Hawaii Under King Kalakaua From Personal Experiences of Leavitt H Hallock
Hawaii Under King Kalakaua From Personal Experiences of Leavitt H Hallock
Leavitt H Leavitt Harmon Hallock
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Captain Cook estimated the population of the islands at four hundred thousand souls, which was doubtless an exaggeration. The first official census was taken in 1832 and showed one hundred and thirty thousand, which has now dwindled to less than thirty thousand of the true native Hawaiian stock. European diseases introduced by sailors, had swept off half the inhabitants before the first permanent missionary arrived. Diseases which are comparatively harmless among us, such as measles, chicken po...x and the like, are usually fatal to a native Hawaiian. They are mere children, with no good judgment about treatment or reme- dies when ill. It is nothing uncommon for a native to put on all his clothes on a hot night in a close unventilated hut and sleep in them, with the whole family in one room. A friend once ordered a native 36 Captain Cook's Monument, Hawaii. CAPTAIN COOK'S MONUMENT UNDER KING KALAKAUA with a terrible cough to apply a mustard plaster to his chest. A few hours later he found his patient sitting in a draft, entirely unclothed save for this large mustard plaque some twelve inches too low down !
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