DEVELOPMENT OF HAWAII
Jii tho days of Captain Cook, the very first white man they had beheld, tho Hawaiians were primitive and barbaric pagans. It thus came to Captain Cook to be the first to enlighten the world as to their custom. They insisted upon Captain Cook’s acceptance of manv of their priceless leather cloaks (“ ahunlas ”), which had taken generations to prepare. Millions of birds had furnished plumage for these magnificent ceremonial cloaks, which were only worn by chiefs. The missionaries gave the Hawaiians their first written language and then taught them to read it.' • They introduced printing, schools, churches, better homes, diversified agriculture, _ and the Hawaiian, being adaptable, quickly became the most highly developed and most cultured of all their Polynesian brethren. The ideals, customs, and institutions of civilisation came to the fore, and caused the country "to develop and progress with unprecedented rapidity. Every year sees an ■ ever-in-creasing infills ol visitors to Hawaii, by reason of the charms ol Honolulu, and the natural beauty of the islands.
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Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 9
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