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no portion of it comes under the conventional classification. 
It is certainly never torrid. Though within the district 
bounded by Cancer and Capricorn, it has a most equable and 
balmy climate. It has a cool climate. It can offer induce- 
ments to the summer climates of the temperate and frigid 
zones. Tempered by the sea over its entire extent, and cooled 
over much of its surface by elevation, it has a climate without 
extremes, year in and year out. 
It is an outdoor climate. 
Although some of the coastal villages on leeward sides of 
the islands have a warm climate — in some cases a hot, dry 
climate — the temperature is not extreme, and under shelter 
is comfortable for white residents, who often prefer these loca- 
tions. Such towns are never unhealthy, as is general with 
coast towns in Mexico or the West Indies. The great cause 
of sickness in low-lying regions in the tropics is not due to 
the heat or dampness, but to the presence of mosquitoes and 
subsequent infection. Malaria is unknown in Hawaii. We 
have none of the mosquitoes which carry the germ of malaria. 
In a section like North and South Kona, covering many 
miles in extent on the western slope of the Island of Hawaii, 
we have a climate ranging in temperature from 50 degrees F. 
minimum to 80 degrees F. maximum. The daily variation is 
only four or five degrees. It is never cold, but some morn- 
ings cool enough to call for the wearing of a wrap. This 
lasts only a little while and is never unpleasant, as the mini- 
mum readings are in Florida, California or Italy. 
We have no high winds at all ; an occasional "kona wind" 
blows for a day or so once or twice a year, and then does not 
return for a year, perhaps. This wind is not cold and may 
bring rain with it. It blows down a few banana plants or some 
native trees not firmly fastened in the ground. During the day 
a gentle breeze blows up the mountain slope from the sea, 
and at night there is an exchange for a somewhat cooler wind 
from the mountain. 
From November to February there is generally little rain ; 
only a delightful Indian summer, when fruits ripen on the 
bough. With the summer, rain comes and gives an impetus 
to plant growth as pronounced as that of spring in the tem- 
perate zone. The deciduous trees clothe themselves in abun- 
dant green and the usual summer fruits blossom and bear. 
Rain falls only in the afternoon and night; the morning can be 
counted on for work or visiting. You may arrange for your 
lawn party or Fourth of July picnic a year ahead and not be 
disappointed. Owing to the porous soil there is never any 
mud or dust. The roads are just as good as any in the United 
States, ideal roads for automobiling reaching around the 
island, a distance of 210 miles. 
I suffer no inconvenience whatever from exposure to sun on 
