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Excerpt from Wandering Words: Reprinted, by Permission, From Papers Published in the "Daily Telegraph" And Foreign Journals and Magazines
Portuguese; the American residents totalling 1928, and the English 1344. There are, besides, over 1000 Germans scattered about the group, and 600 other foreigners, more or less, including seventy French men - a mixed population, amid which the indigenous Kanaka race, that Well deserved to be perpetuated, is, alas! Sadly and steadily decreasing.
That this Paradise of the Pacific is not without its drawback, the voyager will be grievously reminded as he approaches Diamond Head, and comes round into the anchorage of Honolulu. Broad on the port side of the Ship, about thirty miles from the little city, Molokai rises fair and fertile from the ocean the Island of Lepers. Here, as all know too well, banished from the beautiful isles to the west and south, are imprisoned for the term of their natural lives more than a thousand victims of leprosy, that curse of the Hawaiian archipelago and here Father Damien's example of fearless humanity and divine compassion is being followed by more than one de voted priest and woman. Molokai itself is beautiful enough to be a fitting Purgatorio to the Para diso beyond.
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