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adams : polynesian letters , 1828

Teuira Henry Adams : Letters from Polynesia, 1891.

Extracted from
Adams, Henry: Letters of Henry Adams, Volume 1.
Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1930.
Kraus Reprint Co., New York, 1969.

Introduction.
Also note
Taaroa,Marau and Adams, Henry: The Memoirs of Arii Taimai, a history of Tahiti.
Paris, 1901
HTML edition by Ray Davis
Chapter 11.
http://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/tahiti/11.html

Page 410

HILO, Sept. 18.
If you do not know where Hilo is don't look for it on the map.
One's imagination is the best map for travellers.
You may remember Hilo best because it is the place where Clarence King's waterfall of old-gold girls was situated.
The waterfall is still here, just behind the Severance house where we are staying.
Mrs. Severance took us down there half an hour ago.
She said nothing about the girls, but she did say that the boys used habitually to go over the fall as their after-school amusement; but of late they have given it up, and must be paid for doing it.
The last man who jumped off the neighboring high rock required fifteen dollars.
Mrs. Severance told this sadly, mourning over the decline of the arts and of surf-bathing.
A Bostonian named Brigham took a clever photograph of a boy, just. half way down, the fall being perhaps twelve or fifteen feet.
So passes the glory of Hawaii, and of the old-gold girl- woe is me!

Page 476
circa Sunday March 23

We have read all the works in Tahiti, and as for me, I am so tired of reading about the virtues and vices of the Tahitians that I wish I could see some.
As for the Tahitians that have come within my acquaintance, except when they happened to be Jews, they have been the most commonplace, dreary, spiritless people I have yet seen.
If they have amusements or pleasures, they conceal them.
Neither dance nor game have I seen or heard of; nor surf-swimming nor ball-playing nor anything but the stupid mechanical himene.
They do not even move with spirit.
If I were not afraid of extravagance I should say that they were more melancholy than Hawaiians.

Adams, Henry: Letters of Henry Adams, Volume 1.
Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1930.
Kraus Reprint Co., New York, 1969.

Geoff Cater (2007) : Teuira Henry : Ancient Tahiti, 1828.
http://www.surfresearch.com.au/1828_Henry_Orsmond_Tahiti.html

1890-92
Adams travels with artist John La Farge to Hawaii, Samoa, Tahiti, Fiji, Australia, and Ceylon from August 1890 to September 1891.

1893
Privately prints Memoirs of Marau Taaroa, Last Queen of Tahiti.

1901
Revises and enlarges the Tahiti memoir as Memoirs of Arii Taimai for private distribution.

1918
Dies in Washington March 27 at thc age of eighty.

A Chronology of Henry Adams's Life
(Adapted from the "Chronology" contained in the three-volume Library of America edition of Adams' major works.)
http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/AdamsChronology.htm

Mrs. Severance
See
Bird, Isabella L.: Six Months in the Sandwich Isles-
Amoung Hawai'i's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes.
John Murray, London, 1875. Letter XIV, Pages .
G. P. Putman's Sons, New York, 1881.
Mutual Publishing, 1215 Center Street, Suite 210
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816. 1988, 2001, 2004.

1842
Clarence Rivers King born on January 6th to James Rivers King and Caroline Florence Little of Newport, Rhode Island.

1867
Congress approves 40th Parallel Survey with King in charge
King begins survey with study of Comstock Lode in Nevada.

1871
Rocky Mountain/Great Plains field work
Wrote articles about active glaciers in American Journal of Science and Atlantic Monthly
Winters in Hawaii

1880
King becomes first director of United States Geological Survey.

1901
King dies from tuberculosis on December 24 in Phoenix, Arizona
Mt.Shasta Companion
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/env/king/time.htm