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maka (friend) steps forward with the six dollars bail, 

 which, they willingly forfeit. 



The holiday enjoyment is not confined to the natives. 

 Here is a group of mechanics, American, English and 

 German, good specimens of the restless race who pene- 

 trate to the ends of the earth, garments toil stained 

 possibly, bnt with pleasant faces and the dollars jingling 

 in their pockets. There come groups of the mixed race, 

 offspring of intermarriage of foreigners with natives. 

 They possess the traits of the two races, speak Eng- 

 lish as well as Hawaiian, and form a most important 

 and rapidly increasing part of the population. A few 

 more years may find them masters of the land, as the 

 natives are fast passing away. Yonder whirls a mer- 

 chant, with his London or New York turn out and his 

 imported nag. His week's work too is done, and bid- 

 ding adieu to ledgers and bills of exchange, he seeks 

 the free.air of JSuuanu or the plains of Waikiki. 



Here are sailors out of then' proper element and full 

 of an improper one, then* feet well home in the stirrup, 

 both hands holding on to the pommel of the saddle as 

 if it were a tiller, while the rudderless animal goes 

 blundering and shying in every direction. There a 

 jabbering Chinaman with his handcart, will not get out 

 of the way ; an old native woman comes leading her pig 

 with a rope that stretches half across the road ; a quaint 

 vehicle turns out the wrong way ; while the dust stirred 

 up by the numerous horsemen, is so thick that one is 

 blinded. These are some of the incidents of a holiday 

 in Honolulu. A few years ago, there might have been 

 added an occasional wild bullock escaped from the lasso, 

 madly cavorting along the street and diving at the 

 scattering crowd. 



