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Excerpt from A Trip to Hawaii Many things have happened in the little island country of Hawaii, set far out in the wide Pacific, since 1885, the year when Charles Warren Stoddard visited it and wrote "A Trip to Hawaii," still the best known and most admired book on these isles of the Blessed. His tender and sympathetic insight into the tropic people and all their concerns, his keen enjoyment and appreciation of all the varied phases of the delightful journey, his artist's eye to see and artist's hand to picture forth the beautiful aspects of nature where nature is most prodigal of her charms, all unite to make his writings on Hawaii dear to every one that loves the beautiful in nature and in literary art. But American influences had grown so prominent in Island affairs that events have moved with American swiftness even in that languorous and lovely land. The native dynasty in this sweep of events has fallen, and the manner of its fall, although the matter of much heated controversy, first gave the power into the hands of the white population, and then extinguished Hawaii as a separate government altogether. No longer does Queen Liliuokalani hold her strangely mixed court, where the ancient royal robes aa feathers were draped about shoulders clad in garments cut in the Parisian mode. No longer are the stately kahilis waved in pomp over the sovereign by attendants dressed in the conventional claw-hammer coat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.