Travelling for her health in 1873, Isabella Bird landed in the Hawaiian Islands and stayed nearly seven months. Her letters home describe riding astride across lava fields and through flooded rivers, climbing Mauna Loa, watching the fire lake of Kilauea, and staying with missionaries, ranchers and Hawaiian families in the last years of the kingdom.
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