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Title: A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Wheeler, William Webb, 1845- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Joseph, Mo., Hardman press)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ted States who wishto avoid the winters at home, and it is certainly an idealclimate for a lazy man. The highest temperature duringthe year is 84 in July and the lowest is 58 in January, only26 degrees of variation during the year. We saw great fields of banana trees. These grow,under their plan of cultivation, about ten feet high, and eachsmall tree bears one bunch of bananas. This tree is thencut down and another grown from its sprouts in ten months. We saw rice fields, and we ate the most delicious pine-apples. These do not grow on trees, but in a garden, likecabbage. They are planted in rows and grow close to theground. All the trees here are evergreen, and almost any-thing can be planted at any season of the year, and comesto harvest in a short time. The native Hawaiians are averse to labor of any kind;in fact are (by themselves) considered above work. Naturehas so favored them that very little labor is necessary to getplenty to eat, and the little that they need for clothing. II
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DATE PALMS, HONOI,UI,U. They are a kindly disposed, child-like, copper-colored race.They have a pleasant custom of placing garlands of flowers,called leis, around your neck and hat when you depart fromthem, always smiling when you say good-by, maybe becausethey are glad to see you go. At any rate as we were aboutto sail, our steamer friends, those who left the boat at thatpoint, followed the custom of the Islanders, and covered uswith wreaths and garlands of flowers when they came downto the dock to see us off. We said good-by with regret,as there will only be thirty first-class passengers now toAuckland, about one-fourth of the number the ship isprepared to carry, ^nd we shall miss our steamer friendsvery much, as it is a long voyage we now have before us. At sea February i8th. Were you ever adrift at sea,without power to direct or guide your boat? Last night,just as we were about to retire, the fusible safety plug blewout of one of our boilers, rendering the power of our shiphelples

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