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HAMAKUA. 



This great fertile district extends thirty miles on the 

 shore from Waipio valley to Lanpahoehoe valley, the 

 boundary of Hilo district. No seaport marks it rugged 

 coast exposed to the strong trade winds. Except in the 

 embrasures of the ravines, that empty fresh water into 

 the sea, cliffs ranging from 200 to 2000 feet high forbid 

 the beating waves to roll inland. A succession of val- 

 leys similar to Waipio greet the traveler in Hamakua. 

 This district is characterized by fine grazing lands 

 adapted to sugar cane, coffee or ramie, and towards the 

 mountain is thickly covered with timber. 



HILO DISTKICT. 

 From Laupahoehoe on the north to Puna on the 

 south extends this large and fertile district, where the 

 trade winds are neutralized by the mountains, and 

 where the rain falls in such abundance as to keep the 

 land perpetually green to the water's edge. Except at 

 Hilo Bay, the coast is composed of bold bluff cliffs from 

 a hundred to upwards of 1000 feet high; these are 

 higher on the north and the pali, at Laupahoehoe, is a 

 remarkable one. Suddenly the traveler rides on to a 

 point, where the road ends on the face of a cliff, above 

 a beach where three rows of big, combing breakers 

 constantly beat against the shore. If he comes un- 

 warned the chances favor an instant retreat ; for the 

 slip of the rock or a false motion would precipitate 

 horse and rider over a pali of 1500 or 1800 feet into a 

 foaming bed of surf and rocks beneath. Close to the 

 sea, with a narrow sand fringe on its more sheltered 

 side, in a cocoa-nut grove, lies Laupahoehoe village. 



