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Young, Lucien :
The Boston at Hawaii or, the Observations and Impressions of
a Naval Officer During a Stay of Fourteen Months in Those Islands on a
Man-of-War
Gibson Bros., Washington
D.C. 1898. 311 Pages.
A U.S. Navy officer
on the cruiser Boston describes the reign of Lili'uokalani, her overthrow,
the Provisional Government and the Republic. Includes chapters on games,
religion, land tenure, etc.
http://www.hawaii.gov/hidocs/annexation.html
While in Hawaii
"Commander Lucien Young USN" led the occupation of the "Arlington
Hotel grounds in Honolulu" in "January 1893.
This was the
childhood home of Queen Liliuokalani who the Americans under the guise
of 'protecting American lives' would illegally aid American businessmen
in Honolulu to overthrow."
Image :
Hawaii State Archives, Record Group: 36-3, Historic Events: Overthrow;
file: 259
Other Publications
by Lucien Young
Young, Lucien :
Elements of Navigation
John Wiley and Sons,
New York. 1898.
Chapman and Hall,
London.1898. 248 pages
Young, Lieutenant
Lucien (and William H Carlson and Mr E J Balbin) :
Annual Reports
of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1900.
Part 12 Report
of the Military Governor of Cuba on Civil Affairs
Two Volumes Four
Parts
Washington: Bureau
of Navigation, Navy Department, 1888.
Government Printing
Office, 1901.
Lieut Commander
Lucien Young, Captain of port of Habana (Volume II Part 2 , 12
of 149 pages)
I have been unable to determine the location of this account.
The breaker catches up with them, and by skillful manipulation it is made to bear the board forward upon its face at an angle of 30 or 40 degree, with the speed on an express train ...
... Sometimes the swimmer assumes a sitting or standing position on the board in the midst of the foam, balancing himself in a way that would prove fatal to even the best American swimmer.
The larger the waves, in their opinion, the better the sport."
As a guide to the difficulty faced by early European observers, consider the following reports ...
Lt. King #2 (1788) "...the great art is to guide the plank so as always to keep it in a proper direction
Stewart (1829) "... keep their poise in the swell, ... not ... forward ... nor ... behind ;
de Varigny (1873) "he moved forward with the spray without directing from a straight line"
Although these early reports appear to indicate transversing (with careful reading), Blake (1935) noted in particular the account of Caton (1888)
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