At

https://issuu.com/jonathan-morse/docs/pierside_3.docx

you should be able to download a free e-book about (1) how Herman Melville said things and/or read things from a book about a slob king and a missionary lady who slugged her slaves with an umbrella and (2) what happened to the newspaper prose when a German gunboat parked itself in Honolulu for three years during World War I.