The magazine of William Ellis is a vintage of Pacific literature, rating with the journals of Captain cook dinner and his males as a list of lifestyles and customs of the conventional Hawaiians.

No different e-book competitors it as an account of the lifetime of the Hawaiians within the early nineteenth century. For readers now not but familiar with it, there's the excitement waiting for them of a brand new and eciting enterprise into Hawaiian history.

William Ellis (1794-1872) a tender English missionary with a robust ethnological bent, was once an explorer with a willing eye for neighborhood colour and aspect. As one member of a pioneering workforce that undertook an intensive survey of the island of Hawaii he made very good use of his abilities to set down every little thing he and his colleagues may possibly know about the sector and the people.

The magazine is gifted the following in electronic layout with no abridgments and masses within the comparable structure with which it was once brought to its unique viewers. the unique illustrations are retained—the new advent and the index—are designed to augment its worth. The reader is sure to discover it worthy each second of his time.