Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press for Friends of the Library of Hawaii
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
Copyright date: 1964
Subjects: Hawaii -- Description and travel.
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: label: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
title: Where is Hawaii? — Explanations and thanks
pagenum: 3; label: LETTER I
title: A South Sea hurricane — Black water at last — Oddities of the "Nevada" — Insupportable heat — Our grotesque list
pagenum: 6; label: LETTER II
title: 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
pagenum: 13; label: LETTER III
title: 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
pagenum: 28; label: LETTER IV
title: The plumy Coco palm — The versatile pandanus — Preternatural green — Writing cavalier fashion — Social customs
pagenum: 43; label: LETTER V
title: 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
pagenum: 49; label: LETTER VI
title: "Too much chief eat up people" — Lomi-Lomi
pagenum: 65; label: LETTER VII
title: An intimate community — Home life in Hilo — No thought for the morrow — Polynesian cookery — "Kanaka" objectionable — Surfboard riding
pagenum: 67; label: LETTER VIII
title: Onomea, Hawaii  — The Mexican saddle  — A busy season  — Vacuum pans and centrifugals — The sugar interest
pagenum: 73; label: LETTER IX
title: An arcadian life — A forest paradise — The ferns of Onomea
pagenum: 79; label: LETTER X
title: 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
pagenum: 83; label: LETTER X cont.
title: Majestic surroundings — The joy of full gallop — "Mr. Wallace" — A cruel monster
pagenum: 93; label: LETTER XI
title: 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
pagenum: 98; label: LETTER XII
title: 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
pagenum: 107; label: LETTER XIII
title: King Lunalilo — A royal Procession — "The kind chief" — The hookupu — An enthusiastic reception — The gift bearers — Old-time reverence — The king's speech
pagenum: 115; label: LETTER XIV
title: A visit from a king — A polynesian sovereign — American vulgarisms — The last of Upa
pagenum: 125; label: LETTER XV
title: Kawaihae Bay — A trans-island tour — Scorched earth — An inhospitable interrogation — A sink of iniquity — The early settlers
pagenum: 128; label: LETTER XVI
title: 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
pagenum: 135; label: LETTER XVII
title: Lahaina once more — A notice to lepers — Lahaina "family school" — Trials of the sisters
pagenum: 147; label: LETTER XVIII
title: "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
pagenum: 151; label: LETTER XIX
title: The Hawaiian woman — A revolting monster — Bright-coloured fish — "Annexation and Reciprocity" — "Manifest destiny"
pagenum: 167; label: LETTER XX
title: 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"
pagenum: 173; label: LETTER XXI
title: Koloa, epitome of paradise — A patriarchal home at Makaueli — The Niihau story — A joyous party Hanapepe falls — Inhumanity to horses — The blessing of plenty
pagenum: 181; label: LETTER XXII
title: A fern forest — Native attitudes — Missionary matters
pagenum: 189; label: LETTER XXIII
title: "See Hanalei and die" — "Maikai, Paniola!" — Mauna Kalalea
pagenum: 193; label: LETTER XXIV
title: Maaleia to Wailuku — An island sahara — Crater of Haleakala — Interior of the crater — Unutterable isolation — Pélé's revenge — Patient hospitality
pagenum: 196; label: LETTER XXV
title: The light on Mauna Loa — An intolerable fascination — An Hawaiian sheep station — Ascent of Mauna Kea — An ancient quarry — A foggy descent
pagenum: 206; label: LETTER XXVI
title: Bullock horse Kahélé — Kahéle's sociability — Dear beautiful Hilo
pagenum: 212; label: LETTER XXVII
title: 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
pagenum: 216; label: LETTER XXVIII
title: Excited preparations
pagenum: 226; label: LETTER XXIX
title: 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
pagenum: 228; label: LETTER XXIX cont.
title: 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
pagenum: 237; label: LETTER XXX
title: 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
pagenum: 248; label: LETTER XXXI
title: The cliques — Small criticisms — Farewell, bright tropic dream
pagenum: 258; label: HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS
title: Taxation — Exports and imports — The educational system — Land use — Agricultural crops — Prospects of the islands
pagenum: 265; label: HAWAIIAN HISTORY
title: Recent Hawaiian history
pagenum: 271