The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-08-22
From our own Correspondent.

ULUPAIAKUA, E. NJ, Aug. 1G, 1861.
Last week l promised to send you a running
account of my visit TO Makawao and the sugar plan
tat;ons in that district. 1t was my first visit, and l
assure you I was most Hospitality received, taken in
and done for.
The road from Rose Ranch to Makawao winds along
the side of the range of hills which form the noun
tain Of iIaleakala, and is about Of an equally distant
elevation from the sea, say $500 feet. The prospect
for the whole w y, seward, IS beautiful, and to the
lover of the picturesque must afford the most pleasur-
able sensations. The islands Of Molokini, Kahoolawe,
Molokai, Lanai. and the high hills Of West Maui,
are constantly in view, each assuming new aspects as
the spectator changes his post of observation. As
you approach nearer to Makawao, the lofty summit
of Haleakala becomes visible, and in the opposite
direction, nesting at the foot Of the high mountains
Of West Maui, may be seen the green and pleasant
looking villages of Waikapu and Waikiki. The in
teryening sandy isthmus of kalepolepo. under the
sheen of the glnring noon-day tropical sun, appears
anything bnt a comfortable abiding place to the
traveller on the cool slopes of Haleakala. Whirlwinds
of sand and dust vary the prospect. and implant in the
beholder's breast a fear that. should he attempt the
passage across, he might go up like a skyrocket ifhe
was overiaken by one of hem. The distance from
Makee's to the East Mau Plantation is estimated to
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koa trees, beneath whose shade the traveller can rest,
and discuss any refreshments with which his own
providence or the hospitality of his late host or hostess
may have furnished him. The road passes through
what was formerly the potato-supplying district for
the San Francisco market and the wheat fields of
this region. I passed by several where the crops had
just been gathered, and the noise OF the threshers
could be distinctly heard. My companion pointed
out to me Il weed with some euphonious Hawaiian
name, Just spreading over the pasturage on these hill
sides, and which the cattle will not eat. 1t has
driven away many Of the natives who formerly lived
here and owned beasts and my informant told me
that, instead Of his plantation a%tfording him a cattle
range rs of yore, he expected in a few years to have
TO cultivate feed to supply the working cattle he was
obliged to keep for use. There IS one good-sized
gulch on the road, that which forms the boundary
between the district of Makawao and the one adjoin-
ing. 1t Is otherwise freer from the ups and downs
or ~sleighing " thank you marms'' which character
ize hill travelling than it is usual to find, From
Messrs. Needham * Co.'S store, the road is broad
and well defined, reminding the native Of New Eng
land of the main thoroughfares through the country
towns of that section of The United States-not late
United States, rs | read in a lecture Of Mr.. W. VI.
Gibson on Malaysia, as reported in the PolyHeSian
of the 10Th, it has pleased that gentleman TO term
them, and in which towns if the learned and Travelled
lecturer had so spoken he would have received such a
lesson as would have made him wish that he had
scraped acquaintance with his 6u6u friend be saw
- up in the tree,'' and squatted on a "corner lott
in Sumatra. Mr.. Gibson appears to have
adopted for his motto, in his illusions to the United
States, under which, it is said, he at one time held a
diplomatic position, or one which had its complexion,
the lines of the poet Ennius-