The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-31

puNiuS puSlI way Will SuTC-IOUleU
care up the slope, through heavy
grasses growing ee-high, The
whole slope is heavily coated with
manienie and native grasses, and
some Spanish clover, and is well
dotted over with trees, chiefly the
kukui. After reaching the top of
the first peak, the trail winds down,
rorkscrcw fashion, through heavy
verdure and under the outrageous
shades of large wide spreading trees
into deep ravine, out of which
there is another corkscrew trail up
on TO the next. peak and reaching
little farther into the clouds. Parts
of the trail just gone over runs along
the margins of immense gulches into
which the rider looks down over
perceptions descents of some nine
or ten hundred feet through the
dense foliage of trees that have
somehow got rooted in the sides
of the declivities, so that they
suggest the idea of an aerial vege-
tation. The prospect up these noun
tain sides and through these ravines,
is grandly picturesque. These ex-
hibitions of mountain scenery grow
upon the view. The first hour
among them EFFORTS expressions of
wonder and admiration. Passing
on, their majestic grandeur repeats
itself in ever increasing variety.
The faithful horses climb almost
perpendicular ascents over the rug
ged natural stairways, and again de-
scend similar hard places, with
equal care and safety. Jerry
proved himself an ablep,nd reliable
steed. ''Sooner," by the way, had
been discarded, as deficient in in
tellect and understanding, and unit
for the service of the BULLETIN.
But "Jerry" is an intelligent big
bay, wanting neither whip nor spur,
but always knowing just where to
go, and regulating his PAGES with
infallible correctness, whether on
the slow march over rough and
rugged ways, or on a streaking
gallop over pieces of smoother road
way. Midday finds the whole party
on the highest point, but one, of the
Waianae. The scene at this point
is grand. 1t is magnificent. 1t is
stupendous. We stand here on the
rim of an immense basin scooped
out of the mountain, with the sea-
ward side broken out. This vast
cavity is about a quarter of u mile
wide, with almost perpendicular
walls a thousand feet high. Beyond
the basin northward, the mountains
shoot up skyward in colossal isolated
cones. Spreading out in the spacious
concave of the western horizon, are
the deep blue waters of the great
Pacific Ocean, the 'boundless, vast,
illimitable waste of waters" The
Nuuanu Pail, with all Its grandeur,
is surpassed by this exhibition of
natures wonders in the Waianae.
All these mountain elevations, with
their deep broad gulches are valua-
BILE, from the utilitarian standpoint
as they are from the romantic and
sentimental. Herds of splendid
cattle are seen feeding on the slopes
and in the valleys. The cavalcade
moves ON down the seward side of
the mountain, in view of thousands
of acres of fiat land lying along the
seashore. These seward paddocks
are pointed out as the territories
that will be in order for the eXplora-
tions of tomorrow. The homeward
trail leads over large areas of rough
land, heavily sprinkled here and
there with small rolling stones,
almost invisible in the thick grass,
and big boulders around which, the
graziers say, the choicest bites OF
cattle feed are found. After get
ting down the mountain, detoul
is made into large paddock on
the immense area of flat land refer
red to above. Here is seen big
drove of the finest cattle, gathered
round large reservoir of water-a
sort of fresh water lake. Around
this water, there lies an immense
plain, already referred to, of about
10000 acres. The soil is of the
best quality on the island. Will
irrigation, every acre of these lands
might be made available for rice
sugar, grape or banana plantations
and what is now but grand wilder
ness of shrubs and grasses, sup
porting herds of cattle, might be
made to bud and blossom with thu
rich products of the tropics, yielding
sustenance to hundreds of families
together with all the flocks and herds
they might require. At half-pas
one, the party is again enjoying thu
Inequalities of the ranch house
where the days excursion, and thu
dinner too, are unanimously voted
superb.
THURSDAY, Aug. 18th.