Far Countries as Seen by a Boy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Far Countries as Seen by a Boy

I have seen ladies at home that I thought were much decorated with huge bouquets of flowers, but in Honolulu they make chains of them of all brilliant colors, and both men and women wear them as wreaths, or hung about their necks; at least the natives did who met our steamer, calling out, Aloha Aloha They offered me so many that I was surprised to think that they knew I was coming and I had four Of all different colors about my neck, when father interfered and paid up, twenty-five cents apiece. He te marked then, that perhaps it might be just as well if I kept a little more in the background and didn’t try to play the part of advance courier.

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