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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2(15 UNDER HAWAIIAN SKIES

At this historic ceremony there were present Kalanimioku with
his retinue and a few other chief s and sonie of the. lesser subjects;
also Rev. I tirani. Blii(ianghm E-lishia Loomis, the mission Iprinter;
fames I -lunuew~ell, who had arrived in the Thacddcits as one of
the officers; and Captains William Henry and Masters, all of the
foreigners ileing Americans. Mr. Loomis set up the type Cor
the impressions from the first lesson of a spelling book or primer,
calledl in H awaiian "Pa-pa."' Kalanimioku was instructcd how to
work the press, and had the honor of striking off the second imlpre~ssion, and Mr. Ilunnewell tile third. The last mentioned imip)ressioni xas given to Mr. Hunnuewell, who in turn presented it
to tile American Board of Missions, who Iplacedl tL ill the Missionl
collection at Boston. It is a sheet four by six inches, havingitvelve hines, each line having- five separate syllables of two letters.
This certainly was the first printing dlone at tile Hawaiian
Islands, and prol)ably the first oil the shores of the Nortih Pacific..ceani. A. month later Mr. Binghami receivedl a letter from Governor Kniakinii (John Adams), of' I hawaii, who had succeeded in
miastering the contents of the first lprillted sheet. Epistolary correslpond~elce was 80011 commneucedl in the HIawaiian languiage and
opp1ortunity offered for the birth of Hawaiian literature.
A. herculean work followed. From the statistics retnrnedl from
January, 1822, to March, 1830, it, is learned that tw,,eilty-two
books, totaling- 387,000 copies and 10,287,000 pages, had been
addled to tile literature of the Islands. ib11 is wvas all lprillted in
I onoluin, whlile 3,345,000 pages of Hawaiian reading~ matter andl
ill sciool books, ilad ileell lriltedl by the American Board in tile
Unitedl States.
On February 14, 1834, the first newspaper aI)1earedl in Hawvaii.
It was lpresellted ill tile Hawaiian language, p~rintedl at tile Lahainalinna Semiinary, on Maui, and was called "Lamia I -lawaii" (Hawaiia Light). This was followed by tile "Kumiu Ihawaii" (Hawaiian iTeacller) ill tile sa1le year and from the same Ipress, altllongh Ileitiler paper was a newspaper ill tile seilse tilat it carriedl
news of tile day. It was (levotedl entirely to academic instructionl. At this time tile missioll was busily engagedl in producillg
scilool books for tile scilools and~ readlillg boo0ks for tile instruc