Hilo.—Education.—Fondness for Liquor.—Favorite dish of roasted Dog, and process of fattening them.—Water Nymphs.—Rainbow Falls.—The Wailuku.—The Three-Decker.—Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
High School of Lahainaluna for Boys.—Other Institutions for Girls.—Character of Hawaiians.—Their Crimes and Vices.—Board of Presbyterian Missions.—Exaggerations upon Moral Condition of the Natives.—Expulsion of Catholics.
Oahu.—Honolulu.—Rides and Drives in Vicinity.—Society.—The Pali up the Nuana.—Saturnalia of Kanakas.—Rage for Horses.—Straw Hamlets.—and Life within them.
King Kammehamma, or the Lonely One.—Ministers.—Presentation at Court.—Furniture of the Palace.—Approach of Royalty.—Speeches.—Costumes.—Princes of the blood royal, who patronise us.—And what became of Moses.
Nukeheva.—Bay of Anna Maria.—Style of Head-dress in Vogue.—Tattooing, and other Ornaments.—French Garrison.—Physical Characteristics of these Savages.—Bathing.—King's Residence, where we beheld a Nobleman drunk with Arva.
Visit to a Distinguished Chief.—His House and Attendants.—Babies Swimming.—Making Fire with Sticks.—An Ancestor Embalmed.—Catholics.—Vagabonds and Deserters.—Whaling Interests.
Sail from Marquesas—for Society Group.—Tahiti.—Port of Papeetee.—The Reef.—Shores and Batteries.—Missionaries.—Melville.
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Brown Road.—Semi-Civilization.—Excursion to Pomàrce Country House at Papoa.—The Queen and her Hen-coop Habitation.—School.—Fondness for Flowers.—Native Dinner.—Jack the Head Waiter.—Finger Glasses.—We sleep in the Palace, and are Serenaded.—Visit from a Tahitian Noble, and how he conducted himself.—Coral Groves in the Harbor.—Islet of Motunata.
Trip to the Mountains.—Teina.—Ferry-Boat, By Toanni.—Lofty Cascade, Fortress of Faatoar.—Losses by the French.—The Diadem.—We spread a Banquet, and the Ladies have an Appetite.—Soirée by French Governor.—Departure.
The Clergy Mingling in every-day Panoramas.—Vespers.—Promenades.—Bull Fights.—Berlinas.—Sayas y Mantas, and Speculations upon uses and abuses.—Youthful Lumps of Gold, and Attachment to their Uncles.
