The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831 – 1904

The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831 – 1904

Hawaii
European exploration

Bird expresses her adoration for the Hawaiian Islands and discusses her many activities such as visiting volcanoes and horseback riding in the scorching heat. She also shows admiration towards the governmental structure of Hawaii regarding it as the best government administration in the world.
Bird also summarises the importance of the sugar cane industry in Hawaii to its economy and highlights the importance of Chinese immigrants on plantations alongside Hawaiians. A figure of 600 tons of sugar being turned out a year by merely 185 hands signifies the efficiency of Hawaiian industry. During the 19th century, the sugar trade became Hawaii’s main export thus this source is important when analysing the impact of immigrants on the plantation.

Isabella Lucy Bird, London

Indiana University, Victorian Women Writer Project

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/vwwp/VAB7074

1880

Alisha Mehta

J. Murray, Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of this text. https://archive.org/details/cu31924051382525

English

Textual - printed

19th century Hawai'i