It has a fine deep color and bears drought remarkably well; and it is the favorite pasture grass of the Islands.

I do not think it as fattening as the alfilleria of Southern California or our own timothy or blue grass; but it is a valuable grass to the stockmen, because it eats out every other and less valuable kind.
On your journey around Oahu you need a guide who can speak some English; you must take with you on the pack-mule provisions for the journey; and it is well to have a blanket for each of your party.

You will sleep each night in a native house, unless, as is very likely to be the case, you have invitations to stop at plantation houses on your way.

At the native houses they will kill a chicken for you, and cook taro; but they have no other supplies.

You can usually get cocoa-nuts, whose milk is very wholesome and refreshing.