The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-08-06
nIyINo AFTER CORAL.

.,.uI.. About in Stony Groves Groves Far
'.I.v the ssa-Ths Coral Business
New York Sun Interview
.orsl bnsiness Is torable. All
fs' - md colleges take collections. if
EaO' :. lam lsm cheap enough, aud we sell q
~ g. aside resorts. The country
49, =, tbsy come out Of the water
4. ,iong sbors; it's all the same to them
49, 49, deal in is brain coral, branch,
!. I.si and rose-shaped coral Floatin
Z, s,i S big price. 1t floats after il
u..cSsd and pepper coral tastes
sUpsr after it's dead Then
~. s sea fans, sea eggs, sharks
gals eggs, hawkbill turtles,
d, littIs of everything. Corals sell by
4 .is.s from IS cents to So.
" We sec some curious sights, but we
..-5 toit We go to what they call the
..,ssys 'sboutfOrty miles or so the west'ard
Er West You can git coral any time,
! b summers the best; then there is lit
Wa s-bIowin', and you can see the bot
q IN forty foot. In the winter we use a
n With glass bottom, 80 we can set and
n along and look down through, and
b We see anything git over for it.
Issrs's half dozen kinds Of coral that
\ SmmOn, and mostly they grow apart
"a ertaiu places. What we call branch
III i found all over the flats, where there
naiy bottom, growing kinl of low-like;
Ehsn It gi along towarl the edge of
= channel the branches grow longer, and
u Ike regular branches of a tree, and
srsl 81 thick that you can't see the bottom
Fly your fist in between 'em. Sometimes,
siavs want to git fine piece of branch,
dive down into the channel, and, I tell
!, its fine sight. When you git down
w foot, say, its as light as day when
SsS good sun right overhead, and there
Esse n trOnt of wall of these ere coral
lbs aSolid front, all of Drownlsh Oh
R cOlOr Hyou git way down to the
zrn you'll see craw6sh- whips wavin' to
ihu They live under the coral, and on
pad in between the black spots are big
ggs with Spines six inches long. The
d s covered with fishes Of all kinds
raA angels, yellow tails, and grunts.
, fishes have dozen or more colors, and
md that think beats 'em all is pure
iron head to foot. It's only about six
pas long, and 1 never saw them away
IA tie big heads.
'Aitsr practice you can stay down three
lOT minutes, and by swimming along
y your eyes open you can git q look at
a@ and then try and break off a branch
2 Z OOathOok Of iron. Sometimes we
|lN Togo down four or five times to git u
sa' nen, Il it's Dig, put a rope around it,
= llOl 1t up Most Of the small coral can
pcksd up With hook that looks like a
! q oyster hooks, but it's apt to break it,
g.narally 90 overheard when the coral
- 20 thick. There's one place know
- ia lVO acres it's so thick that there
Es pace to put your foot-one big field
I1Acn coral. The big heads generally
1ae edge of fat that's covered with
- hgnt near the edge Of the channel,
&c sau axe you to a spot where there's
a -:sds that are ten foot across and six
sa, come Of the big ones weigh over
rula& When they get big they often
20 On top and finally get followed
~ Nok Ike big vases holding angel
asShsh, and little of everything.
i''% see the big heads here, because
49, s an : get near 'em, and small boat
~ HOld one In water about twenty
- .;a iset deep we git the best
iiT;S Da' tasS call rose coral Igit them
.Hsl,sHl . tasyre 50 small you can't see
n w.: i've got punches not bigger
:! .o@ aahd, and got &lOfor 'em. Pretty