This is crossed by another running the whole
length, which opens into a very large many-windowed dining-room
which occupies the whole width of the hotel. On the same level
there is a large parlour, with French windows opening on the
verandah. Upstairs there are two similar corridors on which all the
bedrooms open, and each room has one or more French windows opening
on the verandah, with doors as well, made like German shutters, to
close instead of the windows, ensuring at once privacy and coolness.
The rooms are tastefully furnished with varnished pine with a strong
aromatic scent, and there are plenty of lounging-chairs on the
verandah, where people sit and receive their intimate friends. The
result of the construction of the hotel is that a breeze whispers
through it by day and night.
Everywhere, only pleasant objects meet the eye. One can sit all day
on the back verandah, watching the play of light and colour on the
mountains and the deep blue green of the Nuuanu Valley, where
showers, sunshine, and rainbows make perpetual variety. The great
dining-room is delicious. It has no curtains, and its decorations
are cool and pale. Its windows look upon tropical trees in one
direction, and up to the cool mountains in the other.
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