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rev. cheever : surf riding at hilo, 1851

Rev. Henry Cheever : Surf Riding at Hilo, 1851.

Extract from
Cheever, Rev. Henry T.:
The Island World of the Pacific;
Being the Personal Narrative and Results of Travel Through the Sandwich or Hawiian Islands
and Other Parts of Polynesia.
Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1851.

Hathi Trust
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082445051

Introduction.
Also see:
1851 Rev. Henry Cheever : Surfriding at Lahaina.
Extract from Life in the Sandwich Islands, A.S. Barnes and Co., New York and H.W. Derby, Cincinnati. 1856. Pages 66 to 69.

Page 164

(Overlooking Hilo, Kohala, Hawaii)
At the other end this magnificent avenue opened upon the deep, with a beach of the finest black writing sand, over which the sea rolled in immense hoary breakers, nearly up to a wall made to prevent its incursions upon the kalo patches.
Boys and girls, and athletic men were sporting among the billows, diving through the huge rollers as they rushed in from the ocean, and sometimes riding in upon them clear up on the beach, the boys and girls on little surf-boards, the men by dint of their own muscles.

Cheever, Rev. Henry T.:
The Island World of the Pacific;
Being the Personal Narrative and Results of Travel
Through the Sandwich or Hawiian Islands
and Other Parts of Polynesia.
Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1851.

Hathi Trust
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082445051

Geoff Cater (2012) : Rev. Cheever : Surf Riding at Hawaii, 1851.
http://www.surfresearch.com.au/1851_Cheever_Island_World.html