The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-08-04

workmanship, fit setting to the
solemn and beautiful scene within,
which leads one TO speak in low
tones and tread softly as if on sacred
ground. Upon the walls is sus-
pended some drapery in stone that
would be the admiration and des-
pair of sculptor. Double and
triple folds of stalactite, quarter of
an inch in thickness and yard
wide, hang thirty feet, with no sup
port except from above. Beyond
this is perhaps the most beautiful
grotto of all. Ceiling, walls and
even floor, are covered with fret
work of dazzling brightness, which
reminds one of the finest work of
the silversmith or the window work
of the frost king at its best. Here
and there ceiling and floor are united
by columns as clear and transparent
rs crystal. A candle placed as far
within one of these groups as the
arm could reach illuminated a won
derful fairy power. Shining through
all the rich drapery of stone there
are tubular pillars of immense height
and thickness. They are perfectly
ansparent-others are a cloudy
white, and, under the shifting
torches, lighted up with a thousand
fires.
SIN this vicinity also appear
quantities of limestone, coral forma-
tion, great sheet formations, stand
ing like leaves in a book, partly
open, upright; many stalagmites,
stalactites, pillars, pedestals and
pinnacles of all lengths and thick
ness, and becoming more trans
parent the deeper you get down.
Here, also, are seen on several sides
arrays of tabular stalactite and
stalagmite formations, resembling
an immense church organ. found
at the distance of many yards the
pinnacles, pedestals, columns, stalag-
mites, stalactites, more numerous
and very brilliant as our lights were
thrown upon them. In this vicinity
the scene was beyond description,
rs stalagmites of the most delicate
and transparent texture were in
great abundance, and of every con-
ceivable shape. Even delicate
tubes, the thickness of lead pencils
and three and four feet in length,
when broken off were full of alkaline
water, and cutting off pieces of
stalagmites. with hatchet the
sparks would fairly fly, and on which
every tune and sound could be
heard. Many of the larger spaces
there seen by me would reach from
sixty to eighty feet in height and as
much across. The caverns of Luray,
in Virginia, or the Mammoth Cave,
in Kentucky, are not circumstance
i'll beauty compared to the Helotes
Cave"
There are also large caverns in
the vicinity whose range and depth
are unknown. There is no doubt
that they were long used by men,
bers of the desperado's scattered
band. They will all be explored,
but there is enough material in
"Robber's Cave" proper to keep
officers busy for some time to come.
If there are other victims of the
pistol and knife, as there seems no
reason to doubt, lying in its caver-
nous recesses they will be brought
to daylight. The interest in this
whole section now centers in "Rob-
bers' Cave" and the developments
which may arise from careful
survey of its mysteries. Thorough
and careful search will be made.
Judge Boerner states that he was
deferred from further examination
partly from lack of facilities and
partly from nervous dread which
he could not shake off, caused by
the knowledge that he was walking
among the haunts of dead men of
crime, and of whose desperate tenn
pers he had evidence in the whitened
bones before him. st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.