Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

In less than forty-eight hours after you leave San Francisco you find yourself crossing the bar which lies at the mouth of the Columbia River, and laughing, perhaps, over the of...

The Hawaiian group consists, as you will see on the map, of eleven islands, of which Hawaii is the largest and Molokini the smallest. The islands together contain about 6000 squ...

As we rode one day near the sea-shore I heard voices among the rocks, and sending the guide ahead with the horses, I walked over to the shore with the lady and children who were...

Hilo, as you will perceive on the map, lies on the eastern or windward side of the Island of Hawaii. You get there in the little inter-island steamer _Kilauea_, named after the...

The State of California extends over somewhat more than ten degrees of latitude. If it lay along the Atlantic as it lies along the Pacific coast, its boundaries would include th...

Maui lies between Oahu and Hawaii, and is somewhat larger than the first-named island. It contains the most considerable sugar-plantations, and yields more of this product than...

Some of the most picturesque country in California lies on or near the coast north of San Francisco. The coast counties, Marin, Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt, Klamath, and Del Nor...

If you approach the harbor of San Francisco from the west, your first sight of land will be a collection of picturesque rocks known as the Farallones, or, more fully, the Farall...

Commercial relations form and foster political alliances, especially between a weak state and a strong one. The annual report for 1872 of imports and exports, made up by the Col...

Some years ago, before there was a wagon-road between Cloverdale and Mendocino City, or Big River, as it is more commonly called up here on the northern coast, the mail was carr...

So much has been said and written of late about the disease called leprosy and its ravages in the Sandwich Islands that I had the curiosity to visit the asylum for lepers at Mol...

A part of Round Valley, in Mendocino County, is set apart and used for an Indian reservation; and, under the present policy of the Government, an attempt has been made to gather...

General Bidwell, of Butte County, raised last year on his own estate, besides a large quantity of fruit, seventy-five thousand bushels of wheat. Dr. Glenn, of Colusa County, rai...

Where just now are those chiefs, Rebellious and weak, Whom the point of the spear Has transfixed--the spear of the Son of Maihuna? The spear made for the day of battle. Stolen w...

As I crossed from Oakland to San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon last July, there were on the ferry-boat a number of Chinese. They were decently clad, quiet, clean, sat apart in...

Kauai lies farthest to leeward of the main islands of the Hawaiian group; the steamer visits it usually but once a month; and the best way to see it without unnecessary waste of...

While you are talking about redeeming the New Jersey marshes these go-ahead Californians are actually diking and reclaiming similar and, in some cases, richer overflowed lands b...

The manufacture of cigars is one of the largest industries of San Francisco. Last year the Government received taxes on 78,000,000 cigars made in the State of California, and in...

In the last year I have received a good many letters from persons desirous to try sheep-farming in California, and this has led me to look a little closely into this business as...

The great valleys of California do not produce much butter, and probably never will, though I am told that cows fed on alfalfa, which is a kind of lucerne, yield abundant and ri...

I have now seen the grape grow in almost every part of California where wine is made. The temptation to a new settler in this State is always strong to plant a vineyard; and I a...

Thou lovest me still! Oh yes Thou lovest me; thou, The companion who has followed me. In the tempest and in the icy Winds of Ahulua. I, alas! Sleep in dark night, in dark And so...

I had a friend with whom I lived peacefully in the wilderness. I swung like a cloud full of rain, I murmured like a rivulet, I shook like a thunder-bolt, I overturned every thin...

Like a forest rising abruptly Out of the ocean, Is Kauai, with flowery lehua; Grand but ungrateful land, Without friends or dear ones for Kawelo. They have put to death Maihuna,...

The head of the cloud bears down And whispers a word in my ear: It is I! the food of a rainy day. O Kahelaha, of Puna, My adopted son, Heartless fellow! We two were comrades In...

Here is a cloud, there another. This cloud bears destruction; I have seen it pass before my eyes. The obscure cloud is the canoe of Kaamalama. This is the tempest, Wind in the d...

Ah! it is then you, chief Akahakaloa. A roosting-place is thy bald head become For the gathering birds. Disobedient Akahakaloa; Thou appearest as a warrior Offshoot of Kiipueaua...

I, a chief, willingly Cast my net of olona; The olona springs up, it grows, It branches and is cut down. The paddles of the chief beat the sea. Stripped off is the bark of the a...

O Kaamalama! O Kalaumaki! Behold how they heap stones. Let us draw our canoes ashore; This is a day when the surf rolls high; The ocean swells, the sea perchance Portends anothe...

O divine Ku, Who beholdest the inner places. O Lono, divine one, Husband of Pele. O holy Hiaka, Dweller on the hills. O Haulili, god Ruling the lips! We two have wrestled, Milu...

The ekule of the sea is surrounded; Stranded in a shallow, It is within the grasp of the fisherman. Broken are the meshes of the net Within the hala and ulua. A sacrifice is to...