Identifier: beneathhawaiianp00good (find matches)
Title: Beneath Hawaiian palms and stars
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Goodhue, E. S. (Edward Solon)
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Publisher: Cincinnati: Editor Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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e to Oahu. Kamehameha receivedthe noble, and agreed to let him rule on Kauai duringthe rest of his life, if he would accept Liholiho as heir-apparent for the whole kingdom. This he did. Atthis time, many trading vessels touched the islands forsandal-wood, carrying it to China, and paying the kingin goods, at the rate of ten dollars for every thirty-threeand one-half pounds. Like country folks who happenwith money in the city, Kamehameha, having gold inthe treasury, bought many things he didnt need, andpaid too much for what he did buy; fire-arms, ammuni-tion, silks, liquors, boats, and what not. Many of the articles moulded away in the hutswhere they were stored. Things will get mouldy aboutas quickly in Hawaii, as they will in any ordinary tor-nado cave. Books mould in their cases, shoes willmould on a mans feet, and, I have been told, that mouldlike frost, will gather on panes of glass. But the sandal-wood could never do the country anygood; it was mouldy business. Kamehameha sent a
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KAPIOLANI. THE KINGS OWN 181 cargo of it to China in 1811, thus squandering the peo-ples money. In some ways he was a queer person, thisking; inconsistent like the rest of us. He sold the san-dal-wood, tree by tree, for what he didnt need, andthen, when his forests and subjects were povertystricken; when famine threatened, he went to work toencourage his people in the paths of agriculture, andactually took a patch of ground, cultivating it him-self, as an example of industrial economy. A second son was born at Kailua to Keopuolani,1813. One winters evening,just after the moon had risen,and flooded Kealakekua Bay with its subdued light, thesails of a ship appeared like white wings, flutteringnearer and nearer, until at last they rested close toland. The sails were tattered, and a sad crew speak-ing Spanish, commanded by an Englishman, stepped ashore. They were drunk, quarrelsome, and conductedthemselves lik*^ brigands, exhibiting to the natives theirwealth, which consisted of gold and

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