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SCENES IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND CALIFORNIA.
BY MARY E. ANDERSON.
"The isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust."
ISAIAH II. 5.
BOSTON: THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY. Instituted 1814. DEPOSITORIES, 28
CORNHILL, BOSTON, AND 13 BIBLE HOUSE, ASTOR PLACE, NEW YORK.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.
CORNHILL PRESS:
DAKIN AND METCALF,
BOSTON.
NOTE BY THE PUBLISHERS.
In the year 1863, Rev. Rufus Anderson, D. D., senior Secretary of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, visited the
Hawaiian Islands on official business connected with the missionary work
of that institution. He was accompanied, in that visit, by his wife and
daughter, the latter of whom preserved some memoranda of the journey and
the scenes to which it introduced her, for the gratification of her
friends. From these notes the present volume has been prepared. The
interest which the friends of missions in this country have long
cherished for that people--youngest born in the family of Christian
nations--will lead them to welcome these unpretending sketches, as
affording both instruction and entertainment to themselves and their
children.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.--FROM NEW YORK TO ASPINWALL.
The Bargain.--Our Steamer and Staterooms.--A Schooner
in a bad Place.--Porpoises.--Pirate Alabama. 9