24 September 1871
We started off in the morning in a buggy, like those used in America to get a glimpse of the scenery, and found ourselves at Queen Emma’s Residence. The driver pointed out the entrance, and it ended in our calling and leaving cards. We were simply enchanted with the vegetation
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and the picturesque villas with their compounds. The weeds common here are cultivated in our greenhouses. We gathered bread-fruit, bananas and oranges from the trees [unclear: the day]. After that we went to the English Church and felt as if at home. I feel it better to refer to a little Work called “Five Years Church Work in Hawie” by the Bishop of Honolulu, published by Riveringtons in 1868, in which you will get much information and some views of the Islands.