Area, 19 square miles, or 12,160 acres.  Circumference, 105,600 feet, or 20 miles.  Extreme length, 39,500 feet, or 7.48 miles.  Extreme width, 12,500 feet, or 2.37 miles.  Elevation of summit, 10,032 feet.  Elevation of principal cones in crater, 8,032 and 7,572 feet.  Elevation of cave in floor of crater, 7,380 feet.

        Dimensions of Iao Valley, Maui.

        Length (from Wailuku) about 5 miles. 
        Width of valley, 2 miles. 
        Depth, near head, 4,000 feet. 
        Elevation of Puu Kukui, above head of valley, 5,788 feet. 
        Elevation of Crater of Eke, above Waihee Valley, 4,500 feet.

Honolulu’s importance comes from the harbor, and the favor of the missionaries.  As to the general judgment of the work of the missionaries, there is nothing better to do than to quote Mr. Richard H. Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast.”  He said in that classic: 

“It is no small thing to say of the missionaries of the American Board, that in less than forty years they have taught this whole people to read and write, to cipher and to sew.  They have given them an alphabet, grammar and dictionary; preserved their language from extinction; given it a literature and translated into it the Bible, and works of devotion, science and entertainment, etc.  They have established schools, reared up native teachers, and so pressed their work that now the proportion of inhabitants who can read and write is greater than in New England.  And, whereas, they found these islanders a nation of half-naked savages, living in the surf and on the sand, eating raw fish, fighting among themselves, tyrannized over by feudal chiefs and abandoned to sensuality, they now see them decently clothed, recognizing the law of marriage, knowing something of accounts, going to school and public worship more regularly than the people do at home, and the more elevated of them taking part in conducting the affairs of the constitutional monarchy under which they live, holding seats on the judicial bench and in the legislative chambers, and filling posts in the local magistracies.”

Take away the tropical vegetation and the gigantic scenery and we have here, in our new Pacific possessions, a new Connecticut.  The stamp of New England is upon this lofty land, especially in Honolulu, where the spires of the churches testify.  There is much that is of the deepest and broadest interest in the possible missionary work here, on account of the remarkable race questions presented.  Here are the nations and the people of mixed blood—­the Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese—­a population immensely representative of Oriental Asia.  The measure of success of the missionaries under our flag in dealing with these people can hardly fail to be accepted by the world as a test of the practical results of the labor with the Asiatica.  In this connection, the figures following, from the Hawaiian Annual of 1898, furnish a basis of solid information for study: