The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-29
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as much for the meat, which is tough
and eaten too soon after killing. Nearly
all of the fruits, grains and vegetables
will grow here in one altitude or an
other. In a word, these islands will
produce almost anything.
The natives have musical voices and
are nearly all fine singers.
For the present at least these islands
are not the place for our people from
the States who have little or no capital.
The sugar industry dominates every
thing and with the need of artificial ir-
rigation and great mills, it runs into
millions. Small farmers would have
hard time. Prices at hotels are much
the same as with us.
BEAUTY OF HAWAII.
The Hawaiian Islands are too beau
tiful for the application of English adj
jectives. They assume the usual form
of their volcanic origin. mountains with
maximum of 1900 feet sloping grace
fully to the sea, save where rent into
gullies, assures and crevasses by storm
torrents which generally pass away as
rapidly as they arise. They are cloth
ed to their SUBMITS with perennial YER
dure varying with climate and altitude
from the extremely tropical to that of
the temperate zone. There are many
graceful waterfalls fed from regions of
perpetual ice and snow in Maui and
Hawaii where the ocean has converted
the shores into precipiceS on the wind
ward sides. The foot hills, plains and
slopes between mountain and sea are
of great fertility; most of the flora and
fruits of the tropics and many of the
temperate zone; many birds; edible salt
waterfish of all colors and plenty of
them; indeed, the birds of paradise pale
in color before the fish OF these islands;
pheasants, quail, pigeon and wild hogs
and goats and deer in plenty for the
sportsman; picturesque people amid
music and flowers, no storms and no
ice but perpetual sunshine, save the
quiet passing of the shower which with
us in season and with them ever, makes
sweeter the breath of "June's fresh
greenness.'
1t has been my fortune, in d life devo-
ted to travel during all possible leisure,
many years of which have been spent
in foreign countries, to gaze upon
earth's choicest scenes. L need not
+ speak Of Europe, for most know it we'll
enough, and it's mountain and lake
scenery is so different that it is not
comparable. To my mind, there is moth
ing in the Mediterranean, Aegean or
Black Seas so charming and beautiful
mot even the isles of Greece" and
the spring and winter climate of all
those seas is cold and damp While the
extremes of temperature in the Hawaii
an islands are so to 80 degrees and
either extreme is rare. In physical fea-
lures Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor and
the Nile are not beautiful. Save in the
mountains there is little scenery in
Mexico or South America. The islands
of the Caribbean Archipelago are in
deed beautiful, but the people! the de-
generacy! the filth and disease! and
when ''northers' strike you there. you
can we'll enough imagine you are en-
during a nor easter in Boston.
In the Hawaiian islands wherever the
winds come from and at whatever sea-
son, they are rs balmy as those of Cey-
lon, if not as spicy; all seasons are
summer and health and cleanliness are
/ the rule; there is little of either the
laxity in morals or in the rules of san
itation here which prevails in so many
of the other island countries.
| 1 came here with a serious case Of
asthma and bronchitis which stay in
| San Francisco had only aggravated, and
! it practically disappeared in a week.
/ From my windows I see in the offing
| across the iridescent, sunlit waters, the
! ship which in few hours will carry me
10 the wonders of the Orient, to which
I look forward as TO a dream. Shall
| trow mott