"A BOY'S PARADISE IN THE PACIFIC," ALEXANDER HUME FORD (1908)
"A Boy's Paradise in the Pacific," by Alexander Hume Ford, ran in the August issue of St. Nicolas, a popular New York-based children's magazine published from 1873 to 1943. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Hawaii is the land of sports for boys and girls. Approach Honolulu by steamer, and at first sight of the breakers on the reef, the eye is arrested by little specks upon the wav...