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Identifier: onesummerinhawai00math (find matches)
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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they are fair tolook upon, but insipid to the taste ;and could hardly have been the applesof Eden or Hesperides. I saw, for the first time, the screwpalm; so called because its long,pointed leaves wind spirally about thestem. An impenetrable network of green 226 ONE SUMMER IN HAWAII. interlaced the giant shafts. Fernsluxuriated in the moist shade ; theycrept over the fallen trunks, and hidwith their delicate tracery all deformity ;they pushed their way into the crevicesand found a foothold everywhere ; theyclimbed the trees, and struggled withthe vines for supremacy ; they even as-pired to be trees, and spread theirfronds on high. Moist-footed mosses clung to everyvacant space, and creeping vines, andcrawling tendrils, wound in and out ;they leaped the lofty boughs, and hungin lono- festoons between us and thelight. It was the ceaseless, soundlessstrife of the jungle, where death en-riches and fattens the survivor. Eachplant, and vine, and bough was be-gemmed with bud and blossom, and
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ONE SUMMER IN HAWAII. 227 the humid air was redolent withodor. For miles we drove between thesewalls of living green without sight orsound of animal life, and then emergedinto the open plain, which had beenconquered and covered by dwarf treeferns. Each spray was a tipped andtinted plume, which flashed in the sun-light and fluttered in the breeze. After this we passed coffee planta-tions and taro patches, and came atlast, through an ever varying phase ofscenery, to the end of our fifteen-miledrive. Though scarcely aware of it, we hadbeen gradually ascending the slope ofMauna Loa, upon whose flank was thegreat pit toward which our course wasdirected. The dome of the mountain 228 ONE SUMMER IX HAWAII. towered above the clouds, which weremassed at its base, and when our vehi-cle came to a halt, the rain was fallinein torrents. Horses for the bridle-path werestanding under the tree awaiting ourarrival. There was neither house norshelter of any kind to be seen, so weprepared to mount from t

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