TIME AND CHANGE 



our ship soon found its way, and the monotony of 

 the vast, unpeopled sea was quickly succeeded by 

 human scenes of the most varied and animated 

 character, not the least novel of which were the 

 swarms of half-amphibious native boys who sur- 

 rounded the vessel as she lay at the wharf, and 

 with brown, upturned faces and beckoning hands 

 tempted the passengers to toss dimes into the 

 water. As the coins struck the surface they would 

 dive with the ease and quickness of seals, and seize 

 the silver apparently before it had gone a yard 

 toward the bottom. Holding the coins up to view 

 between the thumb and finger, they would slip 

 them into their mouths and solicit more. 



On shore we were greeted with the music of the 

 Royal Hawaiian Band, and a motley crowd of 

 Hawaiians, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and 

 Americans, bearing colored Zm, or wreaths of 

 flowers, which they waved at friends on board, and 

 with which they bedecked them as soon as they 

 came off the gangplank. It was a Babel of tongues 

 in which the strange, vowel-choked language of the 

 Hawaiians was conspicuous. 



Honolulu is a beautiful cit3^ clean, bright, well 

 ordered, and well appointed, — electric lights, good 

 streets, electric cars, fine hotels and clubs, excel- 

 lent fire protection, mountain water, libraries, parks, 

 handsome buildings, attractive homes, — in fact, all 

 that we boast of in our home cities. Embosomed in 



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