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Friday-Spent last nite & tonight at Oshima Hotel.  Walked down to Haina Mill,one mile down. Caught a ride back met Sandy, borrowed his car & drove to old Poambau landing-most spectacular.  Tried to find Hanokaa Landing, but got lost in camp.  went to a show-"Midnight Taxi," & "Black Diamonds".(very good story of mine strike).  saw the town filled with fog.  Wrote.

Sat-wrote in restaurant ("Inter Island")
-rode to Waimea then to Hawi-
explored the town.  Am staying at Yamamoto Hotel tonight.
at Honokaa

Story magazine- excellent stories-read in restaurants and on sidewalks.
a neat Japanese girl [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] pushing cane off the floor of cane cars at Haina (Hanoleaa will)
Mill noises-straw bosses.  Portuguese truck drivers.  The old post office perched above the road-the oiled
verandah.
Japanese meals in Honokaa-the intelligent waitresses.
Bouner of Hickam Field-on vacation-at the bar all day buying wine for Frank, the asthmatic village drunkard.  Alka-Seltzer for the haole couple after a night of drinking- "Too much aloha," they kept saying to