Seven weeks in Hawaii, by an American girl . nted in rows about threefeet apart and ripen in from twelve to fifteen eating the fruit direct from the grove one gets aflavor unknown to the commercial product, and mycapacity for destroying fresh pineapples in greatquantities is a surprise to everybody, myself stopped at Wahiawa, situated about the center ofOahu, where we visited the plantations and countryhome of l\Ir. Thomas, who I am told made the firstexperiment in growing pineapples here, since becomeone of the two principal industries of the Islands,the other being cane
Seven weeks in Hawaii, by an American girl . nted in rows about threefeet apart and ripen in from twelve to fifteen eating the fruit direct from the grove one gets aflavor unknown to the commercial product, and mycapacity for destroying fresh pineapples in greatquantities is a surprise to everybody, myself stopped at Wahiawa, situated about the center ofOahu, where we visited the plantations and countryhome of l\Ir. Thomas, who I am told made the firstexperiment in growing pineapples here, since becomeone of the two principal industries of the Islands,the other being cane sugar. This morning we visited the Thomas pineapple can-nery, where we saw the fruit pared, cored and slicedby machinery, canned, sealed, boiled, and labeled. Itwas all very interesting, and I hope to visit the can-nery again before I leave the Islands. The handwork is done by Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguesewomen, who wear thick rubber gloves to protecttheir hands from the acid of the fruit. [i^l s i<: V E N W E E K S T N H A \Y A I I. A Liiau. VIII T AST night I attended a real luau (native feast).It was a most novel affair. The hostess was thePrincess Theresa, a niece of ex-Queen was celebrating the twenty-first birthday of herson, Robert Kalanikupuapaika Laninui Keoua Wil-cox. The father of this boy, Robert Wilcox, was thefirst delegate to Congress from the Territory ofHawaii. There were perhaps a hundred difterent kinds offood, queer and unpalatable looking. It was mostlycooked under ground, I was told, in a large hole, hotstones being heaped upon it. Their food, manner ofeating, their houses and amusements, all are so pe-culiar and foreign to us that it is with difficulty thestranger avoids an act or word which might woundtheir feelings, for the Hawaiians are a very generousand hospitable people, and would divide the lastmorsel with one. On the strength of my late arrivalI excused myself from dining. They ate entirelywith their fingers, and while the
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