Identifier: onesummerinhawai00math (find matches)
Title: One summer in Hawaii (electronic resource)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Mather, Helen
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: New York : Cassell Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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except the leader, who is aGerman named Berger. The band isemployed by the government at a costof $50,000 a year. They are profi-cient, and render both classical andpopular music with skill and expres-sion, and when one considers whateasy-going, pleasure-loving creaturesthey are, and how difficult it must 108 one SUMMER IN HAWAII. have been to make them adhere to thepractice long enough to perfect them-selves, enough praise cannot be giventheir leader, who has accomplishedwonders with these music-loving chil-dren. Herr Berger has composed a piecewhich has been adopted as their na-tional air, called u Hawaii Ponoi,which is played whenever the kingis present. Racing is much the same the worldover. A tap of a bell, a flash of color,and away they go ; a murmur of ex-citement, a moment of anxious peer-ing through the field glasses, and acheer at the finish. Horses are the factors in the mad-dest, wildest sports we know. A neckand neck rush clown the home stretch ONE SUMMER IN HA IVAII. 109
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will arouse ennui to enthusiasm ; andI can imagine nothing more excitingthan a splendid mount and the cry oftally-ho, ONE SUMMER IX HAWAII. The incident of the morning wasafterward related to the company byHis Majesty, who gracefully threwaround each of us a beautiful let ofgreen with the moka-hcnna berries,so much admired by us. Thesewe wore for the remainder of theday and preserved afterward as sou-venirs. One cannot help being charmed withthe amiability and innate goodness ofthe native race. They held their im-provised picnics under the trees, andwatched the races through the lowpaling in a quiet and orderly way.The horses owned by the natives werethe favorites with them, and they tooktheir defeat as a personal calamity ; butwhen success crowned their efforts, joywas depicted on every countenance, ONE SUMMER IN HA WAIT. and their enthusiasm was unbounded.There was no drunkenness, however,and no disorder of any kind. As I looked at the jovial company, andwatched the gay scenes being

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