Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

The travel narrative records journeys through the Hawaiian archipelago and the northern Pacific coast, combining descriptive sightseeing with practical observations. It surveys island geology and volcanic features, native manners and customs, missionary and commercial life, and the leper asylum on Molokai, then shifts to northern California, Oregon, Washington Territory, and Vancouver Island to examine climates, agricultural practices, viticulture and fruit-drying, sheep and cattle grazing, forestry and lumbering, Chinese labor, coastal rookeries, and navigation on the Columbia and Puget Sound, offering advice useful to tourists, settlers, and investors.