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are in port, occasional open-air concerts are given, when 

 the hotel grounds are illuminated, the balconies and 

 walks thrown open to the public, and Berger's brass 

 band of twenty-four pieces discourses its favorite Ha- 

 waiian and foreign airs. 



Probably no building in Honolulu was ever built 

 more faithfully than this hotel, whose every part was 

 constructed with a view to strength and permanence. 

 Its roof is covered with the best English slate. Prom 

 the cupola an excellent view may be had of the city em- 

 bowered in trees, the mountain valleys, the plain and the 

 ocean stretching from Diamond Head to the Waianae 

 mountains, twenty-five or thirty 'miles distant to the 

 north-west. Very few views in Honolulu surpass it, 

 save, perhaps, that from the Bell Tower, the new Gov- 

 ernment House or from Punch Bowl Hill. The total 

 cost of this inter- oceanic hotel (and it must be remem- 

 bered that Honolulu is a place with but 3000 foreign in- 

 habitants) was not far from' $150,000. 



Tourists in pursuit of health or the most delightful 

 tropical climate and scenery : men of business as well 

 as men of leisure, can have no excuse for delaying 

 their visits to this historic group or passing by the port 

 for lack of suitable accommodations. None who come, 

 ever regret the excursion, be the stay one month or six. 

 Those who propose remaining at the hotel longer than a 

 day or two, should always engage their rooms, if possi- 

 ble, before arrival, as the house is sometimes crowded. 



FIKST IMPRESSIONS OF THE CITY. 

 Attractive as is the appearance of the jaort and its 

 surroundings, as seen from the ship's deck while ap- 



