. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . has changed only, since those halcyon 205 206 THE PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC. days of royalty and commerce^ in a backwardcourse^ and like Mount Eka, which long since lostits fiery vigour^ it has gone to sleep. But thisslumber is now being broken by the sugar in-dustry, which is rapidly giving a new life to theantiquated place, proving over and again how thefickle hand of business guides the destiny of townsas well as men. But the stop of the steamer isshort here, and we leave the old town in itsdreams—
. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . has changed only, since those halcyon 205 206 THE PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC. days of royalty and commerce^ in a backwardcourse^ and like Mount Eka, which long since lostits fiery vigour^ it has gone to sleep. But thisslumber is now being broken by the sugar in-dustry, which is rapidly giving a new life to theantiquated place, proving over and again how thefickle hand of business guides the destiny of townsas well as men. But the stop of the steamer isshort here, and we leave the old town in itsdreams— Where the wave tumbles,Where the reef rumbles,Where the sea sweeps,Under bending palm branches. Where the hills smoulder. Where the plains smoke,Where the peaks shoulder The clouds like a yoke;Where the dear isleHas a charm to beguile,As she lays in the lapOf the sea that enfolds her. Leaving Lahaina, the steamer coasts along thesouthern shore, soon passing under the lee of thewestern highlands, presenting a landscape thatcannot be excelled by any other in the PICTUBESQUE MAUL 207 overtopped by Mount Eka wrapped in its lavacloak^ grim and silent^ thence across the wateryinlet which nearly makes two of the island. Keep-ing close in to the shore of East Maui, where themountains protect the coast from the trade-winds,the dreary little village of Ulupalakua is those who wish to make a trip to Haleakala, The House of the Sun/ leave the ten thousand feet into the air, and havinga crater thirty miles in circumference, this ex-hausted monster, with a pit 2,700 feet deep, isalmost capable of swallowing Vesuvius entire,while from its interior rise cones of scoriae toheights which dwarf St. Pauls Cathedral. Thepoetical Stoddard declared that a trip to its summitwas ^^a horseback journey to heaven, whileanother, less pleased with the result, turns away,declaring that ^4t should be called the Tomb, andnot the House of the Sun, and that volcanoes haveno
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