TIME AND CHANGE 



islands are famous pretty, pearl-like little whorls 

 living on the largest trees, and about the size of a 

 chipping sparrow s egg, with pointed ends, variously 

 colored. There are more than two hundred species 

 on the different islands, I think, each valley having 

 varieties peculiar to itself, showing what a factor 

 isolation is in the evolution of new species. The 

 Governor and his wife, and a young man who had 

 specialized in conchology, plucked them from nearly 

 every bush and tree; but my eye, being untrained 

 in this kind of work, was very slow in finding 

 them. 



Coming down from these Hawaiian mountains 

 is like coming out of a dripping tent of clouds into 

 the clear, warm sunshine. The change is most de 

 lightful. Your clothing dries very quickly, and chil 

 liness gives place to genial warmth. And the pro 

 spects that open before you, the glimpses down 

 into these deep, yellow-green, crater-like valleys, 

 checkered with neat little Chinese farms, the pano 

 rama of the city and the sea unrolling as you come 

 down, and always Diamond Head standing guard 

 there to the east how the vision of it all lingers 

 in the memory ! 



In climbing the heights, it was always a surprise 

 to me to see the Pacific rise up as I rose, till it stood 

 up like a great blue wall there against the horizon. 

 A level plain unrolls in the same way as we mount 

 above it, but it does not produce the same illusion 

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