kRCH, 1915. PRICE, 25 CENTS A COPY $2.00 A YEAR 0.11r itib-Parifir ftlagaztur T IrNT■TrNi T TT T T HAWAII AT THE -CROSSROADS .OF THE PACIFIC. From -San Francisco and from Van- On the Big Island of Hawaii, not 24 couver there are palatial ocean steamers to hours by steamer, train and auto from Honolulu, the fares being from $60 one Honolulu, is Earth's greatest and safest way and $110 round trip, up. active volcano—Kilauea. From Vancouver the Union Steamship On the Island of Maui is Earth's great- Co. sends its great steamers every fourth est extinct crater—Haleakala—eighteen week to Fiji, New Zealand and Australia hours from Honolulu. You may stand on via Honolulu, and vice versa. From San its brink 10,000 feet above sea level. Francisco every fourth week the Oceanic On the Island of Kauai, a night's sail Co. sends its vessels to Samoa and Sydney from Honolulu, are canyons as varied in via Honolulu. Every eight days the Pa- color and sublime in effect as any in the cific Mail and the Toyo Kisen Kaisha world. send their floating palaces from San Fran- Six miles from Honolulu by splendid cisco to Japan, China and the Philippines auto road is the famous Nuuanu Pali, or via Hawaii, and every week the Matson precipice; an ascent and a drop of 1200 Co. or the Oceanic .S. S. Co. sends one of feet, and on either side of the road, cloud- their splendid ferry boats from San Fran- piercing mountains. cisco to Honolulu. Three miles from the steamer by electric It is seen at a glance that Hawaii is the tram is Waikiki, the home of the surf- crossroads of the Pacific. board rider. Hawaii has probably in a given area For further information regarding the more scenic wonders to offer the tourist Hawaiian Islands, write to or call at the and visitor than has any equal area of the Hawaiian Promotion Committee rooms in world's surface. the Alexander Young Hotel Building. V' 1(1 b-Parifir fliagazittr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD VOLUME IX HOWARD M. BALLOU, Associate Editor. NUMBER 3 CONTENTS FOR M !ARCH. 1915. • • OUR ART GALLERY OF THE .PACIFIC. + i. • + A SOUTH PACIFIC GRANARY & GARDEN - - 217 + * By Hon. W. A. Holman (Premier of New South Wales.) THE STORY OF HAWAII 225 By Ex-Queen Liliuokalani AMONG THE PINES AND PAGANS - 231 By Reginald M. Clutterbuck NEW ZEALAND MOUNTAIN CLIMBING - 241 By S. Turner, F. R. G. S. - EXPLORING A VOLCANO 249 By Jack Walker (The Youngest Guide in Hawaii.) THE LIFE OF THE JAPANESE -STUDENT - 255 By Kiyoshi Sokamoto CANOEING IN THE BIG CANAL - - - 259 By George B. Thayer THE CHINESE IN HAWAII 263 By George Charles Hull THE ADELAIDE WAY 269 By Joseph B. Stickney IN OLD KOREA 273 By Kirk S. Gilbert THE VENGEANCE OF THE RAIN GOD - - 277 By May Rothwell MOTORING IN MALAYA 283 By J. H. M. Robson MY DIARY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND - - - 289 By Rev. Emmanuel Rougier A TROPICAL MOUNTAIN PARK - - - - 294 + o By Judge Philip L. Weaver + ••;.• + + 0. • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HAWAII AND THE PACIFIC. Otle filibilarifir Magazine Published by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Honolulu, T. H. Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 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 copies, 25c. Entered as srcond-claw matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. Permission is given to republish articles from t:.e Mid-Pacific Magazine when credit is given There is a charm to the Australian bush or forests that grips and holds and thrills. Men spend their lives in the bush, others long for their annual .holidays that they may return once more to the glory of Australian bush life. Everywhere in the mountains of the Hawaiian Islands are falls and cas- cades, even in the city of Honolulu there are famous waterfalls known by tradition and childhood memory to the older generation of Hawaiians. Some of these, a moment's walk from the car, are not generally known. See page 225. In the Philippines it is the native who is the road builder, and he does his work well, whether by barrow on the firm, hard earth, or when clinging like a fly to the edge of the precipice, along the face of which he is to cut and build a boulevard for motorists. See page 231. In New Zealand the sport of sports .is that of conquering the mountain tops. &eel ywhere in New Zealand there are mountains, some of them as high and more inaccessible than any of the Swiss dips, yet each year another of these New Zea- land peaks is conquered. See page 24-1. To the summit of Haleakala on the Island of Maui, people climb by night to witness the glorious sunrise in the morning, but from the slopes of the great mountain, the sunset over the sea is hardly less inspiring. See page 249. In Japan every man demands an education, and even the dainty little Japanese 'women are asking for a part in the higher education of , the nation. Butterfly she may be in daintiness of costume, but she is becoming an intellectual helper of her marital partner. See page 255. In Latin America the family grows apace, nature requiring but little work for the prodigal reward she yields. The millions may not grow individually rich, but they do not starve, nor does the cold ever make homelessness a severe trial. See page 259. There are perhaps twenty thousand Chinese in Hawaii. In each of the islands the Chinese Club House is the significant land mark of their quarter. It is the pride of the club members that no Chinaman in Hawaii dies in debt. See page 263. •:* Adelaide, South Australia, is situated in a park and her suburbs are sur- rounded by other parks. From the adjacent Lofty Range of mountains streams trickle down and these form cascades and waterfalls that attract the lovers of the beautiful in nature. See page 269. The Japanese workman has not only made Japan the most thrifty of nations, but he is now teaching his methods and giving examples of patient industry to the country people of Korea, and the Koreans are learning the lesson that has made Japan great. See page 273. • • In Malaya the simple trades and tools of the people are handed down from father to son. By the roadside and in the cities they may be seen through open doorways plying their routine tasks that bring them a simple living. See page 283. In time of flood the native Hawaiian seeks his opportunity and casts his net into the raging waters that sweep the fish out toward the sea. born swimmer, seldom is there a tide or surf that deters the Hawaiian fisherman from securing his daily catch of fish. See page 277. There are islets and lagoons in the South Seas yet unvisited by man. The coconut drifts to these new formed coral and sand banks, grows, thrives, and drops a rain of ripe nuts that in time produce the coconut groves of commerce. See page 289. Polihali, the famous precipice on the Island of Kauai, is the old jumping- off place of the spirits. It begins the marvelous scenery of the Napali region, and you may even climb up this precipice if you do not mind clambering part of the way back downward on a native rope ladder. See page 294. New South Wales is the most populous of the Australian States. Within her borders are the waters of the Hawksbury River. In this State are the great wheat producing areas that tax the railways to get their produce to Sydney for ship- ment to the markets of the world. See page 217. the filth-Parifir iflagazittr CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD 111111111111111111111111111111 ■1111,1111111111 ■111114.1111111111■1111,1111111111111irilpilt$1111,■111111111,11■11.11.111,1111111.11■11.41111.11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Vol,. IX. MARCH, 1915. No. 3. ■ 1111111111111111111111111111111111t1111 1111111IIIIIIIII1111111111111111 ■1111111111111/1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII,111311.11111.11IIIIIII111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIII11111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII111111111111 II 111111111111 „II A South Pacific Granary and Garden By HON. W. A. HOLMAN (Premier of New South Wales.) F THE SIX STATES composing maritime enterprise in a Continent which the Australian Commonwealth, is commercially and strategically a veritable O New South Wales, the pioneer of golden key to the whole South Pacific. a wonderfully endowed family, proud of Her unrivalled harbour, Port Jackson, one her undisputed title of "Mother State", of nature's masterpieces in maritime archi- stands easily first in population, wealth tecture; could easily accommodate the and commercial importance, the centre of whole British navy without hampering the 217 218 THE MID-PACIFIC movements of the magnificent mercantile have a wonderful future, and your hearts marine fleets which come and go with should thrill with optimism as to the fu- their rich argosies from and to all parts ture of Australia". of the globe. The State of New South Wales com- In an official publication issued under prises an area of 310,367 square miles, the authority of the Government a few which is more than two and a half times years ago, the editor, a singularly gifted the extent of the British Isles. The rich writer, spoke of the restraint he had to and varied soils of this great expanse of put upon the enthusiasm of his staff of country yield an infinite variety of pro- contributors in describing the progress and ducts, ranging from wheat and oats to possibilities of this land of the golden lucerne and sugar cane, from tobacco to fleece and black diamonds.