Friend, 1878-02

• Other Authors: Damon, Samuel Chenery, 1815-1885
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• Language: English
• Published: 1878
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Published by the Rev. Samuel Chenery Damon from 1845 to 1885, The Friend focused on temperance and Christian mission to seamen. It began as a monthly newspaper that included news from both American and English newspapers, and gradually expanded to adding announcements of upcoming events, reprints of sermons, poetry, local news, editorials, ship arrivals and departures and a listing of marriages and deaths. From 1885 through 1887, it was co-edited by the Revs. Cruzan and Oggel. The editorship then passed to Rev. Sereno Bishop, who held the post until the publication of the paper fell under the auspices of the Board of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association in April of 1902 where it remained until June 1954. Since then, it has continued in a different format under the Hawaii Conference-United Church of Christ up to the present day, making it the oldest existing newspaper in the Pacific. Note that there are some irregularities in the numbering of individual issues, so that two issues may have the same volume and number, but different dates will distinguish them. ~0 ~ear o:e The Islands Discovered t-~ • HONOLULU, FEBRUARY I, 1878. CONTE~TS to Kulaokahua plains for practice in military tactics. His Majesty the King, the Queen, their PAGK Royal Hi~hnesses, the Princesses Lydia KamaFirst Hawaiian Centennial. ••.•••••••.•••• , •••••••••••••. 9 kaeha and Miriam Likelike, several high digniRambles in the Old World-No 13 ••••.••••••••••••••• 9-12 taries of the government, foreign officials, and Recent Polynesian Li1erarure •••••••.•••••••••••••••••••. 12 members of the King's staff, were present. The Rev James A Daly ••••••• . •••.••••.•••••••.••••••••••••. 12 Woman's Intluence in the Pacitlc •••••••••••••••••••••••• 12 troops, armed with muskets, went through the Naval and Marine Journal ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 13 manual of arms, marching and countermarching, Edilor•s Table .••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••. 14 with a degree of expertness and precision that Japan Correspondence •••••.••••••• ••••••••••••••••••••• 14 we never remember to have seen exceeded anvY . 1\1.C. A ••••••••••••••••• •••••••••••••••.••••••••••• 16 where. Then followed a" sham fight," wh'1rein a redoubt was gradually approached by an assaulting army, and after a gallant &efonse compelled to surrender. The artillery, consistin~ of 1 two brass field-pieces, was managed with wonderFE.BRUARY 1. 1878. ful alertness. lt was renlly a brilliant affair, and much appreciated Qy tpe crqwds or spectators FIRST HAWAIIAN CENTENNI~L. on foot, on horseb~ck and in caq·ifl,ges.'' Fo1· February 1, 1878. THE FRIEND •. I 1778-JANUARY 18-1878, On the mornint of the 18th of January one hundred years ago, the ships under Captain Cook's command approached this group from the South Pacific. We find this record in the journal of the voyage: "We continued to see birds every day, and bet.ween 10° and l1° we saw several turtle. All these are looked upon as signs of the vicinity of land. However we discovered none till daybreak on the morning of the 18th, when an island made its appeara nee bearing northeast by east, and soon after we saw more land bearing north, entirely detached from the former." In the evening a tor~h-ligh.t procession, accompanied by a band qf music, enlivened the city by its marching throµgh all the principal streets. Thus has passed Hawaii's centennial,-it is for thos~ who come ln the words after us to observe the next. of Longfellow, we say, "Look qot mour,nfully upon the past; it comes not bi'lck again. Wisely improve the present; it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy fqture, without fear and w1th a manly heart." -Since the above was in type, we have learned that the Centennial w&s ~nthusiastically remembered at Lahaina, a,nd we are promised a publication of Mr. Qip~on's A,.d-. dress. We have long hoped Mr. Gibson would prepare something becoming the .occasion and more permanent than a short address. We know that he has been "reading up" the history of Commerce and Discovery in the Pacific ever since Cape Horn was first "doubled," or the old Spaniard first caught a glimpse of this orean over the Isthmus of Panama. We know of no writer who could execute a work of this nature more skillfully or elegantly than Mr. Gibson, whose facile pen glides over paper as gracefully as the smooth keel cuts the ocean's wave. The island first seen was Niihau, and on the following day his ships anchored in the roadstead of W aimea, Kauai, The centennial anniversary of the discovery of the islands, was observed in Honolulu by a royal salute (at 12 o'clock noon) of 21 guns ·from the battery on Punchbowl, and by the O. S. S. Pensacola and H. I. German Majesty's ship Elizabeth. In the afternoon the marines and seamen of the latter, numbering about 300, marched out to the Kulaokahua plains for the purpose of a grand WRECKEn.-The H. N. Carlton, frqm review. The following paragraph, in refer- China, is reported as having drifted ashore ence to the review, we clip from the Adver- on Molokai with 400 immigrants,-all saved. tiser of the 19th ult. : About 100 .have arrived in Honolulu per The U. S. S. "Yesterday, some three hundred or more offi- Hawaiian schooner Innau. cers and men landed from H. I. German Majesty's Pensacola has left for the scene of disaster, ship Elizabeth, now lying in port, and proceeded to render assistance. RAMBLES IN THE OLD WORLD-No.13 ELBERFELD, December 12, 1877. This is my last date from Elberfeld. While here I have been studying with an earnestneos the languages, which l1as helped to bridge over much of tbe time, which was lost in Geneva. I find the German a tremendously difficult language, and it 1·equires the greatest effort if one would learn it elegantly. I have just fimsbed the first part of Goethe·s Faust and other general reading. Now that three or four different literatures ar,e opening up before me, and there are an infinite number of thing8 which are pressing on me in the way of study, it seems as if the days were not long enough. 'fbe German literature is an enormous mine, and as I look down into the shaft where the candle of a growing knowledge of the language is beginning to light the way, I feel almost perplexed before the many ways which open before me. I send two copies of the London " Literary World." I have been much pleased with the Jresh healthy tone of the cdticisms on the most recent English books. I am sure you will enjoy the outfook it gives in current English literature. I have of late been reading some of Joseph Cook's lectures, especially the hist. What a wonderful man he is . He seems to hold a sword of flame. I heard about him years ago when I was in college, but he had almost faded out of mind till my remembrance was q4ickened in hearing of his descent upon Boston, where he seems to have operated like a heaven-sent inspiration. I have heard :iome concerts lately. One, the Messiah of Handel, wbwh was granq. beyond any words which I have at hand to e~press, and they seem to have 1,1tirred all the mus~e-love within me. But I must hasten to gi,e you my impress10na of Cologne, which I promised you in my last. CQLOGNE. (The Colonia Agrippinensis of the Romans). "There are cities and cities . , Some of tbem make one think of those slee~, shining poplars which stretch away for miles, IQar~ing the highways in France straight as an arrow, disdaining every curving line, precise anq proper as if their million leaves had issued from the same mould. .Sut now and then you corµe q,cross . one that makes you think of a splenqid old oak, half uproqted perhaps but which still throbs with an h1-'epressible Hfo, twisted and quaint anq hpary, from its giant roots to its verdant crest, a thing: of beauty, its 11et-work of branches and boughs and billows of greenery, making a fitting home fut· smging birds, anq. casting wide generOH-S shadows in which travelers love to liQger when the noon sun grow& hot. Then:J are citieei like those houses which face me as I sit writing you, and afi I live in one on the same street, I can tell you how they look within, from c~llq,r to garret, though I have never been in them, peing confident they have been turnerl out by the same 10 'l' H E i~ R I E N D , Ji' E B R U A R Y , I 8 7 8. architectural genius as ours, and that they have in the mtervals of rest frC1tn war and bloodshed, close you forget everything else. First-class, all the latest modern improvements and conve- and risen into modern· times as a busy, thriving second-class, third class hotels face and flaunt niences. (Have you ever beal'd of one of these city, bringing to us of to-day as its choicest their names in German and French and English " modern brown stone fronts" being haunted or legacy from the past the most beautiful Gothic at the astonished tourist, in letters large enough as havinp; a, hislury ?) But there are some few Cathedral the world knows, and giving the pres- to be discovered a mile away. Endless "~au de cities which have in part drifted jnto our busy ent the privilege of completing it, a privilege cologne '' establishments flank you with their nineteent,h century whil'l which are neither 1ike which is not being disregarded. plate•grass windows. "Valets de Place" and the arrowy poplars or fashionable city l10ases, guides rush to give you a smiling welcome and THE CATHEDRAL '' DER BOBE DOM ZU KOLN.'' hut resemble JDOre our splen_did old oak. I talkThis lofty pile dominates the city, and the fail to underetand your most energetic negatives . ed to you so long about one last winter, namely country far beyond. In fact there seems some- '' 'Bnsses '' aud cabs rattle over the stones and Geneva, tbat I am a little afraid of mentioning thing almost omnipresent about it. You cannot the train whistles in and out of the neighboring another for foar that you may not like me to get away from it. Sometimes in this part of the fltation. Where is the peace and hush that yon start into its history. But they are so very dif- country, miles away from Cologne, both in body are led to expect in such localities. Where are ferent in many respects that. perhaps you will and mmd, you chance to look about yon and the secluded shades wbere tonsured monks tell lin~er with me a little in the narrow streets of there far off m the ,p urple distance is the Cathe- their beads and from which the evening hymn Colofjne. You think in a moment of the cathe- dral. I have been down on the Rhme climbing floats up into the listeiiing air? You feel very dral and of "/ohann Maria Fa,-ina," and say you rugged Drachenfels and still far, far away on the ridiculous for the moment and just a little more know as much about it as if you had been there hon:mn appeared its faint outline against the so when you learn that the splendid cathedral forty times, for haven't a thousand and one peo- quiet sky, like the mist of a forming cloud. before you is mounting up towards heaven on the ple written about them? But I take it that the l£very one comes to Cologne to see the Cathedral wings (pecuniary) of a successful lottery entermajority of travelers on the Rhine don't see the and says " wonderful," a " miracle,·' a " poem prise which the Prussian government under the best part of Cologne after all. One needs to live in stone," the "grandest triumph of the Gothic circumstances authorizes. near it and see it by degrees, to visit it again and art," but of course this is vague and unsatisfacBut after a little, all these minor annoyances again, diving down under its flaring surface of tory. And yet no one is to blame, no one should fall away from you and in the :presence of this modern hotels and railway stations into its quaint be censured for being unable to put into words, wonderful temple which lifts its self and you and shadowy past, something as you step from that which is above words. You cannot describe away for the time into a better, purer atmosthe gorgeoµsly ·• restored'' church above into the color to the blind and you fail if you attempt to phere than that in which men generally live . cool, untouched, time-stained crypt below, with picture a Gothic Cathedral to one who bas yet Architecture, as one oj' the fine a:ns, !:!peaks lesG the feeling that you have reached something tlns revelation of beauty to enjoy. The world frequently to us than mllsic or painting or sculpmore historic and attractive in its plainness than has grown tired of travelers'. " raptures'' and tme, but when it does speak there is a. depth and all the scarlet and blue and gold in the choir descriptions which are aR destitute of substance eloquence in itR utterance which thrills ooo more above. Cologne will pay you for your study. as moonbeams. 'rl1is great " Dom " in whose truly than that of a11y of the- others. '!'here is What a mistake two-thirds of our travelers make! shadow we are standing bas bad anything but a an infinite, indescribable " ·sti-lli,iess,'' ind calm ~I.'hey see every city from Paris to Constantinople, calm and peaceful history, but bas grandly out- about these towering walls ::,.nd thousand statues. from Naples to Copenhagen, but become citizens ridden its l:ltorms. Its foundation stone was laid a calm which the countlt}ss advanciiig aBd reof none. Better one, which shall prove as an some six hundred years ago dissensions arose ceding tumultuous waves of life, of travel and abjding and continual source of pleasure, than a between clei:Jy and people in the sixteenth cen- traffic at its base are powerless to break. Please thousand seen a la Cook. People have forgotten tury the work on it was abandoned; in the don't fancy that I have grown wise in the in trithe beautif'nl meaning as well as the ar itself of eigoteenth the French used 1t as a hay magazine, cate- mazes of a.rehitectural art and science or that •' SaunterinfJ." That bas disappeared with the but its mission was not yet accomplished. The I would a:fiect a knowledge which I am but too pilgrim's staff and cockle.,,shell, a pilgrimage to kings of PruBBia came to its rescue. Enormous painfully aware I am lar from possessing. Yet I "Sairite Terre." And so it seems to me that sums of money have been expended on its com- think you will sympathize with me whell I say our travels should be let us seek scenes rich in pletion and restoration and it is hoped that in a that of late, especially m the many visits I hMive mines of history and poetry and religion, which few years it will stand complete, perhaps to tell made to this growing glory of Colognet there has shall indeed be to us '' Saintes Terres '' and see to coming centuries of the energy of this. Words- been coming to me an almost solemn sense of them in such a manner that in after years they worth should have lived to have seen its grand what these sta.tely piles are c'apable of expressing~ shall come to us not with memories of feverish completion, though it will probably be accom- With us you ~now, in new countries utility has haste and confusion but w~th messages of beauty plii:!hed in a far difforent way than that of which been of necessity the predominant idea. our houses and cburcbea have beent as a general and inspiration. he sings. You remember his sonnet: thing, well ~.dapted to keep off die ~un and 1·ain. One of the best approaches to Cologne is by "Oh, for the help of angels to complete 'l'ho~e who, have lived from the cradle to the the magnificent iron bridge which spans the i'his temvle, angels governed by a plan, How gloriously pursued hy daring man grave in the presence of some cathedral, or Rhine at this point, and seems a fitting entrance Studious that. lie might not disdain the seat to the " City of the Saints." This appellation church wh~ch has •· petrified " Uie spirit or Who dwells in heaven! But that inspiring heart you feel convinced the city deserves, as you count Bath failed; and now, ye Powers! whose g;orgeou~ wings . genius of the centuries which produced them, And splendid a11pect yon emblazonings which is as much an expression of devotioti as the spires and towers and domes which face us as But f~intly picture, 'twere an otlice meet the hymn,s and chants which float away with the we stand on our high perch above the Rhine. }<'or you, on these unfinished shafts to try incense, can scarcely understand that gradual The city from this point presents a very majestic 'fhe midnight virtues of your 1'armony; Tbis 'fast design might tempt you to repeat dawning of a new and beautiful idea on one to nppearance, skirting the river as far as your eye Strains that call forth upon empyreal grou,nd. whom it is as strange as it is beaut,ilul. I am can reach, and kneeling at the feet of its splendid Immortal fabrics-rising to the sound Of penetrating harps and voices sweet." Cathedral, which seell)s at last in a fair way to willing to confess my ignorance, as I have found realize that glorlOUS vision which floated down to Means not wholly angelic are being actively ei;n- it has given rise to a pleasure which I had not earth centuries ago. I like to thmk of Cologne ployed the basei:1 of the two grand spires are anticipated. best at evening, at that uncertain time when the folly completed~ scaffoldings. of an enormous siz,e The Cologne Cathedral has not the wealth aDd day stands for a moment to look back at the are filled with O\lsy workmen, and l~ttle pu(li:i of richness of adornment which beautifies tba~ of coming night, and as if in token of friendliness steam come out from among the stone carvings Milan, but more ornamentation would I think throws into its shadows showers of gold. Then as splendid blocks and pillars~ and capitals are detract from its dignity. lt is indeed perfectt it is that the airy pinnacles and spires of her being raised into their place-far, fi,l,r ~p ix:i. the perfect enough I should think to streng.bbtm every churches glow and gleam, while the dusk has blue air, where in the years to come they will be tired si;ml that passes into its preseoett. True come in her streets below. It seems as if the better seen by angels above than by men below, enough' in all its delicacy of finish in its perfeccity for the moment typified its history ,-stand- I fancy. All day long the ring of the hammer tion of sculptured capitals, though hid raying. The" Swiss~• in his scarlet robe lights if not thousandt!. There they are, brown and the shadows as be passes. Lighted tapers gleam ghastly and hideous. '.l.'hen the Sacristan points before some shrine. I think 1 can never forget to a little iron lattice in the wall and you find the quiet scene. that you are walled in by bones, enough to stock There are many Chapels about the choir, nine any number of museums. 1 don\, mean to be in all I think. 'rhey show you in the treasury irreverent, but somehow when you see things of crammed full of gold and jewels, the skulls of the this kind in such profusion you become very Ma!Ji brought by the Empress Helena to Constan- nearly as hardened as the grave-diggers in tinople, and which have at last found a rnsting " Hamlet." And yet there is an infinite pathos place here!! ! Of course you must believe this. in it all, the thought of all these fair-haired Engwe shall see yet stranger things, if we stay much lish maidens giving up their lives for that which longer in Cologne. I!'or a moment, but it must was pure and holy and right, and that their rebe only for a moment you doubt that rn these mains should become so often the jest of idle sockets, hidden a.way in their jewelled covermgs, tourists. You see I am going to believe the were once the eyes that looked eagerly towards legend. Scepticism in travel and in Roman that star flaming in tbe eastern sky, which was Catholic countries does away with all poetry. to be their guide to "where the young child Here was the saint herself and there were more lay." ]following the curve of the choir we come skulls with velvet and beaded caps, which the to a little chapel which enshrines a l)icture, the good nuns bad sometime worked for their mar" Dombild," styled by Goethe as ,, the axis on tyred sisters. Then there was the reliquary of which the history of lower Rhenish art turns.'' St. Hippolytus, I think, who was one of the It represents the adoration of the Magi. 'f here Christian martyrs nnd torn to pieces in some are monuments to knights and the Sarcophagi•of dreadful way! And most wonderful of all there .Bishops, and just as we are turning into the body were two jars used at the Wedding Feast at Cana of the Cathedral again we see •' The Assumption•'. of Galilee ! ! Though these alabaster vases never, (of Overbeck) the Virgin in her glory, before I am afraid, held that wine which must have which tapers often burn. But I have kept you been of such a sweetnet;S as eartbly grapes never almost selfishly long; the retrospect has been so yield, yet they are interesting mementoes of the pleasant for me. We come out by the splendid days of the crusaders. In the little sacristy western entrance, whose facade and spires are to . there was an unexpecte:i surprise awaiting us. be the crowning glory of it all. So long ago But our surprise lay not in these legendary rewere some of these stones slowly swung into their mains, but in the discovery of that very musical places, that they have grown old and worn and word, Honolulu, in the visitors' book over which gmy, and here and there a few winged seeds the Sacrit,1tan's candle flared and made Remhave found a resting place and tinge their nooks brandt effects among the velvet-snooded skulls. with green. 1:,ide side with statues centuries We were. just a day or so too late, and missed old are rising others fresh from the hand of the seeing sorue of our island-peopl~ whose names artist, the new and old, yet to blend in one sym- preceded ours by a page or two. lf you see metrical whole. What a sublime lesson of pa- Judge Harris, dear FRIEND, give him my kind tience these stones seem to teach, as it conscious regards and ask him if be remembers the Sacristy that, though centuries may come and go, wreck of St. Ursula in the old city of Cologne? and ruin threaten them, yet ID the end they But not to be too long let me give you one or should stand not lone and maimed and scarred two more names, and then we will cease our but as parts of a perfect, harmonious whole. .church-going for the present. St. Gereons' I Months ago when I said "good-bye" to like immensely. It is so odd and quaint, a little Cologne I thought I might never see its •• Dom" of everything in the way of architecture, and my again, but I have seen it many times since, and eye is not easily offended. Gereon and Gregory it gives something always new; 1 have seen it are the patron saints of Cologne. Before that when the streets were bmihed and the early dawn they were captains in the 'l'bcban legion and was breaking, and when tbe dusk fell like a were with others slain here during the persecuvelvet paU over it; have stood among its monu- tion ol' the Christians under Diocletian. The ments and shadowy chapels when the thunder Empress Helena founded here long ago a church, roared and the storm hurtled above its roof, and and the present edifice stands on the site of the have sat in tbe luminous, jeweled light with old. 'l'here are more skulls here! After a while which the sun warmeu its twili~bt aisles. If I they cea.se to be surprising. Do you remember Lave we:1ried you with wordt1, I shall but i:;ee a thotic clmrmrng books, "Lctten, from Palmyra'' bi 11 and "The Turly Christians"'! In the latter, if I am not very much mistaken, there is a graphic account of the persecution under Diocletian. It will always seem more real to me after this tan• gible reminder of these good men who fell victims to the fury of heathen Rome, in this out-post of the empire. Out again into these wmdmg Cologne streets, almost as labyrintbme as those of Boston, accosting every other person we meet as to the way, we come to St. Petei·s to see a picture of Rubens. I forgot to look at the church in looking at the picture, but I remember the way in seemed very pretty, a cloister-like walk (with little shrines, at one of which a woman was praying), hemming in a verdant bit of turf and shrubbery. The attraction h(ne is an altar piece, representing the crucifixion of St. Peter. You have to pay to see it of court!e, but it is more than _worth th!) fee. You _sec, the original picture 1s not as a general tlnag turned toward the church. It swings on a pivot. There is a copy of it, made by some artist or other who would have done well not to have put his work m such close contrast with that ot a master-hand. For a trifle they turn the real Rubens round for you. You who are so wise in clrnrch history remember the legend, bow that Peter was crucified, ID accordance with bis humble request, head-downwards. It seems so like bim,-just m harmony with his splendid impulsive selt, with his eager, tumultuous, tender, loving intensely human-self, so like him who straightway left his fisher's ne't and followed his Lord, who boldly stepped forth upon the treacherous waves, who could even deny hrs Master and then repent in agony, and who could in tlie last terrible moment of an awful death seek one yet even more debased than that of Him .,ho Wat! lifted up for his sins. Of course the whole strength of the picture is centered on this great figure. 'l'here are soldiers a:Qd other figures engaged in their terrible task in fastening the body to the cross, but these have rather faded out of my memory. But I shall not soon forget that powerful, contorted figure with the eyes straming in this fearful anguish, the strong muscula.r arms tense a,s iron, the bronze akin which the wind and rain and sun had deepened as he plied bis oar on the Lake of Galilee, the crisp, grizzled hair of the valiant old man, and the fearful tinging of the blood in that face so near the earth. '· Simon, son of Jonas, lo vest thou me? : ' " Lord, thou know est all things thou knowest that I iove thee." We might go to St. Andreas, to St. Cunihert, to St. Pantaleon, to St. Maria in Capitul, the quaint old basilica which goes back they say to the seventh century, to St. Martin down by the river, with its font a thousand years old, but we have seen enough for one day and will see no more, but instead listen to their many bells which as if by some law of spiritual harmony make no discord as they come to Ut! from every quarter. JOHANN MARIA FARINA. You know it is from this fine old city on the Rhme, that for many a year have flowed the fragrant streams of " Eau de Cologne,·• known all r the world. The original Farina seems to have come a long time ago from Italy, and here started the business ot making the perhune which has borrowed the name of the Rhenish town. If there was but some way of doing it, I should like to shower a fragmnt rain of these perfu~es on you, or don't you nee:i the sweetening? They have a poor sort of juke about here, but good enough sometimes to delude tbe unwary, namely that so plentiful is this liquid that some peQple bathe in " eau de cologne " and you can yourself make the boast if you see fit to come here and let on the Rhine water which sweeps by Cologne, into your bath. There is one of the streets where you go to sec the house where Marie de Medecis died, an exile in 16-!2i her heart is under a slab in the cathedral choir. Opposite they once thought Rubens, the great Rubens, was born. By tbe way, have you noticed what a brilliant Rubens Festival they liave been having in Antwerp lately'? Isn't it TH~ FRIEND, FEBRUARY, 12 wonderful what a sway these kings of tbe Brush and Palette, hold after the lapse of centuries? There is an inscription over the door and a figure in wood of the artiBt, with the rolling-generous hat-brim and the curling foather, and the artist's face beneath with tbe short pointed beard and twi!ited moustache. What a reveller be was in color! When you come be sure you go to tbe "Museum," where you might spend days. 'Jbe building was given by some good citizen,-peace to bis ashes ! 'l'here is a little of everything to sec, and somcthin~ to satisfy tbe most fastidious tai;te. Room after room of ancient paintings, crucifixions, translations, madonnas witboui end, last judgments, etc., etc., give a splendid outline of the history of the Cologne school of art. There are modern paintings and old Roman remains, beautiful paintings on glass, statues and many, many other things w bich I would fain tarry over but may not as the twilight 1s telling me to hurry. But when you come be sure you stay longest in the quaint lovely little court which the great building surrounds. Somebody with the soul of a roet I am sure, has scattered a thousand old broken stone statues here and there, and bits of Gothic arcbes and carvings which have been gathered out of the shadows ot the past, and all manner of quaint curious objects, and tben told the ivy to come and cover their lonolines1:1 and nakedness, and the result is the loveliest, most rnstful, bewitching spot in all Cologne. Be sure and see it. Then there is the Rath-Haus wit,h its beautiful facade, and don "t miss seeing: the wharves whe~e there is so much bustle and business and where vetasels coming up the Rhine for centunes have stopped, and fartlier down tbe river lie some l\lvely gardens with ferns and palms and vim~ under tlie ~las1:1 that make me forget churches, pictures, art, and bring another vision to me. For, ever," Sweet the memory is to me Of a laorl beyond the sea, Where the waves and mountains meet, In the tideless summer seas." F. w. DAMON. Recent Polynesian Literature. From Trubner's Amerfran and Oriental Record for December, we glean somfi' interesting items relating to the literature of Polynesia: The '' Grammar and Dictionary of the Samoan Dialect" is about to be published in London, of which the Hev. G. Pratt is the author, and Rev. S. Whitmee, F. R.·G. 11 S., etc., the editor. As the Comparative Grammar and Dictionary, of which this is intended to form a part, must necessarily form a very large work not obtainable by most residents in Polynesia, and as it will, under the most favorable circumstances, take man years to complete it, Messrs. Trubner & Co. are about to publish Mr. Pratt's work in a separate form for immediate use by philologists and residents in the Samoan Islands. It will be published in crown 8vo., under the editorship of the Rev. S. J. Whitmee." proved, has appeared as published in Sydney and London. At some future time we hope to notice this work, the first edition having been reviewed at length in the Hawaiian Spectator by the late Rev. Dr. Armstrong ( 1839). A copy of this work lies before us, and we feel an almost irrepressible desire to notice the attack in it upon the late Rev. Mr. Ellis, author of "Polynesian Researches." The Rev. James A. Daly. Some twenty years ago when passing down Fort street, we met a youth under a corner verandah who had stopped to escape a falling shower. While standing there we said, "Why not leave the printing office and obtain an education ? " The seed fell into a genial soil and grew. As a fruit,-we recently received a copy of the Enterprise published in Wellington, Ohio, containing an eloquent thanksgiving sermon preached by the Rev. Mr. Daly, pastor of the Congre• gational Church, in the presence of a union audience of the churches of that place. Mr. Daly was graduated at the college of California before its union with the U niversity, and subsequently studied theology at the Union Theological Seminary of New York. After graduation he visited Europe, and travele.J through the Holy Land and Greece. He has been settled in Stockton, Cal., Pains\·ille, Ohio, and is now pastor of the Congregational Church in Wellington. The sermon above referred to, closes with the following words : "This good day of God is early yet, the long and strenuous day's work is before us. We are too young- to boast, and too well grounded to fear. It is too early to stop for applause, and too late to stop for opposition. ' In the name of our God will we set up our panners.' Grateful, glad, brave, let us face the ampler day which David saw, albeit the vapors of a thousand years intervene. "Let us work bravely now; there is reward, indemnity, joy in the eternal day of Thanksgiving beyond the horizon of Time." r Judge Fornander's work on "The Origin and Migrations of the Polynesian Hace," is also announced as in press, and we may soon ·expect copies for sale in Honolulu. A d d'f f D L , k seco~ . e 1 ion °_ r: ang s wor cm "1 he Ongm and M1grat1ons of the Poly-1 nesian Nation," greatly enlarged and im1 1878. Woman's Influence in the Pacific. We have often thought of writing an article upon the good influence of woman when cruising on shipboard in the P:r'cific. '!'here is no question but the wives of Protestant missionaries in Polynesiil, have been most potent in the spread of Christianity. We would now refer to the happy influence of the wives of shipmasters. When visiting ships in Honolulu harbor, it always affords us delight to learn that the shipmaster is accompanied by his wife. A word of good cheer comes to us upon this point from an old and retired missionary of the London Missionary Society, now residing near Sydney, but formerly a missionary on Aitutaki, one of the Hervey group. He writes under date of Nov. 14th, 1877, as follows: "My object in writing this is to beg you will do me the favor to inform, through your useful paper the FRIEND, those kind lady friends that used to call at Aitutaki with their husbands the whaling masters, from your eastern ports,-Mrs. Willis, Mrs. Woodbridge, Mrs. Fuller, Mrs. Skinner, Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Rose, and I could fill the sheet with the names of others, for whom a warm and sincere friendship was entertained, until the close of life by my dear departed wife, Mrs. Sarah Royle of Manchester, England, working most laboriously in the cause of Christ, under the auspices of the London Missionary Society, at the Hervey group mission for nearly forty years; during that period she never tired in her ceaseless efforts to bring souls to Christ, instructing the young, the wayward female adults, and sought out most tenderly those that were out of the wav of virtue and happiness." • Such assurances as the5e from the aged and venerable missionary, are golden links of Christian friendship uniting the dwellers on the Polynesian Islands with Christian friends in America and England. In noticing woman's ,;vide-spread and happy influence, the sentiment of Thackeray is recalled to mind, "A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven"; also that of Luther, "There is nothing sweeter on earth than the heart of a woman where piety dwells." PnoTQGRAPHY IN HoNOLULu .-Fine specimens of photography may be seen at Mont11na's new and large establishment.-also at Dickson's, which has recently been greatly improved. At Montana's, work is skillfully TRANKs.-Ours are due to Captain Marexecuted on porcelain and watch-fares, which tin Robinson, for a bundle of books received is a new feature in the photographic art in for gratuitous distribution per Ifo·tforclshire this city. from Liverpool. The captain formerly visiI7' A letter has been received from Chun ited Honolulu. -To Mrs. Dimond and Mrs. Sereno Lung, son of Mr. Afong of this city. He writes soliciting aid for bis countrymen in Bishop,-papers for gratuitous distribution. North China, who are dying of famine. -To Captain Oat, who has presented the This youn~ man is member of the senior Bethel with a new flag. class in Yale College, and his letter will appear in the. next Adver·tiser. ANOTHER M1sa10NARY LABORER GoNE.-It beREV. GEoRGE MoRRis.-We rejoice to report that this gentleman, as a temperance lecturer and minister of the gospel, has visited all the principal island~ of the group, and has most urgently set forth the claims of the temperance cause and the gospel. He bas preached in the Fort Street and Bethel Churches to great acceptance. comes our painful duty to chronicle the death of another worker in the missionary field,-the Rev. J. S. Green of Makawao, on the 5th ult. Owing to the delay of a promised obituary notice by a friend, we defer giving an extended notice till our next. -Report has just been received of the death of the Rev. P. J. Gulick, which occurred in Japan. Particulan; not given. • ~"'RI END, FEBRUARY THE NAVAL.-Since our last, two vessels of war have arrived,-H. I. German Majesty's Ship Elizabeth from Yokohama on the 12th, and H.B. M. ' Daring from '.l'ahiti on the 18th ultimo. Following are the officera attached to the former : Captain von W ickede J<'irst Officer, Korvetten Kapitain-Stubenrauch Kapitaiu Lieutenants-Gra( von Ranzoro, Freiherr von Bodenhausen, Diederichsen Lieutenants zur See-Riedel, Siegel, Rosendahl, Landfermann, Gehrmanu Unter Lieutenants zur See-Golz, Wahrendortr A ssistenz Arzt-Dr Fischer Unter Zahlmeister-Kleybolte Pfarrer-lfasch Seckadets-Von Puttkamer, Kittsteiner, Schroartzkopff, von Pustau Officers of H. B. M. S. Daring: · Commander-.Tohn G J Hanmer Lieutenants-Claude H. Millet, Augustus M. R. Hamilton Navigating Lieutenant-James R. Veitch. Staff" i:iurgeon-William Redmond. Paymaster-Cecil P. Walker. Sub-1,ieutenant-Ueorge V. Hegan. Assistant Paymaster-Alfred N. C, King. Engineers-Thomas M. Thompson, Henry Macavoy. Gunner-John T. Ne1vland. Carpenter-Charles Young. Aseistant Clerk-Edwio C. Petch. THE STATUE oF CAPTAIN CooK.-The lJfall Gazette of October 23d has the following :-" The statue of Captain Cook, which Mr. W oolner has so long been engaged upon for the government of New South Wales, will be sent to the founders in a few days, and we hear that it is not to be shown to the public in this country. The size of this statue is remarkable : it measures 13 feet 6 inches from the feet to the crown of the head, and nearly 2 feet more to the end of the uplifted arm. Thus, when placed on the pedestal already provided for its reception m Hyde Park, ~ydney, the total height above the ground will not be less, than 37 feet. The situation in Sydney is most happily chosen, and is so elevated that vessels, when they have entered the Heads of Port Jackson, will be able to see the statue in the distance as they work their way up to Sydney. * * In looking at the statue the impression of extraordinary size quickly fades, and the whole figure is thoroughly grasped at once. The attitude is easy, yet imposing. The great navigator has come on deck bareheaded, and has just made out the new continent showing dimly in the early morning sun. He is thus represented in the moment of a discovery which entitles Cook to rank immediately below Columbus in the list of discoverers. * * The drapery is most carefully worked and the old-fashioned garb, with its laced coat, large-pocketed waistcoat, tight knee-breeches, and large-buckled shoes, seems to have lost its grotesqueness in the way it is here managed, and to be better suited than any other to the occasion, though the inevitable queue scarcely suits one's idea of a becoming finish to the neck." --- Pall NIAHJNE JOURNAL. PORT OF HONOLULU. S. I. Jan 30-Am bk Buena. Vista, Hardies, from Hilo, Hawaii. 31-llaw hk Lunalilo, Marston, 33 days from Burrard's ' Inlet. 31-Brit bk Madura, Stanton, 30 days fm Jarvis Island 1-Am bktne Jane A Falkinburg, Hubbard, 26 days from Astoria. 2-P MS City of Sydney, Dearhorn, 18 dysfm Sydney 2-Haw bk It C Wylie, Schrader, 19 dys Im ~an Fran. 2-Am schr W F March, Dollard, 19 dys fm San Fran. 2-Arn schr Jos Woolley, Briggs, 30 da.ys from !:laker's Island. 8-P MS Zealandia, Chevalier, 7 days and 9 hours fm San Francisco. 8-Brit bk Marama, Domine, from Koloa, Kauai 10-Am bk Seaver, Godfrey, ·33 days from New Castle via Tahill. 11-Baw wh brig WIT Allen, Gilley, frC1m cruise. 11-Am 3-mast schr Wm L l:leebee, Eszhen, 50 days fm Newcastle 12-H I German M 8 Elizabeth, Cai;t Wickede, 24 days from Yokohama, Japan 15-French bk Auguste, Bernard, 47 dys fm Hongkong l,8-U MS Daring, Com .John G J Hanmer. fro Tahiti. 18-Am bk W A Holcomb, Danton, 35 days frn Baker's Island, · 19-Brit bk Hertfordshire, Thompson, 153 days from Liverpool 21-Am bktu Eureka, Wallace, 33 days fm S Francisco 21-P M S Australia, Cargill, 19 days from Sydney 23-A m bktn Grace Roberts, Oleson, 32 days from San Francisco 26--Am bktn Vietor, Sievert, 50 days ftn Port Townsend 27-Am ship Porlland Lloyds, Chase, 28 days from Baker's Island 28-Am bk Camden, Robinson, 36 days fro Port Gamble 31-P M SS City of Sydney, Dearborn, 9 days fm S F, DEPARTURES. Dec. 29-Am bk Reynard, Kingman, for F~ning's Island. Jan 2-P iii S City of Sydney, Dearborn, for San ll'ran'co. 5-Am bktne Monitor. Emeson, for Humboldt. 5-Haw wh brig W H Allen, Gilley. to cruise. 5-Am bk Buena Vista, Hardies, for San J<'rancisco. 8-P MS Zealandia, Chevalier, for Sydney. 8-P M S St Paul, Erskine, for San Francisco. 9-Am schr W F March. Dollard, for San Francisco. 11-Haw bk Lunalilo, Marston, for llurrard's Inlet,. 14-Haw bk lt C Wylie, Wolters, for l:lremen 14-Am sr.hr Jos Woolley, Briggs, for Gu~uo Islands 16-Brit bk Mad11ra. Stan•on, for Jarvis Island 16-Am brig W H Meyer, Brown, for San Francisco 22-P 111 S Australia, Carµ-ill, for Sau Francisco 24-Am 3-mast schr W L Beebee, Eszhen, for San Fran 24-H I MS l<Jlizabeth, Capfain Wickede, for Ma.zatlan 29-Am bktn Grace ltohertH, Oleson, for Hilo 30-Am bk .J W Seaver, Godfrey, for Tahiti MEMORANDA. IMPOR'rANT TO MAnINEns.-The following information ot great importance to masters of vessels traversing the South Pacific, we find in the Sydney .J.rgus of a late date: •• Captain Bro_wn, master of the bark Oriental of this port, states that on 111s last voyage to Malden Is\aud, while passmg through the Kermaclec Group, he found that Curtis Island was laid down 40 miles too far to the westward according to Imray's chart. Its correct position, by good observation, is in lat 11 ° 23' Sand long 173 °33' W. Again, while taking the sun at noon on .lune 20, Captain Brown came upon an island not laid down in lmray's chart, and on passiug to the westward to examine it. he sHw the American flag flying. It proved to be Nassau Isle, which is laid ciown 35 miles too far west on lmray's chart of 187-!. lls correct position, by uood observation, is in laL 11 ° 33' ti and long 165 ° 23' W. It tl~erefore behoves any one navigating m the vicinity to keep a vigilant look-out. REPOltT OF BK lIERTF'0RDSHIHE, R THOMPSON, MASTER. -Sailed from Liverpool Aug 15th. Experienced very hea.vy winds on first leaving England, aud ten days after her departure sprung the bowsprit. Had very light and variable NE trade winds, and crcssed the equt1tor Sept 2Hh in 2,1 ° 20' W long, being 40 clays out, aml spoke th<J buk Ilalgounie from Glasgow t.owards Valparaiso, M days out The SE trade winds ~re strong for two days, but afterwards remained very light and variable. Oct lath, wheu off the Rio de la Plata, experienced heavy weather accompanied with much thunder and lightuing, and on the 29th when in lat 4i O f>:.! 15 Jong 62 ° Information lVanted. 19' W, was close to a terrific whirlwind which was traveling Respecting .TAM Es MA RS TON, of Hampton, Ncw Hampshire. at an unaccountable rate and hurling the water up and about abs.;nt from home about 25 years, and betwern fifty and sixty in every direction. Nov 7th sightPd Cape ~t Vrncent, and next years of age. He has saileu in the ships l\lontezun1a, William day passed thron~h the Straits of Le Maire with a li<rht NE Thompson and Roman. Ile is known to have been several wintl, and fouud a strong current setting towatds State~ Land. ttmeH mate of a ship. He is known to have sailed in ships out Nov 10th passed Cape Horn, 87 days out. On the 11th in lat of New Bedford. One ()f the masters' name under whose co111- 57 ° 15 S long 70 ° 59' W, pa~sed rnveral large icebergs, anu 011 roaud he iiailed was Allen. Any information will be gladly the 18th experienced a gale commencing at NE, increasing anti received by Rev Mr lluller of New Bedford, Mrs .I C Hardy of veering to N, thence NW with the barometer at 29 20. Nov Havenhill, Mass, (box 298) or by the editor of the Fm END. 14th in one and a half hours the baromcler fell from 29.13 to 28.10, wind WNW \Jlowing with hurricane force for 16 hours. Nov 16th gale decreased, barometer rising to 28.60, and wind p . T Is D A L E • M. D., veering to W, tl1ence W:3W and eventually blew itsdf out at ::3:SW with the barometer at 29,10, after 72 hours' blow, and • Ho111eopa!11i.t, observations showed that the ship had heen driven ahout 115 Off:ce anrl Residence, Ber!'tania Street, hetwecn Fort Street miles towards the eastward. Nov 171h passed two ve~seJ,i Church and ~ueen .Fmma's. Office hours from 8 to 9 a m 1 which seeme1I to have b('en ,bmaged by the late gales. A ftt:-r to 3 p m, and 6} to 8 evenings. • pas8ing 80 ° W long had strong J<;N E and NE winus for four but owing to the weakness of the bowsprit was unai>le ovecial attention !liven to the treatment of the days, to ~el auy he,ul sail. which was a great impcuimcnt to the ship's 8ailiug. Uau good :S.l!i traue wiuds from :n ° Slat 86 o Eye and Eur. T W_ long, and crossed the equator Dec 21th in long 119 ° 36' W, berng 131 day1:1 ol1t, carrying the trades to 6 ° N lat 123 ° W Jong; also nad good NE trade winds from 8 ° N lat 126 ° W long to 20 ° N 151 ° W. From the latter po1>ition until we reached Oahu had nothing but light variable winds and calms, and arrived iu Honolulu Jan 19th, 1878. ARRIVALS. Dec 13 I 8 7 8. PASSENGERS. Fon FANNJ_Nos' lsL_AN~s-Per Reynard, Dec 28-A J Kinney, Capt H Engh~h. A W1ggms, T C Martin. and 28 natives, FROM SYDNEY-Per City of Sydney, Jan 2-C K Smith,(.) ll Woolmington. FnoM GUANO lsLANDS-Per ,Jos Woolley, Jan 2-J W King, l> Fooney, Mr McGill, and 15 natives. F!tOM PORTLAND AND ASTORIA-Per Jane A Falkenburu, Jan 2-R Hobson. V 'l'rivett, CS Wri1:tht. U Foster " FRoM SAN FRANc1sco-Per W F March Jan 2-.Jno Cnshman. L Ellibie, J Wales, A H Eu wards n~d wife, J Nichols, A Cameron anu wife, H Joes, .las flrigg, Geo B flarret. FnoM SAN FnANcrsco-Per RC Wylie Jan 2-F E llubbard, and eight Chinamen, • ' FOR SAN FnANc1sco-Per City of Sydney. Jnn 2-G W Fogg, AP Everett, Mr Arundel, l\lr Darsie, M Phillips. D S Logan. W Marierty, R Stevens. W Casar ks. J Git,hons W Gi·eenlrnuse, Geo Raupp, Mrs J G Clevior, Miss H A Spa!thng-, l\Ir Sl~endan, E Gawler, wife and chilu, F Morton and wife, 0 W Wildman, ,1 A Lovelace, E J Taylor, and Chinaman, FnoM SAN FRANCISCO-Per Zealandia, Jan 8-.Judge Harris, Mrs Harris and daughter, Ilon S N Castle. H Cornwell an<l wife, J I{ Latham, MrA Carson, D Mauson, Mrs W C Parke. Rev J W A tberton, H W Atherton, Miss C E Cheezum Miss Benson and maid, H A North, l\Ir Knight Mrs .Judd T Waterhouse and wife, L J David, G J Brown: ,TM David;on, Ca Hobron, Miss Bowen, R '1' Brydon and wife. Mrs Heming nd daughter, Capt Wolters, Miss V Seymour:Jas Roberts, W C 'l'~lbot and daughter, Miss Pope, Miss Burbank, F Hatch, ll A Peirce, Wm Walters a.nu 26 io the steerage. Fo~ SAN FRANCISCO- Per St Paul, Jan 8-.Jos Brewer, G S Wright, A Campbell, J D Sprecldes and wife, A Brander I<' S Pratt, Mr Blacklock, () A. J<'ink, J P Flynn, A Strangood'. Fon SYDNEY-Per Zealandrn, Jan 8-Ed Mac Donnell. Foll JARVIS ISLAND-Per Madura, Jan Hi-Mt· Colson. FoR SAN FRANCISCO-Per W II Meyer, .Ian 16-Mrs Smith Mrs Peirce, J Enright, C Keik. Wm S Dryer, Frank Renker'. FnoM SYDNEY- Per Australia, Jan 21-F ::lolomon, Mrs Borres. and 26 in transitu. FRO!\l LIV Ell POOL-Per Hertfordshire, Jan 21-J Woohu, A Qucus, G Smith. FOR SAN FRANCISCO-Per Australia, Jan 22-.John Wilson, Mrs Hern:ifogs and daughter, C lf Davis, Frank Reddington. FROM SAN b'RANc1sco-Per City of Sydney, Jan 3lst-J C Glade, wife, 2 children and nurse, Mrs A F Dixon and child, . JR Watson, !ff rs Haalelea, Miss Pitman, C Pokrantz, Miss M · C Sheppard. D K Fyfe, A P Smith. Miss M B Smith, Miss .I Lyon, AF Graham, CA Chapin, Rev JR Bryd and wife, Miss Boyd, .J M Moss_, wife, child and servant, Miss Regensberger, R Manse and wife, R W Parr, W H Starkey, Mrs J U I!ubbard, Mrs M E Prayton and son, Mrs A H t,1Jencer, .T G Spencer and wife. A Bamctt and wife, Dr J S };sblemen, M.iss A Smith, Mr Wolf, and 19 in the steerage. J' MARRIED. ~M.ERSON-ELLIOT-At St Luke's Church, Kalamazoo City' l\hch1gan, December 26th, Dr .J E EMERSON, la.le of these islands, to W1 LLIE~IEN A H ELLIOT, daughter of Dr L },J Chapman of that city. l!'EnNANDEZ-DAv1s-In Makawao, Maui. December 31st, by Rev J s Green. Mr ABRAHAM p FERNANDEZ of Honolulu to Miss MINERVA E DA VIS of Ma1'awao. ' BRIGGS-°MAGUIRE,-ln this city, Jan 5th. at the residence of the bride's father, by Rev Father Hermann. Capt RoBEnT BRIGGS, of San Francisco, to :\1iss J<:uoENIA, eldest dau111Jter 0 of Mr. James W Maguire, of Honolulu T1NSIAN-'l'ET iilIN-In this city, .l:l.nuary 31st, hy Rev SC Damon, JOSEPH TINS I AN. of Honolulu, to LAI 'l'ET SIN. who came as passenger from China per A uiiuste. She was educated by the Basie missionaries of Hongkong, and has been iu a mission school seven years. DIED. McDERMOTT--ln Wailuku, l\1a,ui, Dec 30th, 1877, PATIIICK I\1cl>EaMOTT, the dearly beloved infant son of P McDcrmot.l, aged 7 months and 6 days. o:::r San Francisco JJapers please copy. GREEN.-ln l\fakawao, Maui, .Jan 5th, Rev JS GREEN, aged 81 years. l'EARDE-ln this city, January 18th, Dr H P1UllD1'], aged 29, late of Coromandel. New Zealand, and formerly of Akaroa., Bank's Peninsula, New Zealand. He was buried by the Fraternity of the l<'ree Masons with the usual honors. . CRAIG-In this city, at the Queen's Hospital, January 20th, JOHN CtuIG, a native of New London, Conn, and for many years a resident of these islands. Aged 60 years. H. E, WHITNEY J. W. ROBERTSON WHITNEY & ROBERTSON, (Successors to H. 1\1. Wh!tney), Importers and Dealers in Foreign Books, STATIONERY &, PERIODIUALS. P UBl:.ISHERS OF THE HAWAIIAN GUIDE. BOOK, Jarves' History of the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian Phrase Book, Ilawitiian Grammar, Andrews' Hawaiian G-i•ammar, Hawaiian Dictionary, Chart of the llawaiian I!\Jands. ALSO, ON l!A:ND, OTHER BOOKS ON 'IHE ISLANDS. • 'fHE FRIEND, · FEBRUARY, 1878. 14 EDITOR'S TABL:&, A 8umme1· in Norway, with notes on the Industries, Habits, Customs and PecuUarities of the People, the History and Institutions of the Country, its Climate, Topography and Product-ions; al8o an account of the Red-deer, Rein-deer and Elk.-By John Dean Caton, L.L.D., Ex-Chief Ju,s_i'ice of the Supreme Court of Itlinois.Chicago,-Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1875. • In our last issue we made a passing allusion to this book. 1 We have since given it a thorough perusal, and find that it is a most interesting and charming book of travel. The style is clear and natural, and it does the reader's eyes good to look upon pages beautifully and neatly printed, and not one typographical error have we discovered from beginning to end. If our limits would al w we should gladly favor our readers with copious extracts, but there are several points we cannot omit to riotice. During the summer of 187- Judge Caton, accompanied by his wife and other ladycompanions, voyaged to Europe and instead of fo1lowing the usual routes of travel, struck away for Norway and pushed their rambles to Hammerfest, the most northern town or settlement of civilized man on ~ur globe~ lying within the Arctic circle as far north as Point Barrow within the Arctic Ocean. This is a town of about 2,000 inhabitants engaged in fishing, whaling, and the manufacture of cod-liver oil. In this region of "perpetual day" during the long days of summer, the weather is charming, while in winter, during . the• season of "perpetual night," the sea is epen and steamers are plying in and out the harbor. The mildness of the weather is of course owing to the broad sweep of the gulf stream, which flows with its deep and warm current from the Gulf of Mexico and along the American Coast and• crossing the Northern Atlantic Ocean tempers air and sea in those regions of Europe, which would otherwise be uninhabitable for civilized man. Hammerfest is a whaling port. The business was started by a Norwegian by the name of Sven Toyen, who has made a fortune. He is·said to be the· most successful · at pri~sent of any one en-gaged in the whaling business. The enterprise is prosecuted by steamers. The whales having been caught are towed into port and there tried out, and " every part of the animal which can be utilized is saved and prepared for the market." Up to the 1st of July, twenty-eight whales had been captured. The steamers cruise a hundred miles off shore. It is quite impossible for us to follow our author's voyaging and journeying, but he and his party were everywhere welcomed with kindness, and he does not hesitate to pronounce ~he Norwegians the most polite people in the world. He has much to say about the Lapps, and that too in a style of narration as entertaining and instructive as can well be written. His chapter upon the civil and political status of Norway is very instructive, showing how firmly they have maintained their independence under most adverse circumstances, when severed from Denmark and brought under the king of Sweden; but we cannot linger amid historical descriptive scenes as enchanting as fairy tales and as instructive as the most sober pages of history. One historic incident we cannot omit to notice. Away back in the 17th century, when Gustavus Adolphus was king of ·sweden, and Christian IV of Denmark, Col. George Sinclair of the Scottish Highlands, undertook to crosR Norway with 900 of his clan to go to the as.sistance of the king of Sweden. They landed on the Norwegian coast and were marching in unconscious security, when the brave Scotch were completely overwhelmed by an ambushed party of Norwegians, who had placed '" an immense quan+i.ty of logs and rocks " on an advantageous eminence, under which the brave Sinclair and his 900 followers would pass. At the critical moment down came the crushing mass, and not one escaped to tell the tale, any more than did one of the b ave Coster's troops escape Sitting Bull and li s savage followers. But as the legendary story goes, a gallant Norwegian about to lead his fair bride to the hymenial altar, was .commissioned by her to rush into the deadly affray and rescue Lady Sinclair, but the good lady mistaking his purpose shot him dead, while she experienced a similar fate. A monument to Col. George Sinclair may be seen near Storldenstad, where he fell August 26th, 1612. In reading this touching story, supported by authentic history and tradition, we were reminded of more recent events on Hawaiian shores, when a gallant Norwegian (residing on Kauai in that very region of the island which first arrested the eye of Capt. Cook just one century ago), met a fair and youthful daughter of the Sinclair clan and led her to the hymenial altar, and now they dwell together in a happy home, "with olive plants growing up around their table." It is pleasant thu s to link Norwegian, Scottish and Hawaiian incidents, and the time may come when some Scott shall weave 1n romance scenes not only of " border warfare," but more recent events and more peaceful incidents linking ]ands and nations separated by half the circumference of our globe. ina) of his success with the first class of the agricultural college (fifteen or sixteen) at Sapora, which under government patronage, he had just organized. Through his irrfluence, the Bible was made a text book on the subject of morals, which the government superintendent desired should be taught; and thereby the whole class was convinced of the truth of Christianity, and wished to be baptized. He tolJ them he had no ~uthority to do that, but by his advice they joined in a club or society, pledging themselves to abstain from strong drink, tobacco, and opium, and to unite with God's people when opportunity offered. Six months or more since Pre5ident Clark left~ we hear that a missionary from Hakodate has been to Sapora and baptized the whole class; they are all picked men educated by the government, and will probably fill important posts. Again we are told that far in the interior, a missionary had been invited or permitted to preach in a Budhist temple, and that there (though obliged to speak through an interpreter) h~ had read and expounded three books of the New Testament to attentive audiences, of 80 to 100. At the recent dedication of a church edifice at Randa, five persons from a considerable city fifteen or twenty miles distant, were present. One of them had r~peatedly walked that distance, to attend preaching at S ., bringing with him his friends, and they with others of that city have requested that some one would come monthly and preach in their city,-and it is intended this shall be done. A rPquest like the preceding has rome to Mr. Atkinson of our mission from another quarter, and students of theology have consequently been sent thither. Quite a number of pupils in the training school spend their long vacation as colporteurs, and preach a~ doors are opened. Nearly a year ago, a young native from a distant region called at Mr. Atkinson's, asked for and received some portions of the Scriptures. After some months he wrote for more, and said hP. would pay for them, but sent no money. For a long time nothing was heard from him; but recently a letter has come from him with a little inoney, in which he says that his father had recently died, and afterward he himself had been very ill he was now better and would by installments pay for the books. Moreover he said they had been read by many of his neighbors, and now they wished him to preach to them; he purposed to do so. ·He lives quite remote, I believe 100 miles from any missionary station. 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