Polynesian., 1858-10-16
Che })olnneslan.
KOna Hawaii..-SmnIT Talk.

Surely there is no need to give picturesque or to-
biographical description of Kaiua in Kona. Everybody
knows that Kailua is a little bay, opening, one may
venture to say to the S. S. W, for will not reverse
my compass as the gentleman did who in the columns
of the Ad0atser has been aiording some account of
trip to Maunaloa, in which he places Of the biz
mountains, according to the bearings which he gives,
somewhere sea- and this little fact has given rise
up here to the wtcism that the writer wants get his
schooner chartered for exploring expedition. You
may think this very small joke, but it is the only
one that the two Konas have produced during the last
three weeks and for anything that appears to
vert such suppOston, for the last three months. We
have nothing up here in with the rollicking
boys of Waimea but quiet peace-abiding people,
moderate in our aims, temperate in lives. But let
us make finish of the bay. Its outline Ike that of
the coast both sides of it for many dreary mile is
formed Of unmtgated lava, black and unpromising
enough although in places sufficiently decOmpos
ed to bear few coarse shrubs and grasses, with here
and there cocoa-nu grove where the sand has given
the surface top-dressng, or it may be kou tree
two. But even these give relief to the eye and show
how little of the beautiful will tell when there good
foil to set it off, reminding Of the remarkably plain
spnster lady who comorted herself by rejecting that
it was not every one who could say she had wart
her cheek with three hairs growing out of it Here
and there too the coast is fringed with little edges of
sand and is indented with smaller bays and hollows
where the fishermen pull up their and build the
hamets in which they pass their unambitiOus lives,
happy if they pay the small annual tax demanded
of them by the government and meet the stated calls
which the churches make for foreign missions etc etc
1t is hardly necessary remind the reader that here
the first missionaries landed that here the Conqueror
breathed his last and left behind him undivided
kingdom; that Young and Davis that Chettans COM
panions in arms, and to no extent counsellors,
were in the habit of passing portion Of their time
here always taking to nnoculae the mobiles of that
day with such scraps of old country method and lore
as seemed capable of being ingrafted on the native
stock of and habits of thought. Here, too,
Kuakni lived, who under the more familiar appela-
ton of Governor Adams proved himself to be possessed
Of the spirit of great progressionis; he spoke and
read the English language with considerable uency
built good stone houses, in Of which writ
ing and very good house it is-take it altogether
do not know of any these islands, however recently
constructed, that prefer to it, although it is already
twenty years old and has never been repaired. But
this is climate in which shingles and wood work last
we for on the beach here it is generally hot and dry,
and severe blows are On the west side of the
bay near the dismantled Fort the remains of what
was intended for sugar mill, although it never
used as such for when the foreigner who built it and
was to superintend the subsequent processes to