told. The kegs were broken in, and the contents poured in a heap; a train of some 10 yards was laid; and, the company being safely stationed in a gulch to windward, the orderly discharged his rifle, and fired the train. The sight was magnificent



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from the outset, and overpowering when the fire first reached the main heap. It lasted about a minute and a half.



  Thursday, 20th {1870/01/20}

I have put the finishing touches to Capt. Roy's rocket shafts, which "lets me out" of my regular work at Hopper's. Now for ice machine and steam buggy! I went to Sewing Society this evening, at Fort St. Ch. parlor. Not crowded but sociable and pleasant. I assisted at a game of catch amongst the boys and girls outside.

 Weather - feeble trades and misty showers.           



  Friday, 21st {1870/01/21}

I have been all day at home, nominally writing, but really idling. Attended the meeting of Fort St. Society this evening, and helped vote $2500 to Mr. Bissell if he becomes our pastor. I then walked down to the armory, and spent a short time up at Mililani.

The Queen Emma Lodge Hall was dedicated this evening - C.S. Lyons, chief speaker. He represents it as having been a jolly time. A new Johnnie Thompson was born today.            



  Saturday, 22nd {1870/01/22}

Played hermit again today, but attended Cousin's meeting at Mr. Hall's in the evening, and got an appointment on the musical committee.  Weather close and showery.



  Monday, 24th {1870/01/24}

I went to town this morning, light hearted as I had every reason to be, with one dollar in my pocket, and no idea of where the next was coming from. But I found Mrs. Williams sewing machine awaiting me, with a polite note, and so I have been employed. I have also been trying to get my name registered on the voters list, on the plea of having paid my taxes as soon as I was assessed; but Paddy's belly was too full these delinquent tax-payers.



  Tuesday, 25th {1870/01/25}

Had a job this afternoon of planing Mr. Nobles' slide valve and seat; and attended Mrs. Weedon's reception in the evening.



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  Honolulu, Monday Jan. 31st 1870  {1870/01/31}

I begin aright the record of the week - Mr. Bissell preached last evening on the Christian Family, advising, among other things, young men to marry, &c. &c. which Sam Emerson says is very excellent theory, but not feasible "as you and I know," something in fact, which may be justly expressed by the symbol [square root of -a]. I have been at work part of the day on Benfield's melodeon, and got it into some kind of order. July Waterhouse is mother of a little girl baby. I called a musical rehearsal at Willie Hall's this evening, and Sam Nott, W. Castle, J. Tucker and I, besides our host, were present.  "There's a musical isle up the river of time" and "Her bright smile haunts me still" were the pieces finally adopted. 

 This has "Kanah" day with our Chinese population - free lunch, and all the celestials a horseback.

 A large number of Kaonites - 34 women, 16 children and 42 men, all in their regulation white costume - assembled at the Kuokoa office, to get the bibles they had long ago engaged and partly paid for. They took the highest  priced until they were all gone; then the $7.00, and then the $5.00 kind; and were still passing them out when I left at 1 o'clock.



  Tuesday, Feby. 1st {1870/02/01}

Worked half a day on Stangenwald's lathe head. Idaho arrived at 5 P.M. bringing Waterhouse, Moffit, E. Dimond and others.



  Thursday, 3rd {1870/02/03}

I joined the Hose Co. this morning in the celebration of the firemens annual parade. We had nine men on the rope, and foreman. Assembled at No. 2's building about 10:30 and spent the usual amount of time in marching to music through the usual streets, ending with a long pull out to C. E. William's house where a most bountiful collation was spread under an awning. Before eating, a gold medal set with diamonds was presented to Chief Williams by Minister Hutchinson for the Fire Dept. A volunteer company of boys, dragging the hose reel of Engine 2 was part of the show.



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  Saturday, Feb. 5th, 1870 {1870/02/05}

I awoke early, and, after a hasty breakfast,  hurried to the appointed place in Pauoa. After about a mile of extra wandering, I fell in with Prof. Alexander and Willie Shipman. We started Mauka, and were presently overtaken and joined by Dr. Hillebrand, Lieutenant Heinchel, and two natives - all mounted. At the flat beyond Tantalus we were joined by Robt. Thurston and John Lidgate, and there breakfasted, left our horses, and started up, about 9 o'clock. We passed "old saddle back" and "Luther's Spring, and took our main lunch at about 11:30, at the foot of the last grand rise. When within about a half an hour of the top, the mountain which had been quite clear, began to cloud over, so that by two o'clock, when we had reached the first summit, there was a cold driving mist entirely cutting off all view, and some rain. We dined again; Lieut. Heinchel made his last observation with his aneroid barometer; and I with my thermometer observed the temperature of 64 F.; the three great botanical tins were crammed anew; and we commenced our descent. In about half an hour we got down into clear weather again, and afterward into sunshine. Robert, John and I, being without horses, pushed ahead of the rest, and got well down among the cabbage gardens of Pauoa before sunset. I went down to choir meeting in the evening and had a good sing.



  Sunday, 6th {1870/02/06}

Mr. Bissell preached upon the book of Job this morning. The evening was occupied by Messrs. Snow and Sturges. "Lift your glad voices", 2 vs., and "The Lord my shepherd is." Jubilee.



  Monday, 7th {1870/02/07}

Election day: great excitement in town. It results thus:

  S. M. Kamakau 404

  H. Thompson 379

  E.H. Boyd        356

  S.P. Kalama  342

I borrowed some money of Hopper, and got my melodeon and printing office out of limbo at Brewer's. Have really commenced my ice machine model. The day has been gusty, dusty, raw and disagreeable generally. It was so rainy in the evening that I was late for monthly concert, but went on to "Praise'.



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  Honolulu, Feb. 8th, 1870 {1870/02/08}

I staid at home today, writing an American letter, and then went down to get the Idaho off.



  Wednesday, 9th {1870/02/09}

I stopped in at the Fort St. Choir gallery this morning, on a musical errand. The wind blows cold and strong. After prayer meeting this evening, the choir, and the M.C. Soc. Musical committee met and sung, and walked home with the gals in the moonlight. 



  Thursday, 10th {1870/02/10}

Attended the Stranger's Friend Society, at Mrs. McGrew's with Mary Ellen.     Gay



  Friday, 11th {1870/02/11}

Went down at noon - called on Derby to talk map making. Went down in the evening to rifle drill, in undress uniform.



  Saturday, 12th {1870/02/12}

Made my first attempt at musical composition, in harmonizing the "Song of the Dismal Swamp" taken down yesterday from Ober's singing. Cousin's Society at Cushman Jones' was rather slim owing to the rain. I read the main part of Thomas Thurston's "Wooing and Wedding," and Items, and Mrs. Snowden read her clippings. I waited on Sarah Rogers home to Kawaiahao.



  Sunday, 13th {1870/02/13}

Mr. Bissell preached this morning on Christian Zeal; and in the evening on Temperance. The day has been cool, and the weather splendid generally.



  Monday, 14th {1870/02/14}

Set window glass at home; called in to get Capt. Gelett's chart of N. Pac., on my way to town, and then in to Mrs. Halls, where I set her sewing machine running; went down via Fort St. passing the School at 2 o'clock. I drove down with ma in the evening and we called at Mrs. Snowden's, Mr. Bissell's and Mrs. Thurston's.



  Tuesday, 15th {1870/02/15}

Torbert's steam gauge

Evening - attended the "Minstrels" rehearsal at G.T. Hall.



  Wednesday, 16th {1870/02/16}

Charley Coleman worked with us today. Finished Stangenwald's work. Walked to meeting alone. 



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  Thursday, 17th {1870/02/17}

Attended the sociable at the Fort St. Church parlor. No show.



  Friday, 18th {1870/02/18}

Stayed at home for map work. Unhung the doors of two closets and used them for a table, and glued up my sheets of  paper. After lunch I went to town to get my straight edges, and stayed to attend Charlie Swinton's funeral. The rifles turned out in full dress uniform; accompanied the body from the residence on Richard St. to the Catholic Church and thence to Nuuanu V. cemetery, where the first squad fired three volleys of over the grave. I remained in town to attend the Rifles business meeting, and after that was over went up to Buffum's Hall and heard just the concluding sentence of Mr. Phillips' lecture on Civilization, and the Good Night song.



  Saturday, 19th {1870/02/19}

After returning from Choir meeting, tingling with the cold wind, I sat down to the problem in calculus, over which I have been puzzling all day - a case of simple algebraic reduction - and it dissolved! such power has music to clear the brain. The auction of Lumley's consignment of books by catalogue, came off this evening.



  Sunday, 20th {1870/02/20}

Morning - on rejoicing rather that our names are written in heaven. Evening - scripture biographies. Mary Cooke played an organ voluntary in the evening - "The Day is done" - composed by Balfe[?].



  Tuesday, 22nd {1870/02/22}

Our stormy wind continues. For two days I have been housed, pretending to work on the map of Micronesia. Mrs. Mel Gower and her children took lunch with us today. I went down to a Good Templar's celebration at the Bethel this evening. Curtis Lyons was chairman, and the speakers were, Messrs. Snowden, Sturges, Emerson, Snow and Bissell. I called in for Julia Bolles, but the weather seemed too severe for her cold.



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  Wednesday, 23rd Feb., 1870 {1870/02/23}

Map, all the forenoon. Went to town to order Porter Green's saw mandrel. At meeting this meeting evening the subject was "What is heaven?" and the discussion was both instructive and interesting. I went up to Castle's and had a sing with Tucker.



  Friday, 25th {1870/02/25}

Yesterday was a splendid day, the weather being in the state of passing from cold and blustering to warm mild. Today is warm and the wind is southerly. Jim Smith paid me all the balance the Haleakala[?] School owed me and I have squared up all my debts. Opened my melodeon and printing office and had a musical concert in the cooper shop. I have worked most of the day for Hoppers on the Donan's rudder pintles. After drill this evening, dropped in to the reading at Buffum's Hall and heard part of Locksley Hall (H. Carter), The Bridge of Sighs (E.C. Bissell) and the quartette "The Old Man's Dream" - alto solo.



  Monday, Mar 7th {1870/03/07}

Home, home, dull, dull home!  Annie comes up to visit me every morning, and Annie is a wise baby - compared with the people around her. Attended Monthly Concert - called, with Lyons, at Capt. Oat's - and rehearsed "See Our Oars" with Willie Hall.



 Tuesday afternoon it rained hard; wind S.W. Wednesday was a clear and beautiful day. Mr. Bissell's subject in the evening meeting was "the passage to heaven." After meeting, Mr. Tucker and I went up to Willie Hall's to rehearse a piece of music.



 Thursday: - I have been steadily at work lettering my map of Micronesia. Idaho arrived this evening.



  Saturday, 12th {1870/03/12}: -

 Pasted my map upon cloth this afternoon. Have been writing for Maile[?] Wreath[?] and read my meager production this evening at Dickson's. Tucker, Hall and I sung our Trio; and Mary Cooke & Bella[?] had two volunteer pieces.



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  Honolulu, March 15th, 1870 {1870/03/15}

Yesterday afternoon, I drove Mary down, and we attended the funeral of Mrs. Harris, at the Eng. Church. This forenoon, I started off to town with a roll bigger than the prophet Ezekiel's and have been, off and on, at work in the room over Hall's store. Got a new composition inking roller cast for me by Zublin. Readings tonight, at the Theater.



  Wednesday, 16th {1870/03/16}

Scene on King St.  Miss Atherton reins up her carriage horse, and hails Mr. Hopper.

     Miss A.   What relation will I be to you, Mr. Hopper, when you take our May?

     Mr. H.   My sister; my own dear sister. I wish you were my wife.

      A.   Oh fy! when your wife is such a nice woman, too.******* (Two minutes incessant dialogue)** 

      A.   (ready to drive on) Then you think I might be the second wife of some man, if I will only wait.

      H.   Yes.

      A.   But she looks very healthy. 

      H.   She is healthy.

      A.   Well, I can wait: now I have something to live for, the hope will keep me up. (Drives on.)



 Got the Idaho off at 4:15. Took a sail in the "Cara Bell," S.M. Carter, Captain; Bob Newcomb, Cook. After prayer meeting had a choir meeting and elected Mary Cooke Chorister.



  Thursday, 17th {1870/03/17}

Have worked for Hopper on the Waihee vacuum pump. Attended sociable in the evening.



  Friday, 18th {1870/03/18}

While at work this forenoon, Stella Wood drove up for me, and took me up to the Nuuanu Plantation, where I spent the afternoon doctoring the mill. Attended Ft. St. school exhibition this evening - full house, stifling heat, flat singing, and well patronized supper.



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  Saturday, Mar. 19th {1870/03/19}

The programme in the margin will hint what I heard this evening; and it was a most bewitching, most purely artistic entertainment. Mrs. Kinney was my companion and a very appreciative auditor. About 200 persons were present.



  Sunday, 20th {1870/03/20}

Mr. Bissell this morning preached upon "Praise," this evening about light. Mr. Dunscombe led the meeting this afternoon in his usual forcible and hearty manner. Ellen Holdens[?] arrived from Hilo, and sat in the choir this evening.



  Monday, 21st {1870/03/21}

Dewitt Cartwright died this morning.



  Thursday, 24th {1870/03/24}

The box was removed from under the stern of the Donau[?] yesterday. I am at work on Stangenwald's truss. Took tea with Mrs. Chamberlain.



  Monday 28th {1870/03/28}

Squally weather again. Mr. and Mrs. Bissell, Amy Cummings and others went off to Maui in the Mary Ellen this morning. Saturday evening I went to hear Mr. Montgomery's "Macbeth" from memory. Mattie Chamberlain was with me. The artist held his large audience in the closest attention for two hours. His personation of the witches in all their appearances was the best of his acting. 

 The U.S.S. Jamestown arrived yesterday from S.F. Gold reported discovered in San Diego by I[?]. T[?]. Gower.



  Tuesday, 29th {1870/03/29}

Squally, blustering day. Progressed slowly with my trusses. Went to hear Montgomery in the evening, with Hessie Dickson. This performance was much less wearing upon the artist than that of last Saturday evening; and, I must say, upon the audience likewise. Minnie Rogers dead.



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 Sent.

"Worth and Wealth." Freeman Hunt.    B.F. Dillingham

"Chapman's American Drawing Book."    Miss Ida Sloan.

Compasses, pencil, pen, needle point, & leng[?] T[?] bar. Sam Damon

Protractor scale. (Ger. silver.)     C. I. Lyons

Horn curve        T.G. Thrum

Coleridge's works       B.F. Dillingham

3 vols. Hume's History: 1 do. Prince House of David  Wilson.

Carpenter's Physiology.  Wood's Botany.   Vernon.

Johnson's Practical Draughtsman.     I.[?] Kavanagh

The Boston Machinist  }

Watson's Modern Practice }    Henry Archer.

Prescott's Conquest of Mexico.  3 vols. }

The Initials     }   Wilson.

Johnson's Chemistry.      Wm Brede.



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  Honolulu, Mar. 31st, 1870 {1870/03/31}

The rain squalls and high wind continue. Of course, the old salts call this an equinoctial storm, and not very late coming, either. I have wasted my day in trying to soften horn in boiling water. Capt. Roys[?] made me a call. I went up to Emma Square, where the brass band was playing to a pretty good audience, in spite of the rough weather. 

 Walter Corwin, dead.



  Monday, April 4th, 1870 {1870/04/04}

Last Saturday was a moderately fair day, after a week of wind and rain; and Sunday followed suit. This has been rainy, again. Mr. Sturges very tamely read a sermon yesterday morning, on Christ precious. Mr. Snowden gave us a very good sermon in the evening from John XVII 15. 

 I have been fixing up Hoppers forge blast this afternoon.



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The meeting at Mrs. Chamberlain's, Sat. evening, Apr. 9th, was very pleasant, although I had no paper to read. Prof. Montgomery gave a reading on the same evening; and Consul Hoffman gave a ball, at which the Austrian band, as always played.

 Mr. Sturges preached, Sunday morning, on the danger to missionaries and other public men, of self-neglect - "they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept;" - a very good sermon. Mr. Snowden, this evening about pictures.



  Monday, Apr. 11th {1870/04/11}

I have come near the completion of Stangenwald's truss job - 87 hrs. time so far. Spent the evening doctoring our clock, and slaying its inhabitants - the cockroaches.



  Tuesday, 12th {1870/04/12}

Finished Stangenwald. Took my kit of tools down to the Iron Works. Spent the evening at Mattie Chamberlain's, directing H.M.C. circulars with the assistance of Fred and Bella Lyman.



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  Wednesday, Apr. 13th {1870/04/13}

Commenced work at the H.I.W., and have been all day on the Kilauea cross-heads.

 Mr. Vernon and I were cross-examining John Mike Anestry[?] in regard to his true name. Twelve years ago, I remarked, he was Mike; and now they all call him Jack. He said it made no difference what he was called. "But, Jack," Mr. Vernon said, "Michael is an archangel, and John was a very good man -"  "Well, there's a pair of us, then," said Mike.

 Mr. Coan led the meeting this evening. 

 Osborne home with Miss Flaxman.



  Monday, 18th {1870/04/18}

Have been to hear Montgomery again, with Jennie Armstrong. His "Bells" was an improvement on the last time I heard him - all the other pieces were new to me. He was put out, at first, both with his position and with the fact that no programmes were printed. Standing behind the judges railing  (Court House) he said he felt neither the dignity of a judge nor the assurance of a prisoner.



  Thursday, 21st {1870/04/21}

Grand Steamer day. The 180 passengers per Wongawonga from Sydney, had temporary berths put of for them on the Idaho; and "they are gone from our gaze." Dillingham has moved over to Dickson's. We had choir meeting this evening with a rather slim attendance.



  Monday 25th {1870/04/25}

Sung two voluntaries from the Jubilee yesterday. Had Sam Nott for tenor.

 This evening, I had my lathe and tools at Torbert's[?] brought up here, and deposited in "Jim's house;" but spent most of my time after supper making a spring mattress - without tools.



  Thursday, 28th {1870/04/28}

Good work these days - brass air-pump plungers in the lathe. Attended Dillingham's first wedding anniversary party this evening. Brief, but gay.



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  Honolulu, Apr. 30th 1870 {1870/04/30}

Did not go to work this morning, on account of the opening of the Legislature. The Rifles, Artillery and Cavalry waited on majesty from 11 A. M. until nearly noon; then marched to the court house yard, and witnessed the show, and back to the palace to be dismissed. The day was showery. Evening - attended the Y. M. C. A. anniversary. Walker read a Treasurer's and Secretary's report: Lyons a library committee's report. Dole gave his retiring address: and Mr. Snowden and Judge Hartwell addressed the meeting by invitation.

             U. S. Sloop Jamestown sailed - Binamu ma aboard.



  May, 1st {1870/05/01}

Mary Cooke came back from Maui, and took charge of the choir. The frigate "Donau" sailed at 4 P.M.



  Monday, May 9th {1870/05/09}

The Kilauea's cylinders were bored last week. Mr. Thompson preached for us yesterday. John Ji's[?] funeral was attended yesterday afternoon by a large number.



  Saturday, 14th {1870/05/14}

Another Maile Wreath loaded up and discharged to my intense relief. Mrs. Whitney came up to time nobly, and we figured not meanly in our last performance. The meeting was at Fort St. Church parlor, and well attended. I spent the day at home.



  Monday, 16th {1870/05/16}

H. K. Goddard called on me at the shop, and talked the "New Orleans" ice machine. Meeting him, by appointment, at the C. A. Reading Room, we went to Dillingham's, where we found Ellen and Bella Holden; and Nelly Judd came soon after. Having been invited by Jennie Armstrong to come to the church and hear Mr. Squires play the organ, we all went over for a while, occupying the body of the church while another party (of ladies) filled the choir gallery.



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ON THE CRATER OF HALEAKALA, ISLAND OF  MAUI, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.



BY PROF. W. D. ALEXANDER.



I HAVE just been spending a summer vacation on Maui, and in the course of it made a careful survey of the great crater of Haleakala. During the vacation I went three times to the summit. The first time I rode up from Makawao before sunrise, and spent about seven hours in collecting mineral specimens and plants, and forming a plan for the survey of the crater. The flora of this region has been described before. Water boiled at 193o Fahrenheit when the atmosphere was at 46o Fahrenheit; At sunrise we enjoyed the grand sight of the vast triangular shadow of the mountain projected on the clouds in the western sky



On the morning of August 4th, I ascended the mountain again from Makawao, with five natives, and furnished with a superior theodolite, a dozen large bamboos for signal poles, a good tent, and provisions for a week. We spent seven days on the mountain, and enjoyed almost uninterrupted fine weather.



We commenced operations by setting signals on the prominent points along the western side of the crater. The western cliffs are very steep, though it is possible to descend in many places, and are from 2,000 to 2,500 feet high. We pitched our tent on the lee side of a hill near the southwest corner, called by the natives " Pakaaoao" or the "fortress of Kaaoao." This hill is composed of a light gray solid clinkstone, which splits into laminae like slate.



It has been much shattered, probably by the terrible convulsions that attended the opening of the Koolau gap, and for a quarter of a mile toward the northwest the ground is strewed with fragments of rock that have been hurled in that direction.   These rocks form a striking contrast with the darker and more basaltic rock to the northward. The same formation crops out on the east side of the Koolau gap, at the southern foot of Hanakaukahi In the oasis surrounded by recent lava, at which place, it projects from the hill-side in the form of huge perpendicular slabs - or lamellar masses, not more

than ten feet thick, and from thirty to fifty feet high,  standing out of the grassy slope like immense gravestones.  The patches of gravel on the summit contain numerous crystals of augite. The hill called the fortress of  "Kaaoao" is partially terraced on the lee side, and is covered with hundreds of little inclosures built of stone, three or four feet high, and paved with thin flat pieces of clinkstone. I noticed that a few had been covered  over with a kind of slate roof. Here, according to tradition, encamped the army of Kaaoao, a chieftain who had been driven out of Kaupo by his rival, some time in the early part of the last century . We found a couple of  ancient sling-stones in the camp. Many silver-swords (Argyroxiphium) and other plants have grown up, flourished and died in the pas where his army once encamped.  I was told that they drew their supplies from Kula, the district on the west side. Other natives relate that the sandal-wood cutters used to encamp there forty or fifty years ago, when collecting sandal-wood for their chiefs. The chief, Kaaoao, was finally defeated and killed in a battle fought on the western side of the mountain.

       Our supply of water was brought from a water-hole two or three miles west of Kalahaku, which is only known by a few of the natives. We spent three nights on the spot.

       About a quarter of mile farther south is a red scoria hill, which is the highest point of the mountain, 2,750 feet above the bottom of the crater. It is the first of a long line of scoria hills which extends to the sea on the southwest, passing through Capt. Makee's plantation, and is called Kolekole.

  The true meridian was obtained by careful observations on the pole star when on the meridian taken at this point and also at the east end of the base line in the crater. The fact had been noticed before that there is a considerable local attraction in the walls of this crater.  I found that certain rocks of a compact bluish lava on the highest point were decidedly magnetic. Pieces of  this rock have distinct polarity. There was evidently a large daily variation of the needle; between sunrise and noon the needle moved at least half a degree westward, and returned to its former position at night. On the morning of the 5th there was a heavy frost around our camp, the thermometer at sunrise standing at 38o Fahr. The average temperature at noon was 72o in the shade: the temperature in the crater averaged about 4o higher. After selecting stations and setting up signal flags along the western and southern sides of the crater, we descended into it at the southwest corner, along an immense sloping bank of reddish sand and scoria.  We then marked out a base-line more than a mile and a half  long, over a level plain at the foot of the southern wall  of the crater.

        This plain was sprinkled with myriads of silver-swords (Argyroxiphium), many of which were in full bloom,  presenting a magnificent sight.   These plants are most abundant over the volcanic sand in the central part of  the crater.  Both in descending into the crater and on our return, we followed a beaten path, which leads through the southeast, gap to Kaupo.  Our party were somewhat affected by the rarity of the air;  we all experienced shortness of breath, and some complained of  headache, but after spending a week in this region, we became accustomed to the air, and our "wind" improved wonderfully.

  The natives have many local names for different parts of the crater. The term Haleakala properly belongs to the southeastern part of the mountain, extending two miles west from the Kaupo gap to the low place in the wall of the crater, called the " Puali " or pass of " Koanui o Kane."

         On the eastern side is a famous rock called Pohaku Palaha, which is the " hub" of East Maui, from which all the boundaries between lands are believed to radiate.

         The next day, the 6th, we moved our tent and baggage four or five miles into the crater, and encamped near a

cave called "Ke ana ma ka uahi," i. e. the smoky cave,  half a mile from a trickling stream on the southern wall called " the water of Palaoa."   This place we made our head-quarters for three days, during which we enjoyed almost cloudless weather, and our survey made rapid progress.

     There is much more vegetation in the eastern end of  the crater than in the western. On the sloping walls of this part of the crater and on the three easternmost cones we noticed a good many mountain plants, such as Dodonaea, Sophora, Raillardia and Geranium, and on 



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the summit of the southeastern walls of the crater, we observed clumps of large trees.   This vegetation gave this region a very different aspect from the stern desolation of the western end.   Near the commencement of the Kaupo gap, close to the road, there is a famous water hole called "Ka wai pani." Here, as I am told, there is a subterranean stream of pure cold water, two or three feet below the surface, which is reached through a small hole in the rock, which was formerly  kept closed by a large stone, whence its name, " the closed water."

 The scenery around us was entirely unique, and as  grand in its way as that of the Yosemite valley. The vast plain surrounded by black precipices nearly twenty miles in circumference, and from 1,000 to 2,500 feet in  height, with the two wide breaks through which we had glimpses of the distant ocean, the sixteen crater cones, of different colors, gray, red and black, the profound solitude and silence broken only by the flocks of wild goats, formed a scene to which it would not be easy to find a  parallel elsewhere in the world. I ascended several of these cones in the course of my triangulation, and found the highest to be over 750 feet in height above its base.  Another measured 390 feet, and several are over 200 feet in height. They are composed of light scoria and cinders, generally of a deep reddish color, but two are of a peculiar gray tint, and others nearly black. I found no traces of sulphur and very little pumice. The cones all have their ancient names, which are known only by the mountaineers and old natives. For instance, the highest cone is called  "Ka lua o ka Oo," the crater of the 0o, and was the former residence of Kamohoalii, Pele's younger brother, " the king of vapor," of whom many legends are told.  Another was called "ka iwi o Pele," Pele's bone, and close by it on the north side is the Papuaa o Pele, or " Pele's pig-pen." This is a singular natural formation of lava, about two rods square and ten feet high, with an opening on the northwest side. Some of my men believed that if any one should kaha, i. e., scratch the sand in this place or otherwise desecrate the sacred precinct, the evil spirits of the mountain would  bring on fog and rain. A. similar superstition attaches  to the Argyroxiphium, or silver-sword plant. The natives also report a bottomless hole on the northwest part of the crater, which I did not visit, but which has been seen by my father and others.

 After returning to our first camp on the summit, we spent another day in visiting the stations around the south and west sides, and measuring the remaining angles, and returned to Makawao late in the evening of the 11th. After having worked up my notes and drawn a map of the crater, I visited the summit once more on the 25th, to compare my map with the original on the spot, and to make the details more exact.

 According to the results of my survey, the crater is of an oval shape, its longest diameter being nearly east and west, unlike most of the Hawaiian volcanoes, the major axes of which generally range north and south. The greatest length of the crater was found to be about seven and a half miles from east to west, the width being from two and a quarter to three miles. The area is about sixteen square miles.

 The highest point was determined by the United States Exploring Expedition to be 10,217 feet above the level of the sea, and 2,783 feet above the bottom of the crater. I made its height by triangulation 2,750 feet above the east end of my base-line in the crater. The boiling water experiment gave an altitude of 10,165 by Regnault's rule, which is certainly a close approximation.

 The northern or Koolau break is about three miles wide, and over 2,000 feet deep where it first leaves the crater, The western brink of it bears about N. 64o E. The bottom of it is floored with streams of lava of different ages, and is extremely rugged.

 The southeast or Kaupo break is about a mile and a quarter wide, and its direction for the first three or four miles is about S. 58o E.  The lava-flow then turns to the southward, and continues in the direction S. 34o E. to the sea, spreading out in the form of a delta, and filling up the lower part of several large ravines.

 The appearance of the lava-fields and cones in the eastern end, and the vegetation on them, seem to indicate, that they are far more ancient than those in the western end. The latest action in the crater seems to have been the formation of the cinder cones in the southwestern part. -American Journal of Science and Arts.



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  Thursday, May 19th 1870 {1870/05/19}

Ellen Holden - married this evening. Ajax arrived at 7 P.M. full of passengers.



  Sunday, 22nd {1870/05/22}

Str. "City of Melbourne" arrived at daylight this morning, with about 180 passengers en route for S.F.  Pfluger and the two S.S. captains discussed the matter over breakfast, and decided that the Ajax should not sail until 9 A.M. tomorrow. But the transfer of baggage &c. by drays has been made today.  After  Mr. McCully preached this morning, upon the defection and restoration of the Apostle Peter. After meeting this afternoon, I walked up with Mr. Thompson, and took tea at Johnnie Waterhouse's. 

 Mr. Havell played the organ for us this evening. The quartette "Rock of Ages" was the anthem, sung by Mary Cooke, Mrs. Hall, Willie Hall and Willie Castle. Mr. Bissell gave his farewell - letting us know his impressions of the Islands and the dangers to which foreign churches here were exposed, and the special duties that lay before them. 



  Monday, 23rd {1870/05/23}

Str. Ajax with precious freight, left the wharf at 9:50 A.M.  Sam's 31st birth day.



  Tuesday, 24th {1870/05/24}

Queen Vic's birth day. I hammered my left foot this morning. Quit work at 3 P.M. like the rest. The steamer City of Melbourne left about sundown  - H. K. Goddard aboard. Reception to Rev. McCully in the evening.



  Wednesday, 25th {1870/05/25}

Lolled in my room with a wet rag around my foot.



  Thursday, 26th {1870/05/26}

Ditto, Ditto. Finished and framed my picture of the Kahuku Lava Cascade.



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  Monday, May 30th, 1870 {1870/05/30}

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  Saturday, June 4th {1870/06/04}

I have worked all the week at Onomea and Kilauea work: and, with Corder have received notice that I may play awhile. Attended Samuel[?] Cousins' meeting this evening at Cushman Jones. We had a few words from Dr. Clark, Rev. Mr. Loomis and our missionary, S. Kauwealoha.



  Sunday, 5th {1870/06/05}

Communion Sabbath. Mr. McCully preached about the temptations of Christ. I went to Stone house at noon for some music books: and to Henry Carter's for dinner after the afternoon meeting. Dr. Clark preached a missionary sermon in the evening - extempore, and full of vigor and interest.



  Sunday, 19th {1870/06/19}

After the Jubilee, and everybody badly run down by its labors, pleasures and excitements.         Saturday evening, 11th inst. {1870/06/11}, the Mission Children's Society held their Anniversary meeting in Fort St. Church. We sang the anthem "Wake the Song of Jubilee." (Jubilee, p. 312) Havell at the organ and Dillingham, Hall, and Miss Chamberlain read their reports, and Pres. Church his address - all short. Addresses by friends and members filled up the time and made a pleasant meeting.         Sunday evening - Dr. Damon's Jubilee sermon. Anthem "Praise God from whom" - from Hawn Collection; and after the discourse, the original hymn "Wake! Isles of the South."



  Monday evening, 13th {1870/06/13}, Mrs. Thurston read her reminiscences of the early missionary life here - about 1 h:10 m. long - separated into convenient topics into various chapters under appropriate titles. Hers was a unique production and was read in a clear, firm voice, from the pulpit and to a crowded house. At the suggestion of Mr. Harris, a contribution was taken up for the joint benefit of Mrs. Thurston and Mrs. Whitney amounting to about $[blank]

 Tuesday evening {1870/06/14}. Mrs Whitney's reminiscences were read by



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Sanford Dole; and a letter from Rev. Mr. Geddy on the New Hebrides. On Wednesday evening, in the same place - Fort St. Church - other letters were read from Wm. Wyatt Gill, Hervey Is., and from A.[?] W. Murray of Samoa.



 Wednesday {1870/06/15} - grand Jubilee procession, celebration in Kawaiahae[?] Church, and feast.



 Thursday evening {1870/06/16} - Mr. Whitney's "15th amendment" party; coffee for 250 - very successful and pleasant.               Friday evening - alumni meeting at Punahou, with supper - all good. 



 Thursday, June 23 {1870/06/23}

Ajax sailed this forenoon, with O.H. Gulick ma, Dr. Clark, Mrs. Tinker ma, Dan Sutherland, etc. 

  Sent to Wm. Colenso, Napier Hawkes Bay, N.Z.

 I Hawaiian Grammar,

            1 Directory Historical Sketch    2.50

 Hawaiian Club papers     1.00

 Contributions of a Venerable Savage   1.25

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 July Fourth, 1870 {1870/06/04}

A volley of crackers awakened me this morning; and at 6 o'clock an artillery salute was fired in town which as was also done at noon, and at 6 P.M. The day has been bright and warm.  The plan for a party of us to take a horse back ride towards Ewa, fell through as far as Mr. Tucker and were concerned. Went down with Mary & Sam Nott, at 2 o'clock to Consul Adamson's reception. Went over to see Dr. Newcomb's slide rest; and with him walked up to the picnic at Mrs. Paty's yard. The "Children's Picnic" was a great success - the collation abundant, and orderly to the very end - the children's marching and cheering, enthusiastic - the speeches good, except Tannatts anecdotes, which were out of taste. The band music, however, was execrable: 6 voices[?] instruments and 2 drums, and all discordant. Attended monthly concert in the evening, and was left in the rain by Puakea[?], who came home alone. 



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  Honolulu, July 5th, 1870 {1870/07/05}

Affairs at the Iron Works somewhat disjointed, partly as a consequence of the holiday. The broken cast-iron grave stone is at the shop, and attracts a great deal of attention. Spent the evening on my speed lathe.



  Wednesday, 6th {1870/07/06}

Subject before the prayer meeting this evening - the means and the motives for maintaining Christian brotherhood. It was a pleasant meeting. Brig Kamehameha V off for the guano islands this afternoon.



  Satu   Friday, 8th {1870/07/08}

Attended choir meeting - Mrs. Parke, Nellie, Jul. Tucker and I.



  Monday, 11th {1870/07/11}

Attended a "musical caucus" at Sul[?] Bolles'. Dr. Newcomb was the third and we sung anthems from the Jubilee, Dulcimer, Psalmista, &c. until after 10 o'clock, and with the greatest pleasure (to ourselves.)



  Tuesday 12th {1870/07/12}

Schr. Annie, Capt. Babcock, sailed for Micronesia at 10(?) o'clock this morning. I sent a chromo picture to Aea, in lieu of a letter. Went to Mrs. Chamberlain's this evening, to read proofs.



  Thursday, 14th {1870/07/14}

Mary Ellen went to Waikiki today, which gave me a chance to ride both to and from town. Work as usual. Spent this evening on my pedespeeds[?], to no purpose.



  Friday, 15th {1870/07/15}

After drill this evening I rode around to Thomas Thrum's new house to call. Saw an imprint from his first woodcut, and beat him at a game of chess.



  Saturday, 16th {1870/07/16}

Had a good choir meeting - prepared two anthems from the "Jubilee" for tomorrow. I was one of five that helped break down Mr. King's spring wagon, by riding down in it. Called at Mr. Bolles', and saw Mr. & Mrs. Havell.



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  Monday, 18th {1870/07/18}

Meeting of Olympic Club in the Evening, and practice.



  Tuesday, 19th {1870/07/19}

D. C. Murray arrived this morning with many passengers and a heavy mail, and 18 tons of ice and an ice machine for Alf. Bush. I was at Hall's, on my way home from Kawaiahao, when the Ajax fired her signal gun - 9:50 P.M.



  Saturday, 23rd {1870/07/23}

Str. City of Melbourne arrived this afternoon. Young Cleghorn, late bookkeeper at the H.I.W.[?] takes passage home per Ajax. I have sent William's wife's M.C. certificate to N.Y. and a "Jubilee" Advertiser to Aunt Margaret. Choir meeting full in spite of the rain.



  Monday, 25th {1870/07/25}

Set Mr. Havell at work on the Kaukeano[?] organ. Sent Sarah two gift books by mail: $2.- + 22 cts.. The Ajax got off yesterday morning at 9:45, and the City of Melbourne this evening. Commenced to copy map of Kaiwiki Plantation for Frank Harris.



  Tuesday, 26th {1870/07/26}

Trade wind with hard and frequent showers, is our weather up the valley. The "Arion" quartett club were to have held their first meeting at Dr. Newcomb's, this evening; but Paty and Berrill failed to connect.



  Wednesday, 27th {1870/07/27}

The great Biscuit machine of the period was inspected and ordered tried, amid an excited crowd, this afternoon. Few at meeting this evening. Had some feeble gymnastics, at the Olympic. Ethan Allen sailed for S.F.



  Friday, 29th {1870/07/29}

Y. M. C. A. meeting. Extra long session on account of Mr. Damon speaking at great length on various topics. By invitation we afterwards went, en masse, into Mr. Duncombe's Chinese school, and heard his pupils read.



  Saturday, 30th {1870/07/30}

Slim choir meeting. News of War in Europe - per Comet



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  Monday, Aug. 1st {1870/08/01}

Mrs. E. P. Adams died yesterday afternoon. Being requested to help sing at the funeral, I came home and drove Mary Ellen to it. I staid down to monthly concert, spending the interval at the reading room.



  Tuesday, 16th {1870/08/16}

Had three front teeth drawn by Dr. Newcomb. Used my new pipe lathe-centers in cutting threads on the pump cylinder of my ice machine.



  Thursday, 25th {1870/08/25}

The "Ajax" got off today at about 12:40. George and Mary Rowell went on: Mr. Bartlett, also. A very heavy shower fell about noon. Day before yesterday I exposed a boxwood mounted thermometer to the sun, laying it upon some chips on the ground; and the mercury rose to 135. In the cool of the shop window, it sunk to 92.



  Friday, 26th {1870/08/26}

Went to town in the afternoon to hand in my bid for contract to manufacture dog-tags. And again in the evening, to the Y.M.C.A. meeting, which was long and gassy, but Enlightening, on the whole. 

 Ship Dolores Ugarte - 584 coolies - habeus corpus writ.



  Saturday, 27th {1870/08/27}

I have been building my forge. Choir meeting, and ice creams. The dogma of papal infallibility was passed by vote in Rome on Monday, Aug. July 18th, 538 placet - 2 non placet. The ware between France and Prussia was declared July 16th[?].



  Monday, 29th {1870/08/29}

Went to town in order to give Mr. Havell assistance, but only fixed a borrowed step ladder, and put some rat poison into the organ.



  Tuesday, 30th {1870/08/30}

My forge works well, with its vertical blast pipe and rose tuyere, and I have dressed up a lot of tools, made a fire-shovel, and half finished an experimental stamp, R.T.T.



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  Wednesday, Aug. 31st, 1870 {1870/08/31}

I spent most of the day on my trial stamp, and finished it to my satisfaction, though, of course, it was not perfect. Cut off and annealed blanks for a set of digits, and fixed up a hardy. Attended preparatory lecture in the evening. Subject - Christ washing the disciples feet. Bright moonlight.



  Saturday, September 3rd {1870/09/03}

Thursday forenoon I went down to help Mr. Havell tune the Ft. St. organ. We worked from 11 until about 3. Friday from 7:30 till 4:30; and Saturday from 8 till about 5 allowed us to close up the organ and call it finished. The first great problem was to find out the secret of the tremblant and make it operative, which was at last done by accident. The next was to make the vox humana stop stand in tune. Havell went through it completely nine times. Between Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, the whole stop perceptibly sharpened, the thermometer showing a fall of perhaps 6 during the night. The hautboy stop was nearly as sensitive. The third problem was to deepen the touch of the keys, particularly in the swell manual; but some bad consequence followed every trial, and he had to give it up. I took dinner with Mr. Havell all three days. We had choir meeting on Friday evening. 

[samples of name stamps and number stamp]



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  Sept 20th, 1870 {1870/09/20}

My days pass wearily along, and I gain neither skill, nor wisdom, nor money. I feel like Mrs. Oliphant's "John," between his first and second returns from Camelford. Queen Dowager Kalama died this morning. George Dole and his wife and Mattie Chamberlain took lunch here. Annie continues to bestow his ludicrous grimaces upon visitors, with proper discrimination. The weather is again intensely hot. South wind yesterday.



  Sept. 25th, Sunday {1870/09/25}

The "equinoctial gale" was on time this fall, commencing the night of the 21st, and continuing for 3 days, strong and dry, with occasional lulls, and a few flaws from the E. or S.E. Today it has blown with unabated violence, but accompanied with rain. Last evening was devoted by the Germans to a celebration of the late victories of the Prussian armies, which culminated in the investment of the French army under Wimpffel in the town of Sedan, and the surrender of Louis Napoleon and 70,000 troops. (Sept. 2nd 1870.) The celebration consisted of a torchlight procession through the streets - 46 lighted torches were counted, in spite of the wind, and perhaps there were as many more Teutons without them - a tar-barrel bonfire on the W. flank of Punchbowl; and free-drinking and speech-making at the German club house, which was finely illuminated, indoors and out. A select few braved the elements (air and earth) to come to choir meeting. 

 I have worked for a couple of days, at Hopper's shop; and this dip into the mechanical world again, is as refreshing to my spirits as the plunge of a flying fish into its native element must be. 

 Queen Kalama died last Tuesday.

 Mr. Whitney's last "Advertiser" was issued yesterday.



  Wednesday, 28th {1870/09/28}

I worked for Hopper in town, last Monday. The "City of Melbourne" arrived in the afternoon, three days behind time. The "Moses Taylor" left for S.F. on Tuesday at 10 A.M., though it was still blowing great guns, with rain. The Australian boat left this evening. I walked out to Punahow[?], last eveg.



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to rehearse music for M.C. Soc.; but, by some mistake, Nellie Judd was not there. We had our singing in Mrs. Whitney's parlor. As it rained, I spent the night there, having Robert Thurston's bed, and walked home this morning. 

 I have cut my duplicate 3 + 5 today, and have made a circular milling saw, &c. Drove Mary and Mrs. Paty to meeting, which was full and interesting.



  Monday, Oct. 3d, 1870 {1870/10/03}

I finished Mr. Hopper's two sets of digits (impressed on p. 28,) and it has proved a tedious work. The punches are now worth about their weight in gold. Mr. Searle, late of Australia, occupied the time of the monthly concert in giving a description of the aborigines of Australia and Tasmania, and of the attempts to educate and christianize them.



  Wednesday, 5th {1870/10/05}

Spent the day pleasuring, having been invited to join the trial excursion on the Kilauea.



  Thursday, 6th {1870/10/06}

I was much of a wharf-loafer waiting to see Geo. Roberts.



  Friday, 7th {1870/10/07}

Shipped as asst. Engineer aboard the Kilauea, for a year at $90.~ per month. Small choir meeting in the evening.



  Saturday, 9th {1870/10/09}

The funeral of late Queen Kalama has caused a partial suspension of business. The Rifles, Artillery, 2 cavalry companies, and 2 companies of marines from the "Jamestown" and "Ringdove" swelled the procession. The march was extremely hot and wearisome. I walked out to M.C. Society at Sanford Dole's, but took no Newcomb with me as I had expected to do.



  Friday, 21st {1870/10/21}

For details of the first round trip, as far as the steamboat is concerned, see the Engineer's logbook. Otherwise, it was quite a pleasure trip - to me, as well as to all the others. I was ashore at Hilo Wednesday afternoon and evening night; and again on Sunday forenoon, and was well treated at all times. We got back here last Wednesday morning at 8 A.M. There was a piece of a southerly gale yesterday, endangering the Peruvian ship "Galileo" which lay outside, having 300 coolies aboard. The ROLLY MOSES arrived about 8 this evening was with 49 passengers.



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  Steamer Kilauea, Dec. 9th, 1870 {1870/12/09}

Our little fish parties - for want of a better name - are a prominent feature of my ocean life; and our Kona trips are the times when they are specially frequent and festive. The clear and still waters of Kawaihae bay yield abundant finny treasures to our anglers; and money, also, down the coast, proves catching, if our personal efforts fail. The fish - opelu, weke, ulauba, puou, uku, or what not, for all is fish that comes to our net - are duly dressed and quartered, with nioi[?] for a seasoning, and displayed in as many tin pans as can be borrowed or hooked for the occasion. A hingham[?] bucket filled with poi from the forecastle, graces the center of the display set-out, which is located at the starboard side of the stoke-hole grating, on the main deck. The assembly comprises the watch on duty, and sometimes others; for as it occupies the passage way forward, such intruders as cannot be induced to respect the tabu of the place, are cordially invited to share its hospitalities. If the company come together in an orderly manner, upon the formal announcement  "ua makaukau na mea a pau," then we have "grace before meat," - a blessing asked by the presiding coal-trimmer, with folded hands and devoutly down-cast eyes, and wholly unabashed by the thought that a minute ago he was cursing and swearing in his best English in loud tones, and in a few minutes more, he would likely be indulging again in the same recreation. The poi is a marvel of fineness and good taste, considering that it has come from the ordinary ship's stores; and the very simplicity of the bill of fare makes perfect success in the entertainment an easy possibility. All thought of the trichinae that Agassiz threatens us with in raw fish is quite put aside as a weak thing. Remind the fireman of what the learned fish-man says, (as he holds the half of a fat opelu before his mouth, quivering and radiant in its blue and silver skin,) and his answer is, "If them worms is here, so much the worse for them when they bec come between my grinders." Generosity
and harmony rule at these feasts; and because the supply of subsequent drinking water fails not, their pleasures are unalloyed down to the remotest recollection.



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  Hanalei, Dec. 13th, 1870 {1870/12/13}

We disregarded the celebration of the King's birth-day and the threatening Kona storm, and left Honolulu yesterday afternoon for this leeward island. Capt. Harrison made about the worst botch of getting the steamer under way that he has ever done - which is saying a great deal - giving, at a moderate guess, twenty different orders by the bell, ahead and back alternately, and drifting bodily into the harbor in the mean time, so as to be near fouling two innocent whaleships. We left Oahu in a veil of rain and steered SW for a least two hours. When I came on watch at midnight, the order was "easy steam - don't want to make land before daylight;" and the consequence was that at daylight we were 20 miles SE of Anahola[?] point with a head wind, and did not reach here until 11. All the freighting was done up in about three boat-loads, one in, and two off; and the "late lamented" (Capt. Harrison) ask, with the air of one who has an unanswerable argument "I'd like to know what we came here for." Yet our first orders - Be ready at four - are not followed up by the com word "start," and we are to lie here tell 2 A.M. 15 hours. Bindt, Corder, and Henry Johnson have been off to see us, and Roberts has been up to the Princeville plantation. The purser, also, in a ship's boat, has been up the river to reconnoiter for future freight.

 This trip was afterwards finished with great pleasure to all on board, though not pecuniary profit to the boat. We left Hanalei Wed. morning at 2:30, and steered well out towards Petropaulski; passed all the palis in the night, and reached Waimea about 9. I called on Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Rowell, and attended a private ahaaina[?] at Isaac Hart's. We made a two hours' run to Koloa; lay there till dark and came up to Honolulu with the help of a north wind in 14 hours, arriving at a quarter of eight, Thursday morning. Spent the balance of the week in a hubbub - scaling boilers and overhauling engines.



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