The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 34: February 1, 1899
George Quayle Cannon
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 25, 2018)
Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 34: February 1, 1899The white houses nestled in the vivid green of perpetual summer, ๏ฌower strewed and fern-bedecked lawns, the waving palms and cocoanuts, the town sloping clear up to the top of the crested hills on the north; Pearl Harbor was on the left with its land-locked bay and tiny Central island; Punch Bowl Hill reared aloft on the right with its half-formed giant's cup filled in with rarest mosses, and gigantic ferns like small feathery trees. All this burst like a vision upon the delighted beholders, and the ship sailed swiftly nearer and nearer.Away along the coast to the right and below the Punch Bowl, ran the summer homes and white bath-houses of Waikiki, and all along the near coast line, rocked lazily ships from almost every nation under the sun. Steamers, long, narrow and brilliant with bunting; sailing ves sels with white sails gleaming in the hot tropic sun; vessels of all sizes and descriptions crowded the roomy bay and crept up to the very shore-line.As they approached near enough to distinguish forms, they saw the docks were c'overed with dark-faced, white clothed natives eagerly watching the arrival 'of the semi-monthly steamer.Just then Mary heard a great splash ing and screaming right near the boat, and she drew her eyes away from the somewhat distant shore to the blue waters of the sea directly under the shadow of the steamer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.