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proaching and entering the harbor, the stranger is exci- 

 ted and amnsed with the novel sights and scenes that 

 meet him at every new turn in the Anglo-Hawaiian city 

 of Honolulu. The bright eyes, intelligent faces and 

 light dress of the native race strike him curiously and 

 pleasantly before he leaves the deck. The mixed crowd 

 from every nation under the sun, that throngs the 

 wharf, the peculiarity of some of the vehicles, the coral, 

 fruit, gold-fish and shell peddlers, the Babel jargon of 

 French, German, Portuguese and the aboriginal lan- 

 guage, prove that he is in a new land ; while the pon- 

 derous coral stone warehouses, walls and stores, sure 

 tokens of civilization, assure him that he is not abso- 

 lutely in a new world and alone. The streets are of 

 macadamized coral, black lava stone and sand ; in the 

 city and vicinity well graded and smooth, forming fine 

 carriage drives. The streets near the wharves, being 

 without trees, are at midday hot and uninviting ; but 

 farther away from the business centre, the residences 

 of native and foreign inhabitants may be found, where 

 beautiful foliage is seen, such as exists only in similar 

 lands ; trees, the beauty of whose foliage, flowers and 

 fruit cannot fail to arrest the attention of the most 

 careless. A few are indigenous, such as the cocoa-nut 

 palm, the lauhala or screw palm, the breadfruit, the 

 ohia or native apple, the koa, the hau, and the kukui 

 or candle-nut tree ; but many of the handsomer trees 

 have been introduced from foreign countries, and have 

 grown into magnificent stature within the past quarter 

 century. Among these are the mango, opulent in fruit, 

 the tamarind, the Chinese orange and the sweet orange, 

 the lime, the alligator pear, the citron, the custard ap- 



