The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-04-04
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.

w.rx,pr. Maui. January. 1865.


balmy and health-giving climate, Through
glorious night and calm sea, that endurable
Nuisance. the Kilauea, had aoundered along like
giant mud-turtle, and at daylight in
front OF Lahaina, smiling in fresh robe Of green
= that gave quite a charm to her faded beauties.
We did not delay long, but pushed of, leaving
two passengers, who remained behind to taste
the Iahaina beverage do not know how to
characterize it-and had to run n with
horseback over the mountains to Kalepolepo.
We saw them ON their winding way, unsteady
rs their stee,is, and appeared If the aforesaid
beverage had an effect ON their equilibrium La
~ anthougi' generally dry and dusty, has more
- pin it than any other place on the Islands
Itaows plentifuly and seems to be easily access
ibIe and yet there is not licensed drinking shop
in the place Why should such shameful viola
tons OF the law be permitted daily prac-
tieed in Lahaina? Where the officers? DO they
look upon the law adcad letter? II their vision so
obtase that they Cannot natives and foreigners
reeling intoxicated through the streets, and not
know the and where they procured tine means
Of intoxication? If they wiliully neglect to per-
form their Duty their places should be supplied by
others who will regard the lnw and not see IL vio
lated with impunity. But the fate Of our two
passengers reminds me To warn all persons to be
ware Of imbibing in Lahaina after the warning
scream Of the hIiauea's steam whistle.
The morning was calm and delicious. We
moved along close to the shore, and ut Owal0a
Witnessed the scene of the treasherous massacre
of ofunoHending natives by Captain Mctealf, OF the
ship EsGn0r-an lct which, while il stamped his
name with ignominy forever, injured the eharac-
Ter OF foreigners generally. A stnin may be cast
the fair filme of n nation by ignorant and bru-
tal captains and shippers, especially among n
people who have not learned 70 discriminate be-
tween the character OF few worthless individuals
and q nation Policy requires that man
should be sent in command Of any vessel, unless
he be man Of intelligence end character.
~ We enoyed the distant mountain view OF IIa-
y waii, where the znow-clad Kea and Loa smiled in
roseate beauty over the illuminated cIoud-yeils
Sat drnped the Island beneath them. Nearer
VIM Eahoolawe and the volcanic Island of Molo-
kini, bile to the left the precipitpus noun
tains OF Vest Maui, cleft by their deep wooded
and shadow: gorges. In the shifting light and
shade, as we wept past them, they appeared
succession OF grad dissolving views IIalcakala,
with its broad sun-;t dome, rose in front, smil-
ing grandly over wje green vale Of beauty
We steamed close to slIo- in the cain lake-likc
waters and passed beautiful sheltered cove
which is Designed as the new .nding for Waiknpu
and Wailuku. The harbor il to be called Me
Gresor's Landing. in honor of tie indefatigabIe
and efficient Captain of the hIidue IL is well
sheltered from tine trade winds, proteced by high
basaItic hills, and has n beautiful whtc sandy
beach. Ii was unruffled as a quiet lake con-
tract has been taken to construct goOt road
from this point to Maalaea-One mile ditant
beyond che point
We steamed into Maalaea Bay in front OF tie
loneliest looking hamlet I Its tw.
board warehouses and seven halepilis, in yellow
ish-brown squares, looked like great blocks oi
metamOrphie sandstone on some desert coast des-
titute OF such ornaments trees and not sur
rounded by vegetation They appeared lonely,
desoIate and bliSht-striken, and created IN me 4
wonder how the inhabitants lived-how they
procured their subsistence.
We landed Procuring horse OF the % crop
cared and bob tailed - species from native. we
mounted, passed out Of the sand beach on to the
green plain, and came in sight of n low. rounded
and isolated hill-a cote sans desseiH-rising ont
Of the level grass valley, over which hovers le-
gendary history. It il called Puuhele-hil oi
departure. or walking hill In ancient and CON-
sequentIy prehistoric times, in these Islands, II
was the penal point Of starting for certain OF
fences The offender was condemned to take hi:
departure from this hill, and with n certain bun
dle-a lns, of wood, beiieye-was compelled to
make she circuit OF the Island Of Maui and return
again 70 the same spot, somewhat resembling the
"ring'' punishment inflicted for drunkenness IN
the U. y Army, when went . n soldering
Desiring to see the landing Mt Kalepolepo, 1t not
to make a eircnit of the Island, pushed on along
the desoLate sandy shore and found n large house
surrounded by several indifferent ones, like Fall
staff towering and spreading over his ragged regi'
ment I was kindly received by Mr. Halstead
who in monarch Of all he surveys and almost M
lonely as Robinson Crusoc, although he has men
FridLtys about him His house, large and barn
Ike, il situated in n little indentatiOn OF the
sandy and surf-beaten shore. The landing u
good in the absence OF n kona, or strong north
wind, and il the point where the steamer touches
Much Of the shipping business for Waikapu and
Wailuku is done here, and perhaps It may be re-
NAnnerative to the proprietor. IL ought to be So
Tor, unless person is in love with desolation, n
Oilers no Inducements M n residence The eye 4:
Son wearied on n waste Of waters and dreary
sand-beach, and is painfully filed with sand a'
A. he turns to look at the frown.ng grandeur o
taieakela or the sand-eiouded isthmus that ex
tends towards Wailuku. lunched in magma
uon turned my jaded steed's head toward al
xaPu, and worrying through the dry and sand
hiie bed Of the channel that formerly divided the
islands OF East and West Maui, again stood OF
we hard and stony ground near Puuhele or Pena
n'i' and shaking the sand in n shower from my
s'fments and extricating it from my nostriis
y'eAthed free again, and thought the place had
i%s' left was not inappropriately called Kalepo