The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-04-12

call winter as well as in summer, the
Hawaiian devote to pleasure. In Homo
lulu baseball is Tie fad All tie islaAd
world goes to the ground ana watches
gentlemen teams play. Many of the
Young ladies in the city go to the grounds
on horseback; some riding astride IN
male fashion, but always with escorts.
Then the Hawaiian Jockey Club has
race track near Honolulu, and to it, dur
ing the racing season. the fair world and
the brown world of Hawaii go.
At all these amusements the native
band. is conspicuous feature. The band
has forty members, all natives except
the leader, who is German. The band
cost the late government $4,000 year
to support.
The native Hawaiianllivessan easy life.
His home is funny grass house, like
some gigantic hay NOV. Itssinterior is
one room. in which are a few of the
primitive articles of a modern house.
But there ismuch to admire and command
| inltheir character The natives are ami
able, honest and generous. and have GER
tainly shown themselves susceptible of
intellectual and moral elevation.
Physically, they are of good stature,
active and well made. The descendants
of the chief are usually large men and
exceed in height the average European.
All are experts in swimming, and are
good fishermen and horsemen. Fishing
is their usual mode of living.
The native women have rich olive
compilations, well-developed forms,
black, glossy hair, and large, lustrous
eyes, and many of them may be consid-
ed beautiful. They dress in gay colored
holokus, a sort of gown, and wear
wreaths, or, as they term it, leis, of
flowers.
In his food the Hawaiian native still
clings to the native fashion which be-
longs to his primitive condition. His
menu consists of poi, boiled or baked ia
70 and raw fish. Poi is sort of stew
that smells Iworse than the rankest linn
berger cheese, but which isn't so bad at
ter all to the taste. Taro is tropical
frdit, from which taro flour is made.
While the native male is making few
dollars at fishing, his spouse earns tri-
fle, too, by the lomi lomi treatment, in
which the native woman is an expert.
The term really stands for what is known
in civilization as massage, the natives
from time immemorial being experts in
its manipulation.
Although small in numbers, the
American in Hawaii "gets there'' every
time. He owns four-ffths of Hawaiian
wealth, nine tenths of her foreign COM
merce, and carries in his ship eight
tenths of her freight.
Still futher, it must be remembered
that the hawaiian islands have, byltheir
stragetic opposition, the positive control
of the commerce of the Pacific Ocean,
which will be enormously increased when
the Nicaragua Canal shall be completed.
The United States already by treaty
holds possession of the splendid Ha-
waiian harbor of Pearl River, which is
the best place to occupy until actual an
nexation is established.
Hawaii IS well equipped with newspa-
pers. There are two daily English pa
pers, and two daily Hawaiian papers,
and then there are monthly Chinese,
Portuguese, English, German and Spanish
papers, catering to the wonderful cosmo-
p Titan population that make up the
100000 souls on the island.
There are eight of these islands, which
have an area Of $40 square miles, OF
about 500 square miles larger than Con-
necticut and Rhode Island put together.
They are situated POO miles from San
Francisco, 3710 miles from Auckland,
New Zealand; 44S4 miles from Austria
liza, 344O miles from Yokohama, Japan
and 1900 miles from China.
In general character the islands are
alike. They consis. Of mountains, vol
canic in nature, scanned with yallies and
georges, with rolling plains lying between
and along the foot of the mountains.
The five principal islands are Hawaii,
from which the group is named, Maui,
oahu. Kauai, and Molukai. Honolulu
is located in Oahu.
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