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spirits. Tliis is a shield and a safeguard. No effective
medium is ever left entirely alone. Some member of the
sympathizing circle continues with him, to minister as necessity
demands. . . .
" No : none retrograde as a whole. There is no law of absolute
retrogression. While mortal or spirit may retrograde
morally, they may at the same time be advancing intellectually
; a man, while declining physically, may be progressing
spiritually. Action must ultimate in progress in some
direction. Upward, as one of your poets wrote, ' all things
tend.' "
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
This ocean-embosomed cluster of isles, nine in number,
has some sixty-five thousand inhabitants. When discovered
by Capt. Cook, the group was supposed to contain full four
hundred thousand. Remnants of mounds, temples, and
ruins indicate it. During the second voyage of this navigator,
a difiiculty arising, a high chief was killed by one of the
captain's party. The slain chief's brother swore revenge.
In the midst of the fray, Capt. Cook himself shot a man.
The natives, who had previously supposed him a god, found
him decidedly human. Though finally killing him through
retaliation, they dissected his body for anatomical purposes.
History and legend agree that these natives were never
cannibals.
The entrance to the harbor is through a passage in the
coral reefs that girdle the island of Oahu. Seen from the
harbor, Honolulu is exceedingly beautiful. The city, embowered
in fresh green foliage, numbers six thousand ; the
district, twelve thousand, only about two thousand of whom
are white. The Hawaiian Hotel, and the public buildings
generally, would do honor to any larger city. The gardens
are decidedly tropical. They are irrigated from mountain
streams. Fruit clogs the market. Sugar-plantations and
pulu-fields plead for more workmen. The " labor-question
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