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Title: The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands (electronic resource)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Browne, George Waldo, 1851-1930
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Publisher: Boston, D. Estes & Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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the Paligave the spot such a tragic interest. Next to Honolulu, the most important towns on the island are Kanehoe, at the foot of the Pali, the largest village on Windward Oahu, and consider-ably cooler than at the capital city; Waianae, nestling at the base of the mountains in a narrow valley on the southwest coast; Waialua, a large and prosperous village at the north end of the plain of that name; and last, but not least. Pearl City, nineteen miles from Honolulu by rail, and the rival of that fair city in its beautiful setting of tropical verdure. This town, founded by the Oahu Land and Railroad Company, and belted on the north by a fertile strip of level land extending back to Ewa Plains, now famous for the big Ewa sugar plantation, stands on a peninsula which extends into the harbour that may be considered the best in the world as soon as it has been properly dredged. It was here the United States secured such valuable rights in 1875. Pearl City has long been a favourite resort for boating, bath-
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ski; IKS OK ( .\S( AD VISTAS OF OAHiJ. 195 ing, and fishings and is destined to rival its sister only twelve miles distant by water line. Above all else^ this place and Honolulu lend to the Hawaiian Islands their real value as a possession to any country. Already the rapid increase of population on the Pacific slopes of America has set the tide of navigation toward that shore; with the United States controlling the Philippines and the Nicaragua Canal a reality, who can foretell the vast amount of ocean traffic in this direction ?However great its growth or mighty its power^Hawaii will still remain, as it is to-day, the one great strategic point and half-way station between the continents, the arbiter that shall control and guide the commerce of the Northern Pacific. With her important interests at home and abroad, her capital will soon be not only Mistress of the Pacific, but Empress of the maritime world. CHAPTER XV. GRIM MOLOKAI. I HE Garden of Eden had its serpent, and a shadow fell across the

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