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Title: Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Twombly, Alexander S. (Alexander Stevenson), 1832-1907
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Publisher: New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
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abundant.Happily for them, the wood gave out after a time, soruthless was its destruction. The art of distilling liquor also proved a most un-fortunate thing for the natives. Some convicts fromBotany Bay introduced the process before the year1800. The root of the hi plant, distilled in iron pots,with a gun barrel as a tube to conduct the vapor,yielded nearly pure alcohol. Large quantities of rumwere also imported. Kamehameha at first indulged inthis intoxication to excess; but he was soon convincedby John Young of its evil effects and finally becamea total abstainer. Near the end of his life he summoned the leadingmen of Hawaii, ordered all the stills to be destroyed. WHAT THE VICTOR DID FOR THE VANQUISHED. 151 and forbade the manufacture of any kind of liquor.His oldest son, Liholiho, however, and many of theother chiefs, had already acquired the pernicious habit.It is to-day one of the worst vices of the nativeHawaiians, and is hastening the extinction of thatamiable but weak race.
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WAIKIKI BEACH. We have a vivid picture of the life of the old mon-arch Kamehameha I., now seventy years of age, duringhis residence on the island of Oahu (1803-1811). AScotch sailor, Alexander Campbell, arrived at Honoluluin 1809, spent a year there, and published an account ofhis experience. 152 HAWAII AND ITS PEOPLE. The village of Honolulu consisted then of a few hun-dred grass huts. Cocoanut trees, good for shade andfruit, grew in abundance. The plains back of the vil-laore were bare and treeless. The mountains lackedmuch of the verdure which makes them so beautifulto-day. Over the kings house, built near the shoreand surrounded by a palisade, floated a British flag.A battery of sixteen guns surmounted the fort. Theship of the king, the Lily Bird^ lay at anchor in theharbor. At a short distance were two large stonestorehouses, which contained the European articlesbelonging to the king, many of which were not usedand became useless. Small vessels were hauled up onthe shore of the b
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