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Excerpt from Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work, Vol. 1 of 7: Second Supplement, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumSee the plate in the Atlas of Cook's Last Voyage. 2cook's Third Voyage, 1785. Second edition, p. 301.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stat...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from The Compact With the Charter and Laws of the Colony of New Plymouth: Together With the Charter of the Council at Plymouth, and an Appendix, Containing the Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England, and Other Valuable Documents And have, upon their like humble request, granted unto them divers liberties, privileges, enlargements, and immunities, as in and by our several letters patents, it doth and may more a...

About the Book Books about Anthropology delve into the behavior of societies in the past and in the present, examining social mores, language and social life. Titles include: An introduction to anthropology, a general survey of the early history of the human race, Anthropologie der Naturvölker, Anthropology and modern life, Social anthropology, Der Darwinismus gegen die Sozialdemokratie: Anthropologische Plaudereien, Stone Implements and Stone...

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Excerpt from Notes on the Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands: With a History of Their Various Eruptions Fifteen miles from Kauai is the Island of Niihau, which is different in many respects from other islands of the group. It is twenty miles long by five wide, and consists of two portions, the mountain region, and the plain which meets this on three sides, the latter so low as to be almost invisible from Kauai. The mountain is not much channel...

Excerpt from A Handbook for Visitors to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural HistoryVisitors will deposit all sticks and umbrellas in the rack provided near the entrance. Gentlemen will remove their hats while in the building. Japanese must leave their wooden shoes in the porch.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis bo...

Excerpt from An Index to the Islands of the Pacific Ocean: A Handbook to the Chart on the Walls of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural HistoryThis course appeared convenient, if not necessary, for those who had the arrangement of the Museum in Charge that there should be no confusion or variation in the nomenclature of localities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cla...

Excerpt from Ka Hana Kapa, Vol. 3: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii In the light of our present knowledge of things Polynesian we cannot read again the fascinating pages of Cook's observations without wonder at the general accuracy of his accounts of what he saw, and we must acknowledge the debt we owe to him and the scientific men who were with him on his three voyages. The Forsters, Banks, Sparrman, Solander and others, and we must not fo...

Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Inhabitants of Grafton: On the First Centennial Anniversary of That Town, April 29, 1835The Lightoappearing more and more to the perfect Day, &c., P. 29. I Strength out of W'eakneu, &c., P. 8. T See Appendix, A.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. F...

Excerpt from Guatemala, the Land of the Quetzal: A Sketch A Belief in the increasing importance of Central America, both geographically and politically, has led the writer of the following pages to collect for his own use and print for the use of others, notes made during three journeys in Guatemala and Honduras. He does not pretend to offer a monograph on Guatemala, nor to add to the general knowledge of Central America, but remembering the ...

Excerpt from Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work, Vol. 1 of 7: Second Supplement, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop MuseumSee the plate in the Atlas of Cook's Last Voyage. 2cook's Third Voyage, 1785. Second edition, p. 301.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stat...

Excerpt from The Compact With the Charter and Laws of the Colony of New Plymouth: Together With the Charter of the Council at Plymouth, and an Appendix, Containing the Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England, and Other Valuable Documents And have, upon their like humble request, granted unto them divers liberties, privileges, enlargements, and immunities, as in and by our several letters patents, it doth and may more a...