Blacksmiths, plantation, $50 to $100 per month, house and firewood
furnished.

Carpenters, plantation, $50 to $100 per month, house and firewood
furnished.

Locomotive drivers, $40 to $75 per month, room and board furnished.

Head overseers, or head lunas, $100 to $150.

Under overseers, or lunas, $30 to $50 with room and board.

Bookkeepers, plantation, $100 to $175, house and firewood furnished.

Teamsters, white, $30 to $40 with room and board.

Hawaiians, $25 to $30 with room; no board.

Field labor, Portuguese and Hawaiian $16 to $18 per month; no board.

Field labor, Chinese and Japanese, $12.50 to $15 per month; no board.

In Honolulu bricklayers and masons receive from $5 to $6 per day;
carpenters, $2.50 to $5; machinists, $3 to $5; painters, $2 to $5, per
day of nine hours.

DOMESTIC LABOR.

The domestic labor in Honolulu and in all parts of the Islands, has
for many years been performed by Chinese males, who undoubtedly make
excellent house servants. During the last four or five years the
Japanese have entered the field; the Japanese women are especially in
demand as nurses for children.

The following are the prevailing rates of wages:

Cooks, Chinese and Japanese, $3 to $6 per week, with board and room.

Nurses and house servants, $8 to $12 per month, with board and room.

Gardeners or yard men, $8 to $12 per month, with board and room.

Sewing women, $1 per day and one meal.

Good substantial meals can be obtained at respectable Chinese restaurants
and at the Sailors' Home for 25 cents or Board for $4.50 per week.

The market for all kinds of labor is overstocked and it would be very
unwise for any one to come to these Islands with no capital on the mere
chance of obtaining employment. The many steamships arriving at this
port bring numbers of people seeking employment who are obliged to
return disappointed.

[Illustration: NUUANU AVENUE, HONOLULU.]

[Illustration: WAIKIKI BEACH.]

CHAPTER VIII.

HISTORICAL SKETCH.

Although the written history of the Hawaiian Islands begins with their
discovery by Captain Cook in 1778, yet the aboriginal inhabitants had at
that time an oral traditional history which extended back for several
centuries.

ORIGIN.

As to their origin, these people formed but one branch of the Polynesian
race, which at a remote period settled all the groups of islands in the
central and Eastern Pacific, as far as New Zealand in the South and
Ea