The Wasp — 1878 — page 301: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page contains the opening installment of a serialized short story by Charles Warren Stoddard, not a political cartoon. The narrative describes missionaries traveling through Hawaii's Waipio Valley, encountering Hawaiian natives and their cultural practices. The story reflects late-19th-century American literary attitudes toward indigenous Hawaiian culture, presenting it through a tourist/missionary perspective. References to "hula-hula" and descriptions of native Hawaiian life suggest this is travel literature, likely aimed at readers curious about exotic Pacific locations. The piece appears primarily ethnographic rather than satirical—documenting (or fictionalizing) encounters with Hawaiian people during the American colonial period. No specific political figures or satire are evident on this page.