Afterword

    

1. The unique map of California. (1980). Lionel Pincus
and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. 


    

2. Billy Cervi. 2017. FFFF. Last night seeing.
{photograph}

    

3. Surf swimming Sandwich Islands. (1897).
Reproduced in Synge, M. B. (ed.), Captain Cook's
Voyages Around the World. With an introductory life
p.477


    

4. Duke Kahanomoku, shown after a swim in a Los
Angeles pool (1933) Associated Press.

                 Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii
            January 18-February 14, 1779

But a diversion the most common is upon the
water, where there is a very great Sea, and surf
breaking on the shore.{…}

The women could swim off to the ship, &
continue half a day in the water, and afterwards
return. The above diversion is only intended as n
amusement, not a trial of skill, & in a gentle swell
that sets on must I conceive be very pleasant, at
least they seem to feel a great pleasure in the
motion which this exercise gives.

                                                      — Captain Cook


A silent slave is not liked by masters or overseers.
“make a noise,”’ make a noise,’ and” bear a hand,”
are the words usually addressed to the slaves 
when they're silence amongst them.{…}

While on their way, they would make the dense 
old woods, for miles around, reverberate with 
their wild notes. These were not always merry 
because they were wild. On the contrary, they 
were mostly of a plaintive cast, and told a tale of 
grief and sorrow. In the most boisterous 
outburst of rapturous sentiment, there was ever 
a tinge of deep melancholy.{…}

I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing 
of those songs would do more to impress truly
spiritual-minded men and women with the
soul-crushing and death-dealing character of 
slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of its 
mere physical cruelties. They speak to the heart 
and to the soul of the thoughtful.{…}

I did not, when a slave, understand the deep 
meanings of those rude, and apparently 
incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle, 
so that I neither saw or heard as those without
might see and hear. They told a tale which was 
then altogether beyond my feeble 
comprehension; they were tones, loud, long and 
deep, breathing the prayer and complaint of souls 
boiling over with the bitterest anguish.

                                                    -Frederick Douglas
                                     My Bondage and My Freedom
                                                                             (1855)


    

5. Albertus Hutchinson Baldwin. (1905). The black
triggerfish of the Hawaiian Islands. {Print} The
aquatic resources of the Hawaiian Islands
Washington, Govt. Smithsonian Libraries and
Archives.


    

6. Oscar Than Aung (2024) No title. {drawing}