Narrative of a tour through Hawaii, or Owhyhee with observations on the natural history of the Sandwich Islands, and remarks on the manners, customs, traditions, history, and language of their inhabitants
William Ellis, a London missionary, published this 1827 travel narrative of Hawaii, printed in London by several booksellers, for a readership interested in missions and Pacific natural history. The plates are engravings of a rocky volcanic coastline with billowing smoke, a missionary procession beneath palm trees with a file of islanders, a steaming crater scene, and two portrait busts of a man and a woman in period dress; a designer might draw on their tonal hatching, plumes of vapour and palm silhouettes.
