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huts, &c. At the present time, although by no means 
an imposing city, it gives house and home to some 
15,000 inhabitants, and is spread over a sandy plain 
extending from east to west, with wide streets con- 
taining hotels and business houses, giving the place 
a very different appearance to what might have been 
expected in a Polynesian town. 
The streets and avenues are shaded with palms, 
bread-fruit, and other pleasant trees. The retail 
stores are owned principally by Americans and Chi- 
nese, and a very fair amount of business appears to 
be done. There are ice manufactories, foundries, and 
factories; a steam laundry employing about thirty 
hands, and capable of turning out forty to fifty 
thousand pieces in a week, belonging to Mr. W. M. 
Wallace, who, for perseverance, industry, and 
thorough business habits, I should say was un- 
equalled in the island. There are half a dozen news- 
papers published, two of which are monthly, and 
four weekly. There are free libraries and reading- 
rooms, fire-engine companies, Masonic, Odd Fellows’, 
and Good Templars’ lodges, theatres, and other 
amusements, so as to keep pace with the times. 
The stamp of social life is unmistakably American. 
The currency, the hotels, and private companies are 
all types of the Great Republic. The principal 
business done has hitherto been with America, the 
great majority of Hawaiian citizens and public men 
have been Americans, the government and constitu- 
