The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-02-20

played by blowing through it
with the nose.
Fort Street is the Broadway
OF Honolulu. From it branch
OFT numerous streets leading to
the right and left. One thing
is peculiar in Honolulu. No
regard is paid to the points of
the compass. The terms mil
ka1 toward the sea, or manka
toward the mountain are used.
Eva means on the right and
n1a1kIki for the left. Thus the
Hawaiian is on the n1anka side
OF Hotel street eva of Richard
street. | am told that these
terms are used in surveying
lands. There is not a street
laid out or a house built with
any regard to the cardinal
points of the compass.
While wandering in the sub
urbs of the city I came in
sight of a field of what at first
seemed corn. "Green corn in
November" I thought. at is
not possible"
Determined to investigate,
entered the field and came up
on tall, broad-leaved vegetation
which was a puzzle to me. /
hailed an intelligent-looking
Hawaiian and asked:
will you tell me what kind
of vegetation this is?"
He looked sad, shook his
head, and, with a noise like a
squirrel eating hickory nuts,
passed on. The next specimen
of the genus homo was an hon
est-looking Chinaman.
"My celestial friend, can you
pronounce the name of this
vegetation?"
mo saveh!' ohm sighed and
passed on. / was growing al
most desperate in my bewilder-
ment, when a dark-visaged son
of Italy appeared.
81 beg your pardon, stranger,
but can you inform me if that
rank vegetation is a field of ex-
aggerated horseradish, or some
species of tropical melon?'
With a look of contempt he
answered:
"Sat re banan!'
The mystery was solved at
last. / remembered then hav-
ing seen large banana trees in
some of the yards, but without
knowing what they were.
The next morning I awoke to
find it raining, but in the after
noon the skies became clear.
The streets in Honolulu are
not as we'll paved and drained
as they might be. After rain
they present fully as bad an
appearance as do the thorough
fares of New York, Chicago, OF
St. Louis. Some streets are
paved with a sort of a cement
resembling asphalt, but many
are not paved at all. After {
rain the heat seems doubly in
tense, for a disagreeable steam
arises which makes one sigh
for the good old days in Hawai-
when people did not wear
clothes. The discomfort last'
only a short time, however
The streets dry quickly, ant
a gentle cooling breeze fans
the heated face.
lust back of the city of Hon
olulu a mountain rears it
head several hundred feet il
the air. From some sup
posed resemblance to that ar
ticle the mountain is calle'
the Punch Bowl. Tourists in
variably scale it's lofty heights
from which a grand bird's-eye
view may be obtained OF tn
city, bay, shipping, and who'll
surrounding country.
Like all other tourists | de
ternined to pay the Puncl
Bowl visit, and as | learne'
that many tourists had walke'
to it's heighths, l set out on
morning on foot. AS left tn
city and entered upon the lon!
winding road which leads III
to the dizzy heighth, many Q
the busy little Japs and Chi
nese cast curious glances a
me, and from the vine-clad cot
tages along the way [ caugh
occasional glimpses of dark
eyed maidens peeping shyl..
forth from trellised vines.
At last, wearied with travel