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n Liverpool or Havre—worth any price—adulterate silk
£oods with it. 1000 acres this land in bend of head of this
sland worth $2 to $20 an acre. Raised 30000 Ibs. last
fear—will raise 50000 this. All that is needed is labor—
ndustry—natives won't pick it every day—lazy and shift-
ess.
Girls here have good home faces.
Found the purser looking at naked women fishing,
:hrough spyglass.
He became too busy, apparently, to make
elaborate notes; I or 2 lines was the best he
could do. Just a word, or a line, trusting to God
and his memory when the time came to write
about it.
Boys and girls in swimming.
Eating raw fish and poi.
Hoola hoola dance.
Heated term.
$65 income entitles to vote.
Old battleground.
The Salt Lake.
Fish ponds.
Coral reefs.
Another old battleground.
It is a modernistic poem.
Evidences of remote antiquity.
Fondness for tobacco but not whiskey—laws against it.
Church law against smoking.
And Sharon waves in silent praise
Her sacred groves of palms.
Wailing for the sick.
Hawaii a half-way house on the Pacific highway.
Natives pay to get their poetry printed.
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