VISIT TO TEE FISH-MABKET. 
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One of the sights of Honolulu is the fish-market, 
and there we were escorted one Saturday afternoon. 
Although only a tumble-down sort of a place, with a 
number of rickety stalls, yet these were in many 
cases covered with numberless varieties of blue, red, 
and yellow fish, spotted and banded, and striped in 
the most striking manner. Of shell-fish also there 
was abundance, crayfish, lobsters, crabs, and many 
strange orange- and rose-coloured medusa, and here 
and there little heaps of various qualities of sea-weed, 
of which the natives are particularly fond. 
Here, strolling about making purchases, we saw a 
laughing, joking crowd of men and women ; the latter 
clad in a single bright-coloured or white garment, 
falling free and in unconfined folds from the shoulder 
to the feet, while all wore wreaths of gorgeous 
flowers round their jaunty hats. The men, with their 
cheerful smiling faces and friendly greetings, added 
greatly to the animation of the scene. These people 
are, on the whole, much better-looking than those 
met with farther south. The nose is less flat, the 
lips are less prominent ; the colour is a nearer 
approach to white, and the face is altogether more 
indicative of intelligence and good-nature, and they 
take more kindly to the forms of European civilisa- 
tion. 
Of public buildings, the new Legislative Assembly 
Chambers rank first ; they form an extensive pile of 
buildings of the most modern style, built of concrete, 
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