The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-02-02

ant and laughing. This pleasantness
seems characteristic of the whole people
the kindest hearted people in all the
world one missionary said who had
known them for years, but like children
in thought and speech. They are easy
going and utterly unconscious of those
feelings which lie at the foundation of
modesty and chastity. They have no
forethought, do not take care of them
selves. and are rapidly diminishing un-
der the combined influence of the vices
and diseases of civilization and their
own carelessness and encouragement
when things seem to go against them.
Some OF them, however, are superior to
the rest and occupy subordinate Offices
and positions of trust. 1t is quite evil
dent that as separate race their days are
numbered = only about 1900 are now
left,-that they will amalgamate with the
other races, American, English, German.
Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese. who
have found their way to their island.
A long row of sheds along the wharves
shuts out sight of the town but over
the shed roofs can be seen the tumbled
tops Of the mountains that lie back of
the city.
Our three or four hundred Chinese
who occupied the stern of the ship were
not allowed to go ashore, but their coun
trymen came in throngs to the wharf
to trade sugar-cane, oranges, bananas.
mangoes, taro, lily roots and vegetables,
which were of fine quality and surpris-
ingly cheap in price. Ropes were thrown
aboard on which baskets travelled back
and forth effecting the exchange.
Drive Through the CITY.
A slim, erect, dark eyed man, alert and
vigorous. and with pleasant smile,
dressed in white duck, soon came ON
board and inquired after all the mission
aries. This was Rev. Mr.. Damon, a son
of old Father Damon" as he is called
by everybody. now dead, but for many
years missionary and pastor of one of
the leading churches in Honolulu. He
| hoo SOlhO W uA ohSO AOi thO tOo
to hire bus together and see as much
of the city and its neighborhood as posi-
BILE in short time and at an expense in
keeping with the supposed length of
a missionarys purse.
| Mr.. Damon was unable to personally
accompany us, but Mrs Gulick wife of
| Rev. DIR. Gulick, whose home was and is
in Honolulu but who had spent 20 years
as Congregational Missionaries in Japan,
accompanied US and pointed out objects
| of interest on the way.
We drove from $50 A. M till 1890.
| The streets of Honolulu are very narrow
in the business part of town and the
| buildings are mostly red brick with here
and there one of stone. None are over
two stories high and they look much
| like the business blocks of New Eng
land town Of 40 or so years ago. Some
of the streets leading out through the
residence portion were wider, straight,
smooth and hard, bordered on each side
by pretty homes, setting back in the
yards and half hidden from the street
by palms, flowers and tropical shrub.
berry.
| The Air of the Tropics.
Although it was the 18th of December,
the airswas like that of fresh June
morning in New England and continued
80 even in the middle of the day. though
perhaps+slightly warmer. We drove by
the public buildings, on King st. and
Beretania St., to Queen Emma's Hospi-
tai and Oalm College at Punahon poo
ma ho) where we had few minutes call
with an old friend who is professor of
history and of the fine arts and received
tidings of Mrs. Edith johnson one of our
Santa Cruz Universalists, who is teach
ing on the island of Hilo, days voyage
away. We drove to Waikiki the cele-
brated bathing beach and the Lunalilo
Park and then back again through the
city to the steamer.
On our way we saw the banana fields
with both the forming and the ripening
fruit and the groves of cocoanut palm
about as big around as six inch stove
pipe, with their bare stems 60, 70 and so
feet long, twisted into grotesque shapes
by the sea winds, or where sheltered,
running up straight with a clump of
leaves at the top and one or two clusters
of two or three nuts each in their round
cornered tragonal green shucks, 8 to II
inches long and 5 to s inches through.
What American boy has not longed to
see bananas, oranges and coacoa nuts
growing? have seen them all. But one
of the most beautiful sights is the rows
of ornamental palms, whose stately col
umns straight and of perfect proportions,
rising from the ground. swelling, then
diminishing and swelling again at the
top then diminishing just again as they
burst into fountain of spreading palm
leaves, makes one of the most symmetri-
cal forms that can be imagined. These
line many of the roadways leading to resi-.
dences and public buildings. Many of
the flowers that are regarded in America
as rare exotics here line the roadways
or are regarded as pestiferous weeds