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a bee — Holiday throngs — A little colloquy 



— Typical traits — Certain historic differences 



— Native honesty — Breaking the record! — 

 Kuma Aoki — We start for Okinose — Beauti- 

 ful pools on Joga — "Old Ladies' Homes" — 

 The incomparable fisherman — Service the 

 final end of training — An exquisite gift — Some 

 Japanese wives — ■ Punctilio resolved — lijima 



— Yoshimi — Fukukita — Goodby to Japan 



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1. A child of great promise 



2. Stanford's second "Stone Age" — Millions to 

 play with — Investigation of Hawaiian fisheries 



— Hudson's fine work — ■ The beginning of a 

 romance — Many courtesies — Honolulu's mu- 

 seum and aquarium — A huge lake of hard- 

 ened lava — • Mauna Loa — Mauna Kea — 

 Giant ferns — Henshaw and the birds — Per- 

 force a settler — Bewildering subspecies — 

 Biological friction — Hawaiian fishes — Tropi- 

 cal but distinct — Influence of ocean currents 



— The great equatorial stream — Further ex- 

 plorations 



3. A critical transition — The local aristocracy — 

 Other racial groups — An obvious situation — 

 Democracy grafted on racial oligarchy 



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I. To the South Seas — Verdant isles — A veritable 

 fairyland — Apia on Upolu — Pago Pago on 

 Tutuila — A marvelous harbor — Conventional 

 politics — A surprised "national" — Adjust- 

 ment by arbitration — Our merry assistants — 

 Weird warning — The Adlers fate — The 

 "Bush" — Stevenson's pal — Moors' romantic 

 career — Vailima — Prussian officialism — 



"Miss Jessie" meets the griffin — Tusitala's 

 tomb — The trail to Lanuto — A mountain 



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