Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-08-02
SATURDAY PRESS.
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pleasant shock to be planted for the
first time in such a place as Dares, |
Salaam The disappointment IS IN
tense, when we find how far our ideal
visions appear to have exceeded the
reality The mighty forests which we
had anticipated with their gigantic and
strange trees, and their wonderful
creepcrs and parasites, are non existent
a clump Of cocoanuts here and Al
dense bush there, alone meets the eye.
No Gorgeous flowers nor graceful ferns
abound. We look in vain for the cN.
pectsd abundance OF beautiful butter
flies and strange insects, Birds seem
to be quite rare, and few command
attention Nothing seems realized but
a hot steamy atmosphere
Mr.. lngles in spirit and Work on
the Nepaul Frontier confirms the
same thought. He says "The absence
ofthose delicious smells which make a
walk through the woodlands in Eng
land so delightful is conspicuous in the
sal-forcsts, and another OF the most
noticeable features is the extreme silence,
the stiffness that reigns You know
how full of melody is an English wood
where thrush. bIackbird. mavis, linnet
and a thousand warbcrs fit from tree
to tree But ii is not thus in an In
dian forest There are actually few
birds
am sure this is very largely the ex-
perience of every traveller upon these
islands, Witnessing for the first time the
natural Developments OF tropical eli
mates. He finds here and there. noble
trees some grand belts of woods, andnow
and then, in humid forests, lush
growth of exotic abundance, and wild
beauty that satisfy his ideal But these
are exceptional. Above all is he i'm
pressed by the silence and stiffness
and can hardly believe that nature
which can give itself at times to such
luxuriance and beauty should not also
TEEN with hum and chirp and song.
The sportsman who comes with his
fowling piece laid expectantly upon
his shoulder. or the botanist who with
his Guardian case hopes for wonder
fnl trophies in our woods and by noun
tain streams will probably 90 back dis
appointed. for neither game bag nor
pressing boards will receive very abun-
dant replenishing with all their indus
trlouS search.
And then, the climate. We boast of
it as the paradise of climates of all the
world, nor without authority we think
DR. Beard, the notedScicntistand physi-
clan whose recent death in New York
city is great loss to the scientific
world, though he had never visited these
islands yet felt in their position and
conformation they took rank with the
leading health resorts Of the world, for
in advance of Southern Italy or Colo
RADIO or Southern California. In the
very midst of the Pacific Ocean, in a
latitude lifted above equatorial heats,
and with the trade winds tanning them
perpetually with their cooling breezes
with their mountain tops distilling the
clouds and sending down at night the
bracing air which counteracts the ener-
waiting warmth of the suns rays by
day with their mountain slopes giving
every variety OF climate from the palm,
nourishing temperature of the sea-level
TO the first limits OF the upper regions,
what more could seem to be asked for
or desired And yet with an average
temperature Of IS which to New
Highlander presses the perfect balminess
of a June day, the traveller finds himself
confronted with a heat almost insup-
portable He thinks he never suffered
more in London or New York when the
thermometer stood among the ninetieS.
Stepping from the steamer upon the
wharf, the iervid rays of the sun pour
vertically upon him, the ground seems
10 burn through his shoes, the
leaves CLINT and scintillate in the
furnace heated air, and every particle OF
starched linen upon his person droops
and languishes helplessly. His only
desire is to be put into the interior OF
the first conveyance TO be got, and
once within his hotel, to find the ARREST
corridor and in the ARREST of clothing
resign himself to utter Incidence and
hamilton. Why is this' Many oldres.
idents whose thin blood now responds to
variation OF one degree fahrenheit,
knows tina, for months after he took
up his abode here he could not &c,
cool, night and day his strength oozing
away as in the tipid draughts of a
steam bath. We do not attempt to ex
plain it, possibly there is a mellowing
and maturing OF climate as of every
thing else. Possibly this never in
,ermtied warmth year after year swath
ing and eniolding these shores till ever,
particle OF the crudity is eliminated
from it, becomes apparent to the
senses, q perfection OF ripeness and lns
ciousness and melting quality like the
purple ripeness of the peach which a
the lightcst touch drops from the over
hanging bough into the hand extende,
10 receive it. A culture in climate a,
in art, who knows but il may be SO ?
One more surprise awaits the strange
tourist the scarcity of tropical fruits
Whether wisely or no, he certainly die
expect to find fruit everywhere, banan.
trees lining the public streets, their lus
cious punches leaning down over hin
ready Tor the plucking, every small gar
den and cool valley stocked with orang,
trees, and bread fruit and mangoes an,
cocoa nuts and melons blocking tn,
sidewalks. Instead OF which, the ac,ua
fac, is, il he find fiui, n, ALL he mus
pay higher tot 1t than in an eastern
market. II is truth tina, oranges an,
bananas are cheaper and of better quail
ily in Boston than here in Honolulu