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masted schooner which still makes the passage between Oregon 

 and Honolulu with lumber and sugar. The other, the Tusitala, 

 Captain Barker, out of New York. This full-rigged ship is about 

 the last of such to sail under the American flag. 



A Chinese Woman at Work on a Pl^antation in Hawaii 

 These enormous sugar-estates have been built up with the help of imported labor. 



The Tusitala left harbor about an hour behind us on the same 

 course. We were all eager for a trial of speed with her. With 

 her towering three masts and her enormous spread of canvas 

 (including the almost obsolete studdingsails), we had expected 

 to be left far behind. But her heavy cargo was too great a 

 handicap and by sunset only her rose-tinted skysails were visible 

 over the horizon in our wake. 



