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always on the watch for lichens, and 

 she used frequently to work among the 

 rocks on the hillsides while I was being 

 entertained in the tide pools below. 



Quite often we would eat a very 

 early breakfast, get our collecting im- 

 plements into one of the trunks, and 

 prepare to take the first train for 

 some other plantation. On the morn- 

 ing of June 2nd, for instance, our 

 destination was Aiea. At ten minutes 

 past seven we boarded the first pas- 

 senger train going towards Honolulu. 

 For a distance of eight miles the 

 road skirts the seashore and then 

 turns landwards or mauka through rice 

 and sugar plantations, Ewa Mill, 

 Waipahu, Pearl City. We reached Aiea 

 at eleven minutes past eight. Like all 

 rice fields in Hawaii, this one is 

 worked entirely by Chinamen, they 

 alone being able to endure the con- 



