The Hawaiian Islands, Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial: Coffee, the Coming Staple Product (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Affairs, Hawaii; Dept; Of Foreign

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330902858 ISBN 13: 9781330902851

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Hawaiian Islands, Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial: Coffee, the Coming Staple Product On the Island of Hawaii you can get any climate from the heat of summer to actual winter at the summits of the two great mountains. A meteorological record, kept carefully for a period of twelve years, gives 89 as the highest and 54 as the lowest temperature recorded, or a mean temperature of 71 30' for the year. A case of sunstroke has never been known. People make no special precautions against the sun, wearing straw and soft felt hats similar to those worn in the States during the summer months. Winds. The prevailing winds, as mentioned above, are the northeast trades. These blow for about nine months of the year. The remainder of the period the winds are variable and chiefly from the south. The Islands are outside the cyclone belt, and severe storms accompanied by thunder and lightning are of rare occurrence. Health. The Islands possess a healthy climate. There are no virulent fevers such as are encountered on the coast of Africa or in the West India Islands. Epidemics seldom visit the Islands, and when they do they are generally light. A careful system of quarantine guards the Islands now from epidemics from abroad. Such grave diseases as pneumonia and diphtheria are almost unknown. Children thrive wonderfully. Area. For practical purposes - and these lines are written for practical men - there are eight Islands in the Hawaiian group. The others are mere rocks, of no value to mankind at present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330902858
• ISBN 13: 9781330902851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122