Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-28

| absolutely necessary is prohibited on
ment is not prohibited, such as riding
boating, shooting, ETC., and the gov
eminent band plays at the public park
at Waikiki every Sunday afternoon.
The population of the islands, ac-
cording to the census Of 1890, was 49,
991, or in round numbers 10000. A
census of the population was taken in
1896. It showed the population as
follows:
Hawaiians $1,000
Part Hawaiians 10000
Chinese $4,000
Japanese $4,000
Portuguese 5000
American and European $4,000
Total 100000
The vessels flying the Hawaiian flag
numbered 81, aggregating Fl, 678 tons.
They are divided as follows:
Tons,
Twenty three steamers aggre-
eating 800
Five banks, aggregating 4,198
Three ships, 6 6,272
Twenty one schooners and
sloops aggregating 1928
Of these vessels Is are employed in
foreign trade and 80 in trade between
the islands.
Taking exports and imports the
business done by Hawaii in 1895
amounted to $14, 1888, 1862, and of
this sum $12, 9O8, sos, 92 was done with
the United States.
Although the written history of the
Hawaiian Islands begins with their
discovery by Capt. Cook in 1778, yet
the aboriginal inhabitants had at that
time an oral traditional history which
extended back for several centuries.
AS to their origin, these people
formed but one branch of the Polyn-
esian race, which at remote period
settled all the groups of islands in the
central and Eastern Pacific as far as
New Zealand in the East. This is
shown by the close physical and NOR
al resemblance between their inhabi
tants, as we'll as by the facts that they
all speak dialects of the same langu-
age, and have the same manners and
customs and similar traditions and
religious rites.
1t is also proved by concurrent ira
ditions of the different groups that
there was general movement of the
throughout Central Polyn-
esia during the 18th and 18th centu
ries of the Christian era, during
which the Harvey Islands were colon
led, and many voyages were made
between the Hawaiian Island and the
Samoan and Society groups. This in
,ercourse, however, seems to have
ceased four or five hundred years be-
ore the arrival of Capt. Cook.
On the 18th of January, 1878, Capt.
Cook, the great navigator, while sail
ng due north from the Society
stands, discovered the Islands of Ca j
III and Kauai, where he held friend
Y intercourse with the natives, and
laid in supplies at Nathan.
He finally sailed for Alaska February
!. The Hawaiians looked upon him ,
is an incarnation Of the god Lono, ,
md upon his crew as supernatural be- 6
ngs. Returning from the Arctic the G
GLOWING winter he anchored in Ke-
4lakekua Bay, January II, 1873. Here c
he received divine honors and was I
oaded with munifcent presents of
he best that the islands could pro- ,
luce. By his rash and arbitrary con- :
luct, however, he involved himself in :
n ARRAY with the natives, in which :
e was killed on February IA, 1879.
The spot where he fell is now mark 8
d by an appropriate monument. !;
The islands were for many years
nder the control of different chiefs. :
7ho were continually at war with =
ach other. They were finally con- :,
under the reign of Kane o
ameha I.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.