The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-12-31
Correspondence Of the Pacific Commercial Aavsrti.er
Sketelles by " 2heelinks."

Are you traveller. Perhaps you You are
perhaps great traveller You have. perhaps, boiled
eggs in the basin Of the great Geyser. and held your
nose. if i. should happen that this conspicuous and
useful OF the human face divine is Of con-
spcuous proportions. within the grasp Of your hand.
keep il from freezing; perhaps you have bathed in
the brmy waves Of the Dead Sea, picking yourself
down for your own especial preservation. la Capt.
Lynch; you have travelled perhaps through the Rocky
Mountains smoking yourself in wigwams to preserve
your lungs against asthma and consumption; you
have travelled perhaps in those palaces propelled by
steam'' on the ." busum' Of the father Of rivers,'
where you imbibed iced juleps sitting explosive
boiler decks, with your feet hanging the railing
and your head reclining angle of As. listening
to instructive discourses the game of seven up,
dreaming nightly sweet dreams Of being blown sky
high and landing in the most uncomfortable and
Inag ginable places, having your body per-
forated in the most shocking manner by Arkansas
tOothpcks- IL so, you are undeniabiy greut
traveller. Perhaps you imagine that you have tested
all the delights Of travel' What presumption
There is species of travel yet left for your expert
ence and for your " store house Of pleasant memo
ries" unknown to you My advice is to enter imme-
dately upon course Of these most delightful Of all
traves-inter- island travel You have travelled in
the old world and in the world, and will very
likely some Of these days take notion travel to
unknown worlds and worlds come, but by all
means travel first in the Hawaiian world. Hawaiian
world Why not have s. world Of own We
are certainly entitled to il by neither belonging to
the old world the world, nor the world to
come, any other kind of world, with perhaps the
exception Of the Insect World. And there is such |
charm and such delight in travelling ones own
world. from shore to shore from STAR that it
iau g. r.
sake Of the future historian in the chronicles of the
Commercial .4drertiser Ny own experiences are SO
very limited that would by means attempt to
give a sketch Of the pleasures of travel, but our
mutual friend Pheelinks, who only lately entered
upon what he calls the pursuit of knowledge under
difficulties" which means inter island travel, is per-
hctIy able to give a vivid description: but having had
serious accident to bis what he calls scribbng
finger, by woundng the said digit with q mulet
bone while eating poi and raw fish with '' ye a.
tyves in experimenting the digestive powers, has
engaged me amanuesis set down in ' black and
white (his words) his experiences. l write
under the dictation of Pheelinks himself. You know
rheslinks well frum his numerous writings, that
further Introduction is unnecessary
You know, my boy" says Pheelinks. (P. always
calls me his boy when animated "-,y phlanthropc
ambition, my search after knowledge I concluded
ing the continents of Kauai, Maui, Hawaii, Niihau
and Lanai. am in search of information, bound to
make new discoveries for the benefit of mankind and
'ae inhabitants Of this world Of in especial. I
sn hanmering at rocks. am picking up all sorts of
Peooes. dig holes into mountain sides, and have
"enee washing the dirt of the rivers till yet. with
u' any other results than making dirty water, but
nope yet to discover veins of the precious oro per-
uApe diamonds Why not. ask you. am correct in
Ny p0ilanthropic views, do you assent, (Of course
i'eeniedD am anxious to deveope the agricultural
SOurces 10 the utmost extent. I shall yet succeed
. 17'ng selEbaking beans, in making sugar from
"e 'ops and leaves Of the cane, by which process
e 'aan 2l5 per cent. will be added to the produc-
's power Of our glorious common country, and ,
:" nov engaged to invent apparatus by which sugar
Oe Manufactured without fuel or fire, by gas
De propose to you to take 'phd'' on the sue
TINS most glorious enterprise" We phidded
su sngaged passage p. continued, his features
,h irOm the warmth Of his noble feelings after
n,nng phid, a. in Honolulu, the metropolis the
Cen, ., our world, board of those magni6-
-.s; pacAets, called coasters.'' stipulated simply
Dassage, being you know, my boy, very
wy pretensions. The hour of departure
there for dss;;ely o'clock. L was most
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