Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-08-27
AN EARTHLY PARADISE.
THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS A PERPcT-
UAL GARDEN OF EDEN.

Sir Eu"th arnold so DcsCriDrS the
Kingdom of Liliuokalani- Beauty
Lnvishiy Bestowed by Nature-Trop-
icol Scenery on Islands of the Pacif
Ocean.
1t is good to be able to date letter
from Paradise. Would you like to know
its exact locality? You must sail south
of west for 2,100 miles from San Fran
cisco, or south of east 3 400 miles from
Yokohama, and then you will arrive az
the beautiful Hawaiian Islands, where
we are anchored at present, bound tt
Yokohama. We are to-day safely ar.
rived under the green and golden hills OF
Oahu, the northernmost of the Sand
wich group. Even from the sea the
view is charming and full of promise of
these delightful islands; none the less Sc
if, us is my own case, the voyager has
recently traversed by rail the $500 miles
of mainly unlovely scenery between New
York and San Francisco. coming by
:hose dreary, drab wildernesses of Texas,
Arizona and New Mexico, and has then
steamed for u week without any thing to
look at except rolling seas and driving
clouds OF course, therefore, we have
passed every available hour of our deten-
lion here ashore, and seen enough to
wonder why people dwell in the bitter
intitudes of London and New York,
Ahrn ey might breathe the heavenly
al: of these ocean paradises, and live in
The perpetual garden of Eden which ma
.ure has laid out for her happiest chill
drer in their holows and uplands.
had imagined the Hawaiian cluster
10 be composed of densely wooded islets
and isles, with dark foliage spread all
over the plains and climbing to rounded
hills. But | see a broken land much
more open and varied than my antici-
patton; the low lands rather bare of
trees and vegetation, the uplands ascend
ing by slopes tinted with the tender green
Of coming crops to volcanic sierra, very
ragged, naked and majestic in outline,
scanned and fssured with innumerable
slens, each nursing gradually dimin-
ishing ribbon of verdant embroidery.
At one extremity of the long crescent in
which Honolulu nestles amid her groves
Of coooanut palms and bananas, rises
preciptously the yellow and red steep of
diamond Head, and on the other ranges
into far distance lofty line of peaks.
lifted from the bottom of the sea by some
ancient and stupendous telluric spasm.
The golden Sierra fades away into ridge
af rose and violets against the horizon.
where the sapphire of the Pacific blends
with the turquoise of the sky. The
northeast trade wind which was blowing
Il iy ita h,rt off
from our anchorage by those lofty noun
tains, rising to 4, 900 feet of elevation and
upward, SO that the good ship Belgic
rides quietly outside the reef to a single
cable The channel is narrow by which
the quiet inner harbor is reached and we
shall not enter, but there is plenty of
water there, as is evidenced by the
United States steamer Charleston, an
iron clad of the second class, which is
moored within under the very plumes of
the cocoanut groves.
Honolulu, from the sea, looks like o
smaller town than she really is, being so
much buried in groves and gardens; nor,
indeed, at biggest does she number more
than $4,000 citizens, the entire island con-
tanning no more than 81, 1914 inhabitants
and the Mhole group about $4,000. OF
these about 35, 900 are natives, IS 600
Chinese, 5000 japanese and 5000 Portu-
2ese; the American residents totaling
1923 and the English 1,344. There are,
beside, over 1000 Germans scattered
about the group, and 900 other foreign
ers, more or less, including 70 French
men-a mixed population, amid which
the indigenous Kanaka race, which welt
deserved to be perpetuated, is, ALAS
sadly and steadily decreasing. That
this paradise of the Pacific is not with
out its drawback the voyager is griev-
ously reminded as he approaches Da
mond Head round into the anchorage
of Honolulu. Broad on the port side OF
the ship, about thirty miles from the lit
tie city, Mololsai rises fair and fertile
from the ocean-the Island of Lepcrs
beautiful enough to be fitting "purga
tory" to the paradise" beyond.-Lop.
don Telegraph.