The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-14

After a call upon Governor Carter, descendant of the third generation from missionary stock, we visited the aqua rum. When we noticed on the print ed program that we were scheduled TOT a visit to this place 1t did not impress us as possessing special interest, but we had not been in the building long before we were all roaring with laugh ter at the remarkable specimens Of the finny tribe here collected.
 Language cannot do this subject jus tjce. No words can accurately portray what one here sees. The fish are odd in shape and have all the hues of the rainbow. The tints are laid on as If with brush and yet no painter could initiate these-shall we call them pie lures in water color? Some were long and slim; some short and thick. One had a forehead like a wedge another had d very blunt nose. Some looked like thin slabs of pearl with rides cent tints; others had quills like a DOT cupine. One otherwise respectable looking little fellow had a long nose upon the end of which was fiery glow which made him look like an old toper; another of a deep peacock blue had nose for all the world like stick of indigo, which it wiggled as 1t swan.
 There were convict fish with stripes like those worn in penitentiaries, and of these there were all sizes; some moving slowly and solemnly like hard ened criminals and others sporting about as if enjoying their first taste of wrong doing One variety wore what looked like an orange colored rib bon tied just above the tail; the color was so like the popular flower Of Ha- waii that we were not surprised to find that the fish was called the lei. In one | tank the fish had a habit Of resting upon the rocks; they would brace themselves with their fins and watch the passers by. At one time two were perched side by side and recalled the l familiar picture of Raphaels Cherubs. l Besides the fishes there were crabs of several varieties, all brilliant in color; one called the hermit crab had COW l ering like velvet with as delicate | pattern as ever came from the loom. And, then, there was the octopus with the under side of it's arms lined with ] valve-like mouths. It was hiding under the rocks, and when the attendant poked it out with a stick it darkened the water with an inky fluid. recalling the use made of the subsidized Amer
 ican newspapers by the trusts when attacked.
 No visitor to Honolulu should fail to see the aquarium. Every effort to transport these nSh nave thus lhT idiieu and to enjoy the dudes, clowns and criminals of fishdom one must see them in their native waters.
 The tour of the island closed with a
 trip to the beach and a ride in the suri
 boats. The native boat is long. mar
 row. deep canoe. steadied by log tas
 tened at both ends to the boat, an5
 floating about ten feet from the side
 These canoes will hold six or sever
 persons and are propelled by orawny
 armed natives Our party clad them
 selves in bathing suits ana. nIlinE
 three canoes, were rowed out som'
 distance from tho shore. The natives
 expert at this sport. watch for larg'
 wave and signal each other when the!
 see one approaching, and lheh' wN'
 their big round paddles, they star
 their canoes toward the land. AS tl
 wave raises the stern of the canoe
 they bend to their work the purpoS
 being to keep the canoe on the IoIWat' .a.
 slope of the wave. It IS an eAciIIlls e-l.u experience to ride thus, with 'he sPIa'
 breaking over one while the caho l, flies along before the wave. Soille ,III,s tliie
 the boatmen are too slow and the way,
 sweeps under the canoe ana IS soWhe W but as a rule they know just now iSS sS to work. and there Is great rNAIly Oo
 tween the surf riders when t"O