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Paradise of the Pad fit 
Enderbury Island lies 36 miles E.S.E. of Canton Island. 
It is about three miles long by a little less than a mile 
wide. The steep beach rises to a crest which has an ele¬ 
vation of from 15 to 22 feet. The central portion is flat 
or slightly depressed, with a shallow, brackish lagoon, about 
half a mile long by 250 yards wide, so filled with sand 
islets, covered with Sesuvium herb, as to be quite useless 
as a landing place for seaplanes. 
The entire northern third has been dug up for guano, 
much of it resembling a mine dump. There is a low hill 
of what appears to be low-grade guano near the landing 
place on the west side. Its summit is perhaps forty feet 
above the sea. A quarter of a mile to the south is a size¬ 
able grove of tree heliotrope. A half mile again to the 
south are the ruins of seven or eight stone houses, the 
guano-diggers’ settlement, on the walls of one of which 
is mounted a much corroded cannon. Near the north point, 
due east of the landing, and near the middle of the south 
end, there are three small clumps of coconut palms, each 
surrounding a brackish water hole. Near the southern clump 
are a half of dozen thickets of kou. 
There is a strip of smooth, nearly bare ground on the 
eastern half of the island, which should give ample room 
for airplanes to alight and take off. When the Southern 
Cross was making its pioneer flight south from Hawaii to 
Fiji, the writer advised Kingsford-Smith that Canton and 
Enderbury would be his two best emergency landing places. 
Either island would be a dreary place on which to live. 
There is no fresh water, little rain, ceaseless, monotonous 
wind from the east, and scanty protection from the sun, 
which three degrees south of the equator can get unpleas¬ 
antly hot. On the other hand there are no mosquitoes, and 
the abundant fish in the Canton lagoon or off the narrow, 
fringing reefs, and the great numbers of sea birds and, in 
season, migratory curlew, turnstones, and plover, should 
keep one from starving to death, if one liked scrambled tern 
eggs, which the writer did not. 
MOI 
“The Paradise of the Pacific has been wonderful and 
each month,” I enjoy it very much, wrote Mrs. Anna Diane 
Carden to Mrs. Langton-Boyle. “I am sending you, for 
old times sake, a French Primer, which Mae is putting on 
the market for English-speaking children to more easily 
learn the language. Each Christmas Copy you send to me 
has been greatly admired.” The French Primer Moi, by 
Marie Chardin, illustrated by Bess Bethel!, is an attractive 
64-page book, profusely illustrated in color. It is a very 
useful, as well as beautiful, book, for those who have child¬ 
ren anxious to learn the French language by a facile and 
interesting method. 
SUNSET AT WAIKIKI 
By Dorothy Dorr 
Fast fall the shadows of this tropic day 
Veiling its gold and crimson sunset sky ^ 
The sapphire sea becomes dull leaden gray 
Far off some lonely ship moves slowly by. 
“AVIATION IN HAWAII” 
With aviation adding to the prestige and importance o| 
Hawaii no home or library should be without this splendn 
book “Aviation in Hawaii” written by W. Paul Yates 
173 pages in length with thirty-eight general illustration] 
and sixty-two likenesses of Hawaiian aviators, all add uj 
to a fine volume. Hawaii has been a leading area in avij 
tion and the history of her aviation is of value to all whj 
are interested in aviation. Hawaiian aviation from 1911 t\ 
1937 is carefully covered. Paradise of the Pacific Press 
Honolulu, Hawaii, printed the book and did an artisti] 
job of it. 
Assertions and opinions of the United States governmen| 
personnel published herein are private and not those 
any government department or service at large. 
PARADISE of the PACIFIC 
Hawaii’s Illustrated Monthly Magazine 
Vol. 49 
April, 1937 
No. 4 
• TABLE of CONTENTS • 
FACE 
Paradise and Peace. 1 
Hawaiian Woman Weaving a Lauhala Mat 
(Full Page Illustration —Hawaii Tourist Bureau) . 2 
Editorials ... 3 
Amelia ....’.. 41 
St. Andrew’s Cathedral —Bishop S. Harrington Litiell,...... 5 
Mountains of Kauai (Dry-point Etching) — 
Hue M. Luquiens ..... 6 | 
Amazing PAA Flies South.. 7 
Land of Hawaii —Dick Hyland .. g 
Hawaii’s Malihini Golf Tournament —-Harold Coffin .. 9 
Hawaiian Olivines —Alma S. Jonson . 9 
Aggie Auld (Portrait )—Murle Ogden .... 10j 
Mademoiselle Hula —Edwin North McClellan . 11 
Waianapanapa—A Legend of Maui —Emma K. Omsted . 12| 
Mrs. Quezon Visits Hawaii.;.. 13 
A Secret of Molokai —Earl Thacker ..... 13 
Private Life of a Loaf of Taro Bread— G. J. Ley .... 14 
Hawaiian Pattern (Poem )—Ethel Grey .... 14 
The Big Fence on the Big Island —Lester W. Bryan ... 15 
Hawaii—By One Who Never Saw It —Hattie E. Hickman 16 
Waikiki ..... . Z 
Japanese Festivals in Hawaii —Yasutaro Soga . 17J 
“When Winter Comes to Maui”. 17 
Hawaiiana—First European Lands on Maui, 1786..... 18 
Current Hawaiiana . fg 
Forty Oahuan Years —Alice E , Mudge ... 19 1 
Madame de Freycinet in Hawaii—1819— 
Victor S. K. Houston ...... 201 
An Island Garden (Kauai )—George T. Armitage .. 21 
Birds of Oahu— E . H. Bryan, Jr ... 241 
Speaker Montilla Passes Through Hawaii— 
Roman R. Cariaga . 25 
Amelia Earhart Plaque.... 26 
Names for Bodies of Air-—1987.. 27 
Phoenix Islands—Eclipse Mecca— E. H. Bryan, Jr, .. 27 
Picturesque People in Paradise (Whiney)— 
William D, Jones .. . 28 
“Moi” (Review). Z.....ZZZZZZ 32 j 
Sunset at Waikiki (Poem)— Dorothy Dorr .. 33 
“Aviation in Hawaii” (Review) 
