My dear Sir,

A remark in your last calls for a few words from me still.² I refer to foreign fruits. In speaking of the food of the people, I had in my mind the staple food—but I ought to have mentioned that a great many tropical fruits have been introduced, such as the mango, guava, orange, pine-apple—peach (very inferior) during the last century. Still the people do not much care for fruits; it is the foreign community and shipping interests that call for their cultivation, and the export to San Francisco.

They are grown by the Chinese chiefly for this purpose. The banana I believe to have been indigenous. The Bread fruit in the Hawaiian Archipelago is little grown. Maize is hardly grown at all there, strange to say. Even now; the sugar cane is widely cultivated. How far it is indigenous I cannot say. The natives at all events suck the cane, pulling off the outer skin or rather champ it. It is a favourite relish & universal. Now it is an interesting question whether this is an innovation (for it w^d. have considerable influence) or whether it is an old practice. Some natives declare they always had the sugar cane, or at least, a wild sort (sorghum it is called— I grew a crop yearly for my own horses). But of course here there is a great sugar export. Some 500 tons monthly to S. Francisco.

I am My Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | T N Staley | Bp.

The isotherm of Honolulu is 77^o. F.³ Range of Thermom about 20^o   Thus under cool winds temperate fruits grow at least on plateaux.