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"The cocoa with
its crest of spears,
Stands sentry
'round the'crescent shore.
The algeroba
bent with years
Keeps watch beside
the lanai door.
The cool winds
fan the mango's cheek,
The mynah flits
from tree to tree,
And zephyrs to
the roses speak
Their sweetest
words at Waikiki.
"Like truant children
of the deep
Escaped behind
a coral wall,
The lisping wavelets
laugh and leap,
Nor heed old
ocean's stern recall.
All day they
frolic on the sands,
Kiss pink-lipped
shells in wanton glee,
Make windrows
with their ptting hands,
And singing,
sleep at Waikiki.
"Oh, Waikiki!
0 scene of peace !
0 home of beauty
and of dreams!
No haven in the
Isles of Greece
Can chord the
heart to sweeter themes.
For houries haunt
the broad lanais,
While scented
zephyrs cool the lea
And, lookIng
down from sunset skies,
The angels smile
on Waikiki."
ROLLIN M. DAGGETT.
Thee miles from
Honolulu is the favorite bathing place, lovely Waikiki.
A 'bus runs out
to the bath house every hour or so, the charge both ways being 25 cents.
At the bath-house
are kept the usual appliances for enabling the visitor to indulge in a
dip in the warm, bouyant surf, and there are, too, comfortable hammocks
hung all about for the better enjoyment of the consequent siesta.
The charge for
all this is 25 cents, and one can stay as long as they like in the water
or hammock.
It is a glorious
place to dream away an afternoon, and many there are who do so.
Near the bath-houses
is Kapiolani Park with its many winding roads and paths shaded by the graceful
algeroba, and within its limits is a fine race track.
All along the
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beach opposite the park are beautiful summer residences- "bungalows" they may be called- where everything is arranged to enable one to realize what perfect repose and quiet is on the shore of a tropic sea in a tropic clime.
Beyond this slumberous
beach rises "Diamond Head," to visit which properly one should hire a saddle
horse for the day.
Then the ride
is delightful, the road leading past the mouths of two or three lovely
valleys, and turning seaward finally brings one out on the summit of this
old crater, 700 feet above the sea.
The view from
that point 's grand, and on the way one passes over an ancient battle ground
still marked by the bleached bones of fallen chiefs and savage soldiery.
The ride can
be extended on beyond Diamond Head for two or three miles, and new scenes
visited.
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The Hawaiian Guide Book Herald of Trade Publishing Company, San Francisco, Second edition,1888. |
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