The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . hawaiiaih gossip. 33 on the miliou of indigenous growth, between the departure of one mail and the arrivalof another. The pulse of the world beats, but the Hawaiians feel it not, no doubt owingto the causes mentioned, though a good deal of this apathy is due also to the lack of mental. MONUMENT TO CAPTAIN COOK.{Ende^ at Bay, Haicaii, in 1874.) stimulus, and the indolence born of the climate. Yet Hawaiian social life is as kindlyand unaffected as soci
The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe . hawaiiaih gossip. 33 on the miliou of indigenous growth, between the departure of one mail and the arrivalof another. The pulse of the world beats, but the Hawaiians feel it not, no doubt owingto the causes mentioned, though a good deal of this apathy is due also to the lack of mental. MONUMENT TO CAPTAIN COOK.{Ende^ at Bay, Haicaii, in 1874.) stimulus, and the indolence born of the climate. Yet Hawaiian social life is as kindlyand unaffected as society in which the best American element predominates usually is,while the cheerful alohas which welcome the stranger makes him cease even to long forthe more prosaic How dye dos ? of those of his own skin and tongue. 125 84 THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. Education, Crijie, and Decay of the IIawaiians. Crime is low in the islands, and education high. A voter for a member of theLegislature must be possessed of an income of at least 75 dollars pei- annum, and be ableto read and write. Education is compulsory: there are 321 teachers, or one for everytwenty-seven children. In 1S74, out of 8,931 children between the ages of six or fifteen,8,287 were actually attending school. The school tax is heavy; for there every manbetween the age of twenty and sixty pays two dollars per annum, and there is an additionalgeneral tax
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