Identifier: beneathhawaiianp00good (find matches)
Title: Beneath Hawaiian palms and stars
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Goodhue, E. S. (Edward Solon)
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Publisher: Cincinnati: Editor Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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e the charge is from $2to $3 a day. There are few good restaurants; I maysay there are none. Rooms may be rented by the week.Board in private families ranges from $8 to $12 a week.There are hotels at Lihue, Kealia, and Hanalei, Kauai,Wailuku and Makawao, Maui; at the Volcano, in Hilorand at P.ihala,Hawaii. At all other points private accom-modations will have to be secured in some way or other.If you c >me to a native house at any time, all that itposses es will be at your disposal. Where there are noother places, foreign residents are most obliging to trav-elers, and have gone out of their way to show them fa-vors. Some of the old missionary homes have been per-petual guest-houses, where the stranger was received,housed, fed, and often shown about the country withrefreshing hospitality. I am sorry to say that this gen-erosity has too often been abused by travelers that havefailed not only to be grateful, but have exhibited themanners of a boor. Horses and carriages are easily pro-
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IN THE PLACE OF B.EDEKER 33 curable at any of the small hamlets where travelers go- For obvious reasons, it costs more to travel a given distance here than it does on the mainland. Fares arehigher,and delays more frequent. It is ninety-two milesfrom our home to Honolulu, and it costs one weeks timeand $38 in money to go there, reckoning necessary ex-penses, and an immediate return. As a Westerner ex-pressed it to me the other di3r: One hundred dollarsaint nowhere on these ere islands. The hurried tourist that wishes to udo the groupas quickly and thoroughly as possible, should be willingto stay six weeks anyway. Indeed, the coming of anypleasure seeker that cannot stay that long should be dis-couraged. If he will accommodate me by stepping off from theAustralia, Tuesday,August 17th., I will see that he getsa good luncheon at noon,and time to arrange for a shortsea voyage to Kauai. The Mikahala leaves at 5 P. M.,and our traveler finds dinner ready for him on board.As he has just left o

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