Here is another interesting excerpt, this from “Pioneer Days in Hawaii,” by Oliver Pomeroy Emerson (1928).
It is an account drawn from the journals kept by Emerson’s parents.
This post is from notes typed by my mother back around 1968-69 to assist the nutrition research of Carey D. Miller, who had retired from the University of Hawaii a decade before. The book is now considered in the public domain, and the link above is to a version available for free reading.
Emerson’s parent arrived in Honolulu as missionaries on May, 1832, and soon moved to Waialua, on Oahu’s North Shore.
I apologize in advance for my mother’s typos as she copied this section.
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I really love these incredible glimpses into the era… mahalo nui for sharing, Ian – I am a died in the wool Hawaiian historian – never can learn too much!
These notes compiled from her mother’s letters… is gold. What a wonderful thing to be able to look back on. She could go around to schools and read these to classes… Hawaiiana ones too. The kids, young and older, would eat them up and be able to visualize how it was.
I love re-reading anything of the era that I can get my hands on, Ian… – what a remarkable treasure this is… mahalo nui for re-posting