Show elder showalter owalter an writes W IV rites letter likes like s the country but not the mos mosquitos qu aitos I 1 la laie le i oahu bahu A april p iii 12 1923 W J peters and wife aloha mie mic I 1 landed in this land of sunshine and rain just a month ago have sure enjoyed myself and this wonderful climate of perpetual summer A breeze from the sea keeps it cool but we have to sleep with a mosquito net over the bed to keep the off at night some days we think the rain is all off but clouds will come up in in about a half an hour and pour down more rain in the next half hour thau than utah gets three months the principle crops of these islands are arc pine apples and sugar ca cane ne cane grows two or three times the height heighton of a man 1 have ha e visited the pineapple fields young plants in paper they tae tale strips about twel twelve ve inches wide punch holes in them and place the roots of the plants through the holes into the ground the paper is like blotting paper and is used to hold mois moisture ture tuie for the plants As wen well as I 1 A the young love pineapples Cs 1 leaven t had the pleasure bf eating bating ohe yet fret mit but bananas are as common commom here hei re as jack rabbits are iu in gangu pangu i guv i i ey banana trees grow arrow wild here ind and everybody every dody has them in their rent front yards for shade trees I 1 lavent done an any teal mission 4 aryl york work as yet they planted me ati at aie as soon as I 1 landed ji t bave been working in im the temple aut but expect to go out among tho the natives soon and eat poi fisa fist and dog meat most of the old ha fatten their dogs like liked we 6 do hogs and then comba coleb the fiig bigi feast poi is made ingae from a vegetable 7 called taro which looks like a beet the Hawaii ns bail the taro and pound it into a thick p paster aa e they all eat out of the same a dish with their fingers s the natives in the country live on fruit poi and raw fish they never have bread poi takes the place of breadel w M H hoping to 4 hear from yo you soon I 1 am as a evet ever your you i r friend J C which is ismy my name pame in native lang t i AV aage but you c can ii call me me just JM plain J 0 SH SHOWALTER aw alteri Ri tj |