Hawaii — page 106: what you’re looking at

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' SOME OTHER ISLANDS AND TOWNS. 97 BE Wailuku and Kahului are the two most important owns on this island, and both are largely devoted to the raising of sugar cane. Mr. Claus Spreckels owns a large sugar plantation on the island also, and Maui owes much of its wealth to him. Nine miles from Wailuku is a large dairy ranch, and ‘the country abounds in fine pastures. The hedge rows are of cactus, which grows from five to ten feet high, and are very curious in appearance. These cacti serve the cattle in dry weather as a substitute for fodder, as horses as well as cattle thrive upon them; and when boiled pigs will eat them with skim milk. _ All around the country is beautiful and on the slopss of the homesteads are groves of the eucalyptus, the gum- ‘tree of Australia. There are thousands of fine acres or this island that only need industry to mak® them pay a settler a ten-fold reward for any privation or trouble he — may have to bear at the beginning of his enterprise. On the south side of the island of Oahu, and six miles away from the main sierra, is Pearl Harbor. The en- trance to this harbor is seven miles west of Honolulu ‘harbor, which, though very good, is in comparison a mere pocket in the fringing reef. Mr. S. E. Bishop describes this harbor in this way: “Pearl Harbor proper is.an inland lake of nearly oval form, six miles by three, lying east and west. It is sep- _arated from the ocean by a belt of coral lowland two and a half miles in breadth, together with a reef which is one and a half miles more seaward. There are thus over four miles between the harbor and the open sea. A at : comicbooks