Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-07
City transfer Co.,
Tel 1881 James B. Love
HONOLULANs IN
Fl1f DESCRIBE
SOUTH SEA life
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walk down without tipping the canoe
over In fact the whole family some
times lives in a matched house built
out over the outrigger. The boys
use SOULS to propel their canoes, aud
the only thing that saw in Suva that
reminded me of Hawaii was the swim
ming Of the native boys. The Hawai-
ian boys are more adept at this than
are the Fijians, but the Fijian boy
will dive deeper for coin than will
the Hawaiian, and he seems to stay
under water longer; but there is no
high jumping or diving. You can see
him swimming yards below the sur
face searching or lighting for coin
that is zig-zagging its way down.
Everything ashore seemed different
from Hawaii The woody haired ma
tives, some of them with hardly any
thing on, greeted us with "Siandra,"
which means good morning. Some Of
them had a tinge OF red in their hair.
| found that this came from the fact
that every Saturday they cover their
hair with lime, and wash il OF Sum
day morning. leaving the hair bril-
liant red they greatly admire. The
Fijian man takes great pride in the
lupkeep Of his hair. II stands out in
every direction and shields him from
the sun. The women do not seem 10
think so much of their hair as do the
| men, but they too cover 1t with lime
| Just before Sunday The most strik-
ling costumes ! noticed were those of
| the: Fijian police. Dark blue coats
and navy, blue lava lavasp or skirts
| with Iscalloped edges-mys but they
we're proud. Then. too. there were
the Ceylonese men and women
dressed In the rich eolors OF India.
Suva is built on the side Of hill.
Some Of its streets are narrow and
crooked, but shady and pretty. Mr..
Ford knew the town, for he had once
liver there for month, so It didn't
| take him long to establish an agency
| for his magazine, the Mid Pacific. and
start q HaRds-Around-the Pacific Club,
| IN fact. "a new, tourist bureau was be.
ing organized by the government and
| the, chamber of commerce, so Mr..
Ford was right in his element. He
discussed matters with the different
members. Of the bureau all morning
and then we called on the governor,
Sir Buchlan Gweet-Escott, and we
| found him most pleasant governor,
ready for Joking OF business. and he
Iseemed to enjoy both. We had q
great VISIT, he promising To give us
his cooperation The new tourist bu
reau has started out with q tally-hc
auto bus, and, tourists are taken to
see the sights around Suva ct two
shillings head. But instead Of TAX
ing the bus we spent our time look
ing for native trails and native grass
houses.
in these grass houses old time Fiji
ans live who have not changed much
| IN the last hundred years. They still
wear lava lavasr which are more pic
fturesque than our sewing machine
made clothes. / think that there is
plenty for the tourist to see about
Suva but he would have to wait over
La trip as the, best sights are reached
| by the little launches and steamers
that cruise among the islands. The
inew hotel being built by the Union
ISteannship Company is almost com
pleted. When it is finished, tourists
will be urged to stop over and enjoy
the $3.50 a day inter-island trips, as
the agent of the Union Steamship Co.
| is one of the leaders Of the new tour.
list bureau and he is very proud Of
Fiji.
We spent the. whole days in Suya
and did not leave until lcke, as there
were plenty Of bananas to load for
Auckland and sydney The Niagara
| is so big that we can't feel any mo-
ton, and the table is so good that We
are all getting fat. The swimming
boys came again when we were leav-
ing, their swimming under water was
wonderful, but their stroke> wasn't
anywhere near as good as our boys
of Hawaii in the harbor and at Wal
kiki. Rerhaps, though. the new tour
list bureRu will see that some of the
boys are trained to swim fast but /
don't think they will ever touch our