Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-02-05
THE HAWAIIAN CLIMATE.
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A pARAnIsE EnR ALL SnRTs

A PARADISE FOR ALL SORTS.
spent several months in the Sandwich
Islands, six years ago, and, If could have
my way about it, l would go back there
and remain the rest of my days. 1t is
paradise for an indolent man. If man is
rich be can live expensively, and bis grand
eur will be respected as in other parts of
the earth; If he is poor he can herd with the
natives and live on next to nothing; he can
sun himself all day long under the palm
trees, and be no more troubled by his con-
science than butterfly would.
When you are in that blessed retreat, you
are safe from the turmoil of life; you browse
your days away in a long, deep dream of
peace, the past is forgotten thing, the pre-
sent is heaven, the future ycu leave to
take care Of itself. You are in the centre
of the Pacific Ocean; you are two thousand
miles from any continent; you are millions
ofmiles from the world: as far as you can
see, on any hand, the crested pillows wall
the horizon, and beyond this barrier the
wide universe is but foreign land to you,
aud barren Of interest.
THE CLIMATE is SIMPLY DELICIOUS
never cold at the sea level, and never really
too warm, for you are at the half way house
that is, twenty degrees above the equa-
tor. But then you may order your own
climate for this reason: the eight inhabited
islands are merely mountains that lift them
selves out of the sea-a group of bells, if
you please, with some (but not very mud b.
''iare" at their bases. You get the idea.
Well, you take thermometer, andmark on
it where you want the mecury to stand per-
,,,onorflu rrffh tIay
degrees variation, winter or summer. If
81 in the shade is your figure with the
privilege of going down or up or degrees
at long intervals), you build your house
down on the "fare"--the sloping or level
ground by the sea-shore-and you have the
deadest surest thing in the world on that
temperature. And such is the climate of
Honolulu, the capital of the kingdom. If
you mark 70 as your mean temperature,
you build your house on any mountain sid e
400 or 500 feet above sea level. If you
mark IS or 60, go 1900 feet higher. Ifyou
mark for Wintry weather, go on climbing
and watching your mercury. If you want
snow and ice forever and ever, and zero and
below, build on the summit ofMauna Kea,
5000 feet upin the air. If you must have
hot weather, you should build at Lahaina,
where they do not hangthe
THERMOMETER ON NAIL
because the solder might melt and the in-
strument get broken; or you should build
in the crater of Kileaua, which would be
the same as going home before your time.
You cannot find as much climate punched
together anywhere in the world as you can
In the Sandwich Islands. You may stand
on the summit Of Mauna Kes, In the midst
of snow-banks that were there before Cap
tain Cook was born, may be, aud whils you
shiver in your furs you may cast your eye
down the sweep of the mountains and tell
exactly where the frigid zone ends and veg
etable life begins; s!unted and tormented
growth of trees shades down into taller
and freer species, and that in turn, into the
full foliage and varied tints of the temper
ate zone; further down, the mere ordinary
green tone of forest washes over the edg-
es ofa broad bar of orange trees that en-
braces the mountain like belt, and is so
deep and dark green that distance makes
it black; and stilk further down, your eye
rests upon the levels of the sea-shore, where
the sugar-caDe is scorching in the SUD, and
the feathery cocoa-palm CHASING itself in
The tropical waves; and where you know
the sinful natives are lolling about in utter
nakedness and never knowing or caring
that you and your snow and your chatter
ing teeth are 30 close by. So you perceive,
you can look down upon all the climates
of t. g earth, and pote the kinds and colors
of all vegetations, just with glance of the
eye-and this glance only travels over
about three miles, as the bird flies, too.