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translation of english signs
The word "Kapu" as a translation of "No trespassing." My driver says it means same as "Taboo." Kanaka language seems to be used frequently and many notices and official publications are translated and printed in Kanaka. Language seems simple. Alphabet only a few letters. Drove back over road below Diamond point a bare cliff with volcanic rocks around near soldier's barracks. Then beautiful drive leading to Aquarium near a Coconut palm grove and well kept lawn. Public bathing and recreation. Aquarium small but unusually interesting on account of unusual specimens of fishes. most of which have the most unexpected shapes and colors  Bright canari-yellow. others beautiful metallic blue, or striped
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with the most vivid colors. Then along drive parallel to Wakiki Beach, unusually wide beautiful flat beach. Breakers arriving in parallel lines. Bathers jump them standing on plank. very picturesque
So are special native outrigger boats with a spar attached alongside a very narrow dug out canoe connected with two side arms all this lashed together so as to insure better flexibility  
all this looks [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] very exotic and picturesque. Saw a very beautiful big hotel. - Moana Hotel? Rice fields and duck ponds etc. Lunched at Young's Hotel, fine comfortable big modern hotel. Officers and their wives, all in [[strikethrough]] Kakki [[/strikethrough]] Kahki or white uniforms much in evidence, but none of that swaggering posing tendency of european officers. They all look simple good-natured and businesslike. Am told that upper stories of hotel building are rented for military
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