However. the Portuguese were promised opportunity and opportunity they found and wrote of in letters home. So favorable were the reports that by 1913. 13.000 Portuguese men. women. and children made the trip and settled in the Hawaiian Islands. In Hawaii. they worked on the sugar plantations. Like other immigrants already there and yet to come. the Portugure were indentured servants bound to spend their first years in the red soil of the sugarcane fields. Although they could have spent their entire lives working in the fields. a large number of the Portuguese worked off their debt and then looked outside of the plantation. They sought their own land and their old way of liferanching.
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