. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . of theWorld! The indigenous plants are the banana, plantain,cocoanut, breadfruit, ohia (native apple), sugar-cane, arrowroot, sweet potato, taro, strawberry,raspberry, and the sacred berry ohelo. The im-ported plants are lime, orange, mango, tama-rind, papaia, guava, and all edible products exceptthose named above. If prodigal in her floral gifts nature was ex-tremely chary in her bestowal of wild and domesticcreatures, and the fauna of the islands a hundredyears ago was limited to dogs, swine, mice, lizards,owls, bats
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . of theWorld! The indigenous plants are the banana, plantain,cocoanut, breadfruit, ohia (native apple), sugar-cane, arrowroot, sweet potato, taro, strawberry,raspberry, and the sacred berry ohelo. The im-ported plants are lime, orange, mango, tama-rind, papaia, guava, and all edible products exceptthose named above. If prodigal in her floral gifts nature was ex-tremely chary in her bestowal of wild and domesticcreatures, and the fauna of the islands a hundredyears ago was limited to dogs, swine, mice, lizards,owls, bats, snipe, plover, ducks, a species of geesepeculiar to the place, and a few varieties of birdsof simple song and not very brilliant plumage. Itseems probable that animal life was almost entirelylacking here when first peopled by the humanrace. The natives accounted for the remarkableuniformity and salubrity of the climate by thefollowing legendary tale of the early days of theislands: A powerful demi-god ruling over Maui, andhaving his dwelling on Haleakala, got angry be-. THE ISLAND WONDERLAND. 21 cause the sun shone every morning on the moun-tains of Hawaii before it did on his he caused to be made a huge net,which he carried one night and spread it quiteover his rival. As a result the rising sun gotentangled in the meshes of Mauis big web^ whichhad been woven so that the harder thesun tried to break away the more his rays gotmixed vip in the gauze-like structure. Mauiwatched the struggle with a merry twinkle in hiseye^ and when the sun had got tired of his futileefforts^ he offered to set him free if he wouldpromise to shine on him and Mauna Loa alike^never too hot or too cold^ and never allowing mistor cloud to obscure the favoured islands. The sunwas fain to obtain his freedom upon such easytermSj and^ agreeing to Mauis demands^ receivedhis liberty. Ever since he has bestowed hisfavour with wonderful equality on the sevenislands^ so that they have
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