Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-08-22
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/ brink NJ The euicrn pals ~ Waipin cnch 1il,
q. hy common impulse, " A. iast -
/ We had talked NJ It,, dreamed NJ 10, lougoi
| f,r ifi anil ii was mVe than wc had hoped
. "if b.. said my companion. ct ia
repeated J. Bit the adjective died on the
/ liIa ~ each anil ii must be- q bolicr min th,n
I who hall bring il back 10 lie. have heard
Wtp,o called "gnnd' so !, the ptik of
| Iantaus when storm mpcnds. or the harbpf
reel when . storm Is oni gloomy 20 h.
cloud cupine1 night, "bcautiml" W Is the
smile ~ HE Nlycuiect', poet " magnificent
so is The modeHty Of the great paper ''majcs
tlc' .so b. the dignity Of the Hawaiian Gageltc,
'Uniquc' so IS rhc English NJ the Bulletin +;
"aublimc 500 Is the check Of the Hawaiian
, Cabinet But n1 puc " ihu,r adjective. le.
tcribos Waipio ls = whole. II was about ! = ~.
when we started down The pail, The vhitr
l1ccwor, " the foam lay IN the smoYlh beach
between the hcadlandy. \ dreamy brook,
rush .borlercd, me,ndcrci in two brnchcs
through The level rec 6clh. Apparently
about two miles from the beach. the walls of
Waipio narrowed, forming titanic doorway
eutlaincd by black clouds but al the lower
valley was sunlil and Joyous, the yellow
CLINT of the gunbcamg flashing from the mir
rowing surface Of the placid stream or gliding
and again ungilding the emerald rice fields, ~
the idle brccyc blew across the level floor oi
The valley mHlcd " pandanus and bent The
pearl white poppic' on the pail walls.
We had been advised to iauy o'er nigh, at
the eastern loot of the p,li, with a llhwaiiin
host whose name have forgotten. " But We
found him not nt honlc," rs Sir Boyle might
say, aud pressed on TO the settlement near the
stream that flows from the lower Wapio fall.
We were fortunate in having fine after.
noon lof or scramble. | say scramble be.
cause he must expect 10 slip and slide and
tumble and "bark his shins" and &c, duck
ing who sees the Waipio fall. To go dry shod
!, practically impossible. We crossed the
stream several times, the water over our
waists pant Of the time, climbed slippery ledgcs,
skincd sheer prccipccs, wound through tangled
and matted shrubbcy paused under tall la.
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emily solid rock ard a, last stood in the midst
Of the most awcsomc beauty either had ever
seen. Imagine n shaft, sunk in mountain
slope, two thousand feet deep and a hundred
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way at one end Of the bottom, and, two hun.
drcd feet above, half OF the wall re.
moved 10 inc cdgc o' the slope making
gigantic window, admitting solemn light.
Imagine The inner wall OF the shalt, looming
two thousand feet above one, and at two
thiidS ol the dilhy distance stream o' water
pluhg'ng IN two startled leaps ana then 'aliing,
battered ny 'he resistant ar INTO hcecy spray
as soft as carded woo,ns white as driven snow,
as mysterious as inc wind at midnight Ana
: at the loot oi the shalt wall, rounded pool o
inky water. The contrast between iha, ieeo,
spray and the black pool below was uneanny.
We knew 1, was not really black we kne"
that 1t merely took on tile hue oi The black
rocks above 1t, and the black pebbles beneath II.
Bu, think each oi us vowed mutely cock
and candle to Charon as he bent and drank
from that bit ol the s'yx.
ihc only vegetation within TINS Tremendous
cieit-iormcd as II the great god Maui had
made II win a sugar scoop--was lew Terms
and many MOSES growing on inc walls oil h'
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