The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1901-01-25
rI1E PARTING SCENE
~ incidents OF the Return
Trip from Honolulu.

m. Fas the time set for leaving Homo
lid Grea, interest and enthusiasm
wt,isaniiesl by the native Saints dur
inelhe day, aud by 4 O'Clock hundreds
ofiem had gathered at the docks aux.
Iooit Awaiting the arrival Of their hon
oreif'ies,s. The government band Of
abo|i thirty pieces vas alec present.
Aipt 1850, when Prest. Cannon and
pay srrived, and he aligh,sd from hi.
esfhfe, over twenty elderly women snd
litfs girls rushed up and literally
wsihed him down with leis twreAths)
OTIS most beautiful flowers and irsg.
rsnleyergreen' placed around his neck,
seps attending down to hisknses. Hav.
Inglhns literally covered him, they most
prohssly bedseked all the rect Of tho
por,. can scarcely make a compar.
isos The appearance Of the men, but
thssomen looked like fairy queens on
a Ny Bay Festival. The hand. shaking
witifwo or three hundred Hawaiian
fris,ls Is an ordeal that only ends when
thesparaliOn actually takes place, as it
10 upslly repeated a number Of times
wllieseh individual.
hiastth parting scene with the liza.
wahi,' Saints BY tho Elders who have
bssllabsring among them as they are
atol 70 return TO their homes, cannot
bea.eribedio those who have never
sxpfencedit, and especially on this &C.
cash, when eonGdinE. hearted
ADD hoapitable people were saying
Aha NUT ior the last time, perhaps,
In @rtslity to the man they had 30
honged and revecd during his vlsit To
then again, after an absence Of Gity
rpmptly aie O'Clock the ships moor
lac we're loosened aud the noble
~ d&,F gommfrcea Ia .-iugyel
fiv6 ~ s,Asri into the barber amid
hundress Of shouts OF "AIoha nui
ouiou"snd De swSe. strains Of music
aslhe band plred "Auld Lang Zine"
: Seeming on. into the open sea. We
soon rounded diamond Head and were
: pn,inE through the Molokai ehAnne
with Oahua on cur left and the islandI
I Of nolokai, Lanai and Mani In view OF
outright and calm. smooth sea. Al
4 thsPassengers were on the upper decl
A sdriring the picturesque headlAnds O
b D,inond Head. KokoheAd and Kokopu
4 exact eralers, as we passed them Il
Y tuu but short distance away. o.
q passing the latter Of these prominen
a lans marks the ship steersd direct ic
A sarFraneiseo. As night came on III
# skywas clear and the air balny.
IN we At gazing at those "Gems OF III
Paehe" and saw their shores gradual
shining beneath the western horizon,
saidIo Mrs CluG: "Ma, this 10 II
fourth time have bid farewell TO tho
beautiful Islands in the last iorty-s
yeaH. wonder II shall ever zee the
agAhf'
. lat alone upon the deck long after 4
- the ahers had retired to their sta
roon', In addition to the full brig
mooi, millions Of twinkling stars seem,
tovhWith the moon in Illuminating III
- beauiiul tropical sky. The Large
, lAndd Hawaii, with its two high yc
= canit mountains, should have be
- sighted until 9o'cloek. but Pele (Godds
Of the volcanoes) had enshronIed the
:" withi dense mantle Of ioggy vapor,
"Kihnea" and "MaunAloA" are slur
bsrilg since their recent eruption.
. One by one the faint outlines Of oah
= Mol'Eai aud LAM had disappeared fro
view while the highlands OF East Ma
:. fials'kala thouse Of the sum were, n,
" o'clock still iAintly visible. AtlIt
the last dim outline became extinct.
After thus long and lonely watehir
- many thoughts and reflections pass
Il through my mind. In fact review
l. my i'nrnsyinEs and LAHORE during t
: the past iorty.six years on those 9
Il chanied Islands passed before me
IS vivid panorama. My first arrival tn,
d over lor'y''ix years ago, when m,
g youth wi'hou. experience ia the wa
y Of the wcTld-A stranger in a strau
"A land unable to either understand
" speak " word of tho language Of t
s'raDSs people-unaccuHtomed to th,