Dear Reader, When first I left my home of Worcester, Massachusetts, in the fair hills and glens of New England, I had no idea that I would be caught up in chronicling the adventures of my cousin, Lydia Kamakaʻimiʻike Kāwau Holmes. Her Father was Brother to my Mother, but the relationship had grown so distant that I was in greatest trepidation during the entirety of my voyage to her isles, and entirely unsure of what welcome I should...