The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines - Isabel Anderson

Secretary Dickinson and Governor Forbes we can never thank enough for the thousand and one strange sights we saw, as enchanting as the tales which Scheherezade told during those far-off Arabian Nights. I only wish I could describe them in her delightful style! Of all the spells what is more puissant than the spell of the tropics—the singing of dripping water, the rustle of the palm in the breeze. In this land you forget all trouble and dream of love and happiness, while the Southern Cross gleams brightly in the sky.

There it is indeed true that

"The flower of love has leisure for growing,
Music is heard in the evening breeze,
The mountain stream laughs loud in its flowing,
And poesy wakes by the Eastern Seas."

I wish especially to say how grateful I am to those who have helped me in one way or another, with this book: Admiral George Dewey, General Thomas Anderson, Major J. R. M. Taylor, Major William Mitchell, Mr. William R. Castle, Jr., and Mr. C. P. Hatheway. Mr. R. K. Bonine was also very kind in allowing me to reprint some of his photographs of Hawaii. My thanks are also due to Miss Helen Kimball, Miss C. Gilman, Miss K. Crosby, and my husband, and to all the others who have been so good as to encourage me in writing the "Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines."

	Foreword	[vii]
[THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Bright Land	[3]
II	Myths and Meles	[29]
III	The Five Kamehamehas	[48]
IV	Servant and Soil	[81]
V	In and Out	[103]
[THE PHILIPPINES]
I	Manila as We Found It	[123]
II	The Philippines of the Past	[148]
III	Insurrection	[180]
IV	Following the Flag	[206]
V	Healing a Nation	[224]
VI	Dog-Eaters and Others	[245]
VII	Among the Head-Hunters	[270]
VIII	Inspecting with the Secretary of War	[296]
IX	The Moros	[325]
X	Journey's End	[353]
	Bibliography	[363]
	Index	[365]

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