The Star Spangled Banner Up Again in Hawaii, and to Stay—Dimensions of the Islands—What the Missionaries Have Done—Religious Belief by Nationality—Trade Statistics—Latest Census—Sugar Plantation Laborers—Coinage of Silver—Schools—Coffee Growing
CHAPTER XXI.
EARLY HISTORY OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
Captain James Cook's Great Discoveries and His Martyrdom—Character
and Traditions of the Hawaiian Islands—Charges Against the Famous
Navigator and Effort to Array the Christian World Against Him—The
True Story of His Life and Death—How Charges Against Cook Came
to Be Made—Testimony of Vancouver, King and Dixon, and Last
Words of Cook's Journal—Light Turned on History That Has Become
Obscure—Savagery of the Natives—Their Written Language Took
Up Their High Colored Traditions and Preserved Phantoms—Scenes in
Aboriginal Theatricals—Problem of Government in an Archipelago Where
Race Questions Are Predominant—Now Americans Should Remember Captain
Cook as an Illustrious Pioneer
CHAPTER XXII.
THE START FOR THE LAND OF CORN STALKS.
Spain Clings to the Ghost of Her Colonies—The Scene of War Interest
Shifts from Manila—The Typhoon Season—General Merritt on the Way
to Paris—German Target Practice by Permission of Dewey—Poultney
Bigalow with Canoe, Typewriter and Kodak—Hongkong as a Bigger and
Brighter Gibraltar
CHAPTER XXIII.
KODAK SNAPPED AT JAPAN.
Glimpses of China and Japan on the Way Home from the Philippines—Hongkong a Greater Gibraltar—Coaling the China—Gangs of Women Coaling the China—How the Japanese Make Gardens of the Mountains—Transition from the Tropics to the Northern Seas—A Breeze from Siberia—A Thousand Miles Nothing on the Pacific—Talk of Swimming Ashore