But almost everywhere the sugar is sent over vile roads to a more or less difficult landing, whence it is taken in launches to the schooners which carry it to Honolulu, where it is stored, coopered, and finally reshipped to its market.

Many landings are made through the surf, and I remember one which, last spring, was unapproachable by vessel or boat for nearly four weeks.
Each sugar planter has, therefore, problems of his own to solve.

He can not pattern on his neighbors.

He can not base his estimate on theirs.

He can not be certain even, until he has tried, which of the ten or a dozen varieties of cane will do best on his soil.