Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-09

something decidedly vicious in such
 performance and who are fortunatel always disappointed. The hularhula con
 sists of series of harmless posture' made to the accompaniment ot mourn
 ful music of primitive Hawaiian instrr'
 mcnts
 During the reign of kalakaua, how ever. the Itlla-hula fell into evil days for that dissolutc monarch piled ths dancers with gin SO that their perform ances degenerated into orgies. Readers of Stevensons letters will remember this berry monarch of the Pacific who entertained the English novelist in l8S9 He IS . very intelligent fellow, wrote Stevenson. but O, Charles what crop for the drink" A month later we ind that the king has not changed his habits, for the novelist writes: "kalakara IS terrible companion; bottle of hzz Is like q glass of sherry to him; he thinks nothing of five or six in an afternoon as whct to dinner"
 The Hawaiian Is slowly but surely o7ssinp away. as are the natives of the South seas Intermarriage and disease arc the responsible causes. Not only have white men of all races taken Ha- yya;Iar wives but, so, too, have the ad70.ablc Chinese The Japanese seldom marry native women, but the industri- ous Chinauan Is apparently regarded as sr ideal husband among the lower class of Hawaiian women. He works hard is Land to h:s wife and children and docs mi ,+ternpt to drive them int the fields. .s do the men of some other nationali- ties
 Women of the wcalthier Hawaiian +.--,iIles often wed Americans -or Eu- -o,e-,s and their children have proven ,-,o-g the most useful citizens of the islands Nowhere else in the world can there be seen such remarkable fus;ons of the races.
 The Hawaiians of pure blood are su-
 o-=t;+io,,s to an extreme extent, and -I,c,, violently resent the efforts ot white 7c4, to make them change thelr ways p,-+ir,,larly true is this i'll regard to ny qIer,c for no arguments can make the 7,.;,-c oerceiye the utility of guarding -o.;,,s+ disease. He clings fondly to the +-,d;t;onal teachings of his race, that what happens was foreordained to hap oer and that nothing that he can do can prevent it. Consequently measles s,aIIDox and other diceases have swept --t-, bIiqhts over the islands until the na- -,,-o o@o,1lation has decreased from over 100000 to less than 10000 in 75 years
 like 2 croucling lien on guard Dia- -7ond Head stands warder over the md p,~.fr as does Gibraltar at the portals of the Mediterranean. The bold pro- nearly 1000 feet in height, IS 7r extinct volcano. In the dim ycster- d,,-= of history. thousands of years ago. r. --,rs+ have been one of the most anlaz- inc sDectacles in that strange world ot ire The baleful light from its srbter- rznean furnaces would have been visible for many miles out at sea had there been life on those lonely wastes of wa ter.
 But Diamond Head has been extinct far centuries; its last sullen upheaval of lava took place long before the foot ot man ever pressed upon the sands of the island. Oahu, upon which Diamond Head is located. is one of the oldest islands of the group and only on Hawaii, the youngest and largest, are there today any evidences of volcanic action.
 No tourist who visits the islands can fail to hear the story of Captain James Cook. the intrepid English explorer who ,,-as murdered by the savages of Hawaii ir l779. He first made the islands known to the European and American world, and no series of articles about Hawaii would be complete which did not describe his voyage of discovery. Two before 9 Spanish galleon had ironped its anchor of Oahu. but its ef- feet upon the history of Hawaii was precisely like that of the voyages of the Norsenen to America. Cook was the Columbus of the islands.
 While the American Revolution was flaming out in Boston, Captain Cook was drifting about the South seas on an .oochal expedition which first made znown to civilization those entrancing ands which have cast a spell over thou sands of world pilgrims England was not greatly worried over the troubles in America, for, eight days be- fore the Declaration of Independence
 
 another voyage to the South seas. For months he sailed about the archipelago of coral islets and finally turned the DOW of his ship toward the north, with he expectation of finding a northern passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic
 In January. l778. Oahu was sighted
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