Category: Travel Writing

The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial

MAP OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. SANFORD B. DOLE, President of the Republic of Hawaii. EXECUTIVE BUILDING. / JUDICIARY BUILDING. EWA MILL. / VALLEY SCENE, HAWAII. PAUOA VALLEY RICE FIELDS. / PINEAPPLE PLANTATION. COFFEE PLANTATION, HAMAKUA. / COFFEE PLANTATION, PUNA. OCEANIC STEAM...

Chapters

9. CHAPTER VIII.

Although the written history of the Hawaiian Islands begins with their discovery by Captain Cook in 1778, yet the aboriginal inhabitants had at that time an oral traditional his...

5. CHAPTER IV.

The various operations incidental to the opening and carrying on of a coffee plantation will be taken up in their proper order and described in as plain language as possible, an...

2. CHAPTER I.

The Hawaiian Islands are situated in the North Pacific Ocean and lie between longitudes 154° 40' and 160° 30' West, and latitudes 22° 16' and 18° 55' North. They are thus on the...

7. CHAPTER VI.

The Land Act of 1895, having for its special object the settlement and cultivation of the Government agricultural and pastoral land, vested the control and management of Public...

6. CHAPTER V.

While the coffee trees are growing and during the time that will elapse before the planter receives returns from his investment, it would be a wise thing for him to plant such t...

8. CHAPTER VII.

The population of the Islands according to the census of 1890 was 89,991, or in round numbers 90,000. A census of the population has just been taken, but the results cannot be e...

3. CHAPTER II.

The mainstay of the Hawaiian Islands has, for the last thirty-five years, been the sugar industry. From this source a large amount of wealth has been accumulated. But the sugar...

4. CHAPTER III.

The most promising of all the Island products, outside of sugar, is coffee. No finer coffee in the world is produced than that of the Hawaiian Islands. It requires care and does...

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MAP OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. SANFORD B. DOLE, President of the Republic of Hawaii. EXECUTIVE BUILDING. / JUDICIARY BUILDING. EWA MILL. / VALLEY SCENE, HAWAII. PAUOA VALLEY RICE...