. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. and also, for those born since 1840, onability to read and write. The nobles and representa-tives were to sit and vote together in one constitution continued in force for twenty-threeyears. Among the notable events of this reign of nine yearswas the measure, passed January 3, 1865, which sepa-rated the lepers and provided isolated establishmentsand hospitals for them. This disease is popularly sup-posed to have been brought first to the islands by aChinaman. It was first observed in 1853, and in 1864it had begun to spread rapi


. Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm. and also, for those born since 1840, onability to read and write. The nobles and representa-tives were to sit and vote together in one constitution continued in force for twenty-threeyears. Among the notable events of this reign of nine yearswas the measure, passed January 3, 1865, which sepa-rated the lepers and provided isolated establishmentsand hospitals for them. This disease is popularly sup-posed to have been brought first to the islands by aChinaman. It was first observed in 1853, and in 1864it had begun to spread rapidly. The present site of the leper settlement on the islandof Molokai was purchased soon after. It is on a penin-1 Story of Hawaii by Hawaiis Queen. 274 HAWAII AND ITS PEOPLE. sula, jutting out from the northern coast of Molokai,(see the Map), and surrounded on three sides by aboisterous sea, and on the other side by steep preci-pices, two or three thousand feet in height, which arealmost inaccessible. When the writer visited the settlement, with the. LEPER SETTLEMENT, MOLOKAI. Hawaiian Board of Health, in 1894, he was surprisedto find magnificent scenery, the giant crags in statelyarray on the south, a white sand beach to the north,and many charming nooks in the vicinity of the twovillages where the lepers reside. There are ten oreleven hundred of these people, old and young, on the PRINCE LOT. 275 peninsula; they own among them about eight hundredhorses; they have formed two brass bands, and it issaid that natives sometimes feign to have the diseasethat they may share the gratuitious rations and privi-leges allowed by the government to the dwellers at thesettlement. There are hospitals, schools, a YoungMens Christian Association, Protestant and Catholicchurches, with devoted priests, sisters, pastors, andattendants. But it must be added that the natives as a generalthing dread the necessity of this forced isolation fromtheir homes, although in some cases healthy relativesare


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