Nuhou, Volume I, Number 4, 7 March 1873 — Hawaiian Industry. [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian Industry.

, l?e often heai' sneers |about the laziness of the Hawaiian; but our experience in these Iblan<l?? entirely disproves the to our mind. " kapaka is a hard worker, and ean beat the European in any exercise"of physical enduraDce m tliese latitudes. , r We have known kauakas to puil a heavy whaleboaft for eight hours op a stretch without resf; and on a meal of poi ai}d fish taken many liours bcfpre they started. ji kanaka will go into a hiHy wooded district* fiscend a steep hill over 1,000 feefc high 3 get. aheavy house timber, we}ghing perhaps 150 pounds, and bring it down on |his soulder, going ov.er a distance of two miles eaeh way, and perform two such trips a da^. A native will hoe all day j in the hot sun, without any noonday meal, esct?pfc perhaps a cold sweetpotjatoe he liave with him in the field. The remain out |sometimes all day, half »aked, hungry, and wet all the time, angling in eea, or 6crambling, among the hot rocks. of the shore for limpets.| The native rancher is among the boldest ai}d most indefatigable of riders, capturing wild ' bullock ? s t and dragging into the eea to bje made fest a!ongside of boats.; and Hawaiian eeaman Is we know desired by ]shipmasters in every latitude of this Thereibre we are not be taught, or prompted to give to our native friends due eredit for industry. our friend Kipi of pilo, is an energetic, and suqcessful planter of sugar eane; and Keoni Ii and his 'associates at North Kohala, $nd Kenul an<i others at Wailuku, who are illitstrating so Hawaiian are men. who workel witjh us in years past, sp that we ean speak feqlingly ūt the industry of iellow worker£, but ibrall |this we have yet to jparn that a Hawaii ■> n organized a plantationi whieh is under£jtoud to inc!ude a miu, and the inanufHoture of tugai. And when we speak: of their induatry it is as mdfependent workers, andnot ashirellngB. Thero lpafers among Uieiu.; atul we |have xiot yot met a single pauper.