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country, Japan, and believed that their loyalty was primarily due 
to her. Dr. Gregory believed that those of the younger generation 
were entirely sincere in their attachment to the.United States and 
said that they had an organization for the express purpose of 
fostering this loyalty. He regarded the Portuguese as the most 
troublesome element in the population; many of them have been 
brought in as laborers on the plantations, and do not amalgamate 
with the other races. 
I could not help thinking of an incident that occurred during 
my former visit to the Island of Kaui. We passed a native hut 
whose occupants had allowed a family of Portuguese to camp in 
their door yard. A few weeks afterward we passed the place 
again and saw that the Portuguese were occupying the house 
while the natives were camped out in the yard. 
There is an interesting parallelism between the bird and human 
populations in Oahu. The pestiferous English sparrow from 
America and the equally aggressive ‘‘minah birds’’ from India had 
almost driven out the native Hawaiian birds from a large part of 
the island. A similar disaster is under way regarding the native 
people. The whites from Europe and the United States, and the 
Chinese and Japanese from the Orient have met here in mid 
Pacific where the fine and really generous Hawaiians seem doomed 
to extinction between the upper and nether millstones of superior 
civilizations. 
A number of our scientific friends accompanied us down to the 
dock and, after the beautiful Hawaiian custom, bedecked us with 
exquisite ‘‘leis’’ or necklaces of brilliant flowers in such profusion 
that we were fairly eclipsed. Thus ended a day that none of us 
is likely to forget and we boarded the ‘‘Niagara’’ impressed and 
immensely pleased with the unbounded kindness and lavish hos- 
pitality of our friends of Honolulu. 
We passed out of the harbor as the sun was low on the horizon 
and gazed somewhat wistfully on the jagged purple hills of one 
of the most beautiful of all tropical islands. The Southern Cross 
came out in the velvety blackness of the swiftly enfolding night 
and we thought that the last link that bound us to the land we 
loved had been severed, that henceforth we would meet with 
strangers only, with the sole exception of our good friend, Colonial 
Seeretary Fell, of Fiji. 
When we went down to dinner a transformation had occurred 
that showed that we were in the tropies at last. The officers and 
