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atmosphere about them is pervadsd with
the sink aninr ndnr of the dead


the sickening odor of the dead.
Food and clothing are shipped to them
+ from Honolulu and distributed by
themselves, the stronger waiting on
the weaker The Hawaiian government
may be doing its best to stamp out the
disease, but failing to furnish a resident
physician on the island with medicines to
at least smooth the journey of these poor
Iunfortunates TO the grave, is very obvl-
Gus reproach on their system Of isola-
ton.
To this climate cannot be charged this
Iloathsome and fatal disease, but to the re-
suit of specific poison that enters the
system either by Inheritance or by local
incubation. The very temperature pre-
walls on the islands that is most condu-
Give to health and long life. And the
temperature between day and night is
ALWAYS perceptible; the nights are invari
ably comfortably cool. A hot day is never
known on these islands; the thermometer
ranges from 60 to so degrees, and the per-
petual breeze from the sea renders the
cir always pure. However, any degree
of temperature can be attained on this
island from the equatorial so degrees
Fair. to the frigid temperature Of peg
snow remains during the entire year. On
| the seaboard the climate is even and in
vigorating, and must prove eminently
eligible to persons suffering with catarrhal
and bronchial affections, and to those who
are predisposed to consumption.
This district Of kona is about twenty
miles square, and is one OF the most de-
Eghtful spots to be found on the whole
g II Tho nj al n ic q lyonct
perfect from the equability of the tenn
perature, purity of the air, and balmy
breeZes from the sea. Tropical fruits are
here in abundance and mature as well as
in any part of the world. The great
bread-fruit tree stands sixty feet high;
the trunk three feet in diameter; Its
branches covering an area of a
hundred feet and yielding tons of
delicious fruit. Coffee and orange
groves cover acres and acres Of land, and
pine apples and bananas are growing
like weeds.
1t is not to be wondered at that the
native people OF these islands have the
greatest contempt for manual labor.
Nature furnishes them living without
the "sweat OF the brow" All the fruits
and vegetables, not only of the torrid but
of the temperate zones, grow here and
almost without cultivation. The yam,
sweet potato, rice and sugar cane are all
indigenous and growing in great abund
ance. Added to their already generous
supply of food from the natural produc-
ton Of the land they have also beef for
almost nothing, the mountains and for
ests are the resort of thousands of wild
cattle.
Existence for traveller among these
strange people is unclogged and easy,
a small income goes a long way and life
is simple, and would be enjoyable, only
for the lack of the companionshlp
of friends. Dwelling with nature here
in this endless summer and endless sun
shine is akin to perpetual joy, or to re-
cline in the dense shade of the man.
moth bread tree or under the feathery
leaved tamarack and breathe the air per-
fumed with the orange, the roses, the
fuchsias and other sweet plants puts one
in frame of mind to think of nothing,
but to simply inhale sensations of pleas
ure.
These native people have never devol-
oped any agricultural interests, depend
ing mainly on the natural products of the
soil, but American capital has reached
some of the islands within the last five
wears and has been interested largely IN
raising sugar cane. There are now on
the group of islands between sixty and
seventy sugar plantations, of 1000 acres
each, and good available land can be OBJ
tanned for half as many more.
But these islands are simply mountains
rising from the sea, and but q COM
paratively small portion of the surface
of the land is level and suitable for sugar
raising; the valleys are narrow and the
mountain slopes are cut up by broad
gulches and deep gorges. The cultiva-
ton of this product is confined entirely to
the seaboard, where the soil is rich and
where there are convenient landings and
ports for expectation. Large capital has
been successfully invested in this enter
prise, chiefly by Americans, within the
last few years. The expectation of sugar
from the islands to the United States in
1881 amounted to $4,000 tons. H.