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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, January 10, 1898, page 7.


Prof. WT. D. Alexander believes John R. Musick's new book on Hawaii is a work of merit.
...
There has been little surf riding at Waikiki lately.
While the weather outside has been rough there have been very few breakers at the beach.

Chronicling America
The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, January 10, 1898, Image 7
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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, January 11, 1898, page 6.
STORY OF HAWAII
John R. Mustek's History Has been Published
A LOCAL HOUSE HAS AGENCY
Chiefly for Circulation in the United States
Notes Kroin Prospectus - Titles of Chapters.

Prof. John R. Mustek's long promised book on Hawaii has at last been published by the great house of Funk & Wagnalls.
Advance copies and lists have been received here by the Hawaiian News Company.
An agent of that house is abroad now selling the book.
It will be taken quite readily here by those who keep up with Island literature of the day and follow the history of the group.
The work is intended of course mainly for circulation in the United States, where it is expected to have a big sale.
That the first large edition is almost gone over there, is reported already.

The book has more than 500 pages and is profusely illustrated with halftones from photographs and process cut from pen and ink sketches.
There are of course many of the old familiar scenic subjects, but a few new ones have been neatly introduced.
Some of the cuts are on the margin.
The blind reed blower of Hilo is one of these.
There is much of the book that is narrative and descriptive.
There is a story of the overthrow and of the Royalist revolution of 1S95.
Professor Mustek was here many months and became acquainted with the locale.
For that reason he has been able to put forth in America a book that is reasonably correct in its presentation of facts and conditions.
Following are extracts from the American prospectus of the work:

An accurate and entertaining story ...
...
"The author is a good traveler and he knows how to tell the story of his travels in a straightforward, animated, and pleasing way. He visited every Island in the Hawaiian group, and has vividly sketched their various characteristicsand resources. Hawaii itself,
with its pretty, busy capital (Honolulu), the sugar and coffee plantations, the great and dread volcano of Kilauea, the sunny valleys and beautiful cataracts, the leper Island of Molokai, the coral reefs with surf breaking in thunder upon them, the rich tropical
vegetation and fruits are described in a way to lead one on with constant desire to know more of this land of sunshine and flowers.
...
For a cover page design the book has a native on a surf board.

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The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, January 11, 1898, Image 6

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Notes.
The correct title, not given in the press announcement,  of John R. Mustek's book is Hawaii- Our New Possessions.
The decorative cover, as noted, featured an illustration of an Hawai'ian surfboard rider.
It was only one of the numerous publications that were printed in America at the end of the 19th century following the annexation of Pacific and Caribbean states.

Mustek, John R.: Hawaii- Our New Possessions.
Funk & Wagnalls, New York, London, 1897.

White, Trumbull: Our New Possessions- Book I. The Phillipine Islands. Book II. Puerto Rico. Book III. Cuba. Book IV. The Hawaiian Islands.
International Publishing Company, Chicago, 1898.

Neely, F. Tennyson: Neely's Panorama of Our New Possessions
F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher, Chicago, 1898.

Vivian, thomas J. & Smith, Ruel P.: Everything About Our New Possessions Being a Handy Book on Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines.
R. F. Fenno & Co. 1899.

No author: Picturesque Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines: A Photographic Panorama of Our New Possessions.
Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick., Springfield, Ohio., 1898.

Owen, Jean A. (Mrs Visger):The Story of Hawaii.
London:Harper and Brothers, 1898.

Calhoun, Alfred R.: Kohala of Hawaii - A Story of the Sandwich Islands Revolution
Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1893.

Skinner, Charles M.: Myths & Legends of Our New Possessions & Protectorate
 J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1900.

The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, April 27, 1898, page 4.

Surf Riding.
CANOES CAN BE OBTAINED AT
Wright's Villa, Waikiki, at any time on 'thirty minutes' notice.
The canoes are fine specimens and are manned by experienced natives.

CHARGES REASONABLE

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, April 27, 1898, Image 4
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The Hawaiian Star
Honolulu, May 26, 1898, page 2.

Arrived.
Thursday May 26
Per O.S. Co.'s Mariposa, (from San Francisco)
Rev. Charles R. Brown and wife, C. M.Cooke, wife, child and maid, Richard Cooke, Miss Alice Cooke, C. W. Deacon, Colonel W. Evans, (Captain) G. D. Freeth, ...


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The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, May 26, 1898, Image 2
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Los Angeles Herald
Volume 25, Number 252, 9 June 1898.

Barbecue at Redondo

Redondo Beach will celebrate the opening of the summer season next Sunday with a grand complimentary barbecue, after which will be given a long program of aquatic events, including boat races through the surf, high diving exhibition and swimming races. The citizens of Redondo have organized for the purpose of entertaining the public this summer, and they intend to do it in the best style.

California Digital Newspaper Collection
Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 252, 9 June 1898

Note: For a surf bathing scene at Redondo Beach, see:
Ron Felsing: Redondo Beach, Flicker, viewed 25 June 2012.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ron_felsing/4101867795/in/photostream/

The Hawaiian Star
Honolulu, June 30, 1898, page 1.

A LUAU.

Mrs. A. M. Brown gave a luau to Burton Holmes and Louis Francis Brown and a number of guests this afternoon.
After the luau, canoe surf riding was indulged in and much enjoyed by the talented lecturer.

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The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, June 30, 1898, Image 1
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, June 30, 1898, page 7.

Into Morocco.

It was another delighted audience that left the Opera House last evening at the conclusion of the Burton Holmes second illustrated lecture for the benefit of the Red Cross Society.
The subject was "Into Morocco by Caravan into a Roadless Empire."
The pictures thrown upon the screen were even stranger and more fascinating than those views of the Yellowstone National Park. The original negatives were made by Mr. Holmes himself and the coloring was done by Miss Catherine Gordon Breed.
Many of the scenes, rich in mysterious oriental splendor, were warmly applauded.
Mr. Holmes' description were highly interesting.
The motion pictures shown last night were new ones and the machine was in fine working order.
The third and last entertainment will occur on Friday evening and the story will be of Grecian journeys.

Chronicling America
The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, June 30, 1898, Image 7
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The Hawaiian Star
Honolulu, July 1, 1898, page 8.

SURF RIDING

Burton Holmes secured some excellent photographs of surf riding yesterday, and people in the States will really learn what this amusement is,
when they see his realistic pictures.
Some of these show the canoes just rushing in on the crest of the wave, and the eager looks of the occupants are admirably portrayed.
As specimens of photography of a charming and yet bizarre amusement, these will be really unique.

Chronicling America
The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, July 01, 1898, Image 8
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, July 1, 1898, page 7.


Marshal and Mrs. A. M. Brown gave a poi luncheon and surf riding party yesterday in honor of Mr. Burton Holmes.
...
This evening there will he given at
the Opera House bv Mr. Holmes the last of the series of illustrated lectures for the benefit of the Red Cross Society.
The subject will be "Grecian Journeys" and there will also be the motion pictures.

Chronicling America
The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, July 01, 1898, Image 7
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, July 2, 1898, page 1.


A WAIKIKI TREAT
Surf Riding Will Be Shown in Motion Pictures.

FLEET OF MOVING CANOES
Princess Kaiulani in One Scene
Luau Picture - Boys In Blue Feast - Ewa Mill Next.


Burton Holmes and his motion picture man, Mr. De Pue, are already hard at work on material for the illustrated lecture on the Islands, which will Be the leader with the company next year.
The first of the new series
of motion pictures will show that popular sport, surf riding in canoes.
Six
parties will he shown and some well known people of this community may at some future time practically see themselves indulging in the grand pastime of making express time on the crest of a Waikiki wave.

These motion pictures are made at the rate of eighteen to the second and the instrument for making the impressions or negatives was kept quite busy for some time on Thursday afternoon.

In the embarkation are shown the Princess Kaiulani, Marshal Brown and Mrs. Brown, E. It. Adams, Mrs. J A. Oilman, Miss Parker and others equally prominent in the Islands.
Both Mr. De Pue and Mr. Holmes believe that a thorough success was made with the films and the machine.
Every precaution was put forth against failure.
The negatives made here will be prepared in the States for use in projecting on the screen.
There will .be several hundred views.

The first picture taken by Mr. Holmes for coloring by the artist who has given so much life to his Yellowstone Park and other pictures, was very appropriately of that pleasant institution the luau.
It will show the feast and decorations in detail, the native musicians, the lanai and the guests.
Mr. Brown, manager for Mr. Holmes, is delighted with this first of the series of big colored pictures.
In a day or two the artist party will visit Ewa and will there secure views of the sugar mill in full operation and of field hands at work.
The Japanese cane cutters have heard of this and it is said they will throw activity into the scenes that will surprise the most experienced luna.

One thing in the Holmes illustrated lecture that will advertise Honolulu pretty well for several years will- be scenes from the dinner hour of visiting Boys in Blue.
These will show the crowds and the surroundings fully.
One of the companies of the First Regiment, N. G. H., will figure in the lecture and the military men abroad can have the chance of passing upon the efficiency of the local force.
Capt. Zeigler, F Company, will provide an artillery drill for Mr. De Pue in front of the camera that makes the negatives for the moving pictures.
There will be a number of Honolulu street and water front scenes.
On the other Islands Mr. De Pue will find as material for motion pictures the handling of live stock, sugar and other freight at unfavorable landings by the native boat crews.
For the large colored pictures to be used in the lecture proper, Mr. Holmes will select views on all the Islands.
He will spend some time at Kiiauea, will visit Molokai, will visit Iao valley, Hanalei, Hakala and many other historic and scenic spots.

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, July 02, 1898, Image 1
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The Hawaiian Star
Honolulu, July 19, 1898, page 5.

WILL BOOM THE ISLANDS
BURTON HOLMES' LECTURE UPON HAWAII.
The Motion Pictures Secured of Island Scenes - Historic Events for the American Public -  Old Glory.

The visit of E. Burton Holmes to the Islands at this time is peculiarly fortunate.
Mr Holmes planned his trip to get descriptions and views of beautiful scenery, as it has turned out he and his accomplished stuff
readied the Islands at a time which was epoch making, and he will take back with him not only pictures of the beauties of nature, but of scenes that will stir the hearts of our fellow citizens over the water.
Mr. Brown, the manager for Mr. Holmes, returned by the steamer Maui and is enthusiastic over the trip that has been made.
The party visited both Maui and Hawaii, and during the trip took upwards of 2?0 photographs.
At every place they went to they found themselves welcome, and Mr. Brown speaks highly of the Island hospitality.
On Maui, Tao Valley and llnleakala were visited, besides the principal plantations.
On Hawaii the volcano, Hilo and Hilo district, Olaa, Kan and Konn, were taken in.
Mr. Holmes, who returned by the Kinau today, accompanied C.J.H. Wight through the Puna district, and will return laden with pictures of life on coffee? plantations of that favored spot.
During their stay here Mr. Holmes and his assistants have obtained eleven motion pictures, which will be of intense interest in the United States.
The list is as follows.
Two pictures of surf riding at Waikiki, one of the canoes starting in which Princess Kniuluni Is just stepping into the canoe.
Another of the canoes rushing in on the crest of the wave.
At Waiakca two motion pictures were obtained of plantation life.
The first shows ninety Japanese men and women working in the cane field, the second shows a field party at the midday meal. The narrow gauge railroad coming through the cane fields at Puhnia, with the laborers on the car and children nloneside, is another.
At Pepeekeeo was taken a very valuable picture of taking in sugar by the wire rope.
The Rainbow Falls will fall over their rocky bed for American audiences. and they will also have the troops of the Second Manila expedition dining in the Kxeciitive grounds, and another showing the "boys" giving three cheers.
Another effective picture is the Monterey, taken as a boat circled round her, which will give the audience the idea that they are sailing around the big monitor.
Yesterday the fire brigade was taken as a moving picture, and later there will be taken battery drill, the departure of the steamer, etc.
There will be fifteen in all.
The Islands will be well advertised, as Burton Holmes' lectures are very popular all over the States.
It is probable that one member of the company will stay to get a picture of the flag raising.


Chronicling America
The Hawaiian star. (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, July 19, 1898, Image 5
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, July 20, 1898, page 7.


Miss Alice Petrie entertained a large party of friends at Wright's Villa last evening in honor of a birthday anniversary.
Surf riding, dancing and refreshments were the features.

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The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, July 26, 1898, page 2.


Marshal Brown entertained a patty of  United States Army officers at Waikiki, yesterday.
Among the number were Leut. Col. S. H. Kellogg and Adjt. Loyd.
Surf riding was a feature of the day's program.

Chronicling America
The Hawaiian gazette. (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, July 26, 1898, Image 2
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The Scranton tribune. (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, July 29, 1899, Morning, Image 5
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The Appeal.
Saint Paul, July 30, 1898, page 1.
HAWAIIAN DANCES
...
He will find little of the beautiful surf board riding, where lithe men and women launched themselves on long, thin boards into the flying surf till their brown bodies shone like bronzes.
The pretty and cleanly grass-braided huts have given way to houses made of prosaic Seattle pine and fir.
American whaleboats have crowded the graceful canoes from the beaches.
And the truth and power of the hula-hula dance is gone.

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Kansas City Journal
August 10, 1898, page 7.

EXCITING BATHING IN HAWAII.
Riding the Surf, Whether on a Board or in a Canoe. is Exhilaratlng Pastime.


From the San Francisco ChronlcIe.
To experience the true poetry of motion one must try surf riding.
There is something about going thirty miles an hour on the crest of a white-foamed breaker, ever yawnirg and surging to overwhelm and give you a battle for your life, but
tver, by the impotent e ot its own wrath.
tirring ou on in exhilaration and safety that makes the blood tingle and raises the mere pleasure of p.isitil existence! to the
nlane of intellectual ccstas.
There is all in it that there is in coasting or tobogganing or shooting the chutes and a great deal more besides, something so subtle that it can only be felt, not described, and
ct it i- to rtal, eo powerful, so embracing that it takes hold of ven the most unpoetlcal nature, facinates and enthralls it.

The natlve Hawaiian, in all his conquests in an environment which did not offer many material aids to advancement, proved his possession of high intellectual qualities and capacity for attainment in no more conclusive manner than when he read In the rolling surf this natures secret of motive power.
Since the waters were gathered together and called sea the surf has been rolling in in long breakers upon ever shore the ocean waves.
But it was the Hawaiian alone of all the sons of earth and sea who discovered its subtle power and the subtle power to control and utilize it.
The art of surf riding is indigenous to the Hawaiian islands.
To see a frail outrigger canoe, itself a monument to the patience and skill which hollowed and shaped it with rude tools from the trunk of a koa tree, glide with almost the swiftness and grace of an eagle in flight before a whlte-crested breaker, without tremor or a jir from the argr waters behind it, is.i -Uht worth a long journey to see.
To be in the canoe, to experienee that annihilation of time and space, to be always about to be overwhelmed, but nlvvas escaping, is a sensation worth a life's ambition to feel.
But just a little more vivid, just a little more exhilarating. Just a little more in-ten-e
than surf-canoe riding is surf-board riding.
Which of the two pastimes is the earlier in conception and the older in practice it is impossible to say.
Tradition is silent on the subject, and both antedate history.
There Is reason to believe that the surf board, being the simpler implement, came before the canoe.
However that may be, the conditions which admit or surf-board riding are rarer than those of surf canoeing, and though the two have been known and dee-enbed -inco
Captain Cook discovered these islands, it is onlv- within the last few weeks that actual pictures of surf-board riding by instantaneous photography, showing it as it is and correcting erroneous impressions regarding it, as the same means corrected the traditional impressions of the horses movements in running, have been procured.

The conditions of surf-boat riding; require a long panel beach, gently and evenly sloping for a long distance into the sea, without rocks or depressions, so that the surf will roll in long sweeping breakers with a uniform speed from the time they form till they waste and spend themselves on the shore.
Surf canoeing doe not require nearly such uniform nor perfect conditions, because in the canoe the speed can be accelerated or diminished by the use of paddles to keep in exactly the right position with relation to the rolling breaker to get its forward motion.

For ear, past there" has been no place
n.ea51 HnIulu where the condition were
right for surf-board riding, and it became
almost a lost art. Up to a few months
ago there was onlv one native known in
Honolulu who could ride the surf board
standing upon it. But within the last two
.- .ifeeiPir.t,h.'- "aml "P" hi,s formed
off the WaikikI beach right in front of
the suburban residence of Colonel George
W. Macfarlane. which gives the perfect
conditions. Surf-board riding has in con
.seejuenee been revived. ha In fact, become
a fad. and a large number of people, both
the a t natuts- hae become expert In
The surf board is five or six feet long and
rrom twelve to sixteen Inches wide near
the forward end. drawn to a rounded point
in front and tapering slightly aft. In gen
eral outlne It resembles a eoffln lid It
it perfect! tlat on the upper side, but eleep-
uneier side. To ride it the rider goes out
as far as he can in the water on the shelv
ing bearh: then, facing the hore. holds the
board up in front of him. point upmost, the
bottom or under side resting on his middle.
Just as the rolling motion of an aelvancing
breaker reaches him he gives a spring up
ward and forward bringing the board tlat
upon the water with rather more than half
hi- bod upon it. The springing movement
gives a forward motion to himself and the
board, which he aelels to bv- kicking against
tho rolling wall of water behind him until
his speed is jx ictly that of the breaker.
1 rom that point on. when the rider has
acquired the art. the rolling motion of the
surf carries him until it lands him high and
eir on the shore There are three points
in particular to be observed in surfboard
riding.
To spring at the right moment, to acquire the exact speed and direction of the breaker, and to keep both sides of the
board level.
If one side gets a little deeper in the water than the other it drags, changes the direction and the breaker is lost.

From this point the next stage in progression in the art is to be able to rest one's elbows on the board and one's face in one's hands.
To ride standing on the board, the rider gradually moves his body forward on it. then rises to his knees, and finally to his feet, always keeping the edges of the board perfectly level.
As the breakers roll in at about thirty miles an hour and the rider cannot go out into the water much deeper than up to his waist, because otherwise he cannot make the necessary initial spring, it can be seen that to ride standing requires not only great dexterity, but perfect conditions.

But the triumph is worth the effort.
Skillful riders can ride in conditions not perfect by being able to adjust their speed to the vnring speed of the breaker by using their hand as a paddle when they feel they are going slower than the breaker, or as a drag when they feel they are going faster.

Surf canoeing is exactly the same In principle, but the novice can enjoy it by going out with an experienced canoeist.

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Kansas City journal. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, August 10, 1898, Image 7
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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, August 10, 1898, page 7.


Dr. Griffith and officers on Colonel Barber's staff were surf riding at Waikiki yesterday afternoon.

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The Salt Lake Herald
August 11, 1898, page 3.

OUR NEW FELLOW COUNTRYMEN
The Hawaiian Islands and the People Who Live On Them

Kansas City Starr

The Hawaiian islands sometimes called Sandwich islands lie in the Pacific ocean at a point about where a line through Cuba and central Mexico extended westerly would meet a line through western Alaska extended southerly
The Hawaiians are famous swimmers and divers.
Many of the boys earn a living off the coast by watching for travelers and inducing them to toss coins into the water that they may dive for them.
As soon as the coin touches the water the boys go down like turtles under the surface and presently come up with the coin held high up in his hand He then puts the coin in his mouth and awaits expectantly another chance to dive.
At Waikiki a fashionable seaside resort the natives do some marvelous diving and surf swimming.
Aquatic sports were once practiced by all the natives young and old and is to these exercises that the women owe their beautiful forms
Now swimming is not so popular but many of the natives still retain their skill
Surf swimming has made the Hawaiians famous.
The swimmers each take a surf board and strike out from shore diving under the huge waves until they are several thousand feet out
Then every man mounts his board and either he lies stretched full length along it or he keels or even stands erect on it.
The incoming swell washes him swiftly toward shore.
When he is near the beach he dives from his board then recovers and swims out again to re peat the performance

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The Sun.
New York, August 14, 1898, 3, page 22.

HAWAII'S ROYAL PASTIME.
GLORIES OF SURF RIDING ENJOYED ON THE WAY TO MANILA
Sensations of Going at Railway Speed on the Crest of Huge Waves
- More About the Welcome Given Our Troops at Honolulu -
The Hula-Hula and its Peculiarities.

Transport Australia, June 4.
Back to blue waters again!
Hospitable Honolulu almost shrouded in the illusory mist that ever envelopes her bluff mountains.
...
ROYAL SPORT OF SURF RIDING

Of all that Honolulu showed the soldiers two things stand out particularly, surf riding and the hula dance.

Surf riding is a sport for kings: as for the dance well, when you have seen it you will know .whether you want to see it again or not.
Surf riding is one of the great sports of all the South Sea Islands.
The natives are experts both with boards and in canoes.
White men become expert with canoes, but rarely with boards.
The canoes are dug out of big logs.
They are very deep and narrow and seats are stepped near the gunwale so that they would tip over at a glance if it were not for the enormous outriggers they carry.
Across the gunwales are lashed two short sticks, one fore and one aft, which extend about eight feet-out on the port side and curve down to the water, where they are fastened to a four inch log of an extremely buoyant native wood.
Getting swamped is mighty dangerous business, for the surf booms in so rapidly and heavily that it is an impossibility to bail out the canoe and it must be taken to the beach, a task of great proportions in a heavy sea and one that demands that the men with the canoe shall be good swimmers.
The canoes almost never upset, but unless a comber is handled well it is likely to break over the canoe and fill it with wator, and then there is trouble.
 
The canoe is manned usually by two big husky Kanakas, who can fairly smell a big breaker long before it lifts its head above the sea.
Some of the white men who were born in Honolulu are nearly as expert as the Kanakas.
I went out with Billy Dimond, who has spent nearly his whole life in Honolulu, and as Tao-hai, one of his Kanakas, says, is a "ver good man."
We paddled along the beach to a place where the surf was running high about as it booms in along the Jersey coast under a fresh breeze.
Then out to sea we went until we were beyond the line of the breakers.
There we lay, watchlng the sea. which was so quiet that I could hardly distinguish the long, regular heave of the Pacific swell.
Suddenly Mr. Dlmond began to shout to his two men in Kanaka.
Instantly a feeling of wild confusion and excitement pervaded the canoe.
The Kanakas and Mr. Dimond drove home the broad paddles and shouted in the Hawaiian language.
The other passengers and myself paddled on as hard as we could and shouted too - anything that came into our heads - we couldn't help it.
Straight toward shore we drove the big canoe, almost lifting it out of the water.
The long, broad-bladed paddles whipped through the water, and the shouting was like that when the cowboys repulse the Indians at a Buffalo Bill performance.
Three other canoes were out near us.
They were working for the same breaker we were trying to catch, and all were yelling ss hard as they were paddling.
In one of them Lieut. Sidney A. Cloman, Fifteenth Infantry, the Commissary of this expedition, was having his first experience in surf riding.
He, too, was the guest of Mr. Dlmond and old Tao-hai was in charge of his canoe.
The whole outfit of us were in bathing suits, with pajama coats to prevent the sun from burning, and a conglomeration of skull caps, toques, and straw hats for head gear.
The Kanakas wore bright yellow sweaters and gaudy bandanna handkerchiefs tied on their heads as turbans.
The canoes were bright yellow, the color of the sweaters, trimmed with a black line at the gunwales.
The day was bright and fair, with the usual storm over Punchbowl, the mountain back of Honolulu, and little clouds breaking away from it  occasionally and drifting down toward Diamond Head.

ON THE CREST OF A WAVE

All abreast the four canoes shot in toward the beach.
The paddles ripped the clear, blue water.
The spray dashed over the bows.
Everybody yelled.
No one looked behind, but all knew that the big, rolling sea was overtaking us.
If we did not have sufficient way on the canoe the comber would go by us and we should be left the objects of derision of all the yelling crews that caught us.
How we yelled a mixture of Kanaka and English, everybody shouting at full lung power, the Kanaka exclamations coming wlth sharp, explosive force that contrasted with the slower English like the crack of six-pounders with the roar of guns.
On we go, and there's hardly time to notice that we are just a little ahead of the other three canoes when "There she comes!" shouts Mr. Dimond.
There is a sudden lifting of the stem of the canoe, an instant response in the yells of the crew, a lightning increase in speed, and we've caught the roller.
The others have caught it also, and all four abreast we dash ahead.
Now paddles are at rest, and down the inshore side of the roller we slide, always just ahead of and just under the curling crest that breaks into foam almost under the sharp stern of the canoe.
The speed is tremendous.
It seems as if we were outrunning the Empire State Express.
Lucanias and great Kaisers never dreamed of such speed.
From the sharp cut water of the canoe the foam flies in two lines back up to the crest of the roller.
The spray dashes over us in streams.
And all the time everybody yells.
It is like the performance of an amateur fire department trying to scare out a fire by noise.
It is half a mile to the beach, but there Is hardly time to catch sight of that gorgeous rainbow under the black cloud that hangs over Diamond Head, we are in so quickly.

Not yet though, not yet.
There is a little back swell caused by the beating back of the big surf from the bench.
The watchful Mr. Dlmond at the helm catches sight of it, and his shouting takes the form of directions to his Kanakas.
The puddles that have been dripping little silver balls into the foam, leap forward again.
There is a sudden spurt by the canoe in response.
Two or three seconds it lasts, hardly long enough to shout "Well, ke hao" and we're over it.
That long-drawn wolf howl from the next canoe is Cloman, voicing his satisfaction that Tao-hai has caught the swell too.
The others are managed well and no one has been left behind.
Now the four still abreast drive straight at the beach.
We are on the left flank.
Cloman and Tao-hai are next, the others beyond.
Mr. Dlmond shouts to Tao-hai ond gets a staccato response.
Wo are not twenty yards apart and almost on the beach.
Down goes Mr. Dimond's paddle to port, hard held against the rushing sea.
Tao-hai follows.
Off to port we swing and slide by the beach in line, in half a foot of water.
Skillfully managed were the other canoes also.
At the instant that we swung to port they swung to starboard, and now, all head back toward the reef where the breakers start, we are standing up in the canoes, drenched with the salt spray, but yelling like Indians with the pure joy of it.
A sport for kings, but one that few kings know, and most of those the world regards uncivilized.
De Quincoy found tho glory of motion on top of a six-horse coach.
Others have caught the same spiritual intoxication in the wild, free forward sweep of a fast locomotive.
De Quincoy mused from the top of his coach that the heart of man was the all-compelling power of his glory.
It is the heart of native that knows the surf and drives the surf rider's canoe.

A MOMENT FULL OF EXCITEMENT.

Out beyond the reef again, waiting for an other swell.
Down through tho glass-clear water we see the coral growing at the bottom.
Mr. Dimond speaks to one of his Kannkas.
Over the big fellow goes, yellow sweator, red bandanna and all.
The little column of bubbles that followed his descent has all disappeared, and down at the bottom we see him tugging at a coral bunch. Presently up he comes with a beautiful great piece of coral and a broad smile on his face.
We take the coral from him and he goes down for another piece.
Starfish, crabs, tiny lobsters, and dozons of small bright-colored flsh, in appearance much like fresh-water sunflsh, have made their homes in the folds of the coral, and now they crawl and flop about the bottom of the canoe.
The Kanaka comes in with the second bunch of coral, and Is about to dive again when Mr. Dimond shouts to him in apparent excitement.
A seaward look shows no appearanoe of a swell to me, but in climbs the Kanaka with all haste, and at the paddles we go, might and main.
The other canoes lying further inshore take the warning and dart away.
We are going now at racing speed and just in time.
The swell behind us has developed into a giant.
Just as it begins to break we catch it and away we swash for the beach.
It is the first race over agaln, but this fellow is bigger.
The bow of the canoe dips under water.
Instant shouts from Mr. Dimond and the Kanakas and all three paddles are jammed into the water, holding hard, to stop the tremendous headway.
The moment's check serves the purpose.
The long stem of the canoe rides on top again, and on we go.

Now Mr. Dimond shows us a trick that requires consummate skill and judgment.
We are shouting a derisive challange to Cloman in the othor canoe, when Mr. Dimond driven down his paddle broad across the course.
Sharp off to port swings the canoe on the very top of the giant roller.
The foam breaks all about us and gallons of it come aboard.
The Kanakas laugh and shout, but the passengers hold their breath.
The outrlgger rides free of the water and we are broad away on top of the wave, rolling beachward beam on.
Still Mr. Dlmond holds his paddle hard to port.
Presently the canoe answers.
The outrigger drops into tho sea again, the roller passes out from under us and leaves us headed out to sea.
Somewhere out of sight, on the other side of the swell, rlso the shouts of Cloman and Tao-hai, fooled for a moment into thinking we have lost the comber.

"That is what we would have to do." says Mr. Dimond quietly, "if we saw a swamped canoe just ahead of us."

It was marvellously done: even the Kanakas were moved to praise the skill of their master.

Now back outside again for a swim in the Pacific beyond any reef.
What a beautiful picture Honolulu is from here.
Nestllng down in the foreground in front of a semicircle of mountains.
Diamond Head at the right, just at the end of Waikiki, the beautiful beach rises bluff and rugged almost out of the sea.
Beyond it in the centre is Punchbowl, covered on its smoother slopes with cultivated fields, cut by sharp-edged gorges, and crowned eternally
with ever-shifting yet always remaining clouds, and to the left at the sea's edge the Pali, with the dreadful cliff over which Kamahameha drove his victims when he conquered Oahu.
All the hundred shades of green show in the foliage which hides the buildings of the city, specked with yellow and white and blue and purple and violet and lilac where the flowering trees show through.
And over all a myriad of flags, always the Stars and Stripes with two exceptions, where over the public buildings float the cross and bars of Hawaii.
Along the beach swarms of soldiers, the water full of them, surf-rldlnir onnrwn ham .r,ri
m.i u. tuoiu, outrigger canoes here and there, the white sails of a few small yachts dotting tho bay, and over all the bright sunshine, with that persistent rainbow hanging over Diamond nead, one end In the sea and the other just at the foot of Punchbowl.
THE HULA-HULA.

Now, the swim over, one more roller, and then back along the beach to the cottage.
One plunge in the deep pool where the coral has been blasted out, a cold fresh-water shower, and "Here's your drink, sir." a long, slender glass, with ice in it, and Scotch and soda.
Then the last exhibition by the Kanakas.
...
O.K.D.

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Daily Press.
Newport News, Virginia, September 4, 1898, page 5.

SWIMMING IN THE PACIFIC.
Accomplishments that Come Naturally to Natives.

The South Sea mother has very little use to worry when her baby has reached the reptilian or crawling stage.
In her house there are no stairs for the aventuresome infant to tumble down, if he crawls to the edge of the house he can crawl out of doors without harm, for there is no break in the level.
If he goes on a creeping exploration of the path there are no animals or wheels to bring bruises and bumps and even worse haps.
Happy, indeed, is the hardy crawler when he covers the narrow distance from his home to the beach, for there is a bank of soft,
warm sand to play in.
The next stage is to crawl from the soft warmth of the supporting sand into the yielding warmth of the still water.
Nature intended the human form to float, and, knowing no better, the wee Kanaka lets nature have her way.
The same motions which propel the crawling baby on shore turn him into the swimming baby in the sea.

From swimming baby to swimming man or woman there is no alteration of style.
There is the overhand stroke, no breast stroke. nothing but the crawling motion with which ivory four-limbed animal swims, it is nothing but the dog paddle, which civilized swimmers deride; but. laughed at as the stroke may be, it serves the turn of the strongest and longest swimmers in the world.
No one. no matter how good his stroke may be in theory and in swimminig-school practice, no one but a South Sea Islander would start out hopefully on a swim over twenty miles of ocean between two islands.
Scores of instances are known in which the Kanaka has covered that distance, starting with a cocoanut slung about the neck as a natural combination of haversack and canteen, food and drink in the same parcel.

It is only such confident swimmers who may venture on the thrilling sport of surf riding.
The Samoans ride the surf in canoes.
It can he done only in a lagoon which has a wide reef passage to the sea, and is possible only when a heavy sea on the ocean is setting right into the mouth of the pass.
When that happens old and young get out the canoes and lie just under the reef until a monster wave is seen approaching.
There is a hurry to get into position on the forward slope of the wave, and the paddies dig like mad to keep that place until the breaking wave lands the canoes on the beach.
If a man is slow with his paddle, the crest of the wave passes under him and he loses the thrilling rush shoreward.
If he makes a slip in steering, the canoe is upset and there is a chance that the outrigger will break his head by way of reminder that surf riding is an art.
Those who make the ride are entitled to the wild cries of delight with which they signalize the feat.

The great Hawaiian beaches seldom are protected by a barrier reef; therefore the surf riding is not to be done there in canoes.
Each swimmer has a stout board, longer than himself by two or three feet and about two feet broad.
With this he swims seaward; diving under the incoming wave, until he realizes the place where the rollers begin to form.
Here he watches the sea, lying upon his board.
When the largest roller begins to swell into shape he endeavors to paddle his board backward with his hands into the face of the forming comber.
If he times it just right, the wave picks him up and shoots him like an arrow to the beach, where the board, expertly handled, lands just even with the very last bubbles at the edge of the dry sands.
Surf riding after the Hawaiian fashion is extremely simple when performed with pen and ink, but the swimmer who tries it at Waikiki when there is any sort of sea tumbling in from the south is either overwhelmed in the roller or parts company with his board to learn the adamantine solidity of beach sand when a would be surf rider essays to plough it up with any portion of his anatomy.
Necessarily, the art cannot be learned in still water; therefore the learner must take chances on coming to grief under servere conditions.
The whole knack of it lies in a double distribution of the weight of the body on the surf-board.
It is essential to keep the board truly at right angles with the swelling face of the wave and to have its stern slightly elevated in order to keep always ahead of the wave.
The latter feat is accomplished partly by the exquisite moulding of the board to suit the owner and partly by adjusting his own position on the board to secure the right balance.
The former or steering disposition is effected by rolling to one side of the board or the other.
A few of the most expert Hawaiian surf riders are able to make the ride when standing on the board, but this is very dangerous and infrequent.

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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, September 5, 1898, page 1.


ANOTHER EXCURSION.
Steamer Load of Tourists to Visit This Island Paradise.


The Sunday Times of Minneapolis is getting up a big excursion to the Islands, to leave November 5.
Two days are given to Hilo and the Volcano in the program, and eight days to Honolulu and vicinity.
In its description of the arrival here the paper says:
"The tourists will be met by the Government band of fifty pieces, and received by President Dole, assisted by leading citizens. They will be entertained at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel during their stay in Honolulu.
During the stay trips are to be made to the 'Punch-bowl' crater of an extinct volcano; to Waikiki for bathing purposes, surf-riding and a clam chowder.
General Manager B. F. Dillingham, of the Oahu railway, will tender a specially conducted trip around part of the island of Oahu, including visits to the sugar plantations at Ewa, Oahu, Waianae, Waiaiua and Kahuku."

All this and more for $250.

The paper thanks Mr. Shingle, Hawaiian commissioner at Omaha, for valuable information concerning the Islands and the purposed excursion.

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The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
Honolulu, September 8, 1898, page 1.

In Words and Pictures.

Mr. Burton Holmes, whose delightful illustrated lectures were given here some weeks ago, has announced as the first of his course at the Columbia theater, Washington, D. C., "The Hawaiian Islands."
Holmes secured for his stereopticon views on Hawaii, Maui, and Oahu and a number of stock pictures.
He shows the Honolulu Fire Department in action and a canoe party surf riding with Kauilani and other prominent people in the beach scene.
In the States Mr. Holmes takes engagements only in the large cities.
In New York he has the Daily theater mornings and afternoons for five weeks.

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Hawaiian Gazette - Tuesday, September 13, 1898, Honolulu, Hawaii
secured for his stereopticon views on Hawaii, Maul, and Oahu and a number of stock pictures. He shows the Honolulu Fire Department in ac- tion and a canoe party surf riding with Kauilani and other prominent people in the beach scene In the States Mr Holmes takes engagements only in th...
The Hawaiian Gazette.
Honolulu, November 1, 1898, page 4.

ROOSEVELT ON A SURF BOARD.


The Republican leaders in the State of New York felt that Colonel Roosevelt would venture to make very indiscreet remarks if he stumped the State after his nomination.
...
Now comes Roosevelt with the feather of victory at San Juan in his hat, standing on the surfboard of a nomination, that is
poised on the crest of a tidal wave, and there is nothing to do for the men who work the "masheen" but to get into the tree-tops, and watch, with tearful eye, the magnificent movement of the wave, as it rises above the horizonon and lands the surf rider on shore in the governor's chair.
The watcher in the tree tops feel that the Colonel  is altogether too mean not to offer them standing room on the surfboard.
As it is, they will be forced to descend after the wave has receded, and after collecting the damaged parts of the "masheen," take serious measures to circumvent the daring surf rider and Rough Rider.

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The Hawaiian Star
Honolulu, December 20, 1898, page 1.


FINE WATCH STOLEN.
Mr. Hoffman Loses One From Waikiki Bath House.


Southard Hoffman, bookkeeper in the office of the Union Feed Company, is mourning the loss of a fine watch, stolen from the bath house at a Waikiki residence.

The time piece was a family relic and valued at $250.
While Mr. Hoffman was out surf riding with a party of friends some miscreant entered the dressing room and abstracted the treasure.
A gold pin and about $3 in cash was not taken.
Mr. Hoffman has reported the loss at police headquarters.
A native boatman on the beach is suspected.
The case is being carefully followed and there is every prospect that the thief will be caught.

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