. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. the island sun-shine, converted into golden sequins and strung onstems of malachite and hung on a graceful tree. Rivaling this tree, the Bougainvilea vine, climbingsome of the largest trees and covering their sidesand tops with rich purple or scarlet blossoms, yieldsa prodigality of color, which the sunshowers from thehills cause to glisten like gems of a crown. Looking up the avenue, which, after a mile or twoof level ground, rises gently toward the mountains,one sees the green sides of distant hills, above whichmists and clouds continual
. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. the island sun-shine, converted into golden sequins and strung onstems of malachite and hung on a graceful tree. Rivaling this tree, the Bougainvilea vine, climbingsome of the largest trees and covering their sidesand tops with rich purple or scarlet blossoms, yieldsa prodigality of color, which the sunshowers from thehills cause to glisten like gems of a crown. Looking up the avenue, which, after a mile or twoof level ground, rises gently toward the mountains,one sees the green sides of distant hills, above whichmists and clouds continually hang, sending downlight showers to the valleys, and furnishing the spar-kling water, collected in reservoirs and conveyed inpipes, to the residences and fountains of the showers are so frequent and so refreshing thatthe people hardly notice them. A stranger in Hono-lulu asked a passer-by how to find a certain resi-dence : Oh, said the man, you see those twoshowers. Well, pass by both of them and there you are. 24 HAWAi: AND ITS A VISIT TO HONOLULU. 25 We perhaps hire rooms in one of the houses of thisbeautiful Nuuanu Avenue, near the dwellings of theolder American inhabitants, who are the merchants,bankers, lawyers, and some of the notables of Honolulu,and from our veranda, called here a Imiai^ we beginto observe more carefully the sights and sounds aroundus. The clear, warm, bracing atmosphere is a luxury; inthe area of our dwelling the broad leaves of the bananacover the ripening bunches of yellow and reddish , plumeria, and hibiscus bloom in the front garden ;the mango tree hangs full of luscious clusters, and thefroads of the palms cast shadows at our feet. It is a place for dreams, and yet amid the novelsights we cannot close our eyes. Along the road, be-yond the ditch, shadowed with drooping taro leaves,a few yards away, gallop the natives who hardly for-get that they once owned all these islands by right ofinheritance. A Chinaman from th
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