CHAPTER II.

Ladies Riding Astride.--Passion for Flower Decorations.--A Sailor on a Bucking Horse.--A Weekly Gala-day.--Hawaiian Ladies' Costume.--A Famous Battle-ground.--The Native's Staff of Life.--Ubiquitous John Chinaman.--Largest Apple- orchard in the World.--Hawaiians as Cannibals.--An Active Volcano.--Colony of Lepers.--Unwelcome Visitors.--Our Political Relations with the Sandwich Islands 26-49