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HAWAIIAN GUIDE BOOK. 



ISLAND OF MAUL 



This island consists of two lofty mountain masses, 

 separated by a sand isthmus from sis to ten miles in 

 length and six miles wide from the northern shore to 

 Maalaea Bay. Eastern Maui consists of the plains, 

 slopes, precipices and canyons of Haleakala (House of 

 the Sun) 10,030 feet high. West Maui mountains, 

 though not so high, are moi^e inaccessibly mountainous, 

 do not comprise so large a quantity of fine, arable land, 

 and on the whole are more picturesque than is East 

 Maui, unless the windward district be an exception. 



LAHAINA. 



Ten hours' steaming from Honolulu brings us to La- 

 haina, the islands of Molokai and Lanai having been 

 passed during the night. This town is the capital of 

 Maui, and residence of the governor of the island and 

 other executive officers. It is built in a grove of cocoa- 

 nut, breadfruit, mango, tamarind, orange and other 

 trees, which grow to the very ocean verge, whose rocky 

 shore and sandy beach are ever fringed by the foam of 

 the playful breakers that often rise into lofty rollers, 

 the terror of any landing boat, but glorious playthings 

 of the daring surf riders, many of whom live here and 

 are frequently seen sporting in the breakers. For two 

 miles along the coast the white dwellings seem to grow 



