Geography of the Hawaiian Islands

Preface

The first edition of the Geography of the Hawaiian Islands, while truly a home geography, has been revised and amplified in this new edition more fully to meet the requirements of this phase of geographical instruction.

The course of study for the schools of the territory includes an outline in home geography, which all teachers are being especially trained to carry out. There are a number of excellent geographical texts that require but few changes to meet our island conditions. The geographies now in use in our schools devote considerable space to home geography.

This text is designed to be used with grades below the fifth as a teacher's desk book, the subject matter being presented topically. In grades beginning with the fifth upward it is to be in the hands of the pupil, and is to be correlated with all the work in geography.

The author wishes to call particular attention to the index to the revised edition. It should add materially to the usefulness of the book.

Like other texts in geography, this book is brief. Teachers should make liberal use of the references suggested on pages 125 and 126 of the appendix. Many of these references are from " Hawaii's Young People," of which copies are to be found in all the schools. The bound volumes of the "Hawaiian Annual " (Thrum's Almanac) are valuable, as is also the " Natural History of Hawaii," by Professor W. A. Bryan of the College of Hawaii.

CHARLES W. BALDWIN.

Honolulu.

Contents

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Introduction . 7

Oahu 34