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Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

CHAPTER I
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They show the care with which the Government has looked after the welfare of the people.

The Queen's Hospital is an admirably kept house.

At the Reform School you will see a number of boys trained and educated in right ways.

The prison not only deserves a visit for itself, but from its roof you obtain, as I said before, one of the best views of Honolulu and the adjacent country and ocean.
[Illustration: QUEEN'S HOSPITAL, HONOLULU.] Then there are native schools, elementary and academic, where you will see the young Hawaiian at his studies, and learn to appreciate the industry and thoroughness with which education is carried on all over these islands.

You will see also curious evidence of the mixture of races here; for on the benches sit, and in the classes recite, Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, half white and half Chinese children; and the little pig-tailed Celestial reads out of his primer quite as well as any.
[Illustration: NATIVE SCHOOL-HOUSE IN HONOLULU.] In the girls' schools you will see an occasional pretty face, but fewer than I expected to see; and to my eyes the Hawaiian girl is rarely very attractive.


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