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esting palms. This view shows one of the flues in which sugar 

 cane is floated down from the plantations. This gives you an 

 idea of the streets of Kilo. A drive of thirty miles from Kilo 

 brings one to the volcano of Kilauea. Along the road is the 

 most wonderful vegetation, including Dixsonias, Brazilian Tree 

 Ferns and Begonias. 



Col. Sacket, from the west of London, has recently bought a 

 coffee plantation here. Coffee at present is sold for sixteen 

 cents a pound, and would pay very well at half that price. At 

 the end of three years a tree will yield three or four pounds of 

 coffee. There is an enormous rainfall, but the rain is at once 

 absorbed because of the dryness of the earth. Coffee is never 

 Si'own below a height of fifteen hundred feet, and suji^ar is never 

 grown above this height. 



This shows a vine which infests the trees, and finally kills them, 

 and is only limited in growth by the height of the tree. 



Above three hundred feet peaches, carrots, parsnips and pears 

 can be grown. 



This view shows a volcano mine which overlooks one of the 

 most wonderful craters in the world. 



The temperature here never goes above ninety degrees, and 

 l)elow fifty degrees, but on the mountains there is found snow 

 iind ice. The temperature is inffuenced by the Japan current. 



This is a section of the surface of a crater. It is three miles 

 long and eighty-two and a half miles wide. There has not 

 been an eruption for eight years. It is only active towards the 

 centre. The lava is very beautiful, being blue, gray, purple 

 and crimson. Vegetation starts up quickly over the lava. 

 This shows a picture of lilies which are very common here. 

 They can be grown at any time in the year, January, Ai)ril, 

 July, or October. 



There is no question but that the possession of these islands 

 would be of great value to this country. The Japanese were 

 very anxious to get possession of Hawaii. Opinions may differ 

 regarding the Phillipine Islands, but we have nothing to regret 

 so far as the annexation of the ILiwaiian Islands are concerned. 



