The Hawaiian Archipelago - Six Months Among The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, And Volcanoes Of The Sandwich Islands By Isabella L. Bird
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There Was A Slight
Coolness In The Air And A Fresh Mossy Smell.
It only required some
suggestion of decay, and the rustle of a fallen leaf now and then,
to make it an exact reproduction of a fine day in our English
October.
The forest was enlivened by many natives bound for Hilo,
driving horses loaded with cocoa-nuts, bread-fruit, live fowls, poi
and kalo, while others with difficulty urged garlanded pigs in the
same direction, all as presents for the king. We brought back some
very scarce parasitic ferns.
HILO, February 24.
I rode over by myself to Onomea on Saturday to get a little rest
from the excitements of Hilo. A gentleman lent me a strong showy
mare to go out on, telling me that she was frisky and must be held
while I mounted; but before my feet were fairly in the stirrups, she
shook herself from the Chinaman who held her, and danced away. I
rode her five miles before she quieted down. She pranced, jumped,
danced, and fretted on the edge of precipices, was furious at the
scow and fords, and seemed demented with good spirits. Onomea
looked glorious, and its serenity was most refreshing. I rode into
Hilo the next day in time for morning service, and the mare, after a
good gallop, subsided into a staidness of demeanour befitting the
day. Just as I was leaving, they asked me to take the news to the
sheriff that a man had been killed a few hours before.
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