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to telephone our wants to the office and 

 then, looking out of the window, per- 

 ceive a nimble Japanese servant come 

 skipping through the grounds to attend 

 to us, always in the politest and most 

 satisfactory manner possible. 



At one time we made a visit of ten 

 days on a private plantation on the 

 northeast side of Oahu, and it was with 

 the greatest difficulty that we could 

 make up our minds to leave it. After 

 finishing our work in the afternoon we 

 used to sit on the grass under the 

 coconut trees until time to go in bath- 

 ing. In the evening we had after din- 

 ner coffee on the veranda, and our host 

 read aloud, or we talked. It certainly 

 was anything but easy to do our reg- 

 ular work here. In addition to rice 

 fields and taro patches, here were all 

 sorts of fruit orchards, and a large 

 number of curious introduced plants 



