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This is a collection of magazine exerpts on Hawa'i and Somoa, apparently collected by "Vignaud."
There is no title page and the work is dated 1862 (probably based on the the article by Jules Remy) by the Internet Archive catologuer, but this is clearly incorrect.
It is dated here as 1910, based on Hood's book of that year.

The contents are listed, with the known dates of publication in [brackets].
George H. Bates. Some Aspects of the Samoan Question, [1886].
Titus Munson Coan. The Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian Ethnography.(Died 1882]
Stewart Culin. Hawaiian Games. [1899]
Ch. Galopin. Notice sur Les Iles Havai.
John Hood. The Women of Samoa. [the title of Hood's book, published in 1910]
Adolf Marcuse. The Hawaiian Islands.[1894]
Jules Remy. Apercu Géographique sur les Iles Sandwich, December 1862.

Other entries that appear in the Vignaud Pamphlets:

1839 M. Jules Remey : Redwood Flotsam on Oahu.
Extract from Contributions of a Venerable Savage, Translated from the French by William T. Bingham, [Boston], 1868.

1899 Stewart Culin : Hawaiian Games.
American Anthropologist, Volume 1, Number 2, April 1899, pages 201, 212 and 213.

1910 John Hood : The Woman of Somoa.
Extract from an article collected in the Vignaud Pamphlets: Hawaii, Samoa, [1910].

[Footnote]
1. Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin, August 1893 and Verh. der Gesell. fur Urdkunde, 1892, p. 492.

Page 11

We sailed into the harbour formed by the surf-beaten coral reefs.
The entrance is by a single narrow channel.
On the wharf at Honolulu the brown natives mingled with white men and half-castes; pretty, mostly one-storied, houses surrounded by palm gardens clustered round the bay, and in the background rose the high picturesque hills, the whole forming an harmonious, thoroughly tropical picture.

Page 16

The life of the Hawaiian people is rich in original characteristics.
They are genuine islanders, and love the sea above all else.
There are hardly anywhere to be found more expert swimmers and fearless divers, and the length of time the latter can remain under water is certainly unsurpassed.
Armed with only a knife, they plunge in and combat the sharks, so dangerous in that locality.
Whenever a high surf approaches the coast they swim out into the sea, taking with them a plank fashioned expressly for the purpose, on which they ride in again on the crests of the waves.
Their sharp and experienced eyes detect a shoal of fish between the shore and the coral reefs before a stranger could see it with a field-glass.
As soon as the shoal has come near enough to the beach, the men spring into the sea, some to stretch out a great net, and others to drive the fish into it by loud cries and beating of the water.
In this way they often take a copious haul in a few hours, which they divide honourably; and in this division even the stranger who has been curiously watching the proceedings is not forgotten.

Page 18

About 2 o'clock in the morning we saw, at a distance of 60 nautical miles, the huge fire of the volcano Kilauea (about 4400 feet high).
In the complete darkness of the night it presented a spectacle at once terrific and beautiful.
Every minute the height and form of the pillars of fire and smoke altered; the crater often illuminated all the surrounding mountains with an intense red light, like a lighthouse erected by the powers of nature to facilitate navigation.

Shortly after sunrise we were landed in Punaluu.
Our boats, rowed by strong and skilful natives, shot like arrows through the raging surf, about 13 feet high.
After a very short rest we left Punaluu by a small railway car, which, being generally used for the carriage of sugar-canes, was but scantily furnished with seats.

Marcuse, Adolf: The Hawaiian Islands Verh. der Gesell. fur Urdkunde, 1892, p. 492. and Deutsche Rundschau, Berlin, August 1893. Translated by Helen H. Smith. Scottish Geographical Magazine Volume 10, Issue 1, 1894. Vignaud Pamphlets: Hawaii, Samoa (1862) Internet Archive http://archive.org/details/aja1741.0001.001.umich.edu

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