Identifier: footprintsoftrav01ball (find matches)
Title: Foot-prints of travel; or, Journeyings in many lands
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ballou, Maturin M(urray) 1820-1895
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e. Here we pass the residence of the lateOueen Emma, pleasantly located and flower-embowered.This valley is classic ground in the history of these islands,being the spot where the fierce and conquering invader,King Kamehameha I., fought his last decisive battle, theresult of which confirmed him as sole monarch of theHawaiian group. Here the natives of Oahu made theirfinal stand and fought desperately, resisting with clubsand spears the savage hordes led by Kamehameha. Butthey were defeated at last, and with their king Kaiana,who led them in person, were all driven over the abruptand fatal cliff fifteen hundred feet high, situated at theupper end of the valley. In the environs of the city one passes upon the road-sides large patches measuring an acre or more of sub-merged land, where is grown the Hawaiian staff of life, —the taro, a root which is cultivated in mud and mostlyunder water, recaUing the rice-fields of China and Japan.The vegetable thus produced, when baked and pounded to
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yOURNEYINGS IN MANY LANDS. 19 a flour, forms a nutritious sort of dough called/^/, whichconstitutes the principal article of food for the natives, aspotatoes do with the Irish or macaroni with the Italians.This poi is eaten both cooked and in a raw state mixedwith water. Though Oahu is quite mountainous, like the rest of theislands which form the Hawaiian group, still none of thesereach the elevation of perpetual snow. The six inhabitedislands of the group are Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lanai,Maui, and Hawaii, the last containing the largest activevolcano of which we have any knowledge; namely, thatof Kilauea, to visit which persons cross the Atlanticand Pacific oceans, and also the American continent,between the two. Honolulu was chosen for the capitalbecause it forms the best and almost the only harborworthy of the name to be found among these islands. Inthe olden times Lahaina, on the island of Maui, was thecity of the king, and the recognized capital in the palmydays of the whale fishe

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