HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII 



English literature vocal in the air there above these 

 alien scenes. Presently another went up, and tlieu 

 another, and still another, the singers behaving 

 in everj^ respect as they do by the Avon and the 

 Tweed, and for a moment I seemed to be breathing 

 the air that Wordsworth and Shellev breathed. 



If our excursion had taken us only to the island 

 of Oahu and its beautiful city, it would have been 

 eminently worth while, but the last week in May we 

 took what is called the inter-island trip, a six days* 

 voyage among the various islands, when we visited 

 the great extinct crater of Haleakala on Maui, and 

 the active volcano Kilauea on Hawaii. It is a voy- 

 age over several rough channels in a small steamer, 

 and my friends said, **If you have not yet paid 

 tribute to Neptune, you will pay it now." But I did 

 not. My companions were prostrated, but I see 

 Neptune respects age, and my slumbers were undis- 

 turbed. A wireless message had gone to Mr. Aiken, 

 on the island of Maui, to meet us with his auto- 

 mobile in the morning at the landing at Kahului. 

 We were taken to the shore on a lighter, along with 

 the horses and cargo, and there found our new 

 friend awaiting us. 



The great mountain of Haleakala rose up in a long 

 line against the sky on the left, and the deeply 

 eroded and canoned mountains of the older, or west, 

 end of the island on our right. Toward the latter our 

 guide took us. It was a pleasant spin along the good 



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