The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-07-13

plainly see that your first knowledge OF
his presence, before you could see him
would be the name of his powder; the
bark Of his rife mayhap falling on list.
less ears. A short stretch OF fairly
level ground brings you to another rise
where not a single hand but both
hands are now needed to assist your
upward progress, and you look, and
pause. The path is nearly two feet
wide. Wide enough, you say2 Wait
on your right is a precipice, partly
wooded, two hundred feet in depth,
on your left dense chapparaI that will
not admit of ready entrance; above the
angle of the pathway is As degrees.
Koolau may be at the next turn look
ing for some one, the same as some
who have travelled this pathpay
looked for him Poor, brave John
Anderson thought the pathway was
wide enough, but the leper ambushed
him and left him on the path Sad,
indeed, must the thoughts Of that Swed.
ish mother be wheri at each succeeding
Independence Day memory brings to
her the recollection of the date on
which her boy was murdered on that
two feet pathway in the wllds of
kalalau.
And now the outer walls of the
fortress Of the renegade leper is seen.
Here the pathway widens, but the angle
rises and it is far better to be the man
at the top of the path than at the bot
tom. Slowly, cautiously several brave
hearts have climbed this pathway
Agent Reynolds, Corp )ral Wells, Cor
poral McAlton and Privates McCabe
and Hursberg climbed on July sth.
Only three of the party can now tell
the tale-McCabe and Hursberg
dropped side by side, killed by Koolau.
Some of the empty cIrtridge shells Of
the party are picked up by the war cor
respondent, and, tired and weary, with
in forty yards of koolaus castle, he
sits down near the blood. despatched
palm which marks life, and thinks
over the moral Of "The Charge of the
Light Brigade. Reveries are cut
short, for the doctor has climbed up
ward and almost at the threshold of
the dreaded KoDlau's castle he discUv
rs that there is none of our expected
party ahead of us, and he retres to his
mis- proper position in safety. On the
r ad back to Camp DJle the twain
were taken in tow by an escort party
which had been sent for them, and they
were again soon safe in Camp Dole.
S me reader may imagine that there is
a touch of Munchausenism in the story
as told, alb 'ut the dangers of the path
but the facts as stated are true, as
can be duly attested to on oath by
any OF the officers or men of the mill
tary or police who have gone over the
trail.
On the evening of the nth the fol
lowing letter from President Dole was
read before the detachment:
EXECUTIVE BUILDING,
July 10, 1898,
TO Captain Larsen and the Officers
and Men of the Kaalau Expedition
The news of the death of three OF your
comrades while in the performance OF
duties Of the most hazardous character,
has given me great sorrow, yet | re
ioice in the heroisn with which they
braved the danger which was so fatal
to them. AS John Boyle O'Reilly,
hin,calf n colIiar co;J - QUO IS b;c
poems, 'tearS are never for those who
die with their face to the duty done"
These men gave up their lives for that
great public good-the supremacy of
law; they died in the service of man
kind, which is the service Of God.
From my acquaintance with the
locality of your operations, am able
to some extent to appreciate the diff
Guilty and danger OF the work you have
been called upon to do, and the cheer
full and intrepid courage you have
shown in performing it.
| wish you to accept my sympathy
for you all in the loss of comr ,des you
have suffered, and in the hardships
and dangers you are passing through.
l congratulate you for the large
measure of success which you have
attained, and pray G ID that you may
all return unharmed with the full object
of the expedition accomplished.
SANFORD B. DOLE, President.
On the early morning Of the Iath,
Hon. w. O, Smith, Agent C B. Rey-
nolds, Lieutenant King, having as
messengers again the sister of Koolau
and her husband, walked the long
distance to the supposed retreat OF the
outlaws, and after n short series of calls
by the woman both she and her hus-
band entered the cave, soon returning
and affirming that it was empty, There
upon both Attorney-General Smith and
Agent Reynolds advanced and tn y,
also, entered. They state that they
were much surprised at the location
and appearance of the place chosen by
the desperate m n for his retreat Mr.
Reynolds and Corporal Wells especi-
ally being ast,nished as they found
that when McCabe was shot they two
we're nearer in distance to Koulau tn IN
McCabe, but were Mt in SIGHT The
reported story OF cave is exploded by
this inspection, for the defense proves
to have been most crude being merely
three piles Of small powders, each Of