The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-01-17


55 or 60, go 1,5OO feet hi CHER.
you mark for wintry weather, 90 {
climbing and watch your mercur
If you want snow and ice forev
land ever, and zero and below, bui
on the summit of Mauna Kea, 16,O
feet in the air. IF you must hay
hot weather build at Lahaina, whel
they do not hang the thermometC
on a nail because the solder migl
melt and the instrument get broker
or you should build in the crater {
Kileaur, which would be the sam
as going home before your tim
You cannot find as much climat
punched together anywhere in th
world as you can in the Sandwic
Islands. You may stand on the sum
| NIT of Mauna Kea, and in the mids
of snowbanks that were there befor
Captain Cook was born, maybe, ant
while you shiVer in your furs yol
may cast your eye down the sWeel
of the mountain side and tell exact
| ly where the frigid zone ends anC
vegetable life begins; stunted anC
tormented growth of trees shadel
down into q taller and ,freer species
and that in turn to the full foliage
and varied tints of the temperate
zone; further down, the more ordi
nary green tone of a forest washes
over the edge of broad bar of or
ange trees that embraces the mount
ain like belt, and is so deep and
dark a green that distance makes il
black; and still further down you
eye rests upon the levels of the sea-
shore, where the sugascane is seorch.
ing in the sun, and the featnery
cocoa-palm CHASING itself in the
tropical waves; and where you know
the sinful natives are lolling about
in utter nakedness and never know
ing or caring that you and your snow
and your chattering teeth are so
close by. So you perceive, you can
look down upon all the climates of
the earth, and note the kinds and
colors of all the negotiations, just
with a glance of the eye-and this
glance only travels over about three
miles as the bird flies, too.
ABOUT THE NATIVES.
The natives of the islands num-
Der only about $4,000, and the
whites about 1900, chiefly Ameri-
cans. According TO Capt. Cook, the
natives numbered 100000 less than
hundred years ago. But the ira
ders brought labor and fancy diseas-
es-in other words, long, deliberate,
infallible destruction and the mis-
sionaries brought the means of grace
and got them ready. So the two ra-
ces are working along harmoniously
and anybody who knows anything
about figures can tell you exactly
when the last Kanaka will be in Alb
raham's bosom and his islands in
the hands of the whites. It is the
same as calculating an eclipse-if
you get started right, you cannot
miss it. For nearly century the
natives have been keeping up ratio
about three births to five deaths,
and you can see what that must re-
suit in. No doubt in fifty years a
Kanaka will be a curiosity in his
own land, and as an investment will
be superior to a circus.
I am truly sorry that these peo-
pie are dying out, for they are about
the most interesting savages there
are, Their language is soft and mu-
sical, it has not a Kissing sound in
it and all their words end with a
vowel. They would call Jim Fisk
Jimmy Fikki, for they will even do
violence to a proper name if it
CRATES too harshly in its natural
state. The Italian is raspy and dis
agreeable compared to the Hawai-
ian tongue.
The people used to go naked, but |
,he missionaries broke that up; In |
ihe towns the men wear clothing
now, and in the country a plug hat
md breech- -clout; or if they have
they put on a shirt collar
md vest. Nothing br religion
md education could have wrought
,hese- admirable changes. The wo-
nen wear single loose calico gown
hat falls without break from neck
o heels.
In the old time, to speak plainly,
here was absolutely no bar to the
commerce of the sexes. To refuse
he solicitations of a stranger was
egarded as a contemplate thing for
girl or woman to do; but the
have so bitterly fought
his thing that they have succeeded
It least in driving it out of sight
nd now it exists only in reality, not
n name.
These natives are the simplest,the
,indest- t-hearted, the most unselfish
that bear the image of the
Iaker. Where white influence has
lot changed them, they will make
ny chance stranger welcome, and
ivide their all with him-a trait
Ghich has never existed among any
ther people, perhaps. They live
My for to day; tomorrow is a
hing which does not enter into their II
l had a native youth 8
4 nv employ in Honolulu, a gradu-
te of missionary college, and he
ivided his time between translating !
he Greek Testament and taking !
are of piece of property of mine 4
Ihich l considered a horse. When !
yer this boy could collect his wsg-
s, he would go and lay out the en- i
ire amount, all the way up from if-
Y cents to dollar, in pOi which is !
paste made of the taro root, and is !
he national dish J, and call in all the r
ative ragamuffins that came along
} help him eat it. And there, in 4
he rich grass, under Tie tamsrind i
,ees, the gentle savages would sit 3
nd gorge till all was gone. My d
oy would go hungry and content c
)r a day OF two, and then some Ke- .
aka he probably had never seen be-
IRE would invite him to a similar f
,ast and give him a fresh start. n
CIRCUS, MORAL, AND RELIGIOUS AS C
PECTS.. Q
The ancient religion was only a B
lmble of curious superstitlons. t
he shark seems to have been the q