The paradise of the Pacific- the Hawaiian Islands (electronic resource) (1900) (14760310731)

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Title: The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930
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Publisher: Boston, D. Estes & Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives



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ms revived^ stands theoldest Christian church on the islands. Built oflava blocks, some of which had been hewn by oneof the ancient kings of Hawaii as the corner-stonesof a pagan temple, this house of modern worship isbare and desolate enough to have suited the mostaustere of Puritan worshippers. It requires nogrievous strain of the imagination to transport oneback to the scenes of the early missionaries andtheir odd congregation of uncivilised listeners, whohad but a faint inkling of the new creed theyprofessed to accept. The church is now imdercharge of a native pastor. But it is not so muchas a religious seat that Kailua is noted to-day.The coffee industry is the prevailing element, anda large coffee mill is seen, the most noticeable ofmodern buildings. Terms of the Circuit Court areheld here. Kealakekua Bay, famous for its associations withthe name of Captain Cook, is the best anchorageon the western and southern coasts. A steep j)ali,honeycombed with the burial caverns of the Ha-
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PICTURESQUE MAUL 211 waiianSj a rude Polynesian catacomb^ forms thebackground of the scene here. In plain sightof the shore is the white shaft which marksthe place where the Great Navigator paid theprice of his perfidy to the native race^ and a quar-ter of a mile distant are the ruins of the heiau ofKiki Au, where he received the homage due agod. Above the narrow coast rim are great coffeeplantations^ which get their supplies largely atNapaupau^ across the bay from Kealakekua. Alittle lower down the coast is another ancientplace of modern interest, Honaunau, the old cityof refuge. It was here that criminals and fugi-tives from any and every cause fled for safety inthe troublesome days of yore. Hawaii had twoof these places, planned very much as those ofthe Hebrew Scripture. The other was on thewindward side of the island, at famous Waipio,the one-time seat of royal dynasty, that of therenowned Kihi line of kings. These cities ofrefuge were walled towns and the pagan ideaof a court of