1. In 1819, the year that Kamehameha I died, a young woman in Scotland, Eliza McHucheson, married a former Royal Navy officer, Francis Sinclair. For twenty years they operated a large farm in Scotland before selling it and sailing to New Zealand in 1841.

   They bought a new farm there, but tragedy struck in 1846 when Eliza lost her husband and oldest son in a shipwreck.

   Left a widow with five children, Eliza managed to keep the New Zealand farm together until 1863 when she sold it for considerable profit. The family eventually settled in Honolulu, where the king offered them land stretching from the present Honolulu Hale in downtown Honolulu to Diamond Head in Waikiki. The asking price for this property, today one of the most valuable chunks of real estate in the country, was US$10,000.

   The Sinclairs turned down the offer because they felt the land would be unsuitable for farming. Instead they spent their US$10,000 on Niihau, a deal that included an entire island as well as its native inhabitants. During the 1870s the family also bought plantation lands on the southwestern side of Kaua'I at Makaweli. Eliza Sinclair died there in 1892 at the age of ninety-three.

   Aubrey Robinson, a grandson, became owner of Niihau after Eliza's death. When he died in 1936 the island was inherited by his children, and today it is managed by two of his own grandsons, Keith and Bruce Robinson. Like previous members of their family, they continue to protect Niihau from disruptive modern influences and, in so doing, help to perpetuate the traditional Hawaiian way of life.

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3. No such Island in Greece!

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