Hawaii — page 103: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Pey A ORy FRE renee wt Nee LN ee Fd ie” . 4, * .* <i “3 d * ‘ ne PP et st co, . - p Sa 5 - - oe ‘ La & ® & * ;* Poy ee. oe ed I = err | . Te ee x“ . f) 6 > Pa ae” ‘ r 29 oS ens * 94 SOME OTHER ISLANDS AND TOWNS. Krout in describing her ride to these falls says that she “passed numbers of interesting Japanese houses, neat as % the houses of a toy village, each with its bit of garden, in which tapioca and ginger were growing and thriving. — Portuguese, who are even more successful farmers than : the Chinese, were standing in the verandas of theit small houses and smiled affably at us, surrounded by — swarms of young children. If they had been encouraged | and could have obtained land the Portuguese would long ago have redeemed the waste places of Hawaii and made the desert place blossom as the rose. Removed from the tyranny of a State religion they become liberal and pro- gressive, no longer the servile tools of the priests. They are a most temperate, industrious and peaceable people, prizing above all things the little home which each as- pires to acquire and hold; and they are in every way most desirable as colonists. At the end of one long and _unutterably boggy lane we met a handsome Hawaiian boy carrying home a sackful of grass. He wore the us- ual white cotton shirt and blue cotton trousers, both soaked with rain. He was barefooted, and round the | trown of his hat was wound a small American flag, the blue of the ground faded into the white stars, which the running dye had completely blurred. Portuguese, Jap- anese and Chinese we had passed in that ride, and here at the parting of the ways stood youthful Hawaii pen- sively surveying us, his black eyes looking out from — under that little wet flag above his hat brim.” All kinds of fruit grow in Hilo; figs, peaches, tama- rinds, oranges, apples, and bananas raised in Hilo are