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forsyth grant : hawaiian scenes, 1888

M. Forsyth Grant : Scenes in Hawaii, 1888.

Extract from
Forsyth Grant, M. (Minnie Caroline):
Scenes in Hawaii or Life in the Sandwich Islands.
Hart & Company, Toronto, 1888, pages 146 to 147

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Introduction.
A brief note indicating the previous popularity of surfboard riding and its subsequent demise.

Page 146

Kammehameha Day, and the King's bithday were the native holidays, and in old days they liked to give exhibitions of surf bathing, or swimming out on top of a huge wave, armed with a plank, then riding back on the crest of the wave, much as we do with our toboggans on the snow hills.
But as with so many old native prac- ...

Page 147
... tices surf riding is rapidly going out, and only seldom now can it be seen.

Forsyth Grant, M.:
Scenes in Hawaii or Life in the Sandwich Islands.
Hart & Company, Toronto, 1888.

Geoff Cater (2007) : M. Forsyth Grant : Scenes in Hawaii, 1888.
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