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I 0 tie 91VBRNitiCE 20 CENTS A ChPY CI it C V2.-0aia , VOL. IV. HONOLULU, TERRITORY OF HAWAII 4,04-46 ' " OOP SOUTH AUSTRALIA FOR TOURISTS From San Francisco, Vancouver and from Honolulu there are two lines of fast steamships to Sydney, Australia. From Sydney to Adelaide, South Australia, there is a direct line of railway ; half rates are made to the Tourist, and no visitor to the Australian Common- wealth can afford to neglect visiting the southern central state of Australia ; for south Australia is the state of supurb climate and unrivalled resources. Adelaide, the garden city of the south, is the capital ; there a s in Sydney there is a govern- ment Intelligence and Tourist Bureau. The tourist, investor or settler is given accurate information, guaranteed by the government, and free to all. From Adelaide this Bureau conducts rail, river and motor excursions .to almost every part of the state. Tourists are sent or conducted through the magnificent moun- tain and pastoral scenery of south Australia. The government makes travel easy by a system of coupon tickets and facilities for caring for the comfort of the tourist. Excursions are arranged to the holiday resorts ; individuals or parties are made familiar with the industrial resources, and the American as well as the Britisher is made welcome if he cares to make south Australia his home. - The South Australian Intelligence and Tourist Bureau has its headquarters on King William street, Adelaide, and the government has printed many illus- trated books and pamphlets describing the scenic and industrial resources of the state. A post card or letter to the Intelligence and Tourist Bureau in Adelaide will secure the books and information you may desire. THE ISLAM) OF LANAI FOR SALE The only and largest island in the world that can be owned in its entirety by an individual or corporation. A Mid-Pacific Principality of one hundred and six thousand acres of good land, with twenty thousand sheep, fifteen hundred cattle, two thousand hogs and three hundred horses. The Island of Lanai is one of the seven Hawaiian group located sixty miles from Honolulu, IT. S. A. For full particulars address STANTON AND O'DONNELL, First National Bank Building, San Francisco, Cal. LIBRARY OF HAWAII CIRCULATING The Mid-PacificMagazine CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD HOWARD M. BALLOU, Associate Editor VOLUME IV NUMBER 4 CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1912. Our Art Gallery . 302 The Pacific Coast from Shipboard . 317 The Hawaiian Fish Trap . 319 By John F. G. Stokes Around Australia . 325 By Percy Hunter Following Lava Trails in Hawaii . 331 By Sol. N. Sheridan Maori Superstitions . 337 By C. F. Maxwell Afterglow ' . 341 By Dixie Fort Home Life in Japan . 347 By Alexander Hume Ford The Defense of Hawaii . 353 By Brig.-Gen'l John H. Soper, N. G. H. Retired The Smiles of Witashima . 361 By Arthur Loring Mackaye My Catamaran . 369 By a Malihini Cruising Among the South Sea Islands . 373 By H. F. Alexander To an Hawaiian Skylark (a Poem) . 378 By P. Maurice McMahon Woman and the Cruising Habit . 379 By Helen May Farr The New Chamber of Commerce Idea . 383 By Mark G. Springley The Story of Hawaii . 387 Editorial Comment . 396 The Mid-Pacific Magazine Published monthly by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Honolulu, T. H. Printed by the Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd. Yearly subscriptions in the United States and possessions, $2.00 in advance. Canada and Mexico, $2.50. For all foreign countries, $3.00. Single copy, 20e. Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postotfice. Permission is given to the Press to republish articles from the Mid-Pacific Magazine when credit is given. Copyright 1912 by Alexander Hume Ford. 1—It. P. the MID - PACIFIC MAGAZINE VOL. 4 OCTOBER, 1912 No. 4. The Pacific Coast From Shipboard I once traveled with a British sailor from Seattle to Nome. Among the whose proud boast it was that, although Aleutian Islands ever active volcanoes, he had sailed several times around the grander in display than any adjacent to globe, he had never yet, and never the Atlantic, may be seen belching forth would, step ashore at any port over fire and smoke. There is a cruise among which the British flag did not fly. the islands and inlets of the Alaskan and At first I pitied him for what he had Canadian Pacific coasts that is unsur- missed. Later I began to realize what passed in grandeur. The crusing ship a man might see from the deck of a ship steams up to glaciers that form palisades around the Pacific that would educate against the sea, skirts the base of the and inspire him. highest mountains on the northern con- I .cruised around the Mediterranean t:nent, and casts anchor before villages once, and on the deck of our steamer sat of totem poles. From the decks the voy- an invalid who never left the boat, yet agers may look down upon the Indians she enjoyed the cruise perhaps more in their canoes, or out upon mountain than any of us, and gained more. scenery without compare. The cruising possibilities of the Pacific Through Puget Sound there are are boundless. It is possible to begin a cruises in quiet waters amid towering round-the-Pacific cruise in summer, by mountains. From Puget Sound to Mex- entering the Great Ocean from the Arc- ico there is a cruise that keeps ever in tic Seas by one of the regular liners sight the Great Pacific Coast of America. 2-M. P. 317 318 THE MID-PACIFIC. From the decks of the vessel the con- Malay Peninsula and China, or by way tour of the continent's rugged face may of the many intervening islands to the be studied in detail. Philippines, Formosa, and Japan. Every- Steamers there are that ply from San where these countries may be enjoyed Francisco to Panama, stopping at every from the deck ; their greatest grandeur port, and from Panama to the Straits of is surely along the coast line, and in Magellan and beyond. The Pacific Japan great Fujiyama may be seen to the Coast of South America becomes a pan- best advantage from the sea. orama, the Andes as a background, to the I once spied out everything to be seen round-the-Pacific cruiser. from the masthead on either side of the From South America, as from San Inland Sea of Japan before the captain Francisco, there is the line to Northern called me down and threatened to place Asia, by way of Hawaii, or the direct me in irons. Among the Philippines are southern voyage from San Francisco by delectable landlocked vistas, as beautiful way of Tahiti or Hawaii to New Zea- as any in Japan's famous waters. land and Australia. Hawaii's great scenic wonders are also to be viewed from the sea. Every Once in New Zealand waters it is pos- day there is an inter-island steamer that sible practically to circumnavigate New stepping from coasts the several islands. There is the Zealand without more than ride by sea along the sugar-clad base of one vessel to another of the same line. Mauna Kea, that slopes 14,000 feet up The coastal scenery of New Zealand is from the sea. Along the Hawaiian Ri- comparable only to that of Norway and viera, between Hilo and Laupahoehoe, Alaska, and is best seen from the deck of from the deck of the steamer waterfalls a ship. In fact, one might learn volumes may be seen pouring out of the rocky of New Zealand and its cities merely by cliffs and leaping to the sea. Every- visiting the many harbors and deep in- lets, for its chief cities are all seaports, where along the coast of the Hawaiian and its sublimest scenery is coastal. Islands grandeur of outline broken by delectable vistas up valleys and between This is also true of Tasmania and mountain ranges catches and holds the Australia. eye. Throughout the South Seas the islands There are those who have experienced may well be studied from the decks of the scenic thrills of their lives from the the many copra steamers that ply these decks of the Hawaiian cruising steamers. waters, and one need not necessarily go I would always prefer to go ashore in ashore to study native life, which is any country, but perhaps after all my lived mostly on the beach. I have travel- British sailor friend has learned that ed for a month or more at a time along sometimes disenchantment follows too the outer reefs and by the South Sea close a scrutiny into that which most Island precipices that drop sheer into the pleases the eye at a distance. sea, with men and women who never If I could see no more of Pacific lands once set foot ashore, yet gained first- and islands than from the deck of a hand knowledge of South Sea island life, cruiser, I would consider myself richer by casual vision and the use of the bino- far than the multi-millionaire who re- culars. mained at home to read about and gaze The opportunities are boundless for upon pictures of what to me becomes a coasting around Australia, and on the reality—if only to the visual sense. The Hawaiian Fish Trap BY JOHN F. G. STOKES A Typical Fish Pond, center foreground . Among the few remaining evidences which the stream was dammed with a of early Hawaiian life are the walled transverse wall just above the rapids and fish traps, pounds or weirs at the en- conducted by means of a canal over a trance to Pearl Harbor, Oahu.

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