The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-08-17
a Visit to Maui-No. l.
IEY orE owN CORRESPONDENT

Human ingenuity, skill and science have accom-
plishrd miracles IN these days, in annihilatng time
and space. and making nature everywhere mans
0bedient servant and assistant but strange 10 say,
not the slightest approach has been yet made to-
wards either preventing, treating or curing that
demon,
ssAsIcKSEss.
To its insidiorS approaches the strongest have to
suceumb. tie iaircst become objects OF disgust, the
most polite and punctiliOus man grows mOrOse and
abrupt. and all the pride aud starch are taken out
d us simultaneously with our bile. i there no
balm in Gilead Tor sea-sickness2 Not any that /
SNOW Of
THE Ku-UEk.
On her passage to Maui on the night o. the l2th inst.
kick~d and plunged in the strO0g trade wind swell
IKE q young colt, and even =" old sea-dOgs" on
board bad - acknowledge their allegiance 10 Nep-
tune. But the steamer IS not 50 stiff as she was
souHr years ago, and her old frame quiveTs and
-ways 10 the raging pillows. in . way that gives
Iumistakeable token that years and the hard treat
mcut she has met with in her frequent encounters
with the shore. are beginning TO tell on her. She
may, with nursing. last 4 good many years more,
but We can't expect impossibilities. and II is high
lime 10 be looking about for u new steamer 70 take
the place Of the hI1ued. The bill introduced in
the Assembly by Mr.. Rice. of Kauai. for the pur-
chase or construction OF 4 new steamer for the inter
island trade. is q timely measure, and should be
carried ont without unnecessary delay. Every one
comedies that We must have steam communication
between the islands, even If II Is supported At the
expense Of the public treasury. But the experience
Of the present management has shown that one
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expenses.
Going to leeward Of Lanai ON account of the strong
trades and consequent heavy sea, We arrived at
LAHAISA
At halE-past five on Tuesday morning. This once
proud second city Of the Kingdom, where large fleets
of W~halships were wont to cOngregate a few years
ago, has settled down into an extremely dirty and
dilapidated village, squatted among cane fields. And
this Omni-present cane Is the apparently r~edeeming
feature. The population, with but few exceptions,
appears to be engrossed in the growth of cane, either
largely or on q small scale One of the exceptions
as 10 production, probably, was an individual who
met our landing party on the wharf, and who was in
n maudlin state Of intoxicatiOn. \ foreigner 50 bad
ly drunk, so cary in the morning, has been for some
time a rare sight in Honolulu, and this preliminary
experience Of Lahaina, fOrcibly reminded me Of the
old-time boast Of its citizens, that il was a moral
town. II is fair TO say, however, that this was a SOL
itary instance observed during a stay Of an hour,
though / leIrned incidentally that stimulants could
be obtained, by the initiated, quite Us freely as ever
and we know how it used to be. There never was
q more transparent piece OF juggiery than the plan
Of not allowing q spirit license for that same town of
Lahaina. Ii has caused u vast deal Of law breaking
and has not prevented drunkenness.
\ wharf, with q comfortable landing place, and
derrick for loading and unloading boats, is q great
improvement on the old sand beach.
The Lahaina folks complain much Of drought, and
truly the cane fields looked dry enough. But sailing
down the shore, at Ukumehame, at the mouth Of the
I stream that comes out Of the gulch, the sea aud
breakers were darkly stained with mud, showing that
there had been n heavy rain in the interior. 1t was
down this gulch Of Ukumehame that DR.. and Mrs.
Judd "A good many years ago performed the feat of
crossing the island, Mrs. Judd being carried down
the pals in the arms of the natives-sO goes the
native story. 1t was here also that the late Dr. {. Il.
Rookie discovered a deposit Of rock salt in n ledge of a
| precipice some 2000 feet high. / saw n specimen Of
the salt during the Doctors lifetime, in his cabinet Of
curiosities. -