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Title: Mission life in Hawaii; memoir of Rev. William P. Alexander
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Alexander, James McKinney, 1835-1911. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Alexander, William Patterson, 1805-1884
Publisher: Oakland, Calif., Pacific Press Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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agged theheavy timbers into place for the church, and also for ahouse for Mr. Alexander. Coral stone was obtainedby divers from the sea, and made into lime for themasonry. The natives also contributed $88 for achurch bell. In November, 1841, the building was com-pleted—a frame house, measuring thirty-five by seventy-five feet, plastered inside and out. A comfortable housewas also built for Mr. Alexander in 1837, before whichstood two noble kukui trees, which are well rememberedby his older children, both for their beauty and for theopportunity they afforded for amusement. In this newhouse two more of Mr. Alexanders children, Henry andMary, were born. During this time he translated Le-gendres geometry and prepared a text-book on survey-ing and navigation for the Lahainaluna seminary. In 1840 he received a visit from Messrs. Pickeringand Brackenbridge of the U. S. Ex. Exp., and alsofrom Messrs Peale and Rich. They were much struckwith the dress of the native women at church, its unus-
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wso Xo l—t < wXH REV. WM. P. ALEXANDER. 9; ual neatness and becoming appearance. It seemedremarkable that so many of them should be clothed inforeign manufacture, and that apparently of an expensivekind; but on closer examination the dresses proved to betapas^ printed in imitation of merino shawls, ribands,etc.—f/. 5. Ex. Exp., Vol. IV, p. 6g. It now became an increasingly perplexing question toMr. Alexander and the other missionaries how to edu-cate their children, without exposing them to the con-taminating influence of the natives, and without with-drawing from their pastoral work. In 1840 Mr. Alex-ander took his two oldest sons, one five and the otherseven years old, in a palanquin, carried by two powerfulnatives, as he rode beside on a horse, a journey of fortymiles, to Koloa, and there left them with the children ofMr. Gulick, under the instruction of Miss Marcia Smith,who had come as a teacher to the islands in the re-inforcement of 1837. In conjunction with Mr. Armstron

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