The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1859-09-17

| HAWAuAn AHIMA1A-While the human popula-
tion Of the Hawaiian group has been graduSly de-
creasing, the brute population seems to have g
regularly incfeased. At the time when Capt. Cook
discovered the islands, dogs, swine, fowls, micesand
o few varieties of wild birds were the only represen
tatives of the brute creation Now 5 : their name Is
LEGION Cattle are plentiful upon all the large IS
lands. On Northern Hawaii. particularly, they
roam wild through the forests, and are destroyeu
annually. in great numbers, merely for the sake OF
the hide. Burdens which were once borne upon the
shoulders of men are now consigned to the backs OF
horses, donkeys, and mules, which far out-numDer
their masters !; and horses have begun to be used, 10
some extent at least, as an article OF food' oy the
natives. There are now about two horses to every
man upon the islands. Hogs have multiplied SO
that they now run wild on all the large islands, ana
are hunted with dogs and guns by the sportsmen.
| Wild goats are abundant in some localities In the
vicinity of Mauna Kea, on Hawaii. and also in the
interior of Kauai, dogs roam, sometimes In large
packs, through the woods, subsisting upon such hogs
and calves as they can kill, and upon the farmers
sheep. Wild cats are numerous on some Of the is
lands-living mostly upon the mice which are indi-
genous to the group. OF birds we have comparative
" a small variety. Among the useful kinds, that
pick up a living in our forests, are the goose, the
duck the snipe, the plover, the turkey and the
pigeon the last two have been imported by foreign
ers. and the climate seems to agree with them capt.
tally. On all the islands they have rapidly multi
piled. he neighborhood of Waimea, Hawaii. is par
ticularly a ~favorite place of the pigeons. They gen.
orally fly there in large focks. returning always1t
night to their regular roosts in one or two little
mountain valleys, far removed from the settlement
of man. Great numbers congregate in these places,
and it is said that a visit to them. as a matter of
curiosity, is we'll worth the trouble of a short journey
and a night in camp.
The project of introducing deer upon the islands.
has as yet not been attended with success. The three
deer which still remain at Kahuku, on this island,
seem to live very comfortably, but they do not in
crease and multiply as they ought to. We trust that
other importations will be made with a more success
full result ; for there seems to be no reason why our
mountains and highlands should not be as well stock
ed with deer as any mountains and highlands in the
world. A few terrapin, turned loose together IN
some favorable locality, would no doubt thrive, and
in the course of time make the group a second CALI
pages, and the Alpaca, or Peruvian sheep, too, would
perhaps do we'll amid the higher mountain regions,
and yield in its silky fleece, a new store of wealth.
There is plenty of room yet. for the enterprise of the
Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society.
THOSE ELEPHANTS AGAIN.-In reference to the
question whether the elephants will be allowed to
bring their trunks ashore, duty free, a friend suggests
that in case NO permit is granted they can easily
smuggle them in-'because, you know, elephants
have a great capacity for hide :" The same gentle
man, (not our c-hronometer friend asked US what
order of architecture the elephants head most resem-
bled. We p~rofessed our inability to answer him.
"Why, the Tusk-an,'' said he, displaying his own
ivory in a Satanic leer. We tainted.
- The Yankee may be looked for about the mid
die of next week.