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can climb will be richly rewarded in their beauty and 

 variety. At the head of Palolo Valley is an extinct 

 crater, in which grow both ferns and flowers. The 

 traveler shonld leave his horse at the head of the val- 

 ley, climb up 400 or 500 feet to the crater, in shape 

 like an oblong bowl, where he can readily secure an as- 

 sortment of ferns. About one hundred and twenty 

 kinds are found on this group, some of which are very 

 rare and choice, and found in no other country. 



HOLIDAYS 



Form a striking feature of Hawaiian life. Saturday 

 afternoon is the gala time of the natives. Business 

 ends for the week at 4 o'clock, when mechanics and la- 

 borers receive their wages-. To ride seems the grand 

 idea of the natives, and mounted on horses, mules or 

 jackasses, saddled or bareback, bridled or tethered, they 

 gallop up one street and rush down another, whisking 

 around corners, skillfully avoiding collision with equally 

 reckless riders, and giving pedestrians numberless hair- 

 breadth escapes. The observer at the corner of Nuu- 

 anu and King Streets will see in one half hour the 

 same parties ride by three or four times, having made 

 the circuit of the town as many times and always at a 

 headlong pace, making street crossing dangerous. In 

 a short space of time one may here count a thousand 

 equestrians. The women are most conspicuous in their 

 gay dresses and wreaths of vines or flowers, and riding 

 astride they manage their horses with masculine energy 

 and skill, until the shades of evening put an end to 

 then sport, or halting at some unlucky moment they 

 are arrested for fast riding, and they end one week and 

 begin another in the police station, unless some maka- 



