THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY Volume 13 1979
THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY Published by the Hawaiian Historical Society EDITOR Frances Jackson Archivist, University of Hawaii ASSOCIATE EDITORS E. Alison Kay Associate Dean, Graduate Division, University of Hawaii Philip F. Rehbock Assistant Professor, General Science Department, University of Hawaii Lela Goodell Librarian, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Margaret W. Apple Trustee, Hawaiian Historical Society EDITORIAL ADDRESS 560 Kawaiahao St., Honolulu, Hawaii 96813. The editors solicit manuscripts dealing with the history of Hawaii, Polynesia and the Pacific area. Manuscripts are submitted at the sender's risk. The Hawaiian Journal of History expects that permission to reproduce material printed in it will be requested prior to such reproduction. This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). Requests should be addressed to the editorial offices. Contributors to the Journal will receive ten copies of their articles. MEMBERSHIP Dues are: Students (full-time) $ 5.00 per year Regular 10.00 per year Contributing 15.00 per year Sustaining 25.00 per year Corporate Business 50.00 per year Corporate Educational Institutions 10.00 per year Life (individuals only) 250.00 Members receive the Journal and the newsletter free of charge, and are entitled to a discount on publications. A catalog of the Society's publications and of other books for sale will be sent free of charge on request. PAYMENTS Checks for subscriptions and dues should be made payable to The Hawaiian Historical Society and mailed to the Editorial Address above. Single copies of The Hawaiian Journal of History are available at $5.00 each. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Members of the Hawaiian Historical Society and other subscribers are asked to notify the editor of changes of address. In addition, they are requested to complete Change of Address Form No. 3575 and file it with the postmaster. Please check the box directing him to forward second class mail. Printed by LIBRA PRESS LTD. 56, Wong Chuk Hang Road, Aberdeen HONG KONG
THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY VOLUME XIII 1979 Contents Captain James Cook, R.N., by Basil Greenhill 1 Collecting with Cook: the Forsters and their Artifact Sales, by Ruth P. Dawson 5 The "Wily Savage" A Tale of Kamehameha's Time, by Donald D. Johnson 17 Tahitians in the Early History of Hawaiian Christianity: the Journal of Toketa, by Dorothy Barrere and Marshall Sahlins 19 The Making of a Missionary: Hiram Bingham's Odyssey, by Char Miller 36 Hawaiian Missionaries in the Marquesas, by Nancy J. Morris 46 Maui during the Whaling Boom: The Travels of Captain Gilbert Pendleton, Jr., by Kenneth R. Martin 59 Essays upon Ancient Hawaiian Religion and Sorcery by Nineteenth- Century Seminarists, translated and annotated by Bacil F. Kirtley and Esther T. Mookini 67 Summer of 1898, by Albertine Loomis 94 Some Transportation and Communication Firsts in Hawaii, by Robert C. Schmitt 99 Leprosy in Hawaii: Scare Advertising at the Turn of the Century, by Ronald F. Chapman 124 December 7, 1941 The Day the Honolulu Fire Department Went to War, by John E. Bowen 126 From Sparta to Spencer Street: Greek Women in Hawaii, by Helen Geracimos Chapin 136 ON THE COVER: A whaleman's view of Lahaina in 1835. From the journal of John Cleland, Jr., a whaleman aboard the Ceres of Wilmington. Courtesy of The Mariners Museum of Newport News, Virginia.
One view of Pacific whaling during Lahaina's heyday, drawn about 1845 by whaleman George Gould. Courtesy of the Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, Massachusetts.
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