Flags and hankerchiefs fluttered from dense masses of spectators, and our colors were radiant above the roofs.

There was, as usual, a mist on the mountains, and over Pearl Harbor glowed the arch of the most vivid rainbow ever seen, and Honolulu is almost every day dipped in rainbows.

This was a wonder of splendor.

The water changed from a sparkling green to a darkly luminous blue.

From the moment the lofty lines of the coast--our mountains now--faded, till the birds came out of the west, the Pacific Ocean justified its name.