The Hawaiian gazette., 1879-08-20
WAIIAN GAZETTE
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
CRAWFORD MACDOWELL.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 20, 1879.
OUR CALIFORNIA LETTER.
Especial Correspondents of the Gazette
TIE SUMMIT, Santa Cruz Co.,
Cnl.. Anpnst | 1879.

u reauiug oy reason oil possessing an unlnVltlng
title. OF that fact all publishers are aware.
Having brief story to write, haze spent if
teen precious minutes in search Of heading
at once suggestive and appropriate, and the re-.
snlt is,
To WHAT A blackboard BRouGHr U.s.
"Us, who Raphael. young Boston banker;
Wilhemiua, lovely Quakeress, from Indiana );
little Tong Sing How, her Chinese protege. and
all of myself that should have belonged to such
party. With Others of our households, we
had days previous left the heat, dust, sin and
sorrow OF the city behind us, and boarding O
South Pacific Coast railroad car, headed towards
the Coast-Range, hoping to 6ud somewhere
among its lofty heights and deep recesses, soul
rest, novelty and bodily vigor.
All the fashionable world of California had
become Arabs and were living in tents some.
where, why should we not follow suit? We
did, pitching them beneath the spreading boughs
of Oakmont park dozen or more acres SO re-
mote from railroads and post-ofices that not
more than twice a week would we have oppor-
tunity for word or letter from the dear ones left
behind US.
Having got ready for bookkeeping, and fairly
settled to enjoy ourselves, were we in Paradise
Air as pure as light itself, and fragrant with the
breath of pines, filled our lungs; while millions
of mosquitoes, flies and tiny gnats, tatooed our
bodies with an energy and skill uneqaalled in
that barbaric art. We slept beneath the soft
simmer OF stars set in a back ground of opal
line beauty, upon bags filled with fresh and
scented hay, yet were enabled to discern the
most delicate bone in our anatomies without the
touch OF hnger, at the same time furnishing to
Industrious ants and speculative spiders, broad
surface for research. We trod on softest moss
and leaves, broidered with ferns and wild flowers,
our neither limbs meanwhile, wrapped up Sc
curely in folds and folds of newspapers, to avoid
being pricked into agones by the short Spanish
needles which We encountered at every stem
We walked half mile six or eight times daily,
Tor bucket of the coolest. cearest, purest water
that ever bIest the throat of man, but trod wa
rlly, for the trail OF the serpent"-large ones
three feet long and more, and sometimes with
rafting appendages-was seen across our path.
We ate Graham gems and sardines canned oys-
tiers and Hygiene .ruit-cake, because vegetables
do not grow upon cedar trees, and smoke always
precedes an out-of-doors fire. The quiet was
lndescribable, the repose perfect, the freedom
from city trammels SO exhiIirating, and the sur
rounding country, to US, SO full of UNEMPLOYED
mysteries, that Raphael proposed. with true
Yankee enterprise. I've had better circumambu-
late Tomorrow"
with the help of horse" said Wilhelmina
and ].
"lf it can be had without the sacrifice of nv
kingdom I'll get it, he replied, and he did.
AT precisely seven o'clock of yesterday, o
gallant steed, yclept Sarah Jane, fastened by nu-
merous ropes and straps TO Blackboard was
refined TO our tent door. The board was six feet
long. On low seat in front of it, wide enough
to accommodate three, sat our elegant Jehu, ar
rayed in blue cotton overalls aud an old grey
duster, his knees and Grecan nose almost touch
ing, and scarcely visible behind Sarah Jane's
broad, lat back. A signet ring gIlttered upon
his gloveless hands, aud the suspicion of dia.
mond pin lurked 10 the folds of his blue flannel
shirt-front.
"The inconsistency of men," whispered Will
hemina, as, like pure Gala lily wrapped in
clean linen, and with face placid as the evening
star. she deposited our lunch-basket and the
July Monthlies upon the long vacancy in our
rear, with Acknowledged Singular as its guard and
the footman.
We turned from consecrated Oakmont. The
whole world seemed before u.s. intersected BY a
wagonroad with which Sarah Jane alone was
familiar There were mountains to right of US.
mountains to left OF Us, mountains before US and
mountains to rear Of US. Our destination was
to lind their summit. Through corn patch and
beyond it, O farm gate we entered lane, where.
beneath madrone tree, COW and her calf were
reposing. The scene was pastoral:
"Of, off. said the stranger
"Of, of and away" sang Raphael, in the ex.
hu6erance OF his disenthrament. The too SEN
sltive calf heard aud with frantic effort to obey
thrust Its body midway through rude picket
fence and there stuck, unable to advance or re.
treat.
Surely her mother will give her a boost
through" suggested our classical BostouIau, but
she did not. He had to release her by dint of
all his muscular power, and again we started.
soon coming out upon narrow road in which
the dust, as fine as powder and light as down,
lay to the depth of one foot
On hill TO our left, stood handsome large.
white mansion, with bay windows and cupoa,
rising up in this wilderness of nature. like a
Il have heard that it is called Wright's." said
Raphael, land among the wood cutters of the
forest is synonym of elegant refinement and
domestic comfort but / oathe to see ciyiliza-
ton here, so gee up, Sarah Jane"
She went, the clouds of dust rolling over our
heads, filling our nostrils until to speak was al
most TO invite suffocatlon. But the forest gran
deur The peaks upon peaks OF cedar covered
nils The deep purplish dark canons from
whose SIDES rose hundreds, thousands, of native
redwoods (sequaias) towering in motionless ma
lesty and perpetual greenness, two and three
hundred feet from their base, a circumference
often OF fifty and sixty feet The terrace upon
terrace OF forest wealth and mountain mapni6. |
cence! The cloudless sky seen through the in. |
tersuces oil those gigantic pillars, FROM which |
came at times rays of almost scorching heat and
binding brilliancy The aroma OF those won
oeriul pines The bonndess and restless soil |
tude, broken only by the Mum of the woodlands |
axe and the sharp hammer of the woodpeckerl |
All who shall tell of these things to have them |
understood2 We rounded q narrow curve To |
the right and before u.s. across gorge a thou |
sand feet deep and wide stood "Wright's pr We |
almost doubled another, and lol cleaning
through the green VISTA again was aWriebt's1
was the house a perpatetic eye-sore" "a
suggested by Wihelmina, we're we SWINGING
around circle or climbing spiral? The latter
vas correct, and by noon we were twenty-five
hundred ieet above the level of the sea looking
Town over millions of tree tops. to where the
oloe ocean rolled out before US iimitable and