. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ne-palms, slender cocoa-palms, hardypomegranates, twisted haus and widespreadingumbrella-trees, of plants and vegetables, the fan-leafed banana, tree-like plantain, giant fern,clinging azella, nutritive yam, bulburous taro^crimson strawberry, and many others, the unitedofferings of the tropical and temperate zones grow-ing side by side; with a flora that does not stopby decorating the rich alluvial deposits of the val-leys in a bewildering array of flowers and remind-ers of floAvers, but fringes the brinks of thechasms
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . ne-palms, slender cocoa-palms, hardypomegranates, twisted haus and widespreadingumbrella-trees, of plants and vegetables, the fan-leafed banana, tree-like plantain, giant fern,clinging azella, nutritive yam, bulburous taro^crimson strawberry, and many others, the unitedofferings of the tropical and temperate zones grow-ing side by side; with a flora that does not stopby decorating the rich alluvial deposits of the val-leys in a bewildering array of flowers and remind-ers of floAvers, but fringes the brinks of thechasms with the scarlet ie-ie and spans the abysswith a network of gold and bronze vines tippedwith trumpet-shaped blossoms, tints the mist ofthe waterfalls with the rainbow hues of the con-volvuli^ or crimsons with the transparent leaves ofthe ohia the fiery floods of the craters; with gor-geous vines and trailers, magenta blossoms andpassion flowers, embowering the homes of the manyraces of men living here in harmony and content-ment ; with a landscape clothed in a perpetual. i THE ISLAND WONDERLAND, 19 green, and mountain-tops floating like white andbrown islands in cloudlandj with their siunmerseas reflecting the azure of the southern skies;with its beaches of a dazzling whiteness fringedwith cocoa-palms; over all an indescribable charmof solitude and drowsy peacefulness, to him wholooks for the sunny side of nature the HawaiianIslands are the Paradise of the Pacific/ theWonderland of the World. In vivid contrast to Oahus Edenic valleys andMauis picturesque slopes rises the weather side ofHawaii, lighted by that huge lamp trimmed by nomortal hand, but kept bright against burning sunand waxing moon from tune immemorial, andoverlooked by the mountain monarch with footbathed in the sea and whitened head swathedin the clouds. Everywhere the grandeur and sub-limity of the scene strikes the beholder with wonderakin to awe. He gazes on the corrugated streamsof congealed lava, on the bro
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