OF HISTORY VOLUME Hawaiian Historical Society

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1 THE HAWAIIAN OF HISTORY JOURNAL VOLUME Hawaiian Historical Society

2 Hawaiian Historical Society Publishers EDITOR Helen G. Chapin Professor of English and Vice President and Dean for Satellite Programs, Hawai 'i Pacific University ASSOCIATE EDITORS Daniel Boylan Professor of History, University of Hawai 'i West 0 'ahu Lela Goodell Cataloger, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library, retired Frances Jackson Associate Library Specialist, University of Hawai 'i E. Alison Kay Professor of Zoology, University of Hawai 'i Michael E. Macmillan Senior Editor, East- West Center Eleanor C. Nordyke Population Specialist, East- West Population Institute Philip F. Rehbock Associate Professor, History and General Science Departments, University of Hawai 'i Robert C. Schmitt State Statistician, Hawai 'i State Department of Business and Economic Development Amy K. Stillman Musicologist, Hong Kong BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Nancy J. Morris Head of Archives and Manuscripts, University of Hawai 'i Library BIBLIOGRAPHER Yasuto Kaihara Associate Library Specialist, University of Hawai 'i EDITORIAL INFORMATION 560 Kawaiahao St., Honolulu, Hawai'i Ph: MEMBERSHIP Annual Memberships: Senior Citizen (over 65) per year Regular per year Contributing (family) per year Sustaining per year Sponsor per year Associate per year Corporate Business per year Educational Institution per year Life Memberships Benefactor 1, Patron 5, Members receive the. Journal and the newsletter free of charge and are entitled to a discount on publications. A catalog of the Society's publications and of other books for sale will be sent free of charge on request. SUBSCRIPTIONS Checks for subscriptions and dues should be made payable to the Hawaiian Historical Society and mailed to the editorial address above. Single copies and back issues of The Hawaiian Journal of History are available from the Society. Please notify the Society of changes of address. Articles are indexed in America History and Life ISSN: Composition and manufacture of this journal is through the production services program of the University of Hawaii Press. Text design by Barbara Pope. Printed on acid-free paper.

3 THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY Devoted to the History of Hawai'i, Polynesia and the Pacific Area Volume ARTICLES Aftermath: Britons' Responses to News of the Death of Captain James Cook 1 O. A. BUSHNELL An Early Hawaiian Vocabulary 21 A. GROVE DAY Solar Eclipses in Hawai'i 31 WILL KYSELKA Earliest Ascents of Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawai'i 53 WALTHER M. BARNARD Measuring the Mountain: The United States Exploring Expedition on Mauna Loa, ROBERTA A. SPRAGUE Riot, Mutiny, Killing, and Cannibalism: George Brown's Maui Tour 93 RICHARD A. GREER King Kalakaua: An International Perspective 103 NIKLAUS R. SCHWEIZER Doctor Georges Phillipe Trousseau, Royal Physician 121 JEAN GREENWELL A Short History of Hawaiian Executions, JOSEPH THEROUX

4 THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY Financing Revolution: Sun Yat-sen and the Overthrow of the Ch'ing Dynasty 161 ALLEN F. DAMON Pearl Harbor, the Army Corps of Engineers, and Punahou's Cereus Hedge 187 DONALD FITZGERALD Some Movies We Missed 197 ROBERT C. SCHMITT NOTES & QUERIES Submittals by Robert C. Schmitt, Liane Ulumealani Stewart and Robert Campbell Stewart, W. Wilfried Schuhmacher, Christopher Wood, RhodaE. A. Hackler, and Barnes Riznik 205 BOOK REVIEWS A History of the Pacific Islands 211 IAN CAMPBELL Reviewed by Karen M. Peacock The Wind Gourd of La 'amaomao 212 TRANSLATED BY ESTHER K. MOOKINI AND SARAH NAKOA Reviewed by Niklaus R. Schweizer Sacred Queens and Women of Consequence: Rank, Gender, and Colonialism in the Hawaiian Islands 215 JOCELYN LINNEKIN Reviewed by Nancy J. Pollock Kona Echo: A Biography of Dr. Harvey Saburo Hayashi 217 JIRO NAKANO, M.D. Reviewed by Sandra Wagner-Wright Hawai'ika 'oihanahokele: The History of Hawaii's Hotel Industry 1840S THELMA CHANG, ROBERT W. BONE, AND JOHN M. BLACK Reviewed by Robert C. Schmitt Kelleys of the Outrigger 221 JOHN w. MCDERMOTT Reviewed by Charles E. Frankel Seabirds of Hawaii: Natural History and Conservation 222 CRAIG s. HARRISON Reviewed by John R. Henderson

5 CONTENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY Hawaiiana in 1990: A Bibliography of Titles of Historical Interest 225 YASUTO KAIHARA ON THE COVER Cover design by Barbara Pope. Photo by Franco Salmoiraghi, of Mauna Loa, with Mauna Kea in the foreground. Franco Salmoiraghi Hawaiian Historical Society. Printed in the United States of America.

6 Abbreviations ABCFM AH BH BHL BHM BPBM BPRO CCM DB DPI EB F FO & Ex FOLB HA HAA HBC HG HHS HJH HMCS HSB ID IDLB IDLF IDM MH P PC A PCR PP RHAS SIG SIN SSB & A American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions State Archives of Hawaii Board of Health, AH Board of Health Letters, AH Board of Health Minutes, AH Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum British Public Record Office Cabinet Council Minutes, AH Daily Bulletin Department of Public Instruction, AH Evening Bulletin The Friend Foreign Office and Executive File, AH Foreign Office Letter Book, AH Honolulu Advertiser Hawaiian Almanac and Annual; also known as Thrum's Annual Hawaii State Bureau of Conveyances Hawaiian Gazette Hawaiian Historical Society Hawaiian Journal of History Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Honolulu Star-Bulletin Interior Department, AH Interior Department Letter Book, AH Interior Department Land File, AH Interior Department Miscellaneous, AH Missionary Herald Polynesian Pacific Commercial Advertiser Privy Council Records, AH Paradise of the Pacific Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society Sandwich Island Gazette Sandwich Island News Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser