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SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF ALL NATIONS
#27 - HAWAII
Size: 5" x 3"
Copyrighted: 1893
Lithographer: Kaufmann & Strauss
  
| Reverse - Text |
Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| Sandwich Islands. |
| ALTHOUGH
the Sandwich Islanders are only
recent converts to civilization,
yet during the last thirty years
they have made enormous strides
toward enlightenment. Their
manners, customs and practices
were most primitive. But they are
receptive and plastic, and with
the advent of the first white
settlers their improvement began.
To-day they are in no wise
inferior to our own masses. In
most respects they are vastly
superior to the remaining
Islanders of the Pacific Ocean.
They are a simple people,
confiding, happy and easily
satisfied. |
| The
Sandwich Islanders are all
natural expert swimmers, and seem
to have been born amphibious. The
climate is so delightful that the
water is always inviting and
refreshing. They indulge in all
sorts of sports in the water, one
of the most frequent being the
use of frail planks in the surf.
Passengers on Trans-Pacific
steamers stopping at these
islands, amuse themselves by
throwing coins into the water.
The native boys and girls plunge
after these and invariably
recover them. |
| The
religion of these people is still
primitive and crude. The forms
are interesting and significant,
but they are of course more and
more losing their hold. Flying
kites made of leaves or bark, and
called manu or bird, is
one of the sports of special
religious significance. Girls
arrayed in all the magnificence
of barbarism dance at religious
festivals and add to the
weirdness of the worship. The
noise of the drum also adds to
the impression. |
| Alligator-hunting
is very popular. Seldom does a
native go forth on such a quest
without bringing home a huge
carcass for his pains. |
| The
Sandwich Islanders, both male and
female are expert
horseback-riders. |
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NOTE: To see non-Arbuckle usage of this
supposedly copyrighted Arbuckle illustration,
click  here.
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