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 Michael E. Macmillan ASSOCIATE EDITORS Daniel Boylan Professor of History, University of Hawai'i West O'ahu Helen G. Chapin Vice-President emerita, Hawai 'i Pacific University Lela Goodell Cataloger (retired), Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library Frances Jackson Associate Library Specialist (retired), University of Hawai'i at Mdnoa E. Alison Kay Professor of Zoology, University of Hawai'i at Mdnoa Eleanor C. Nordyke Population Specialist (retired), East-West Population Institute Philip F. Rehbock Professor, History and General Science Departments, University of Hawai'i at Mdnoa Robert C. Schmitt State Statistician (retired), Hawai'i State Department of Business and Economic Development Amy K. Stillman Assistant Professor of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Nancy J. Morris Head of Archives and Manuscripts, University of Hawai 'i at Mdnoa BIBLIOGRAPHER Chieko Tachihata Hawaiian Curator, Special Collections, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i at Mdnoa EDITORIAL INFORMATION 560 Kawaiaha'o St., Honolulu, Hawai'i Phone: MEMBERSHIP Annual Memberships: Senior Citizen (over 65) $25.00 per year Regular $30.00 per year Contributing (family) $50.00 per year Sponsor $ per year Associate $ per year Corporate Business $ per year Educational Institution $30.00 per year Life Memberships: Partner $1, per year Benefactor $2, per year Patron $5, per year Members receive thejournaland 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: The Journal is composed and manufactured through the production services program of the University of Hawai'i Press. Printed on acid-free paper.

3 THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY Devoted to the History ofhawai'i, Polynesia, and the Pacific Area Volume ARTICLES An Introduction to the Hoa'dina and Their Rights 1 DAVIANNA POMAIKA'l MCGREGOR Notes on Early Land Titles and Tenure in Hawai'i 29 RICHARD A. GREER Richard Charlton: A Reassessment 53 RICHARD MACALLAN Kawaihapai: A Place in Time 77 ROY KAKULU ALAMEIDA A New View of Kaua'i as "The Separate Kingdom" after 1810 PETER R. MILLS A Danish Sailor's View ofhawai'i in J0RGENJENSEN Queen Kapi'olani's Lei Chants 119 AMY KU'ULEIALOHA STILLMAN John Adams Cummins: Prince of Entertainers 153 RIANNA M. WILLIAMS Theosophy, Culture, and Politics in Honolulu, FRANK KARPIEL gi

4 THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY The Last Mass Migration of Workers to Hawai'i 195 ANASTACIO LUIS Hawai'i in the Movies, , Part IV 211 ROBERT C. SCHMITT NOTES & QUERIES Submissions by E. Alison Kay, Robert C. Schmitt, and Helen G. Chapin 223 BOOK REVIEWS Pi'o, An Enquiry into the Marriage of Brothers and Sisters and other Close Relatives in Old Hawai H 231 WILLIAM H. DAVENPORT Reviewed by Rubellite K. Johnson Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai % 235 GARRETT HONGO Reviewed by Henry B. Chapin A Dictionary of Hawaiian Legal Land-Terms 237 PAUL F. NAHOA LUCAS Reviewed by Kevin M. Roddy Darwin's Laboratory: Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific 239 ROY M. MACLEOD AND PHILIP F. REHBOCK Reviewed by Hampton L. Carson How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example 241 MARSHALL SAHLINS Reviewed by Robert Borofsky Firsts and Almost Firsts in Hawai'i 244 ROBERT C. SCHMITT AND RONN RONCK Reviewed by Dan Boylan Born and Raised in Waikiki 245 BETTY DYER SORENSON Reviewed by Helen G. Chapin History of the Macadamia Nut Industry in Hawaii: From Bush Nut to Gourmet's Delight 247 SANDRA WAGNER-WRIGHT Reviewed by Brian L. Cassity

5 CONTENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY Hawaiiana in 1993: A Bibliography of Titles of Historical Interest 251 JOAN HORI, NANCY MORRIS, AND CHIEKO TACHIHATA ON THE COVER A studio photograph of two hula dancers taken by Eduard Arning in the mid 1880s. The original glass plates of more than two hundred photographs taken by Arning during his stay in Hawai'i between 1884 and 1886 are held by the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Hamburg, Germany. Copies of the photographs are in the Hawaiian Historical Society collection 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 PCA PCR PP RHAS SIG SIN SSB & A American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions State Archives of Hawai'i 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 called Thrum's Annual Hawai'i 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 Islands Gazette Sandwich Islands News Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser