HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII 



palms, with mangoes, and other tropical trees, with 

 a profusion of gorgeously colored vines and hedges, 

 with spacious, well-kept grounds about the large 

 and comfortable houses in the residential portion 

 — these features, with the ready hospitality of the 

 people, made our hearts warm towards it at once. 



Volcanic heights on all the land side look down 

 upon the city. Mount Tantalus, rising four thousand 

 feet above the sea, is just back of it, with its long 

 slopes of volcanic ash and sand now clothed by for- 

 ests and fertile fields, and a huge ancient crater 

 called the Punch Bowl, born probably on the self- 

 same day, the geologists think, as Diamond Head, 

 dominates the city in the immediate foreground. 

 If the Punch Bowl were again to overflow with the 

 fiery liquid, the city would soon go up in smoke. 

 But its bowl-like interior is now covered with grass 

 and trees, and presents a scene of the most peaceful, 

 rural character. 



The Orient and the Occident meet in Honolulu. 

 There Asia and America join hands. The main 

 features of the city are decidedly American, but the 

 people seen upon the street and at work indoors and 

 out are more than half Oriental. The native popu- 

 lation cuts only a small figure. The real workers — 

 carpenters, masons, field hands, and house ser- 

 vants — are mostly Japanese. Virtually all the 

 work of the immense sugar plantations is done by 

 the little brown men and women, while China sup^ 



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