Clayton Cambra is “fascinated by ugly creatures.” So when the 65-year-old Honokaa resident spotted a huge centipede scurrying about in a wooded area behindhis home, he did what someone fascinated by ugly creatures would do. He captured the venomous arthropodwith a bucket.

On Sept. 30, 1878, the S.S. Priscilla, a three-masted wooden sailing ship, arrived in Honolulu Harbor from Funchal, Madeira, after 116 days at sea. The Priscilla, a German barque, carried precious cargo — Hawaii’s first Portuguese immigrant families, who came to work on the sugar plantations as contract laborers.