You will say the rewards are not great enough to attract this vile class.

Perhaps not; but at any rate it is not there; and I do not know, in short, where else in the world you would find so kindly, so gracefully hospitable, and, at the same time, so simple and enjoyable a society as that of Honolulu.
No one can visit the Islands without being impressed by the boundless hospitality of the sugar planters, who, with their superintendents and managers, form, away from the few towns, almost the only white inhabitants.

Hospitality so free-handed is, I suspect, found in few other parts of the world.

Though Honolulu has now a commodious hotel, the residents keep up their old habits of graceful welcome to strangers.

The capital has an excellent band, which plays in public places several times a week; and it does not lack social entertainments, parties, and dinners, to break the monotony of life.