. Le paradis du Pacifique : les îles hawaïennes [ressource électronique] . Il a sa part de bâtiments publics, ses églises, ses écoles et la bibliothèque publique sur les îles. À Hilo, nous sommes sur un terrain historique, et son melestake nous ramène dans le passé beaucoup de générationsau-delà de celles d'Honolulu. C'est ici que le con-quérant a eu l'une de ses premières batailles pour poser les bases de sa conquête, tandis que de nombreuses légendes des êtres curieux et mystérieux qui peupleles esprits superstitititititititititititititititititititititititititititititititititititititititititieux des Hawaiens s'accrochant aux dales Onl

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. The paradise of the Pacific: the Hawaiian Islands [electronic resource] . It has its share of public buildings, its churches, its schoolhouses, and the largestpublic library on the islands. At Hilo we are on historic ground, and its melestake us back into the past many generationsbeyond those of Honolulu. It was here the Con-queror had one of his early battles in laying thefoundation for his conquest, while many legendsof the curious and mysterious beings that peopledthe superstitious minds of the Hawaiians stillcling to the romantic dales, waterfalls, palis, anddeep-wooded mountainsides. Only a mile fromthe town is Rainbow Falls, whose waters are sodelicately coloured by the suns rays that thenatives believed a fairy lived in the waters clothedin the variegated hues of the rainbow. Above the chain of sugar plantations flankingHilo, and extending up and down the coast forsixty miles, is a wider band of open country, covered with a cloak of rank grass; still abovethis is a yet broader belt of forest, whose foliagepresents a gradual but marked change from the. KAINHOW KAI.I-S, mi.O. THE ISLAND BUILDER. 221 verdure of the tropics to the polar clhne, until, farabove, the snowy crest of Mauna Kea standsboldly out against the sky. Hawaii has the loftiest and mightiest mountainsof any islands in the world. Considered fromtheir base at the bottom of the Pacific, the twogiants, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, lift theirvolcanic heads thirty thousand feet into the air, —almost six miles ! The first is thirteen thousandand nine hundred feet above the surface of thesea, while its mate is less than two hundred feetits inferior in height, and more than its equal inevery other respect. At Hilo we begin to get a vivid idea of thegreatest of island wonders, the volcanoes. Thebeauties and picturesque features of the flora andforests, the palis and valleys, the waterfalls andcoral shores, are overshadowed by the volcaniccones whose fires have illumined land and sea forages beyond the compu

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