The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1871-11-11

behind the hOKl. We IN IdcL ACpt q
each other. I to see that he didn't run away and hook
the opera-elasses spoken of, and he to see that oloht
run off (run ha ha y and leave the WHO ca''e Sau
dering around us to hook him. AT last Wereach1ut
Parker-house and aside from the hospitaDle welcome
we received. twas worth while going there, II twas
only to find out how it was that that guide Ane" .ns
way to Parker's. Being your correspondent,
therefore feeling that any Information l may
or knowledge I may acquire. at no matter "hat saoT
rifice of personal comfort belongs to the 1. y. Al
impart to you gladly the secret OF no" 10 get
Paiker's. that has so long been treasured Dy our
faithful guide. Selecting any point you %
the road between Waipio and the next place either
way, (this is importantly you VIII trace your . u
means of a series of paddles, through "hioh nv
lies. On no account veRIuTe on 10 the 90
moderately soft ground You may venture ~
70 the boo-holes. for as a general thing the Dranch
roads underlying them lead to Parker's. resting places
are TO be found scattered along the route. 1hey "
built by telling a large tree across Il "oy, SHu
after one or two trials you will find it quite a reilei 10
let the animal YOU are riding get his foreiegs over
and then pause for a while. mnhe ne i haIsins
there. you can stand astride OF him on the iog' anu
and-wish you hadn't come, or-or-'nat YOU =
dead, or, in fact you can amuse yourself III
dred different ways, if you feel like 1t. Ihere Is one
thing that Y. C. would advise no man TO 90 wnile on
this road to Parker's, and that is while up to his
knees in some soft spot, to soemnly declare that " OF
all the dashed slonghs of dashed mud that it was
ever nv dashed luck to get into, this doubly dashed
bog is the worst for he will have to alter his views
when up to his neck IN the next one. In the wet
ScaSOU, lUC VIC pCn VA ~ ~ 49, - ~
soak, and visitors reach Parker's by balloon from
Waimea. The wild cattle that one meets wherever
there is dry land enough to hold them up, need not
trouble the traveller, as they rarely if ever gore any
one to death, unless it may be a stranger. or a haoie,
or somebody they don't like, or in fun, or something
of that sort. Plenty of people 1--WE are told) have
reached Parker's without taking a horn on the way,
and our mind is relieved upon being informed that
the numerous bones that we see scattered about, are
not human. We are the more inclined to credit these
statements, as we sec a gay party of some eighteen
natives, young men and women, setting oil for Wal
mea. They are the last of the wedding-party who
escorted young Mr.. Parker and his bride home some
little time ago, and as they ride off crowned with
bright lefs, imparting something of their gaiety to the
horses they bestride, (can q lady 6estrtde a horsef
Ed) they present a very animated, and withal in
tensely Hawaiian appearance.
The thick gloom and stormy cloud that hid all
Mauna Kea from our gaze, was faithfully rejected
on our brow as We saw our hopes OF reaching Its
summit dashed to the ground. AS there is a COM
pensating principle ever attendant upon all dlsap-
pointment however, we found it in this case evolved
from the statement made by Mr.. Parker, that there
was nobody on the ranch at that time who could act
as a guide over the twenty miles of bog and fen,
Sc rock, stone, and scuar,'' that lay between us and
the summit. Do you remember Mr.. Editor what the
French King did when-'t with twice ten thousand
men, he marched so bravely up the hill p" If you
do, you know all about the movements of Z. O.,
until we reached the main-road, and shortly after the
roadside residence of an old Nantucket friend
whom Providence had placed upon that spot some
many years ago, in order that, in lapse of time he
might give US a welcome. =
All that we have to say in reference to the road
down from Parker's, is that it took tto guides to
pilot US through in safety one knew the way through
the mud and water, the other, over the roots. Gail
Hamilton remarkes in her Neao Henriade, that
nobody ever knew anything about hens before, and
we can say note that nobody ever knew anything
about roots before this present writing. The right
that trees have to preempt the soil, and tangle up
the ground with roots, has been clearly acknowl-
aIOo1 ond uo M ouhmif fn fhoir hulOInn ont in
unexpected places when pressed for room underneath.
When we construct a road through a forest, We do
not expect the uncovered roots to-get up and clear
out, any more than we expect a man to give up his
seat in q street car to a woman. No sir as III one
case SO in the other, there are certain natural laws
governing roots as well as men, that cannot be yio-
lated with impunity. Very good-that's all right
but when it comes to a great big over-grown bully
of a tree jamming the ground so full of tough fibre
that it looks like a gigantic fishing net, and then
begins to send out long shoots from its trunk like
ropes that anchor themselves around every stone,
and as they crawl set themselves up like the Greek
letter q its time a protest was entered against such
goings on" Not satisfied with this, the tree
affords support to a complicated climbing parasite
that hangs around it like the tangled rigging of a
wreck around the main-mast. This new ally sends
its roots down from above, and in writhing twisting
festoons snares the unhappy passer by. One of the
most uneasy sensations that Y. c. ever experienced
was when one of these loops caught him under the
the chin at the same time that his hokt pitched head
long over q sly foot trap set on the edge of a steep in
cline. However, his guides unlocked him from that one,
his umbrella from another and his cane from a third
one, "snaked - the hoki on to his feet again, re-
united the disrupted 6 members of the press and
soon landed "us'' in safety on the aLanui. We
rode up to Mr.. C.'s door humming-"Ain' I glad
I'm out OBJ de wilderness and, as l said before,
found in him a hospitable friend with whom we
talked till late of Aud Lang Syne." Things
around these parts look blue. that is, for the hus-
bandman, but after all what is required most is
labor. Coffee does well here, so do oranges. SO
would ramie, olona, wheat and corn, but as long as
cattle and sheep roam about seeking what they may
deyour, nothing will bring in 50 many dollars as the
manufacture of the what-do-you-call-it, rum OkOie-
haO made from the XII root. And that reminds me to
mention that bottles are in great demand here. L
have been told (and the tears stood in the eyes of my
informant) that bottles had run short, and that the
efforts of the company engaged in the distillation of
this exhilarating beverage had been seriously ham,
pered in consequence. A supply is expected when
the senior partner returns from Honolulu, Che is
stopping with Fyfe for a few months) but as his en-
tertainers can't think of letting him return just at
present, the " mill , is only running half the time
now. Now it strikes us that we have seen quite a
number of bottles scattered about Honolulu (enough
for the present any how) and some enterprising
person might ship up here a few dozen gross to feel
the market. The price of the fluid remains the same
-one dollar per bottle-and this too without any
diminution in quality.
Meeting the Worthy Secretary of the Hawaiian
Board on the road, we heard again of the s. NJ. Ar
irving at { Amina's,' on the border of the Hamakua
District, we found that the S. NJ. with thoughtful
care had left here the material for a supper, and may
be a breakfast too. Items three boxes of sardines,
a can of stewed green peas, about a pound OF sugar.
a dozen cakes of hard bread, some biscuit, a chunk
of cheese. some potted tongue and ham, a lot of tea,
and full directions to make up all deficiencies with
chicken, kalo, fish and squid. In the corner of the
room a heaped-up pile of mats and quilts invites US
to repose, and by the Pickering light of q tall candle
we finish this epistle. QUIRK.
LONDON, Oct. I7.-Constantinople advices say
that the cholera has again made its appearance in
that CITY and suhurhs In tWad DAYS so nersnns died