The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-03-28

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Return to the Capital.
Monday the 10th was an exceptionally fine day
for even this climate, in which fine weather is the
rule. The sun shone brightly but with the tempered
heat of the season, and the northern hran7a voc
mouerate and cool. As the steamer swung off into
the stream and began her voyage, amid the cheers
of the assembled multitude and the thunder of can
non from the war ships close at hand and from more
distant Punchbowl, while the band on the tafFrail
(under the direction of Berger, coolIy perched on
the ~ice-chest) gave the national I'M hymn
of Kamehameha-the futtering of handkerchiefs
between ship and shore-the lines of white-frocked
sailors manning the yards of the men-of-war,-the
whole formed a scene not soon TO be forgotten. The
steamer sped swiftly through the lines of foam on
either hand that mark the reef-bound entrance to
the harsor, and as the shades of evening descended
we found ourselves heading out into the wide ocean.
4 feeling of loneliness-of est%rangement from the
worlds apt to creep over the spirit when we find
ourselves thus suddenly alone at sea, especially when
We have left q CHEEKY demonstrative crowd, stretch
ing their hands lovingly after US, as we had just
done. But there was little room for the indulgence
of this sort of sentiment in our party. We had, to
be sure, enough of the Byron - in our group to
quote from the melancholy Childe Harold
Once more upon the waters, yet once more" &c.
But we had some good singers also, who gave to the
well-fngered t~wanging of a guitar some mirth-pro-
vokiDg ditties; and the band-boys, who all have
good voices well-trained, sang some very pretty ma
tive songs. Thus pleasantly passed the evening, as
we glided away into the night and the waste of wa
tiers. The sea was smooth, and the motion of the
steamer easy, SO that there was a general exemption
from the much-dreaded infiction of sea-sickness.
In the words of a popular song from the pen of a
Royal poet
40 ka wal, ia lana MALE"
When the usual hour for " going to bunk - had
arrived, at the Kings instance the command was
given from the quarterback, "noho MALE keep
siIence-and then the appropriate Hawaiian custom
on passenger vessels was observed, of some appoint
ed person Tin this instance Mr.. j. Porter Green, the
purser) imploring the Divine protection for the ship
and her company, during which all stood or reclined
with uncovered heads-che only sound beside the
voice of prayer being the pleasant FLASHING of the
waves and the mufled t~hrobbing of the engine.
This thoughtful, reverent recognition of the Deity
was continued, morning and evening, throughout
the Royal Progress.
THE FIRST SIGHT OF KAUAI.
At daylight on Tuesday morning, the boat having
according TO Capt. Marchant made elereH knots an
hour throughout the night, we saw the prominent
landmark of Haupu, a round rocky hill a little to
the southwark Of Nawiliwili, and reached the an
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Honolulu. The distance from Honolulu to Barber's
Point is 19 miles, and from thence to Nawiliwili 81
JOG miles altogether. We did not however cast
anchor in this bay, but after landing the freight,
mails and passengers, (including among the latter
Judge Harris and Attorney General Hartwell, who
went to hold the Circuit Court) we sailed on for Ha-
nalei. Nawiliwili has a wide bay, and a good au-
chorage, except during s~outherly gales, when it is
unsafe. \ few miles inland from here is the Lihue
Plantation, belonging to an association Of owners
who mostly reside at Honolulu. It is reported to be
the best paying plantation stock in the islands at
present, although it has passed through some yicissi-
tudes. 1t has an abundance of fine lands, and is
well watered by ~irrigating bitches or canals, con-
structed with much labor and engineering skill,
bringing a never-failiBg supply of water from the
hills a distance of 16 miles. Leaving Nawiliwili at
I.40 A. NJ, we
STEAMED ALONG THE COAST,
Some three or four miles of, over a smooth sea, the
sun shining brightly with a gentle breeze from the
north. At 1870 We we're off Anahola, a village on
the seashore, and at IL passed the ancient extinct
crater of Kilauea, from which the active one of Ha-
wall takes its name, according to native tradition.
At IL 40 passed the site of an old mud-fort, built by
the Russians about 1914, when they had trading
posts here and at Waimea. Shortly after passing
the bold bluff on which the fertilization stood, we
steered in for another -headland, and soon entered
and cast anchor within the beautiful