This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...no standards that included us. "Most people go straight on to Wailuku," we had been told; and they do. There are plenty of rooms in the hotel, and judging from the unpopulous table d'h6te most of them must always be empty. Yet once, at least, when we had several hours to wait for a steamer, I had great ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...no standards that included us. "Most people go straight on to Wailuku," we had been told; and they do. There are plenty of rooms in the hotel, and judging from the unpopulous table d'h6te most of them must always be empty. Yet once, at least, when we had several hours to wait for a steamer, I had great difficulty in finding an empty bedroom to rest in. I made many journeys to and fro before, finally, a Jap boy with no English grudgingly opened a door for me. Even then a large cockroach stalked me jealously up and down the stairs, and when at last I took possession and shook down the mosquitobar, the same cockroach (I had kept her well in sight for ten minutes--I could not mistake her) established herself disapprovingly on the floor by the wash-stand to chaperone me while I napped. We were destined to climb Haleakala--of which, you might say, East Maui consists. Everything in Hawaii has some superlative to distinguish it; and Haleakala is the largest extinct crater in the world. If I had had my doubts about Kilauea, I had them still more about Haleakala, especially as Haleakala meant a stiff seven miles on mule-back. Something sinister hung over Maui from the first--something, that is, personally sinister for me; whether the vast shadow of Haleakala or the more distant and more psychic prospect of Kalaupapa--for we were to visit Molokai before returning to Honolulu. Perhaps the shadow was deepened by the knowledge that our remaining days in the Eight Islands were very few. My feet lagged on Maui; I never wanted to do the next thing I did not always want to leave Lahaina; I never wanted to leave Wailuku; it is impossible for any one to wish to leave the Iao Valley. Besides, my heart was in Hilo, and we were not to see Hilo again. If East...
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NY 1916 1st Scribners. Octavo, 181pp., photo illustrations, map, original printed green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Owner bookplate. Good plus, small chip in cloth on rear cover panel. no dj.
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NY 1916 1st Scribners. Octavo, 181pp., photo illustrations, map, original printed green cloth spine with gilt lettering. VG extreme cover tips worn. Binding secure; hinges not cracked; text clean; no owner marks.
