Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-03-21

lis weather. &C luukrU move tluudN IMAM INC
nnuka hills as he said " We arc likely To |
have a monks, aud raro, t.nr OF It tonight
vas more frightened at hts forecast than
,hoekei At hs worldly levlly, tot I honght Of
my good gtcy Ired aud the landing al MANU-
soua and ot the possibility that my record OF
in4easiskurss might be broken
Hut even weather prophets have uniailing
honor In their day aud generation, and had
he satisfaction IT laughing his feae to seorn
~ We sped out Ut the channel under almost
floudless skies and with the breakers slipping
like ripple, over the reef
We were fairly representative lat ofpo'
,engcts Nit Atheuon, a plantation agent
Mt West long established manufacture,
Mf Charlie, Motley aud Nit William Cornwall,
practical planters +, Judge kaulukou, an es.
reuuve Of the government Nit Justice Aholo.
an cy envoy extraordinary and present mem
bet vt both the sent executive aud the iudieiafyi
Nit A. Z. Cooke, anintcr island freight mover
vt experience MI. Watson Of the California
sugar Refinery, an rngiYct OF international
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builder EVLicutenant Smilhc happy bride
groom Mt, White, toadst To lovely llilo ,
myself, a modest "chiel' "a.talin' notes.
The passage was mill poudi,h in is smooth.
ness. comparatively though the run was not
an especially quick one We reached lahaina
at GAS =. MI Mhlaaca, at ago Wednesday
morning Makena at ago, and Mahukona
about o o'clock.
My first view Of Hawaii was from the bridge
OF the kinau OF the kaupo coast Of Maui about
SIs AN At that tmc only the general out.
line OF the northwestern coast was visible, As
the grey dawn lightencd three peaks showed
clear against the steel.bluc sky, Mauna Loa,
ilualalhi, and Mauna Kea. The first aud the
last named were capped with snow and the
Lesser hi ght OF llualalai seemed a long, slightly
convex table land connecting them like the
colossal ligature OF eyelopean Simese twins,
As we neared the Hawaii shore, the kohala
Of Mauna Kea, began to show their individual
features. A mass of cumuli resting on Upolo
Point, and a grey translucent veil that only
half concealed the crest Of llaleakaa were
anchor chains ratified within easy rifle range Of
Mahukona landing.
The word Mahukona has no tangible Eng
ish meaning it is pure loeality.word. but
from time immcmoria it has Held notable
place in Hawaiian affairs. Tradition does not
record $50 far as have been able to discover
that Mahukona was ever the home OF the
ancient Hawaiian kirgs, but it was unmistak.
times. In the anti European days the fishing
used to attract chiefs not only from all parts OF
Hawaii but from those places on the other is
lands not at the time in feud with Hawaii
and the fish stories extraordinary OF the Ole
Hawaians who remember them exceed, in
vigor of imagination and picturesqueness o
establishment, the piscatoral romances o
San Franciscan smelt-hshers or the Adron.
dack trout.kilers. In those days giant pow.
der was latent and harmless in undeveloped
nitre deposits and unmanulactured glyccrine
and even the great god Mauis net was no
large enough to hold the myriad life tina
swarmed along the Mahukona beach. Tht
cartridge-killer of to-day, who laughs alike a
law and the peril to his own wrists, has al
ready let slip the dogs Of dynamite to pla,
havoc with the inny egions of Alenuihah'
Channel. Yet even r>sw there are caugh
along the Mahukona coast mulet, bonito. fly
ing fish, uu, manini, ulaula, haeae, kole, th,
| favoritc fish OF the late Ruth Keelikolani)
| squid, lobster, crabs, etc.
Mahukona was favorite starting point fo
those chiefs who guided the great war canoe
Of the fighting age to the beaches OF Maui
Molokai, Oahu and Kauai; and, perhaps, t.
| .lua,orial islands. On the site of the presen
| Mahukona warehouse were found the remain
Of three war canoes OF old-time build, needing
no unusual exercise of the imagination tt
make them look like those so wildly pictures
by the artists OF La Peruse and Cook.
To facilitate the clan.g gathering OF early day
two walled running paths began at the MANU-
Sona beach, curved gently around the fir.
slopes and then made almost straight paths i
The direction oil Kohala and Pololu. Thes
paths may still be traced almost their entir
length, though long disused and now crosse
daily by hundreds OF wall-levelling cattl,
horses and swine.
The Mahukona underground brook is on
Of the most authentic, and one of the most ii
teresting Hawaiian legends. The story is tn;
beneath the rocky gorge where occasional rair
led torrents run underneath the Mahukon
warehouse to the sea, a perennial stream
flowing. There was access to this s,reaI
through cave, the entrance to which W:
known to all Mahukonans. But one day III
people disobeyed the Gods Tor earned the
dispeasure in some unknown way) and whe
Mahnkona awoke one morning perhaps af,'
an earthquake shock) the mouth of the cav
was closed, and the land-locked stream W;
los, to them. They searched and dug, an
searched and dug again, and yet again; b.
, Mahukonas unfailing water works "were shu
on from them forever"
A later tradition modiies the legend. Me-
the landing is an old hut in which old an
broken jars and calabashes and more model
water containers still remain. The story 60
that no longer than fifty years ago an o
: Hawaiian lived in that hut and sold fre,
water to his neighbors. I, was believed Tho
that he had rediscovered the entrance to Il
; old-time stream. II so, the secret died wi
him, for even 500 feet Of artesian boring.
the Snfsosed course of the stream failed
reach the subtenanean channel-or else Il
5 stream had ceased to flow.
The reality OF local belief in the legend
a,tested by the foundation Of a famous heia
bull, near the entrance Of the lost cave,
honor Of its discovery. 1t was tended