Fresh from three long years before the mast on the whaling ship Peruvian, George M. Robertson landed in Honolulu in 1844. He was 23, and had no interest, after seeing Oahu, in returning to St. Johns, New Brunswick, with his ship. He began to study law and the Hawaiian language, and within a short timeContinue reading “Kaiulani’s Crystals part 4”
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Kaiulani’s Crystals part 3
Kaiulani was the second Cleghorn daughter to die an untimely death. The first had been Annie Cleghorn Wodehouse, who died in 1897 at age 28 from complications following childbirth . The widower was Hay Wodehouse Jr., the son of the British Commissioner to the Hawaiian Islands. After Annie died, Wodehouse sold the family residence inContinue reading “Kaiulani’s Crystals part 3”
The Ruler of the Heavens 