"Alo'ha!"; A Hawaiian Salutation

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Original Publisher: Roberts brothers Subjects: Hawaii History / General Travel / United States / General Travel / United States / West / Pacific Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: HILO HOMES. WE had two homes at one time during a fortnight in Hilo. It happened thus : Our first home, having received us and made us whole again after our damaging voyage in the " Kilauea," was obliged to surrender our room, on the next arrival of that punctual boat, to a party of friends who had previously engaged it. With true Hawaiian hospitality, our host had urged our longer stay in Hilo, although he knew he could no longer accommodate us; and all objections on our part were removed when we found that an arrangement could be made by which we could have rooms in another house and take our meals at his. It seemed no sufficient impediment to this arrangement that the other house was a quarter of a mile distant; we thought we should enjoy the walk. And there was such a look of welcome and rest in the new home which opened its arms to us, that we could not resist it. At the head of the street on which the two Congregational churches stand, set on a hill in true gospel fidelity to the light committed to its charge, our second home awaited us. A venerable missionary and his estimable wife, his life-long companion and assistant in all his laborious work among these people, were the sole occupants of this large dwelling. Every room in it had once been occupied by the children of their large family; but now all had grown up and flown away, and they were left alone. Happily for them as for the people they had so long loved and served, two of their sons were se...