poi-makers

Updated: May 23, 2025

Perhaps this was an exaggeration, though it is a fact that they are capable of sustaining a population of even much greater density than this estimate would indicate. The ubiquitous Chinamen are found here as gardeners, laborers, house-servants, fruit-dealers, and poi-makers. What an overflow there has been of these Asiatics from the "Flowery Land!"

Maturin Murray Ballou - Foot-prints of Travel: or, Journeyings in Many Lands