The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-02-26
From THE Rcpubbc.

ing the Continent from Washington to Sal
Francisco by the Union Pacific inte.-ote anic
route, [ embarked at the port Of Frisco on
boardthe City of Sydney Captain Seabuy),
one of the Pacific Mail Companys fine
Australian steamers (the best sca-ships on
the route), and, after a six days voyage
upon the tranquil bosom of the broad
Pacific, with no special incident but a school
OF flying fish and Il single sail in sight, on
the evening of December Sd, at nine
o'clock, landed at the Pacific Mail Steam
ships capacious wharf in Honolulu. The
bay is safe and wide one, the anchorage
good for craft of any size, and the nealness
of the harbor to the town a great conven-
fence for the procurement of supplies and
native hands.
1t was dark when rode through dimly
lighted streets a mile or more to the IIa-
waan Hotel; | could see nothing of the
isand-capital even in outline; but drew in
the velvety air and the sweet aroma of land
and plants and rejoiced in a temperature as
mild and balmy as that of the Atlantic
States in June. A delightful, steady
blowing breeze, the trade-wind, v, ted
fragrant and refreshing odors from ga dy
flora and tropical fruit trees to my grateful
senses; the music Of guitar and song was
VII JuC 1ll Jl loSOuS, IllN llllllc cduolCC,
and Il subtle, dreamy feeling of rest and
agreeable surroundings perTaded the mind
like the soothing, insidious influences of the
lotus.
At the Hawaiian Hotel, however, the rapt
illusions of fancy ceased abruptly; the
traveller at once found himself face with
commonplace facts, an inferior supper, close
rooms, Chinese servants, insufficient lights
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national mosquito noisiy hlunmed and
swarmed, and bled one most insatiably in
full accord with the aims and principles of
the greedy habtation he so incontinently
haunted An hour of smoke and chat with
Consul Mckinley, solitary cocktail (for
lack of boon componion) afterwards, and
a prolonged reverb on the upper piazza at
the end Of all, quietly smoothed the pillow
to calm, mbrolen slumber under the ever
needful notwithstanding of but an indif-
ferent if handsome house of travel-cnter-
tainment.
1t is asserted by the natives that the first
mosquito came in with the advent of the
missionary on the island, having been brought
from New England in an old, WORKOUT
~haler which was properly condemned at
Honolulu for mseaworthiness, and slowly
went to pieces from dry rot on the adjacent
reef, some forty years ago. However this
may be- doubtless the abundant exotic
foliage luXuliantly fourishing on the islands
now amply affords to the unwelcome and
unpopular intruder welI-stoc1ed home
and harvest-field whence he nightly sarlnters
forth to serenade and solace an idle moment
with eXtorted necter drawn from living
fountains, and, like the village quack and
pettifogger, to make a general and unquali-
fled pest and nuisance of himself. SO much
for the natulalzed mosquito in Hawaii
A sunshny morning iii Honolulu (md
when is it not sunshiny and summary in
that favored latitude where there is no word
in the native language to signify cl.mate or
wemhor?) is one Of the most cxhilalant SEN
sations and spectacles to the early awakened
new-arival in the world. From the mount
ain-side OF his bedroom, if he has a window
there, he duly gazes, and sees in the per-
spective some five or six miles off, steep,
Jagged, volcanic mountains, rising to the
irregular altitude Of from thousand to
eighteen hundred feet, their sea-front clad
in gown Of varied green or russet-brown,
festooned with countless knots and bands of
richest coOrs, clusters Of fruits and flowers
growing where wild chance planted them
along the lines Of cascade-irrgated deIls
and hill-sides, and meadows where Craze
and stray white flocks with Dame Nature
only for their shepherdess.
Nearer, the suburban avenues of the
dainty town lie out along the haDnV NuuanII