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96 SOME OTHER ISLANDS AND TOWNS. | At Laupahoehoe and Ookala are numerous other. sugar plantations in thriving conditions, but few people besides those interested in the plantations live there. Forty-two miles from Hilo is Hamakua, which is beau- tifully situated almost a mile from the sea, and here also is a very large sugar plantation. It seems as if the whole country round about was created on purpose to grow the sugar cane. All over the island the sugar plantations are very numerous and equally thriving. Every Monday afternoon a boat leaves Honolulu at four o'clock for the island of Kauai, arriving there at six the following morning. The first stopping place is Nawiliwili, then to Hauamaulu, Kapoa and Kilama. This first island is called the “Garden Island” because it is so well watered and is so luxuriant in vegetation. The fern forests of Kauai are beyond description in their love- liness. Besides the cultivation of sugar on this island it has aiso many rice plantations, and coffee could be grown here with much success. ‘The climate of Kauai is most delightful, never hotter than 85 degrees and never lower than 60 degrees. Nearly everything grows on this island, and fishing and shooting cannot be exceled. In the different towns on the island are handsome residences and a number of schools. A steamer also sails weekly for the island of Maui. Sometimes the passage is a very rough one, for the channels between the islands of Oahu, Maui, Molokai and Hawaii are said to be the roughest waters on the globe. * - comicboo cs.com ~ 1a i; vs