CONTENTS. 



LETTER XIV. 



PAGE 



Cookery — "Father Lyman's" Party — Lunalilo's Intelligence — A 



Hilo " At Home "—The last of Upa 13S 



LETTER XV. 



An Imitation Gale — Leeward Hawaii — A Heathen Temple — The 



Waimea Plains— The Early Settlers — Native Criticism . . 143 



LETTER XVI. 



A Grass Lodge — Alone among "Savages" — A Dizzy Pali— Out of 

 the World — Elysium — A Lapse into Savagery — A Troubled Night 

 — The Waimanu Valley— A Silent World— A Pilikia . . . 151 



LETTER XVII. 



Beautiful Lahaina ! — The Leper Island — Sister Phoebe — A Family 



School — Gentle Discipline — Local Difficulties . . . .165 



LETTER XVIII. 



Social Hurry— A Perfect Climate — Honolulu "Lions" — Queen 

 Emma — A Royal Garden Party — Dwindling of the Native Popu- 

 lation — Coinage and Newspapers 170 



LETTER XIX. 



Hawaiian Women— The Honolulu Market— Annexation and Reci- 

 procity— A Probable Future— The " Rolling Moses. " . . 181 



LETTER XX. 



The "Trades"— An Inter-Island Passage — A Missionary Family — 

 Physical Features of Kauai — Liquor Laws — A Plant of Renown 

 — A Domestic School 188 



LETTER XXI. 



The Charms of Kauai — Kaluna the Second— A Patriarchal Establish- 

 ment — A Family Romance — A Typical Canon — The Blessing of 

 Plenty . . 199 



