What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

VOYAGE TO THE HAWAIIHAN ISLANDS.
rieties of a sea not always pacifically inclined, whatever its name
may imply; for old Ocean, disposed to assert for a timne its pre rogative of capriciously administering penal inflictions, reminded
me of the rough discipline of a pedagogue-may his committed
cruelties, as well as his omitted duties, no longer rise in judg ment against him!-who once reined and ruled in my native
town. The words are to be taken literally, for he achieved a
perfect success in restrainm;nq the young idea, by beating the
pupil with a ruler he was thus familiar with the use of, in a
manner that dwarfed any germ of knowledge that may have
taken root in his aching brain. Our experience in latitude 23~
N. was like a practical boxing between seas coming from two
opposite points of the compass, alternately trying which could
hit the "Rapid" the hardest blow, and produce the greatest
consternation in state-room and cabin. Going directly before
the wind, with no opposing force to steady the ship thus receiving lateral shocks, the largest latitude of rolling ensued, with a
consequent vacation of berths, in, disregard of the proprieties
of toilet. As to the performances of the dinner-table, when the
curtain rose on that "comedy of errors," the manner in which
dishes danced, castors capered, plates polka'd, claret chasse"d,
decanters dos-a-dos'd, and all, including the passengers, finally
participated in a promiscuous ho-down, those only can judge of
who have been actors in sulch a scene. Fortunately a day of
such infliction was all we were at this time called on to endure,
or despite the steward's precautions of table-racks and sandbags, the " Rapid's" entire pantry would probably have served
to exemplify the poet's "wreck of matter."
The propitious trade-wind bore us to the north of Me island
of Hawaii, not seen in the distance, against the highlands of
which it "caromed," rebounding with diminished force on our
port side. With less of headway we then skirted the islands of
Maui and Mfolokai, and passing through the channel between
the latter and Oahu, were caught up again by a spanking breeze
and wafted along the breaker-bordered shore of that island, lofty
hills rising in the background to bathe their brows in the vapors of the northeast trades. But a brief space elapsed ere passing Coco Point, when a pilot coming aboard off the little cres
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