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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