This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...memory retentive. When but a young lad, he visited the Potomac frigate, Commodore Downes, then lying off Honolulu. Seven years later, in 1839, he went on board the Columbia frigate, Commodore Reed. While walking be FEMALE SEMINARY. 175 raised cheaper, and of better quality. The highest land in Maui is Mauna Haleakala, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ...memory retentive. When but a young lad, he visited the Potomac frigate, Commodore Downes, then lying off Honolulu. Seven years later, in 1839, he went on board the Columbia frigate, Commodore Reed. While walking be FEMALE SEMINARY. 175 raised cheaper, and of better quality. The highest land in Maui is Mauna Haleakala, ' house of the sun, ' a gigantic terminal craler, rising from the centre of East Maui. The ascent to its summit, ten thousand feet above the sea, is gradual and easy. During the winter, considerable snow falls on and about it. There exists at Wailuku a female Boarding School or Seminary, under the charge of a mission family, and native assistants. It is a most excellent institution. The school-rooms are in a stone building, two stories high, fifty-six feet long by twenty-four broad; erected at a cost of two thousand dollars. The pupils are lodged in a row of small adobie buildings, each constituting but one apartment. The pupils are secluded as much as possible, from the corrupting influences of the neighboring inhabitants, and trained to a civilized life. They are taught all the common branches of education, embracing history and vocal music, and are also studiously initiated into the several departments of domestic industry; such as braiding, sewing, washing, ironing, knitting, spinning cotton, &c. Their clothing is a uniform of blue and white cotton. The chief object of the school is to train a class of females, who shall make suitable wives for the graduates of the High School, who too often, by marrying their ignorant and vicious country-women, have relapsed into their former barbarous habits. Thus far, this institution has proved eminently successful, and through its instrumentality a new order of the daughters of Hawaii is growing up..
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