RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1843-1874]. Abstract of 'Jarves' History of the Hawaiian Islands. CUL-DAR89.134. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN2

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).


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Cook 1779 Vancouver 1794

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Food never much attend except the upper classes}

Except European liquors

Clothing much attend

Change gives cold}

Before 1820 frequent visits of American Whalers}

Imitation of white-man

{After improving, great change, all esthetic [illeg] stopped - great changes in Habits

Jarves, James Jackson. 1843. History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands, embracing their antiquities, mythology, legends, discovery by Europeans in the sixteenth century, re-discovery by Cook, with their civil, religious, and political history. Boston: Tappan and Dennet. Darwin cited this in Descent 2d ed., p. 187. "The foregoing statements are taken chiefly from the following works: 'Jarves' History of the Hawaiian Islands,' 1843, p. 400–407. Cheever, 'Life in the Sandwich Islands,' 1851, p. 277."


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