The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-14
VIEWING THE RAN GAES.


alua road. 1t may have been Il
rough and rugged looking process
sion, and many native man and
woman may have giggled heartily at
the way the editorial and rcportorial
squad straddlcd their stccds. But
what of all that? 1t would be in
justice to other great minds to say
that the intellect, the journalistic
mind, and the oracular wisdom of
the city was all carried away on the
backs of the prancing stecds form
ing that modest cavalCade. Never
thclcss, be it not forgotten that all
the intellect, all the journalistic
mind. and all the oracular wisdom
of the city did not remain in it, after
the aforesaid cavalcadc passed out
of town. SO much has been written
of late about homestead laws, mixed
industries, immigration, and kindred
topics, and chiefly in the BULLETIN,
that Il party was formed, consisting
of representatives of the BULLETIN,
the advertiser. the gazette, and the
Saturday Press TO 90 out in a body,
explore the country, and thereafter
write it up or down as it may require,
but from the standpoint of personal
observation. In case the scribcs of
newspaperdom might eNaggcratc
their observations on the country, or
might perhaps be inspired by good
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everything through rose-colored
spectacles, the originators of the
expedition took the wise precaution
of inviting our learned and iudicious
friend the Fort Street Professor to
come right along, too. Without any
vain trumpeting. it may be safely
asserted that III the party were Just
the right men in the right places.
One of the party had ridden over
the moorlands and some of the great
agricultural estates of Scotland and
Ireland, had seen the hills and fer
tile glades of New Zealand, and
knew California like book; another
had ridden his mustang up and down
the slopes of the Nevadas and the
Pacific Coast, another had seen the
hedgerows and great garden farms
of Old England, doubled Cape
Horn, and seen the vegetation and
the products of many climcs, and
vet another out of the colder regions
of the temperate zones and from
the VALLEY Of Evangeline' where
grow the finest apples i'll the world,
had personal observation for many
wears of the excellent results of
small farm homcsteads occupied by
free and independent rural popula-
tions: and with all these varied cN-
pcriences. there are the supcraddcd
observations made by the professor
in Japan and America. The party
rode on, here pacing cautiously
down a steep incline, made some
what rough by the wash of recent
freshets, there breaking into a gal
lop over magnificent roads, and
anon drawing rein to look abroad at
the glorious view of mountain and
valley spread around. Mile upon
mile of taro and rice fields heavily
irrigated by the mountain streams
meet the view seward: while land
ward, great tracts of rolling upland
extend far away in the distance to
the bases of the Nuuanu mountains.
Herds of cattle, sheep and goats are
seen far and near on the heights
and slopes of these far-rcaching
undulations. The soil is all of Il
reddish color, and is evidently of
volcanic origin. Those of the party
who ought to be the best connois-
seurs of soils, express themselves
as astonished ut its evident richness.
1t is a soil that might be utilized for
any kind of agricultural products.
For whatever purposes the land
might he utilized, the fact soon
begins to grow upon the whole party
that these lands have not been uti-
Lied beyond the requirements OF
limited pastoral enterprises. The
party rides on, but the evidences OF
agricultural enterprise and the re-
suits of the labor of an agricultural
population do not appear, except in
the taro and rice fields already men
toned. To say that the people are
idle and thriftlcss is no libel on
anyone, for there are no people.
About half a dozen dwelling houses.
and a small party of Chinese nav
ves working on the road and two OF
three ranchmen ambling ON then
ponies on a solitary hill top, are tho
only signs of human life to be
noted on the wayside during a ride
of some six or seven miles. Hero
is the country, and Il magnificent
country withaI but where are the
people? From home! Where are
the homes! Not roof to he seer
in all those fine eXpanses of hill anc
,,ollnv with a rich deem soil of nj