Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-05-09


degree. began the trip in Grass ignorance of
every important event in Hawaiian chronology |
and my companions were two sea-sick ladies
and several more or less Christian young men,
rather more densely uniformed than |.
But we all knew something Of Captain
Cook or na,tered ourselves we did-and
FIVE OF us, including one Of the ladies, went
ashore with the purser and paid our idle
devors TO "the dead circumnavigators death. |
less ianie as Lord Ross hath it. That is,
we each carried away from the monument
enclosure bit Of broken lava, OF water worn
coral; after reading, and perhaps copying, the
illletered inscription on the succeed shaft
that marks that ill.staned resting place.
Rev. Stephen Desha met us a, the wharf
and pointed out the rock on which Cook was
stabbed lie showed us also the a" cliffs Of
/ the dead" where unnunmbeted Hawaiian
chieftains was laid away until their funereal
tapas mouldered into dust and mingled with
the crumbled lava in those fire. carved caves,
whose entrances, some Of them crossed by
sticks, seem the barred easements Of some
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sea.
There is so much Of beauty about Keala.
kekua Bay that one not student is easily
beguied from the gloomy past that makes
Kona's history the terrible tale it is. The
present has beauty and warmth and peace.
From the steamers deck the scene is unsur.
passed on the island. The dreamy bay,
smooth as a mullet pond, save where the play
day rollers slip over the rounded boulders and
change--not break--nto creamy foam the
twin villages that cluster, cocoa.groved, on
each side of the beeting cliffs; the long
waving road line. losing itself in the foliage Of
the upland crest the trailing morning glores,
that cling in soft masses along the cifi.verge,
and hangs in lace like endrils over the verdure-
less precipice; the sometimes jagged forest
line, far above the many.hued water, yet SO
clear that one may see the mingled coral and
lava far below. But you are fortunate il the
Hall reaches Kealakekua before high noon.
At morning or evening or by moonlight, Kona
, is fairy land ITS taw deuced hot to be
, nice you know" from II to3.
AT Kealakekua bronze skinned ancient,
+ clothed only in malo, dignity and
good nature, paddles his crank canoe
so close to the swirl Of the Halls not ye
| stilled propeller that an ungracious wave tip
, into the sea shallow basket of colder
j. bananas. A few skilliul strokes of the paddl,
have encircled the floating fruit and the bronz,
ancient, triumphng over the good naturec
geers of three rivals, sits ready to dispense hi
, fruitful store to any who will buy. One of tn,
. pretty girls will buy SO will Lord Ross ant
the bronze ancient is soon padding shorewart
in the wake Of the pursers well.manned whal
boat
i, They tell US many good things of Kona'
climate. We have tasted its kindly fruits. Tn
little that | know about its resources | hav
already told you. Blu, since | was there
10 have heard that within rifle shot of the oil,
4, city OF refuge at lIonaunau fine field G
ramie may be seen. 1t was planted by
r Chinese some years ago and has spread owe
=. some five acres, growing thrifty. and indica
. tive OF the fertility Of the lava soil Of Kona.
Between kailua and the southernmost en-
:, OF Hawaii, Kalae Point, which is in Kau, tn
!. Hall stops at five places kailua. Keauhot
=. kealakekua, Hookena and Hoopuloa. Betwee
"a kailua and Hookena the shore, though sparsel
populated in the aggregate, has many hamlet
taking their names from native lands, rannin
=, back from the sea, some OF them 10 the top
IL Huaaai or high up the southern slopes
&c Mauna Loa. AT kealakekua Bay aretwo Villages
, separated by the high bluffs before mentioned
., On the northern side of the bay is kaawao
.. on the southern side is Napoopoo. Back
Il. Hookena are some fine orange groves and Il
-, coffee of that section is said to be more ir,
=, from blight than that Of mos, parts of Kona
:, From Hookena to Kalae or South Point, Il
coast becomes more barren looking and Il
sea less smooth The first glimpse Of Kau
forbidding. The lava flow Of 1868 blackel
:; the shore and scars the coast just north
80 Kalae Point, its forbidding features bciI
somewhat soitened by the forest line above
=. below which show the white buildings
N kahuku Ranch, built close to the southe
h., edge Of the flow
On rounding the poin, the sea roughen
-. and the coast line, Of low bluffs aftermath
hs with sandy or stony beaches, become mo
a, desolate. Yet much apparently good land h
, formed above the old lava flows, only here Al
h. there to be distinguished by their IA croppin,
.a Kaalualu IS the frs, really good landi
nj after leaving Kealakekua. 1t is under the
&C Of point, has good wharf and comparativ,
ra smooth anchorage ir most wea,hers. II is Z
regular landing place for the Hall on I
trip from Honolulu. 1t is too bad that ii is n
49,. as the residents OF the country back Of it
-. obliged to go on to Honuapo, and return ov
land by way of Waiohinu, some II mil
=. Their freight is delayed, also, and perishal
goods often injured, as the Hall remains.
Honuapo and Punaluu three days.
al A, Honuapo, which is the shipping point
Naalehu and tIilea sugar mills, Is well as
~, the Honuapo Mill, the agricultural portion
az Kau begins. Punaluu is the shipping point
Pahala Plantation, and the landing for volca
passengers The shore between Honuapo a
Punaluu is rough and lava covered, Par
~. overgrown by scrubby trees. But above
coast land rise the fertile hills Of H;lea a
q, the fertile slopes Of Pahala, crowned W
!, forests and ROBBED in cane. X. s. S
Kilsuea, April 10. 1885.
,os, =. S.-A friend in Kohala convicts me
So statistical error, wrote Of 5000 sch
. in children in that district some 50 years a
4 of There were then some 5000 nahpr' in
The district, some r,2oo Of whom were sch
n, children.
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