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The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
 Notes on his journey to the Sandwich Islands in 1836-37, p. 341-71.

Forbes 1120: "After arriving at the Columbia River and exploring Oregon and Washington, Parker joined the barque Columbia headed for the Hawaiian Islands in June 1836. Parker was invited to stay at the Binghams. He describes Honolulu at some length .. visited Waikiki .. later went to Ewa, Wialua, and Kaneohe, and has brief remarks on resident missionaries at each station."

Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani
The Works of the People of Old. Bishop Museum Special Publication 61.
Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.1976

Kamakau, Samuel Manaiakalani
 Tales and Traditions of the People of Old: Na Mo'olelo a ka Po'e Kahiko.
Translated by Mary Kawena Pukui, edited by Dorothy B. Barrère. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.1991

Macrae, James
With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825
The Petroglyph Press, Hawaii, 1972

In 1848, Edward Perkins sailed on the Planet, an American whaling ship, to Hawaii, where he lived for nearly two years. He later spent time on Bora bora, Raiatea and Tahiti, in the Society Islands. This account of his adventures provides unique information on the South Sea islands he visited and on whaling. Written in a lively and entertaining style, the book will be of interest to travel-lovers and historians alike. Maps and illustrations add depth and interest to the work.

“An important and lively narrative of life in Hawaii between 1849 and 1851” (Forbes).
“In 1848 Perkins sailed on the Planet, an American whaling ship, to Hawaii, where he lived for nearly two years. He later spent considerable time on Bora Bora, Raiatea, and Tahiti, in the Society Islands.
Perkins gives interesting data on whaling as well as on the islands he visited” (Hill)

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
 Notes on his journey to the Sandwich Islands in 1836-37, p. 341-71.

Forbes 1120: "After arriving at the Columbia River and exploring Oregon and Washington, Parker joined the barque Columbia headed for the Hawaiian Islands in June 1836. Parker was invited to stay at the Binghams. He describes Honolulu at some length .. visited Waikiki .. later went to Ewa, Wialua, and Kaneohe, and has brief remarks on resident missionaries at each station."

Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library
2006

OF WAVES.

A wave of the sea always breaks in front of its base, and that portion of the crest will then be lowest which before was highest.

[Footnote: The page of FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO’S Trattato, on which Leonardo has written this remark, contains some notes on the construction of dams, harbours &c.]

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.
http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Richter-NotebooksOfLeonardo/section-16/item-952.html

Dudley Heimrich was the swimming coach for the New South Wales Amateur Swimming Association. The 1920s was an important period in the history of swimming in Australia. The most notable local champion was “Boy” Charlton. “Boy's” portrait and a list of his achievements are included in Heimrich's book. He won the 1500 metres final at the Paris Olympics in 1924, setting a new world record.

Swimming has continued to be a strong Australian sport in the Olympics, the Commonwealth games, and other international competitions.

This is the html version of the file http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/ahs/samples/AHS_127_sample_article.pdf.

This general work on swimming is notable partly for the illustrations of the various patented devices for aiding people to swim. These include flippers for the feet, webbings for the hands and pedal driven propellers.

These are part of the Spalding's Athletic Library. 

Annette Kellermann was born in Sydney in 1886 and learned to swim at Dick Cavill's Baths on Sydney Harbour, near the present site of the Sydney Opera House, and by 1900 she was the champion female swimmer of New South Wales. The family moved to Melbourne, and Annette began to perform in aquatic displays, including high diving performances with Wirth's Olympia, near Prince's Bridge. Stage shows followed and Annette moved to England and Europe. In 1907 she moved to the United States where she continued her stage and exhibition appearances. She married a movie camera-man in 1912 and from 1916 began to appear in movies.

Annette was a celebrity swimmer and, in her book on Physical beauty, stresses the importance of strenuous sport for women,

    I insist that swimming is not only a splendid sport for women but that it is the sport for women - the one sport, in fact, with the possible exception of dancing, in which she can fully compete with men. (p. 85)

Swimming has continued to be a strong Australian sport in the Olympics, the Commonwealth games, and other international competitions.

In 1844 George French Angas (1822-1886) travelled some 800 miles through mainly uncharted territory. Angas's drawings of Maoris in native dress, their houses, totems, ornaments, weapons, wood carvings, funerals, war dances and customs form a record of a civilization that was about to undergo radical changes. Facing each plate, Angas writes interesting details about the portrayed person and his/her role in local life and/or New Zealand society. There are also some plates of New Zealand scenery, vulcanoes, forests, lakes, etc. The work contains an engraved dedication to Prince Albert, a six-page introduction of the main customs, and a list of subscribers. It was originally published in ten parts between 1846 and 1847.

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