“(A) sailor’s diet consisted of salted fish and meat, dried vegetables, weeviled biscuits and rancid oils, cheese, and butter. … The caloric content – estimated at 2,500-3,000 calories – was adequate, but the diet was sorely deficient in vitamins.” “In the absence of vitamin C, rampant scurvy became responsible for thousands of sailors’ deaths and […]
Kōnane
Lawe ʻili keokeo, paʻani, ka ʻeleʻeleRemoving the whites is playing with the blacks It starts with a papamū, a generally rectangular flat stone whose surface is marked with shallow pits in regular order and of considerable number. Later more mobile boards were used. The center of the board was called piko (navel) and frequently marked […]
James Hay Wodehouse
James Hay Wodehouse was born on April 23, 1824. He was the second son of Charles Nourse Wodehouse (Archdeacon of Norwich) and Lady Dulcibella Jane Hay. He married Annette Fanny Massey, daughter of William Massey, on January 19, 1861. Wodehouse was private secretary to George Grey (Governor of New Zealand) in 1851; on November 5, […]
Naukane
During Captain Cookʻs visit to Hawaiʻi on his third voyage of exploration in 1779, then-Lieutenant King (later Captain) noted, “During the following night, the cutter belonging to the Discovery was stolen …” “This irritated captain Cook, and he gave orders to stop all the canoes that should attempt to leave the bay, intending to seize […]
Early Brew Crew
Beer is produced by the saccharification (breaking into sugars) of starch and fermentation of the resulting sugar. There are eight basic steps to the standard commercial brewing process: milling, mashing, wort separation, boiling, chilling, fermenting, conditioning and packaging. (Barth) Journal entries show Captain James Cook was the first to make beer in the Islands. On […]
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