. Legends of old Honolulu . XIVTHE CANOE OF THE DRAGON KOA-TREES, out of which the finest andmost enduring calabashes of the old Ha-waiians were made, grew near the oceans sandyshore. The koa-trees from which canoes werecarved and burned were, according to some wiseplan of Providence, placed on rough precipitousmountain-sides or on the ridges above precipices. The fierce winds of the mountains and the habitof bracing themselves against diflSiculties madethe canoe trees crossgrained and slow in koa was the best tree of the Hawaiian Islandsto furnish the curled, twisted, and hard-grai
. Legends of old Honolulu . XIVTHE CANOE OF THE DRAGON KOA-TREES, out of which the finest andmost enduring calabashes of the old Ha-waiians were made, grew near the oceans sandyshore. The koa-trees from which canoes werecarved and burned were, according to some wiseplan of Providence, placed on rough precipitousmountain-sides or on the ridges above precipices. The fierce winds of the mountains and the habitof bracing themselves against diflSiculties madethe canoe trees crossgrained and slow in koa was the best tree of the Hawaiian Islandsto furnish the curled, twisted, and hard-grainedwood needed in canoes which were beaten byoverwhelming surf waves, rolled over sandybeaches, or smashed against coral or lava reefs. From the time the canoe was cut in the moun-tains and was dragged and rolled over lava bedsor sent crashing down steep mountain-sides tothe time it lay worn out and conquered by thedecay of old age it was always ready to meet theroughest kind of life into which its maker andowner could forc
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