Travel Letters: Hawaii, 1933 (Catharine Robb Whyte – Letters)

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{Top left corner, handwritten red: '13'} 5 come up again, but after they have to replant. The usual varieties of cane grow every which way and so they burn the fields and in that way get rid of the excess green, leaving just the cane, which is then piled into little carts and is taken to the Sugar mill on a tiny {Left margin, handwritten pencil: 'X'} Railroad. The cane that is burnt has to be made into Sugar within so many hours or one or two days and so they burn only as much of the field as they can handle at once. Each plantation has cane at all stages first planted up to all refined. They grow it very scientifically and have laboratories for testing it etc.

The road in lots of places is lined with Hibiscus trees all flowering in various shades of bright red down to [p.l.ete]? Some trees flower at the same time that they bare fruit as there are no real seasons here.

We passed a fascinating little inlet before reaching Hanalei and then came to the edge of a steep hill and there were the green rice fields, the blue harbor with its sandy beach all the way around and beautiful mountains in behind. It is a lovely sight and the river winding through it all.

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Travel Letters: Hawaii, 1933

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