The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-10-17
Congressman G. Mondell
Talks of Hawaii.
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ton concerning the Hawaiian Islands,
Mr.. Mondell having become very IA
miliar with Uncle Sans new posses
sions on his recent trip TO them. In
answer TO an Interrogation as TO his
opinion of the Islanus. he said:
What do ! think Of the Hawaiian
Islands? ! think IL there 10 a land
more delightful. beautiful and enjoy
able. IL must be beyond the vale
cannot imagine a more perfect region
In this mundane sphere. From the
time your steamer. passing Diamond
Head. reveals the rugged outlines Of
the mountain ranges Of Oahu, the long |
sweeping curve Of the beach Of " al
kiki. with the graceful eocosnut palms
bending dreamily over u, the sunnt
valleys widening TO the coast. and the |
yerdure-embowered villas In the su-
burbs of Honolulu. you are under the
mystic charm and spell Of these sirens
Of the Pcaific; and your stay, be IL
long or brief. IL a continual delight, a
novel experience Of never Tagging In
terest The perfect climate; the see
merry. charming, picturesque, sublime;
the people, kindly. courteous, bospi-
table; all contribute 10 make So
journ In tbese isles Of encbsntmeDt an
experience never 10 DE forgotten and
which one cannot but hope to repeat.
For those whose lives have been spent
in regions where Mother Earth dis
penses her bOunties sparingly and
somewhat grndgingly, where the en-
j6yment Of the most perfect day may
a. Il IA - Ifs.xx
blasts to follow. the first experience In
the tropics IN particularly charming.
Wherever the necessary moisture
IL present nature seems riOtously ex-
trayagant In the abundance Of her
gifts. and challenges interest and adj
miration with the endless variety and
beautiful and novel forms Of vegetable
life; and I'm Hawaii one enjoys the
beauty and luxuriance Of the tropics
in a climate well nigh perfect; attired
in the creamy linen and snowy duck
which you have always admired but
avoided at home through fears Of cbiils
and attendant ills. constantly famed
by the balmy but refreshing and ever
faithful trade winds from on the north
ocean. you drink In the delights OF q
tropical cline. free from all thoughts
VI oVpsrSlps anu buoy I'D
under the inyigoratiBg influences Of a
September morning on the Laramie
plains. Dame Nature Is as variable In
some respects here, however, as she IL
wont TO be elsewhere; TO the windward
side OF the Islands the ever constant
trade winds bring the treasures Of
moisture from across the broad Pacific
and waiting them over the ascending
cir condition al HIt-
mildly: not torrential, devastating
downpours. but lightly falling. sim
mering showers. which illustrate what
keeping at thing In moderate way
will accomplish; for these showers,
which chase each other across the
landscape, with intervening periods Of
brilliant sunshine. only occasionally
developing into vigorous dowBpOur.
succeed In depositing from i've 10
twelve feet OF water per annum. Hay-
ing accomplished this beneficeBt SER
vice from the protecting coral reefs TO
the mountain heights which. at an al
titude Of from five to fourteen thou
sand feet. form the backbone Of the
Islands. the clouds pass high over the
leeward slopes, only occasionally and
begrudgingly granting the parched
hillsides refreshing shower. gener-
ally leaving them as dry, parched and
destitute OF vegetation as typical cen
trail Wyoming hillside In August.
From the luxuriant coffee and sugar
plantations IN the Olaa district Of Ha-
wall, to the sparsely grassed, cactus
covered cattle ranches In the Kona
district OF the same Island, Is found
the entire range OF conditions from
moist luXuriance 10 arid poverty, and
these two points are no further apart
than Cheyenne and Laramie; 10 travel
on an air line from one to the other
would render necessary the hewiDg Of
ones way through miles Of almost i'm
penetrable tropical jungle. where mon
5trous paras!tis vines. with their my
Rad arms fold the giant trees In the
deathlike embrace; where the tree
fern rears Its leafy crown high above
the tangled stems OF wild bananas and
countless forms Of gorgeOusly hued un'
dergrOwth; up and across the rough
and Jagged beds OF former lava flows
through thinning vegetation and OyeI
barren rocks ascending the slope 81
MauDa I.Oa, past Its mighty crater and
snowclad crest, nearly fifteen thousand
feet above the level Of the blue Pacific
which rolls It's long swells on eithel
hand, and thence down the parcbed
rugged and scantily grassed slopes 90
the lee shore Of the Island.
There must be some virtue in III.
balmy cline ~ these Islands IA softer
and tone down the stern and auster,
side ~ human nature for The SHAPED!
formed aud brishi-eyed people VIII,
have oerupled them from lime lmme
mortal are almost universally soft
spoken, kindly ana courteous rae,
generous 20 fault, ana the Caucasian
sb0 has adopted ~ his Own Tbs Ian
~ the HAWAIIAN seems 10 haze ~
qplre1 10 aD upnsual degree these phsI
arisllsllrf ~ The brown brother,
Npliii ~ kinapess. DlnfinODEnpss an
bVsplialli, pelfpdes me land aD
nysb lbs laeliDrD ANA s0mber AalslI
has yielded w lls universal lnlDnn,
und ID susle aud o0urinons A0gbel
~ earth N n stranger made ~ III
more thoroughly ~ homD, and lloI
lbs nIsi hsayiS aloha ~ sploome ~
~ laden WITH fiaslani nnd beaullf