New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-08-03

with smile. This Is especially true OF
the mob of curio sellers who hail you at
every corner of the dock. Many of them
speak the English quite fuently and
seem anxious to give the traveller any
Information he may desire. In the
evening we visited the aquarium. There
are about sixty different species of fish
and this aquarium is claimed to be the
finest in the world. Among the most
interesting was the devil fish, whose
name does not do him justice. He has
about twenty arms, legs, antennae or
feelers, / don't know which is correct,
and he goes through the most awful
movements imaginable. There are about
five species of eel, some fifteen kinds of
crabs, varying in size from a spider to
twenty pounds in weight. Fishes of the
most peculiar shapes. brilliant colors
and inexpensive beauty.
After visiting the aquarium, the bunch
of us went down to Waikiki beach, about
seven miles from the dock and had a
surf bath. This is one of the inviting
sports to the traveller and one of the
chief amusements of the natives. The
natives are very skilful in handling
|, themselves in the breakers and many
spend whole half days in the surf. The
beach at Waikiki is fine, the bottom is
sandy, and one may go out q half mile
without meeting with any danger.
When the "China" approached the dock,
a half dozen native lads of about fifteen
years of age swan out to meet us, and
dived down into the sea for coins which
the passengers threw out for them.
They would go down and be gone two
or three minutes and invariably brought
the coin with them. They put them into
their mouths and looked pleadingly for
more. One Of the pictures I enclose,
illustrates these boys on the shore,
ready to plunge in after the coin the
man is about to throw.
We retired about 2 a. m. and arose at
five. A party of eleven of us took a
drive up the Pail, distance of seven
miles back of the city. Pail IN the
Hawaiian language means cliff, pre-
cipice, etc. This Pail is high cliff
overlooking valley to the north.) We
climbed steadily up the gentle hillsides,
past the ancient altar, on which the
natives used to sacrifice their prisoners,
and past the battlefield where the
Hawaiians repulsed the invaders some
sixty years ago.
That the scenery is rich is not the
thing to be said about 1t. We need
travel but a few miles to see the wonder
full combinations of grandeur and beauty.
The tropical foliage can be but family
and imperfectly described. Every
variety of palm and fern grows album
dainty, the mountains are clad With
giant tree ferns, koa, and other trees.
Bananas, pineapples, cocanuts, the huge
banyan, and the tall bamboo are seen
growing along the streets. The yards
are fairly one bunch of foliage with
pathways cut between. The richness
and variety is incomprehensible to those
who have not seen it themselves. The
other and important food products are
sugar, rice, taro and sugar cane. Such
are few of my impressions, scattered
and incomplete, because of my brief
stay there.
We reached the steamboat just FIVE
minutes before it was time to start, and
left with regrets that we could stay no
longer.
just one more important point. The
United States navy is assembling and we
saw collection of Uncle Sans gun
boats. Among them were the Concord,
| Marblehead, Bennington, Iroquois, Mohi-
can, and the New York.
In crossing the International Date
Line, day was lost. We retired on
Sunday night and arose on Tuesday
morning. We had no nse for Memorial
Day way out here upon the ocean, SO
we were relieved of it. 1t is now II a.
/ N. June 2 here, at this moment it is
about 7 p. m. June i, where you are.
Another point of interest is the fact tina,
by the compass we are going directly
west, yet our course is toward the north
at az angle OF about 16 degrees. This
is due to the magnetic pole being south
of the true pole.
Today intend to tell you more abou,
the people on board. There are 169 first
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