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returning in tlie same boat. The steamer Manna 
Kea leaves Honolulu Wednesday morning and 
Saturday afternoon for Hilo. On the Wednesday 
trip the inter-island flagship arrives on Thurs¬ 
day morning at Hilo, whence the traveler motors 
to the Volcano, returning to Hilo and the Manna 
Kea on Friday morning, to be back in Honolulu 
early Saturday morning. 
Leaving Honolulu on Saturday afternoon, the 
Manna Ivea delivers her passengers at Hilo early 
Sunday morning, allowing a day for the Volcano 
and Hilo visit, leaving Hilo on Monday afternoon 
and reaching Honolulu soon after daylight on 
Tuesday. 
Another steamer departs from Honolulu on 
Tuesday and Friday of each alternate week, pass¬ 
ing along the west coast of Hawaii Island, where, 
at Ivealakekua, is to be seen the monument to 
Captain Cook. On this trip passengers for the 
Volcano are landed at Honuapo, whence the jour¬ 
ney is continued by auto-bus. The round trip oc¬ 
cupies seven days, allowing a stay at the Volcano 
of over two days. Honuapo is on the south coast 
of the Big Island, 36 miles from Ivilauea. One of 
the numerous tourist itineraries provides approach 
to the Volcano from one side of the island, and de¬ 
parture from the other. 
Sixty per cent of the area of the Big Island 
lies below the 4,500-foot level, surrounding the 
central mountain mass. Throughout this area 
extends a fine system of highways, connecting all 
points of commercial importance, and all points 
of scenic interest except such as call for “rough¬ 
ing it’ 7 in the heights. Over half of the 400 
miles of roads consists of the round-the-island 
highway. Large units branch from the belt road, 
one into southern Puna and one into northern 
Ivohala, and there are many branches from the 
main lines to lure the motoring tourist. Some 
globe trotters, as do many Honolulans, go to Ha¬ 
waii Island with their cars to enjoy a week or 
two of scenic outing. 
The beautiful city of Hilo, with a population 
of about 14,000, is most advantageously and at¬ 
tractively situated on a slope rising from a wide 
crescent-shaped bay whose harbor possibilities be¬ 
speak a wonderful future. Its pretty, curving 
sand beach, its palm-crowned Coconut Island, and 
its charming and impressive background of snow¬ 
capped summits, make up a never-to-be-forgotten 
picture of magnificent distances and diversified 
enchantment. 
HILO AN IMPORTANT PORT 
Hilo is well served by passenger steamers and 
cargo vessels. With the largest harbor in the Isl¬ 
ands, the Orescent City, the Bip Island metropolis, 
is making rapid strides in commercial importance. 
A great government breakwater, nearing comple¬ 
tion, will give to the city a sheltered deep-water 
port of splendid dimensions. Closer to the main¬ 
land by some 200 miles than is any other port in 
the archipelago, Hilo is on the direct Pacific route 
by way of the Panama canal. 
The town is well provided with excellent stores 
and commercial establishments, many large Hono¬ 
lulu houses having branches in the city. Hotel 
accommodations are of the best and moderately 
priced. Automobile garages and livery stables 
meet all requirements in their respective lines. 
BIG ISLE’S SCENIC RAILWAY 
The Hawaii Consolidated Eaih 
of standard 
'way, 
gauge and up-to-date equipment, operates a road 
two-thirds of the distance between liilo and the 
Volcano, the balance of the trip being made by 
auto; another line through to Kapoho, near the 
Green Lake and Warm Spring in the Puna dis¬ 
trict; another Puna branch to Pahoa, and the 
truly remarkable Hamakua extension which is 
noted not alone for its superlative scenic attrac¬ 
tions, but for the evidence it gives of engineering 
triumphs over no few extraordinary difficulties. It 
has been said of the latter line that it cost more 
per mile to build than almost any other railroad in 
the world. For miles it runs along the edges 
of great precipices at whose feet is the pounding 
surf; through gorges, past waterfalls, over sharply 
curving bridges as high as 230 feet and from 
which the passengers may see the waves of ocean 
laving the trestle base. 
Some of the grandest scenery in the Territory 
is to be seen north of Hilo, whether the traveler 
goes by train or automobile. Wor is the view un¬ 
marked by the industry of man. It is not all 
mountain grandeur, rushing streams, marvelous 
gulches, precipitous coast, lava landings and 
jungle. There are happy villages and comfort¬ 
able settlements ; pretty school-houses, and Chris¬ 
tian churches and Buddhist temples; spreading 
sugar plantations, and other wide stretches blest 
by cultivation. 
PUNA, GARDEN OF WONDERS 
Many fine cane plantations, quaint villages, 
country residences, tropical forests and volcanic 
formations rouse the interest and curiosity of the 
traveler on the Hilo-Volcano road. The Puna 
district, south of Hilo, is an unsurpassed garden 
of wonders. It is rich in historical relics. The 
road passes over ancient lava flows, honeycombed 
with caves. In this district there may be found 
descendants of the survivors of a Spanish vessel 
which was wrecked at Kalapana, still preserving 
the fair hair and blue eyes of ancestors cast 
ashore in the Eden of Puna scores and scores of 
years ago. And in Puna is a great Cave of 
Refuge, relic of olden days of warfare. The main 
chamber is built of large stone slabs. The en¬ 
trance was purposely made narrow and winding 
so that one man could easily defend it against any 
hostile force, and in order that no spears could be 
thrown within. 
TEMPLES OF THE PAST 
There are numerous ruins of lieiaus or Ha¬ 
waiian temples on the different islands, and on 
Hawaii Island some of the most accessible as well 
as some of the best preserved are pointed out to 
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