The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-11
FIVE DOLLAR
PER DAY CRUISES
Continued from Page Five.)

by a cool white awning, and filled with
singing crowd of natives out on a
malanga, or pleasure party, pass
down the green lagoon, filing the air
with haunting melody.
Alas, these whaleboats charge ten
dollars to take you across the channel
from one island to another chow
homelike). as the thirty rowers must
all be- fabricated The little inter-
island steamer (the 174-ton Mauri
once owned by the u. S. s. Co, its
first boaD sometimes runs weekend
excursions to the Volcano of Savail,
the largest and most active in the
world. Two or three dollars pays for
the round trip of one hundred and
fifty miles. You are allowed to walk
eight miles up to the edge of the era
ter and look in for nothing. A guide
to carry your food and blankets costs
one dollar.
The booklet is nothing if not prac-
teal. 1t gives details of
A STAY IN SAMOA.
There is the usual choice here-a
day, probably two days, while the ship
is in port; week, and return via
Tonga to Auckland; month, and
proceed to Fiji, continuing the jour
ney; or. if coming from Australia, a
fortnight, and return via Fiji to Sgd
ney. The months stay is strongly
recommended to all who can manage
it. Samoa is country of most fas-
cinating interest, but it's charms can
not be even guessed at in the course
of one or two days hurried driving
about the port and its neighborhood;
and a fortnight is all too short to see
the best of the islands, for we must
not forget that we are in the land of
delicious idleness, and that hurry in
Samoa is as impossible as it is unde-
sirable Still, for those who can not
stop over, some kind of program
must be sketched out. For a single
as possible, select an English-speaking
guide from the number that will offer
themselves, and start sightseeing in
the neighborhood of Apia. There are
two trips to be specially recommend
ed-a short one to Robert Louis Ste
venson's house and tomb, and a long
one to the Papa ca, or Sliding Rock.
The former will probably suit the
elders best, while younger and more
enterprising travellers will enjoy to-
tally new experience and a most de-
1ightful day in the latter excursion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S
HOME.
The famous "Vailima'' is about
three-quarters of an hours drive from,
Apia, along a beautiful road shades
by tall avenues of cocoanut, bread
fruit, mango, and other splendid trop-
icaI trees.
And then follows pages of descrip-
ton, cleverly led up to, that tempts
the tourist to take a month off and
see this wonderland that is, perhaps,
within his means.
Miss Grimshaw does not neglect the
Tonga or Friendly Islands, several
days being spent here, the great
cruising steamer anchoring for day
at a time and sending its passengers
by launch and boat to visit the Won
derful ocean caves and gardens of
living coral.
Here are some
FIGURES ABOUT TONGA.
The Tongan Islands are 1897 miles
northeast of Auckland.
Situated between Is deg. and % deg. |
20 min S. latitude. and 173 deg. and /
II deg. w. longitude.
About 100 islands and islets.
Discovered in 1913 by Tasman.
Visited by Captain Cook three times, |
he last visit being in 1777.
Population about $1,000, including |
holIt go Fyur0DeanS
Religion, partly Wesleyan and partly
Provisions are rather dearer than in
he colonies, also dress goods. Houses
o rent are seldom available. but not
ostly. Native houses can be quickly
,uflt and are pleasant and healthy.
Horses are fairly cheap; so also are
,oats. Hotel charges, about seven
killings per day. About fourteen
pounds should cover the cost of a
months stay, including all expenses of
ight-seeing. IF a native house car be
lad for rent, and a native boy en-
aged as servant. the expense should |
Re a pound or two less.
Too much cannot be said in favor of
he Tongan climate. It is perhaps the
est in the Pacific. never excessively
ot nor inconveniently rainy; and for
light months in the year-April to
Jovember-dry, bright, generally warm
n the day, and so cool at night as to
ecessitate the use of blankets. A
nore perfect sanatorium for throat,
hest. rheumatic, neuralgia, or nervous
fOubles could not be found.
Then beautifully illustrated pages,
nd descriptions of the wonders to be
cen in the brief stops among these
Stands, then to conclude with these
mes that never fail to interest the
aides
The dress of Tonga is a subject worth
pecial notice, for no race in the Pa
ific displays such excellent taste in
lothing. The women are not great
ressers. and their short-sleeved tunic
f figured cotton, worn over vala or
lit that reaches a little below the
nees is not so picturesque as the long,
bose gown Of the Eastern Pacific But
he men of Tonga do themselves welI''
I the matter of clothes, wearing the |
est of cashmere valas, the handsomest |
silk or fine cotton shirts, and the
ichest of silk sashes. Their feet and
ags are bare, for cO0IneSs and also he |