The daily herald. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1886-1887, 1886-11-22
THE HISTORICAL PROCESSION
Fine Weather and Happy Ha-
waiians.

Inc ram held up on Saturday fore
noon, and an hour before the time an
nounced for the procession to start for
the Palace the streets we're lined with
crowds Of whites and natives of all
colors, all sizes, all eyes, all sexes, all
nations and all degrees; for Honolulu
is for its size the most cosmopolitan
city on the face of the earth They
were all josting and crowding their
neighbors in the most good-natured
humor and familiar fashion imaginable,
each DESTROYS of getting the best view
possible of the historical procession,
the like of which had never before
been seen in the Islands.
AT last, after the usual delay conse-
quent on all professions, the stirring
strains of martial music proclaimed its
approach, and on it came, marshalled
by Hon. John A. Cummins, preceded
by detachment of police under
command of the Marshal, and headed
by the Royal Hawaiian Band in their
black and red uniforms.
Next came the boys of the Royal
school to the number Of 200, in their
neat white and red uniforms, marching
in companies Some of the very little
fellows presented a most comical APP
pearance but all marching along with
military precision.
Then came mixed company of ma
tive warriors, old and young, dressed in
brown sail cloth, with banana leaves,
bound with ribbon grass, around their
heads, and carrying spears.
Following them came twelve floats,
containing canoes, double canoes, ca
tamarans and boats. The first had
double canoes, representing ancient
Maui On the second, third and
fourth floats were large double canoes
filled with chiefs and fishermen, the
former with mantles of yellow cloth
and high red helmets, the latter
dressed in brown tights with yellow
cloth breech clouts, both classes pur-
porting to represent the condition of
the inhabitants when the white dis
coverers landed on these Islands. The
fishermen were handling their paddles,
fishing lines and nets in realistic and
energetic way, especially those casting
lines for the bonita. An attendant
would catch handfuls Of leaves and
moss representing bait, from the large
bait boxes at the side of the canoes,
the one with the line taking it in his
mouth, as is still the custom with the
native fishermen, they chewing the
bait before placing it on the hooks.
In the fourth canoe we're men repre-
senting two chiefs of Kauai, the princi
pal one being Kalaniuaume.
The fifth and sixth we're catamarans
on wheels, in the first of which sat two
ancient mariners supposed former
great chiefnamed Pakaa and hissou Kua
Pakaa They we're covered with curl
GUS looking nantes of ii leaves, and
might have chanted with gusto the
lines from the lay Of the "Ancient Ma
riner:P
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furow followed free;
/ We were the first that ever burst
lHto that silent sea-
In the next of this pair we're two
fishermen with peculiarly shaped net
used in fishing for uhu.
The seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and
eleventh floats each bore canoes about
80 feet long, artlstically draped with
long festoons of sea moss. They were
all filled with chiefs, warriors and fish
ermen. On the tenth was figure OF
large shark with placard bearing
the word, "Kaikai." Native girls repre-
senting mermaids occupied position on
either side of the canoes
BY the sides Of the bow of the
canoe following that were two robust
looking native girls, holding tridents,
and with long flowing white hair and
heavy wreaths Of sea moss,
Fresh from the briny ocean,
Dripping from the sea-
twined plcturesquely round their dark
brows. All the girls had leis, some Of
sea moss and others of flowers and
myrtle leaves, encircling their necks.
| The paddlers were very energetic In
their motions with their broad-bladed
paddles, showing how dextrous they
would be on the water. The chiefs in
flowing robes, as before described, sal
stoicaly upright in their positions in the
canoes, now and then rising to direct
their course OF stimulate the rowers &c
greater exertion as if some rival canoes
were to be overcome.
The two last canoes were
occupied by the Kings Fisher
men, twelve in each canoe
with three chiefs in goldcolored man
ties. The next float was that of tht
hula dancers. There were four o
them, stout native girls, dressed il
white waists with light yellow skirt
reaching to the knees. They haC