The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-02-27
CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY.

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A stroll through the crooked stlects of
Honolulu has much more material and
realistic effect upon one than the romantic
aspect of its natural scenery upon the mind.
Here you have glimpse of the populace,
pure and simple, the islander and foreigner
alike, and the former is of the greater in
terest. The Hawaiian is shapely, nut
brown fellow, when young, slim, athletic
and graceful; of ma estic stride, straight as
a sapling, with large, dark, emotional eyes,
a gentle manner and cheerful, confidmg,
happy-oo-lucky expression of face. He is
the direct antpodcs of the Frisco Hoodlum
"a well-behaved, quiet, easy-@oing chap
in colored shirt, loose trousers and straw
hat wreathed about with leaves and flowers,
the brighter the better for him. He looks
out of place in a house or coat and seems
more in his element when in the water than
on dry land. Floating, diving, stemming
the waves, gaining livelihood by gathering
the products of the deep Cts sea-w2ed for
soup or jelly, its fish for baking or broil,
its shell-food for a roast) is mere child's
play to him; and, after aquatic labors done
and BEAUTIFULLY earned meal cooked and
eaten, his idly baslling i'll the comfortable
beam Of the sun to dry and digest is as i'm
proving an employment as his primitive
habits and simple island-nature crave.
He is fine fellow, indeed a little too
much of ould-bc-gentleman of leisure
for eNacting toll; a born aesthetic i'll love and
song and dance (thc luxury Of sensation),
a rather high handsome being, sensuous,
INDECENT yet impulsive, a son of sea-girt
nature, wit with a keen, shrcwd, ready
sense of the incongrultics and contradictions
of civilization, and ludicrous absurdties of
stereotyped missionaries and grotesque old
maids and dudes, together with a genuine
relish of fun.
The Hawaiian lady is a voluptuous, good
hearted, sweet-tempered, tenGer-eyed,
merry making creature q had almost written
animal, the gods forgive me y of a fascinat-
ing form and most langushing, longing,
Misunderstanding, yet demure cast of
countenance, with cnviable advantages of
physique Gin the@ay Of teeth eyes, hair
form and complexion, for the rich light
brown skin with reddish lustre of lip ard
cheek are by no means unbecoming or I'M
attractive, | am assured by others) She
has the ability as well as her sterner COM
panion of discerning the laughable side of Il
subject and cracking sly joke thereat even
at the cost OF creating an enemy of her own
sex and the Caucasian race thereby. She
must let fly the little, sharp, pheasant
feathered shaft, not lacking in satire, to the
conscious chagrin and scowling Indignation
of Uncomfortable Yankee sister, who shrewdly
suspects that the other is entirely too attlac-
tive to the staring gentleman who accom-
panies herself upon her tour Of island in
specton. But this is treading upon delicate
ground to the immaculate and invidious fair.
European education has greatly improved
and instructed the gentlcr sex of Hawaii, no
doubt but it must be confessed that it has
signally failed to cure the exuberance of
their spirits, or tame the impe,uosity of
their sentimen, or convert, them into
straightaced prgs, they whose natures are
as boisterous as the bounding pillows of
their sca-sWcpt rocks. But as | have
already said, this is sailing too close to the
wind upon very dangerous and uncertain
if inviting coast.
Honolulu, the capital, royal residence
and chief commercial city and seaport OF
Hawaii, has population of some twenty
thousand souls all told, and is the abode OF
as select and elegant a society as Washing
ton itself can boast Of Its business, too
shipping, mercantile, legal, is considerable
and increasing. This metropolis is on the
island of Oahu, which has an area of nearly
six hundred square miles There are nine
islands and several islets Of the Hawaiian
group, lying within two degrees-of latitude
the largest Of them, containing some five
thousand square miles, having upon its
biUhast mOuntain fourteen thousand feet