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Title: One summer in Hawaii (electronic resource)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Mather, Helen
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: New York : Cassell Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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tretch of emerald meadow. It was avisible poem—grand, solemn, change-less. A steep bridal path has been cut inthe side of the mountain, down whichwe walked for some distance to wherea stream of cool water trickles into anatural basin of stone. Here a group 76 ONE SUMMER IN HA WAIL of native men and women were restingto slake their thirst. They smiled andbowed to us politely, and when I said Aloha their faces brightened, andthey returned the greeting with anaffectionate glitter in their eyes. As we climbed the path upon ourreturn, we met two almond-eyed chil-dren of the Flowery Kingdom/ aman and a woman. Their neat attire,and the small feet of the woman, whichhad been compressed until only thetoes were left, indicated that they wereof the -better class. The remainder ofher feet were shod in a gaudy pair ofChinese shoes with marshmallow soles,and she hobbled along in a painful,ludicrous way, clinging to the wall ofrock on one side, and to the manshand on the other. I said, thinking of
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ONE SUMMER IN HAWAII, 77 her feet, Very bad to walk. Shereplied, as she slid past, No bellygood ; too muchee down hill/ According to tradition the pali wasonce the scene of an awful tragedy.When Kamehameha the First, or TheTerrible, as he was called, fought theChief of Oahu for the possession ofthis island, a desperate battle tookplace in the valley. Kamehamehahaving vanquished the enemy, drovethem to the brink of this precipice likea flock of sheep, pushing them over byhundreds to the plain below, wheretheir bodies lay in heaps, and theirbones bleached in the sun, until kindnature covered them with a sweetmantle of green. The climbing vines thus fertilizedcreep up the lower buttresses of the 78 ONE SUMMER IN HAWAII. precipice, and hang in feathery massesfrom projecting ledges, where theysigh in the gentle breeze a sad re-quiem. The ridge of the perpendic-ular rocks stretches far away to thenorth, and presents a line of seem-ing castles, mosques, turrets, domes,spires, and pinnacles a

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