The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-01

hogany, eucalyptus and stately palm.
The boughs are frequently fntertwined
with trailing arbutus, forming per-
feet arbor for miles. The most import
ant articles of commerce are coffee,
cochineal and indigo. There are many
extinct volcanoes and earthquakes fire.
quently occur The first impressions of
the country on landing at the port of
Champerico were. as if one had landed
on a wooded island from which there
might be nO escape. The groups at the
harbor present a very different picture
from that of our people. The dress of
the ladies' is scanty, but very bright in
color and the exposed muscular devel-
opment of the men would excite the
admiration of athletes. 1t is very re-
freshing when travelling over the coun-
try to halt at one of the coffee planta-
lions. Some of these are beautiful be-
yond description; playing fountains,
Deauuful flowers, summer houses, broad
iVerandas swung with hammocks, and
everything suggestive of life of lux
Jury, and the coffee trees themselves are
very beautiful. Young ladies' have no
freedom whatever They are never al
lowed in public without a chaperone.
Inc ladies are small and graceful, but
one rarely finds pretty face The
most beautiful woman probably the
county ever produced was Madam Bar
rios. 1t is to be hoped an era of pros
perity is approaching this country, but
now with agricultural and commercial
advantages it languishes miserably.
The third topic of the afternoon was
a continuation of the interesting study
of Hawaii given three weeks ago. Two
native HaWaiians were present and
sang very sweetly, which added much
/ to the interest of the occasion. The
first song was composed by Princess
I Ill q nj hr,f1
music. They also sang well the nation
| al song of Hawaii. The speaker re-
GREETED that in her former paper she
had tailed to make herself clearly un-
derstood regarding the formation of the
islands, and took this opportunity tc
explain more fully. The latest scien-
tlhc researches show that the islands
were probably all raised about the same
time, but each over a separate fissure
that each assure subsequently became
divided into two separate conduits, thus
forming two distinct volcanic districts
hence each island is known as a vol
canic doublet or twin. Hawaii is a
double twin. as it stands over two ifs
sures. In all the islands the most east
ierly twin is larger, showing the western
were the first to become extinct. After
this explanation the speaker told us OF
the early religion and mythology The
most essential feature of the ancient
religion was the tabre, which was q
command either to do or not to do
and meant "obey or die From the
beginning, according to the Hawaiian
belief, there existed a trinity of Gods
The story of the creation and the flooe
and Of Noah's family and the families
of the patriarchs, with other names
bear strong resemblance to the Bib
lical narrative. After this what fol
lows is purely NEUROLOGICAL. The chiefs
kings and high priests claimed line,
age distant from that of the masses
and did not intermarry with them
The people were very superstitious and
to them the land abounds in ghosts
and the water in nymphs or monsters
With almost every stream, gorge OF
mountain is connected some supernatu.
raj story. But by far the most impor.
tant and dreaded of the deities has al
ways been Prele. the Goddess of the
Volcanoes, to whom offerings are made
to this day. The manner of disposins
Iof their dead was to hide the bodies il
most inaccessible places, such as caves
i'm the lava rocks. Many curious thing.
were exhibited to illustrate the spec <
ler'S descriptions