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Katherine
Fullerton
Gerould : Hawaiian Scenes , 1916.
Gerould,
Katherine Fullerton:
Hawaii -
Scenes
and Impressions
Charles
Scribner's
Sons, New York, 1923.
First published
September 1916.
HathiTrust
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/miun.afj6721.0001.001
Internet
Archive
http://archive.org/details/hawaiiscenesimpr00gero
Introduction.
Th
Page 12
The race is not weak or degenerate: it is,
physically, magnificent in strength and beautiful of feature.
But the Kanaka is amphibious-fishing, surfriding, swimming, he
is, all his life, naturally in and out of the water. It is one
Page 13
thing to cover yourself with palm-oil and let
the Pacific spray run off you in shining drops while you rest
on the sands; it is quite another to keep your wet clothes on
as you go about your business on the shore-but it is to ask
too much of Polynesian intelligence to request it to see the
difference.
Page
31
The tourist's
Honolulu, I suspect, lies wholly Waikiki of the town — that
being, literally,
the topographical idiom.
(You are never
told to go north or south, east or west: you go "mauka" —
towards the mountains,
or go "makai" — towards the
Page 32
sea; a shop
lies
on King Street "Waikiki" or "Ewa" of Fort or Nuuanu.)
The city
stretches
some seven miles, end to end, along the sea-front, running
back, up enchanted
valleys, to the mountains: the Pali, or Tantalus. "Ewa" of
Honolulu are
Pearl Harbor and Ewa plantation; "Waikiki" of it is — Waikiki.
Here are the
seaside hotels and restaurants, the Outrigger Club, Kapiolani
Park, the
beach-houses of rich Honolulans, and
Diamond Head.
Here are the
bathing, the surf-riding, the general tourist activity — as
well as the
amusements of Honolulans themselves.
Across from
the
Moana Hotel is Ainahau, among whose giant trees and flowers
Stevenson often
sat with the little Kaiulani, heiress-apparent to the now
long- superseded
Queen.
Kaiulani died
during Liliuokalani's reign, and her father, Mr. Cleghorn, has
been dead
these many years.
Page 33
In all
successful
social life, variety must somehow be achieved.
In their
circumscribed
space happy Honolulans manage it by having several houses.
Precisely as
here, you go to the mountains or the sea for recuperation and
amusement;
only in Hawaii you do not have to go so far.
Page 34
Half an hour
will
take you to your bungalow beneath Diamond Head; there at
Kahala you can
spend your Sunday, bathing in the multi-colored ocean.
If mosquitoes
bother you at Kahala, you can motor to the top of Tantalus,
where, at two
thou- sand feet, you are safe from them.
Or you may
have
your beach-house on the windward side of the Island, between
Kahana and
Kahuku.
For a severer
change, you can have a ranch on Kauai or Maui.
Page 34 [facing]
Waikiki
Beach, Honolulu
You
can spend
your Sunday, bathing in the multi-colored ocean.
From
a photograph
by R. W. Perkins.
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You cannot
skate
or ski; but you can go riding or bathing or surf-boating or
shark-fishing
any time you feel like it; and on
Hawaii, they
tell me, you can put on a bathing-suit at the end of the day
and coast
down the dizzy cane-flumes.
Except in a
Kona
storm you are seldom housed.
Page 37
Or you can
go
out by the Kamehameha Schools to the Bishop Museum —
exquisitely panelled
in the beautiful Hawaiian koa wood, dusky-gold and wildly
grained; repository
of feather-cloaks and Polynesian antiquities of every sort.
Mrs. Bishop,
the donor, was the daughter of Paki, and his giant
surf-boards are nailed
up in the entrance porch.
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