The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-08-07

treaty, or OF annexation, the lands Of the Sand
wien Islands viii OF course advance 10 a high
hgure; and purchasers at present prices even il
they had to wait five or ten years, would find
that they made an excellent investment. There
- n liberal disposition among large landholders
IN the islands to hold out inducements TO inteli-
gent settlers, and to sell small farms o. one hun
dred, two hundred or three hundred acres on ad-
vantageous terms.
WORKING ANIMALS,
horses, cattle and implements would be furnished
at small cost and on time. Credit for a years
subsistence and for implements could be obtained
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS
can be procured In Honolulu as cheap as in New
York or Boston. There are houses which have
large consignments Of every well-known and i'm
proved agricultural implement. The Kanakas
are becoming intelligent farmers, and want the
latest improved and best plow or hoe in
They are shrewd judges of good tools, and they
test the qualities of iron with scrutiny and
good Judgment that astonishes foreigners.
KASAxAs' LOVE OF IRON.
The Kanakas Of Hawaii were not all absorbed
IN wonder when they first saw the English and
their ships They were shrewder sayages than
any that Cook had met before. They heeded use
more than glitter. They cared more for iron
than for all the other riches and wonders of the
ships. They priced iron like Spartans Scy-
thians. They seemed to be born for an iron age.
Beads, and glass, and tinsel, that won the hearts
of other naked people, were no more to the Ka-
nakas than the shells on their shores. They
wanted only iron in exchange for their pigs and
yams. They had some scrap of the precious
metal, seen by Cook when first he arrived; these
were got whence and how nobody knows; but it
Is most likely from some fragment of wreck
hOated to their shores; and fOated, perhaps,
from the shores of California-even as in our
day, large timber logs. with sawnill's iron at
tached, have found their way from the American
coast to Lanai. They were cOyetous of every iron
scrap; piece of hoop or spike was more priced
than a gold lace coat or n cooked hat. They
would give hog, bOat-lOad of bread fruit,
pile of yams, or a dog, n girl for an old nail.
They were for use; they wanted the sharp edge
to scoop the canoe, and the sharp point to pierce
the fish. There never were such savages for the
main chance 1t was iron then, as gold now.
You could not tempt the kanaka in the days of
Cook out of his substance with baubles, no more
than you can the modern kanaka out of bis
homestead with vanities and fipperies. Cook
dazzled them with the wonders OF his ships, and
scared them with the thunder of his guns and
the marves of his fireworks yet, when they
asked favor il always iron- They shrewdly
thought, Give us iron and we shall be gods as
they are. They wondered but they appreciated
the main secret cause of their wonder. They
said that il iron that made the white men
gods and that destroyed their own. And when
they OF their own thought and motion destroyed
their stone and wooden idols, it is probable they
would still have worshipped had they found an
iron god, which naught they had could pierce, or
bruise or break. When Captain Wallis offered
To Polynesian girl choice of gOld silver or iron
nails, she chose the latter.
THE KASAKA's BANJO.
You win find every Kanaka with his plow, or
hoe. or 90, (small spade, same as the blubber
spade Of the whalers y axe, or adze, or other
tool, of the very best temper, and kept in prime
state of efficiency. The kanaka loves his iron
tool, like the negro does banjo In this respect
the kanakas much resemble the Dayaks of Bor-
neo, the Malays Of Sumatra, and the natives of
iron tool, and never for deadly weapon.
LABOR.
The kanaka Is willing to labor, and works |
well but he prefers job work to regular hire |
He will make many sacrifices for the sake of per-
sonai independence. However, many planters, |
especially certain humane cOnciliatory men, can /
employ all the Kanakas they want ut eight dol |
lars per month and found or ten and twelve |
dollars per month, and the laborer feeds himself |
As the food of the laborer costs less than one
cent. per pound. he usually prefers to find him
self. The Kanaka is a good plantation laborer-
one OF tie best for the tropics His country fur
nishes him n living easily, he would never be
tempted to hire to work u plantation, were he
not ambitious and anxious to buy "a fine frame
house and luxuries for his family. There is no
chance or excuse for pauperism in the Sandwich
Islands and this afiiuence of means of subsis-
teFce has kept the most Of natives of the islands
S6t of the labor market, and has caused the for
sign planters to seek the help of coolies of China
and Japan.