Excerpt from Paradise in the Pacific: A Book of Travel, Adventure, and Facts in the Sandwich Islands
I sailed to the tropics to escape from a Northern winter, not knowing in what port I should finally anchor. I moored at Honolulu, in the Sandwich or Hawaiian Islands; and this book is a result of my sojourn there.
The book is small; but so is the country and so are the people of which it treats, while it is really larger than the importance of that country to any possible future of commerce or civilization. The Hawaiian Islands have occasionally attracted the attention of the American people on account of a political value which they are supposed to possess by their position.
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