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edge may be seen fish, ponds and a fine bay, beyond are 

 the rugged breakers and the barrier reef to an ocean, 

 that has no other shores to wash until it reaches distant 

 North America. 



The road to the pali from Honolulu, ascending all the 

 way, is excellent for carriages as well as horsemen. 

 After leaving the hotel, the traveler enters JSTuuanu Val- 

 ley, most beautiful among the valleys of Oahu, and pro- 

 ceeds by a broad ascent towards the heart of the island. 

 On either hand are cottages and flower gardens. Some 

 new tropical tree or creeper or fruit or flower may be 

 discovered each succeeding moment. After crossing the 

 Nuuanu stream the ascent becomes perceptible and the 

 valley begins to contract. Here we see the burial 

 grounds, where many are laid who have died far from 

 home and kin. A little beyond, on the right, stands 

 the Royal Mausoleum, a gothic structure of stone, which 

 contains the remains of all the Hawaiian Kings and also 

 of many of the high chiefs who have died since the con- 

 quest. The grounds are well kept and the stranger will 

 see in these cemeteriea much to remind him of older civ- 

 ilization. 



As the traveler proceeds, his attention will be drawn 

 to the patches, "where is grown the Hawaiian staff of 

 life, the taro, cultivated in mud and water. It pro- 

 duces a root, which is baked in the earth, then pounded 

 to paste which is called poi, and forms the principal ar- 

 ticle of food for the natives. This is the arum esculen- 

 tum of the botanists, and in some localities is cultivated 

 on the upland. 



A mile from the cemeteries the country residence of 



