Charmian London.
Jack London Ranch,
Glen Ellen, California.
1921.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Young Hawaii | Frontispiece |
| Facing page | |
| Map: Hawaii. | [1] |
| (1) The Peninsula. (2) The Bungalow. (3) The Snark, and the Owner Ashore. | [24] |
| (1) Damon Gardens, Honolulu. (2) Rice Fields on Kauai. | [50] |
| (1) Working Garb in Elysium. (2) Duke Kahanamoku, 1915. | [74] |
| (1) Old Hawaiian. (2) The Sudden Vision. (3) The Mirrored Mountains. (Painting by Hitchcock) | [96] |
| (1) Diamond Head. (2) A Pair of Jacks—Atkinson and London. (3) Ahiumanu. | [116] |
| (1) Princess Likelike (Mrs. Cleghorn). (2) Princess Victoria Kaiulani. (3) Kaiulani at Ainahau. (4) “Kaiulani’s Banyan.” | [138] |
| (1) Landing at Kalaupapa, 1907. (2) The Forbidden Pali Trail, 1907. (3) Coast of Molokai—Federal Leprosarium on Shore. (4) American-Hawaiian. (5) Father Damien’s Grave, 1907. | [162] |
| (1) Hana. (2) The Ruin of Haleakala. (3) Von and Kakina. | [184] |
| (1) Prince Cupid. (2) Original “Monument.” (3) The Prince’s Canoe. (4) At Keauhou, Preparing the Feast. (5) Jack at Cook Monument. (6) King Kalakaua and Robert Louis Stevenson. (7) Kealakekua Bay—Captain Cook Monument at +. | [202] |
| (1) Where the Queen Composed “Aloha Oe.” (2) A Hair-raising Bridge on the Ditch Trail. (3) A Characteristic Mountain Trail in Hawaii. | [224] |
| (1) Iao Valley, Island of Maui. (2) Rainbow Falls, Hawaii. | [246] |
| (1) Alika Lava Flow, 1919. (2) Pit of Halemaumau. | [272] |
| (1) Kahilis at Funeral of Prince David Kawananakoa. (2) Kamehameha the Great. (3) and (4) Sports of Kings. | [294] |
| (1) Jack and Charmian London, Waikiki. (2) A Race Around Oahu. (3) Sailor Jack Aboard the Hawaii. (4) Pa’-u-Rider. | [316] |
| (1) Queen Lydia Kamakaeha Liliuokalani. (2) Governor John Owen Dominis, the Queen’s Consort. (3) A Honolulu Garden—Residence of Queen Emma. | [336] |
OUR HAWAII
MY HAWAIIAN ALOHA
THREE ARTICLES BY JACK LONDON
PART ONE
Once upon a time, only the other day, when jovial King Kalakaua established a record for the kings of earth and time, there entered into his Polynesian brain as merry a scheme of international intrigue as ever might have altered the destiny of races and places. The time was 1881; the place of the intrigue, the palace of the Mikado at Tokio. The record must not be omitted, for it was none other than that for the first time in the history of kings and of the world a reigning sovereign, in his own royal person, put a girdle around the earth.
The intrigue? It was certainly as international as any international intrigue could be. Also, it was equally as dark, while it was precisely in alignment with the future conflicting courses of empires. Manifest destiny was more than incidentally concerned. When the manifest destinies of two dynamic races move on ancient and immemorial lines toward each other from east to west and west to east along the same parallels of latitude, there is an inevitable point on the earth’s surface where they will collide. In this case, the races were the Anglo-Saxon (represented by the Americans), and the Mongolian (represented by the Japanese). The place was Hawaii, the lovely and lovable, beloved of countless many as “Hawaii Nei.”