Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

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Missions of from $250 to $400 a year to clothe and feed himself,
wife and babies.
Hfe was a benefactor to the Hawaiian Islands. His life was
a series of historic deeds accomplished in the name of Christ.
Mr. Bl;inghaml earnestly began to win the confidence of the high
chiefs and their people, which confidence was never afterward,
forfeited. He acquired a necessary knowledge of their language,
ai(led in reducing it to writing, and established schools. His
wife, Sybil Moseley B1inghanm, mother of Hiram Bingham II,
opened the first school in Honolulu in May, 1820.
It was the privilege of Hiran- Binglham to prepare the first
manuscript for the first printing ever done on Hawaiian shores.
In his "History of the Sandwich Islands," he says:
"()n the 7th of January, 1822, a year and eight months from
the time of our receiving the governmental permission to enter
the field and teach the people, we commenced printing the language, in order to give them letters, libraries and the living
oracles of their own tongue, that the nation might read and
untlerstand the wonderful works of God." And he adds, "it was
like laying the cornerstone of an important edifice for the nation."
lor eighteen months thereafter he continued, as other duties
would perimit, to furnish material for the printed page, to perform the duties of literary head of the miission press in Flonolutl, and to aid in the promotion of Christian eltlcation.
\Vhen le landed at Honolulu, Governor Boki was in another
part of the island but came to meet him two days later. Boki
was then given over to pleasures, but three months later he detained Hiraim Bingham at the close of a service to make inquiries
concerning the text of the sermlon, "Behold the Lamb of God
Taketh Away the Sin of the World," and expressed a wish to
understand the Bible. He was thereafter, for some time, given
(laily instruction.
Nine years later Boki cgave to his beloved teacher the land of
P'zuahou, including Rocky Hill and stretching from the summit
of Round Top, in the mountain range lehind, to what is now
Kinog street, suppllemente(d b)v fish ponds, salt beds and coral