Reminiscences of the South Seas

MISS HARRIET E. ANDERSON DR. WM. STURGIS BIGELOW MISS GERTRUDE BARNES MISS GRACE EDITH BARNES FRANKLIN W. M. CUTCHEON, ESQ. A. A. HEALY, ESQ. JAMES J. HILL, ESQ. JAMES NORMAN HI...

But the ride was full of enjoyment and novelty. Honolulu streets are amusing. The blocks of houses are tropical, with most reasonable lowness, and are of cement in facings; and...

Day after to-morrow we shall go to Hawaii in the steamer _Hall_, land on the south coast, go to the volcano Kilauea and down from there to Hilo. This afternoon we have heard tal...

Late in the afternoon the young Australian, or whatever he was, who had been with us, went down with a guide into the crater, and returned toward ten o’clock with a story that D...

We met on board many pleasant people, and among others a former neighbour, though unknown, who is now one of the few American missionaries in the Islands. These, I think he told...

But the Princess said nothing; she smoked more and more, as every one joined her, so that I foresaw that our small supply of cigars and tobacco was doomed, especially as other d...

Further back the mysterious “bush,” into which I have not yet wandered. Just outside, near the shore, and with a little garden, the Consul has built a new and commodious souther...

Mataafa sometimes gives us _kava_, and occasionally has done us the honour to come and drink it in our own hut. In that case he has his own bowl, a most intimate and personal pr...

The missionaries were Wesleyans, or, rather, men of the London Missionary Society. The form seems to have suited the Samoans. It was a service in which every one took part. Ther...

As a proof of the atrocities to which the religious mind can consent, listen to this charming detail. It belongs to a time when I was no longer in Samoa. I have mentioned in my...

and attention as the most complicated European mass of buildings, be they cathedrals or palaces--only the art has little shape but what nature gives it. All the more has nature...

We were seated, all facing toward the open space, the next house filled with women and children: Seumanu and our host and other people of importance near us, and the rest of the...

That evening we had a _siva_, like other _sivas_, which I am unable to describe, because I was so sleepy that my memory has not held over. I lurked in the dark, behind our hoste...

The end of the last week has been filled with festivity. Seu has been giving a great feast, and this has been a very serious matter. We have seen other feasts before, but none s...

We are at a charming place in the town of Aliipata, which seems to stretch indefinitely for miles along the shore. We have had two invitations to stop; one from Mataafa, and one...

We had a _siva_ at night, in which our young lady figured with the great grenadier’s cap that looks so savage and soldierly, and which is really becoming, the heavy faces growin...

We rowed back in true Samoan way, our rowers making a show of pulling and singing a great deal, with an energy that had been better thrown into the oars. In fact, they danced a...

They are always suspected of cannibalism; and the event which has made us all more or less miserable is considered as quite a possible thing, and likely to occur again. News cam...

The natives slip over the dust in bare feet, the waving draperies of the long gowns of the women seeming to add to the stealthy or undulating movement which carries them along....

This afternoon we went to see the little place which is Amo, and from which the Tevas were ruled. It is a small principality only fifteen fathoms long, and is at present all ove...

demand through these latitudes--is an awful temptation. Were there anything more to it--were there anything said that might lead one to believe that he or any other such might r...

So then he arose and departed in anger, telling her, however, that she would bear a son whom she should call Teva: that for this son he had built a temple at Mataua, and that th...

“A standard is raised at Tooarai Like the crash of thunder And flashes of lightning And the rays of the midday sun Surround the standard of the King The King of the thousand ski...

We took away with us the next day one of the missionaries, his wife and four children, who fill up quite a little corner of our little boat. The scene at their leaving was very...

of grey beard, strikingly European at first sight, who laughed at the little joke that we were come to take him to America, like so-and-so who went and never came back.

Here then we parted, A. & T. taking the canoe, while the Governor and the magistrates went on foot and horse by land, to Vunidawa. There was a little thatched awning upon the ca...

Later, as I was very tired, I was carried in the rough palanquin of boughs down the steep hills--the path so narrow that much ingenuity and noise and discussion was expended by...

Here, he said, with the love they have for shutting things up, he could close his door easily, and be happy in the sweating heat of the night. The horror of draughts I can sympa...

It was a gay day--a cheerful end to our trip, which had just lasted three weeks; so that when we landed at Suva in the last twilight, just as the new moon lit up our path up the...