The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-08-26

With rare beauty. NOT mas Sne con-
fined her works to beauty alone. She
has performed some very curious
exploits in both land and water.
Over about hundred yards from
the house, is secluded spot which
looks as if section of the surface
had fallen in, forming small, al
most circular basin in the open field.
An excavation is made in the side of |
the bank, and extends back about
IL feet underground. The excava-
ton is partly filed with water,
which under the roof of the cave is
some five and half feet deep. This
is the ranch house bath room, where
the bather can dabble in shoal water
in the open under the rays of the
sun, or can wade in little further
and luxuriate in a veritable subter-
ranean swim.
On the opposite side of the house,
about quarter of mile distant,
there is a small body of water in
natural cavity. A spring comes
bubbling up with great force to the
surface, and stick plunged in at
the bubbling point shows q depth of
about three feet of water. There
seems to be force and volume enough
in this spring alone, to supply water
for irrigating hundreds of acres of
plantation lands.
Some two or three miles along in
the direction of Honolulu, another
extraordinary terraqueous formation
is found in the open plain. 1t is an
inland sea, not big enough, by a
considerable, to float all the navies
in the world. But if you try to
cross it in one of Dower's or Lyle's
best boats, you will never complete
the voyage. The only reason is that
it isn't capacious enough to float the
boat, as the distance from shore to
shore is about twenty feet. Adjoin-
ing this is an invisible subterranean
cave, over the mouth of which nature
has thrown portcullis of rock,
which, as it fell into place, became
cracked, so that the inmate of the
cave can look out over the surface
of the miniature sea, and take notes
from his spider-like point of observ-
alton, of what may or not be trans
piring in the vicinity. No one but
a good diver can get into this hiding
place, as it is entered by diving
down, swimming along under the
portcullis and coming up within the
cavern. A natural phenomenon
such as this, without legend, would
be greatly wanting in interest. The
legend of this spot is that in ye
ancient days of military expeditions,
woman was pursued by a small
body of braves. Coming to this
spot, the fugitive plunged into the
water, swan through, and was forth
with in safe concealment within the
cave, where her merry eyes twinkled
as she viewed her bafiied pursuers
through the crevices of the rock.
The warriors then betook themselves
to reclining on the sward, and pro-
ceeded to discuss future plans, the
leading one of which was a surprise
movement to be made upon another
tribe. But how '' the best laid
schemes of mice and men gang aft
aglee "a woman had possession
of the details of attack, the intended
victims of which were duly warned,
and thus prepared to give their foes
a hearty reception.
The natural water reservoirs scat
tered over this great plain are re.
markably numerous. At every little
interval, the liquid element is met
That this great meadow, now clothed
!. in living green, may become ont
day hive of agricultural industry
{. depends largely upon its resources
l for supplying water. The indica
: tions are that water can be had tt
an unlimited extent. Where wind
mills have been placed in othel
localities, they have proved success
S full. On this portion of Kahukl
y there are no wind mills and nj
G artesian wells. They are evidentl,
G not needed. Nature has dug all tn
wells and constructed all the fume
y that the place requires. Machiner.
II and irrigating apparatus will, 0
G course, be necessary to distribut
l. the water over the land, in the even
:, of it's being put under cultivation
s. On this large area of some 1000
y acres, nearly every foot of which
!, fit for cultivation among the reason
If able possibilities of its future i
1t that these carpetings of grass
d herbage spread around may b
le transformed into waving fields c
r. | rice and the laafy luyuriance q