The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-01-08

with sweetish taste, but edible and refreshing.
The tree resembled the wild olive The ulei made
its appearance also with it's pale white berries in
luxuriant profusion. They were also edible, with
an agreeable flavor. The prickly pear Nopal
Of Mexico, was also occasionally loaded with
fruit, refreshing and delicious to the thirsty trav
eler. Who says that the Hawaiian forests are
destitute of wild fruits ?-and why should the lost
wayfarer perish with hunger and thirst? There
are wild fruits, which if not delicious, are refresh
ing, and there are but few localities high up the
mountain sides, where natural tanks or reservoirs
of water can not be found. Next came the deep
umbrageous kuk,li groves, and with the trees came
the welcome song of the birds. They poured forth
a glad morning hymn, and fell like grateful music
on the ear after the passage of the sterile deserts
of lava.
The forest grew deeper, the vegetation more
luxuriant, and giant species Of rhubarb, called
by the natives hdkala, made its appearance, grow
ing in great punches with its long banana-like
leaves. Horses appeared grazing On the noun
tain side, and as heavy rain cloud gathered over
and shrouded the summit of Hualalai, emerged
from the woods, and came out upon an open
space where the ground was fresh cleared and
peared to the left, and hale pills made their APP
pearance. Here the road extended between stone
walls. and so continued for several miles. The
highland taro grew well, and coffee trees flour
ished vigorously among the rocks. Bananas were
plentiful, and broccoli grew uncultivated along
the line of the stone walls, over which the mas
| turtium twined in full flower. There was a fra
GRANGE in the atmosphere and an exhilaration that
l have felt no where else in these sunny islands.
pushed on over a rich country, but partially
cultivated only in fact enough to exhibit its pro-
ductiveness and capabilities. The road was along
the slope of broad ridge that made down from
Hualalai parallel with the sea coast, toward an
other broad wave of ancient and partially decom-
posed lava that made down from Mauna Loa, and
met it midway between the two mountains. Kai-
lua. Keauho and several scattered villages with
their cocoanut groves on the right. Through
woodland groves resonant with the wild birds
song, through vast fields of dracena, by coffee
fields, orange orchards bright with their golden
fruit and by groves of breadfruit trees, the road
wound, till just the sun approached the merid-
ian, met our friend Hughes, who is about to ex-
change machinery for sugar planting along with
Mr. Carsely. l accepted with avidIty an invita-
ton to dinner, as had ridden from Kiholo some
80 miles without breakfast and l must confess L
never enjoyed dinner more. The milk and but
ter delciousy cool and fresh, not even my
German friend of Lahaina could surpass the
bread, and the roast beef was la mode An
hours social converse, a refreshing shower, and
fresh horse, and rode forward to Keopuka,
where my kind friend, Mr.. Cooper, furnished an
other steed; then down the hill past Napoopoo
to Honaunau, where l arrived just in time to see
that prince of inter-island shippers -Marchant-
sail out of the roadstead. The sun set over my
expectations of seeing him; but being philosoph-
ical, if not stocal, am enjoying happy time at
Honaunau. LA PAZ.