A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . rds my friends half the pleasure to read this narrative that itgave me to make the trip, then my object in publishing this little book isaccomplished. Yours sincerely, W. \V. Wheeler. A GLIMPSE OF THE ISLES OF THE PACIFIC When Cohimbiis left Spain to discover America, nodoubt he knew as much about what he would find, as wedid when we sailed out of the San Francisco Golden Gate,on our voyage around the great Pacific Ocean via NewZealand and Australia to China and Japan. On February7th, 1907, our party consisting of my wife, daughter andself, left Frisco,
A glimpse of the isles of the Pacific . rds my friends half the pleasure to read this narrative that itgave me to make the trip, then my object in publishing this little book isaccomplished. Yours sincerely, W. \V. Wheeler. A GLIMPSE OF THE ISLES OF THE PACIFIC When Cohimbiis left Spain to discover America, nodoubt he knew as much about what he would find, as wedid when we sailed out of the San Francisco Golden Gate,on our voyage around the great Pacific Ocean via NewZealand and Australia to China and Japan. On February7th, 1907, our party consisting of my wife, daughter andself, left Frisco, on board the S. S. Sierra, of OceanicSteamship Company Line (sometimes called the SprecklesLine) (Captain H. C. Houdlette, commander), a ship ofabout 6000 tons, which is large for the Pacific Ocean trade,but would be called small for the Atlantic. We carriedsixty-six first cabin passengers and thirty-six second cabin,besides a cargo of general merchandise. The crew consistedof two hundred and sixty-four officers and men— ROYAI, PAI^M avenue;, H0N0I, HONOLULU. After a fair voyage of six days, we landed at Honolulu,Hawaiian Islands, where, much to our regret, about half ofthe first-class passengers left us, among whom we hadformed some very pleasant acquaintances. We went to theHotel Young for the night and breakfast, then took aWhite Steamer Automobile to see the city. Much to oursurprise, we found it quite up to date. They have apopulation of 43,000 made up of native Hawaiians,Americans, English, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and afew from nearly all other nations. There are several fine hotels here, the Capitol building,the Palace of Ex-Queen Liliuokalani. many blocks of storebuildings, several hospitals, also many fine mansionssurrounded by tropical gardens, being the homes of sugarplanters. These fine places usually cover a full block ormore, the lawns having a great variety of palms, bananatrees, and all the most beautiful trees and flowers, whichgrow
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