This attractive lithograph was part of a set of six rare, early Hawaiian views that accompanied the account of Auguste Nicolas Vaillant's voyage to South America and Hawaii. Departing France in February 1836, Valliant's primary objective was to place diplomatic representatives in different parts of South America, but an additional unspecified objective was to smooth relations with the Hawaiian chiefs who expelled all Catholic missionaries in 1831. Although he secured tolerance for the Catholic presence in the islands, they were expelled again in 1837.

This scene depicts natives walking up the mountain path Nuuanu Pali, which is the mountain pass that separates the Honolulu and Kailua sides of Oahu, and where Kamehameha is said to have won his final battle to unite the islands under his control. Plate 46 at upper right. Engraved by Theodore Auguste Fisquet.

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Condition: B+

Print is pasted onto the sheet, apparently as issued, with a few tiny areas of bubbling in the upper portion of the image. There are a few tiny edge tears and chips, well away from the image.