Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-01
Life i'm King KaIakaua-s Capital.

Horseback riding seems natural to the
Hawaiians, and they dash along streets
and roads in troops and cavalcades which
ill the air with dust and them with de-
light. The women all ride man-fash-
ion, neatly tucking their long, flowing
robes beneath them and being as bold
and expert in the saddle as their male
mates. They often ride without shoes
on their feet and have spurs attached to
their bare heels, which they use most
vigorously on their poor animals. On
market days-Saturday afternoons
there are often rs many as three or four
hundred equestrians al the fish market,
down beside the bay, in an old portion
of the city. They ride all kinds of old
nags and come from all parts of the
country and make that occasion a regu-
lar gala day.
The fair damsels generally dress in
their best bib and tucker that day, put
on hose and shoes which their liberty
loving feet abhor and abominate at home,
wear white underskirts and hats wreath
ed with flowers, or flying long red or
blue ribbons. Nearly all the men and
women wreath their hats and necks
with yellow flowers, and sometimes
with roses and a kind of berry. One
afternoon / saw 4 native woman dressed
in rich silk robes, wearing a costly hat
and kids, come to the market in ba-
rouche and get out and push her way
among the crowd with her more COM
mon sisters.
The fish market is scene of lively
excitement after four o clock, when the
Iaborers cease work and come in TO
.. I,a
market is large open shed beside the
water, and containing numerous stalls
for fish and meat, fresh and salt. All
kinds of fruit are also for sale, and when
L left-the middle of October-there
were plenty Of fine icy-mountain water
melons in the market. The fish are of
all kinds peculiar to the waters about
the islands, the mullet being the finest.
Some kinds of shrimps are brought from
the mountains done up in taro leaves.
Several thousand persons will crowd in
to the market in the space of two or
three hours. and at the end of that time
leave it bare and solitary. The bellies
and beaux may be seen among the
crowd casting sweet sly glances at each
other, amid all the excitement and bus
iness of the occasion carrying on des-
ptrale DllI3JlOlh-
The sorriest dogs ever saw are to be
seen around that market. Nothing can
equal them outside of Constantinople.
Each dog is expected 10 remain beside
its own particular stall and devour only
such offal as falls to its lot. But some
of those dogs are wandering Arabs, and
in addition to eating everything given
them by their own masters. go around
to other stalls and steal all they can lay
their mouths on; and one or two of
them have become so large and tough
that very few other dogs dare tackle
them.
The manner of eating among the Kan
akas is almost shocking to our ideas of
usage and propriety. Around the cities
and villages, and where they can get it,
they will eat meat and bread, but their
staple food is pol and raw fish. The pol
is made of the taro root with Gala
lily top, and in muddy patch, and is
pounded up fine and put into large
calabash to ferment. 1t has a rootish
taste, and is somewhat sour. The ma
tives mix it with water, and then a
whole family will squat around the cal
abash in the centre of the room.
Before eating they sometimes rinse
the fingers with water. The way l saw
a woman do this one morning was by
taking mouthful of water out of a
small calabash, then squirting it out of
her mouth over her fingers; then she
sat down, and, plunging her fingers in
tothe pol, stirred it around and thrust