Under Hawaiian skies, a narrative of the romance, adventure and history of the Hawaiian Islands, a complete historical account, by Albert Pierce Taylor.

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UNDER HAWAIIAN SKIES

Under the provisions of the Hawaiian Rehabilitation Act, or
Hawaiian Homes Act, passed by the United States Congress in
1921, some favored areas of Molokai were selected by the territorial government on which to try the experiment of putting
Hawaiians back upon the soil, that they may attempt the rehabilitation of their fortunes, rear their families into sturdy
children, with the hope that the Hawaiian race may be increased
rather than continue to decrease at its present alarming rate.
Water is being developed in tunnels and wells, and much is piped
across the mountains to supply the acres. Small farming is
featured. The products are sold in Honolulu. It is one of the
most remarkable forms of rehabilitation of a race attempted for
al)origines.
The principal ports on southern Molokai are Kaunakakai,
which is the Homes Commission port; Pukoo, the ancient landing; and Kolo, a newly established port laid out and built by
Libby, McNeil & Libby, to serve their great acreage devoted to
pineapples, the fruit to be shipped in barges to the Honolulu
canneries. Molokai is becoming a great agricultural center.
Contrary to general belief, Molokai is not a "leper island."
On the small peninsula of Kalawao-jutting out a long, almost
flat area of land into the sea, bounded on the land side by colossal, almost unscaleable cliffs-is the leper settlement, absolutely
apart from the remainder of the island, and a very atomic part
of it. The settlement was established in the 'sixties of last century for the isolation aind treatment of lepers, a home for them
until they passed to their final reward. The world was electrified about four years ago by the announcement of a new
method of treatment of leprosy, the treatment and the specific
therefor being lplanned out of Claulmoogra oil, by Dr. Harry T.
H-olhlla, then of the United States Public Health Service. Not
being a laboratorian he was assisted in the preplaration of the
specific by Miss Alice Ball, a young woman from America, who
worked in the laboratories of the University of Hawaii on this
work. This treatment has greatly arrested the course of the