The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-24
"a Lady's Trip to Hawaii"

The O1erlandi is evidently willing to give to Ha-
wall n fair share in its pages. a lady, it seems,
has now taken up the pen land, under the Inspiration
of a delicious voyage direct from San Francisco
to Hilo, and of the rougher experiences of vol
canic explorations, has given us the above named
article. We risk little, and hope to offend no
one, by assigning the authorship of this pleas
a~ntly-written and, in the main, correctly-drawn
sketch TO Mrs. Hoitt, who visited this group
about a year since.
The voyage down from the coast brought forth
rich fruit of wcll-cxprcssed sentiment, and seldom
has the state of soul on n day at sea, just hest
tating between n calm and a light. favoring
breeze, been more delightfully."- put into words
than here by one just out of the - feverish I'M
rest ~ Of California:
"The morning passes the drowsy afternoon steals on the
glorious colors Of sunset battle the lofty dome with marvellous
noois OF amethyst. gold, and crimson. From horizon 10 hori-
zon, the masses are wrapped in foLls Of royal purple, and the
atmosphere : agOw with a million brilliant tints. II is worth
much 10 one TO rest through days like these TO lie back in
your light wicker chair with the unopened book on your lap,
and n dreamy Consciousness Of rest and calm enjoyment per-
The dust Of The worlds ihronged highways is lost across
this traekless deep. The roar Of its noisy life comes not 80
far. Its evers, its pe,,iness, its chickering's, its wild unrest, its
tragic moments OF bitterness and pain, its hours of dull, inert
endurance, its sea Of human sorrow for every small bright
SI 5SP d q ana AND S ya hass m sass all P p ,ss d LSe Z laf Of a,s tTSa-
where, about, above, below, and around you is a blessed calm,
SA'An~ hC oui u uIttdsl VI IA u We mOTtdlsn must
ever more or less hunger Tor on earth.
You will do well to let yourself aoat idly with the 'silvcr-
Of a quiet like that of the lOtus-eaters on the shadowy Nile.
!. WI 1rins TO your brain The recuperation you need i viii
gamer INTO Your purposes fresh earnestness and strength for
I know the giories Of the summer on the land ; / know of
its sweet, aimless saunterinss through leaiy wood, or by breezy
npland11the pure scent Of hay. meadow and wheat field, and
the brown birds whirr, the lazy hum Of bees, the long grasses
light athwart massey tree boles, the slant of our son south
wind, the pale blue of northern skies and l know that all are
oil this tropic ocean calm"
Just so-we say. Hilo Bay is Judged of and
sketched thus:
IAN enthusiastic aimirer of these islands calls this the most
seen Rio and Naples dispute it at once. lean myself Imagine
nu1ple distance Of foot hills Sram v Viii" ~ n a, aaU Un LII 'e
Of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea- In the foreground is a dense
mass Of foliage, through which peep quaint churches and the
the beach, under which cluster rows of grass huts. and long
lines Of surf break in a silver fringe across the coral reels"
The night scene on shore is very beautifully
and feelingly described, except that unfortunately
there arc no fire-dies here, and our fair authoress
alone in the garden trusted probably too much to
her really brilliant imagination. The trip to the
and KnAUEA itself are the theme of the
main part of the article. The minutie of the
journey, and the minutie of the sights AZ the
are very well drawn, bit by bit, but there
is n failure to give the comprehensive view of the
whole. Perhaps all lady writers do so fail. In
TACT, however, every one does, when they take
great Kilauea for a subject. Just on the brink
Of the crater they must always lug in those
paltry ohelos, or the feas, or something
Of the sort. We suspect, that in order to even
attempt to give others an idea of that tremendous
OF Nature, one must do as We did
though We did not describe-walk reverently
straight to the front, then sit upon the rocky
'dge apart from all, and gaze and gaze, and lose
Ill consciousness of self-of companion-of bodily
outside world lose all i'm the allah
'orbing immensely spread out below. Not till
or weeks or even years afterward, should
'ne attempt to reproduce what is seen and felt.
There is always too much wordiness in efforts of
his sort,-too much of '' chasm,' - : : wide-yawn-
ng, " = fiery depths, " volcanic abyss &c. &c.
o coincide with the real simplicity of Nature.
However our particular article under considera-
ion reads very well and interestingly.
Have our California friends no proof-readcrs or
ya~zetteers, that such a spell as "KiLa,rea - should
'csct this piece from beginning to end? We
Iereby also state that the proper spelling of n
cry common word in volcanic literature is pa
soehoe,-not pakOihOi. The vernacular words
sed in the article are, with a few exceptions,
cry incorrectly given-betraying n most unfor-
innate degree of inaccuracy for a first class Mag
zinc.