Category: Travel Writing

Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California

A Rocket.--Acapulco.--On Shore.--Adobe Houses.--Market-Place. --No Breakfast.--Boys Diving.--Devil-Fish.--A real Sunday.--Manzanilla.--Golden Gate.--Baby Afloat.--Lives Lost.--Backbone of America.--Inspecting.--"Baa."--Bill of Fare.--At the Wharf. 33

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

2. Chapter 2

3. Chapter 3

A Rocket.--Acapulco.--On Shore.--Adobe Houses.--Market-Place. --No Breakfast.--Boys Diving.--Devil-Fish.--A real Sunday.--Manzanilla.--Golden Gate.--Baby Afloat.--Lives Lost.--B...

4. Chapter 4

Lick House.--At Church.--Mission Dolores.--Street Cars.--A Ride.--Hills.--Surf.--Old Church and Burying-Ground.--The One Rose.--Good-bys.--Union Jack.--"Dropped Down."--The Bar....

5. Chapter 5

Desolation.--A Delightful Contrast.--Boats Alongside. --Hurrah!--Farewells and Greetings.--A Home on Shore. --Friends.--Cousins' Society.--Fairy-Land.--The Serenade.--Church Bel...

6. Chapter 6

A Dinner Party.--Punch Bowl.--An extinct Crater.--Taro Patches.--Ovens.--Poi and Raw Fish.--Fingers better than Spoons.--A Donation Party.--Prince William.--Tomb of the Kings.--...

7. Chapter 7

Steamer's Deck.--Hair Decorations.--The Queen and her Suite. --The Queen's Guard.--Singular Accommodations.--Lahaina.--A Breakfast on Shore.--Kind Natives.--Cocoa-nuts.--Lessons...

8. Chapter 8

Gipsies.--Up Hill and Down.--Lame Horse.--An Accommodating Family.--House Inside and Outside.--A Lowly Table.--Prayers. --Calabashes.--Native Men.--Started again.--A Rain.--Giga...

9. Chapter 9

10. Chapter 10

11. Chapter 11

12. Chapter 12

Carriage Broken.--Cocoa-nut Milk.--"Pilikia."--"Maikai." --Prickly Pear.--Thorns.--Century Plant.--Wonder at the Carriage.--Fear of the Horses.--Donation.--Anniversary. --Commun...

13. Chapter 13

14. Chapter 14

Horseback Journey from Waimea to Kowaihae.--A Heathen Temple.--Sacrifices.--Steamer.--A Storm of Sand.--A Deluge.--Gifts.--Singing.--Iao Valley.--Shelling. --Precipices.--A Nove...

15. Chapter 15

Ride.--Cocoa-nut Grove.--American Consul's House.--Sugar Mill and Making.--Dust.--Communion.--Singing old Tunes. --Exhibition.--Love Tokens.--At Honolulu again.--Calls on the Fa...

16. Chapter 16

Flowers.--A Coach and Four.--Lassos.--Lihue.--Wailua Falls. --Koloa.--Spouting Horn.--Church.--A Large Cavalcade.--An Arid Place.--Waimea.--"Old Jonah."--Sandboats and Forts on...

17. Chapter 17

Native Pastor.--Dinner.--Lassoing.--Falls of Ka Liuwaa. --The Canoe.--Kaneohe.--A Runaway.--The Pali.--Defeated Warriors.--Return to Honolulu.--Missionaries.--General Meeting.--...

18. Chapter 18

General Meeting.--A Fine Garden.--Mangoes.--Apple-Tree. --Decorations for the Schoolhouse.--Cousins' Annual Meeting.--Laying the Burden down and Taking it up. --Lizards.--Scorpi...

19. Chapter 19

Calms.--A Patient Captain.--"All Serene."--Flying Fish. --Porpoises.--Whales.--"Skip Jacks."--Peanuts.--Colored Water.--The Farallone Islands.--Birds, Seals, and Sea Lions.--A T...

20. Chapter 20

A Drive.--Seals.--Portuguese Men of War.--Little Birds. --Steamer Yo Semite.--Shipping.--St. Paul's Bay.--Suisun Bay.--Benicia.--Monte Diablo.--Sacramento River.--Arrival at Sac...

21. Chapter 21

At Sea again.--A Cozy Room.--A Choir.--Sermons.--Beautiful Evenings.--A Hurricane.--Dangers and Discomforts.--A Crash and Crashes.--"My Father rules the Storm."--A Meeting for T...