The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-02-16

altogether certain that he was not some
kind of n god who had come up to their
mountains out OF the ocean, a belief
doubtless founded on the fact that
he first landed ON the island from
shipwreck. lie was an Anglo Austria
liam, I think His rule of the natives in
that district was amicably shared with
his only white neighbor. an American
Catholic priest who had gone
to the Islands sixty years before
ms missionary, and had never left
them. In proportion as Pakana was
tremendous and physically all-prevail-
ing, the priest was slight, gentle and re-
firing. These two men, so unlike in all
Appearances, had lived in friendly com
munity, equally caring for the simple
pastoral people about them, for half n
century,: one watching over their
worldly, the other over their spiritual
welfare. The priest was more than
eighty years old, and toward him
Pakana bore the social attitude of an
elder school fellow. Where they lived
was great sweep of grassy plain, with
here and there forests of pulu (the tree
FERN, orange, banana and guava trees.
Certainly there life can be supplied with
all comforts by the expenditure of the
minimum of labor, and yet the natives
have dwindled there from numerous,
powerful, active tribes, numbering
thousands, to few hundred indolent,
helpless people. The old priest took me
over to his little church. Surrounding
it on all four sides, and outlining what
was very much larger building, were
the foundation stones of another
church.
sit was large and handsome
church" he said, ''but not large enough
once for my congregation. This little
church is now too large tor our needs"
What has done this? l could not dls-
cuss that question with him. If the ma
tives were disappearing because of the
evils and vices which followed the
Christians to the Islands, it was no fault
of such men as that sweet-faced, gentle
souled man of God.
But l started out to write about pig
shooting, which happily requires no
philosopher to describe. Pakana well
coined us with hearty bull-like
below of welcome and revived our
weared bodies with what he
called a "Bulf Run" cocktail. No
one but Pakana Knows why his
famous cocktail is called Bull
Run any more than they know
what it is made of. have an lea that
the sonorousness of the name, Bull Run,
addressed itself to Pakana, and he
adopted it on that account. He turns
his back to the company and goes
through a wonderful lot of perform
ances, accompanied by violent explos-
ions of laughter when he compounds a
Bull Run, and serves it with assurances
that it alone has preserved him and his
young friend the priest. from physical
! Il. I.,1r
Tie priest gently deprecates the youth
full extravaganza of Pakana's language,
but will sometimes sip Bnll Run while
enjoying a pipe out in the lanai by the
old wall in front of the house.
Joined by the fortunate possessor of
the secret of the Bull Run cocktail, our
hunting party rode for another half day
! up the muuntain-the mountain is SO
vast that the part you are on always
seems fiat and the part in the distance
perpendicular-to the home of the
planter. He is not a planter there, how
ever. He is a stock raiser. Then we
became his guests. His home is the
usual group of detached cottages, miles
from any other houses, yet among the
other luxuries his wealth had brought
there was a complete system of gas light.
ing, cottages and grounds aglow with
gas from some patent gas machine he
go ,t 70 ,ha ..ho,,,o -" or lie wealthy
stockmen of Montana, Utah. Arizona
or New Mexico and vonr badly
cooked dinner will be yilely served
Nv shirt-sleeved "hned man on "a
bare table dimly lighted by kerosene or
candles. Down there on the mounta in
side of Mauna Loa our daintily. cooked
dinner was skilfully served by trig lit
tie Japs in livery, and the cottage dedi-
Gated that evening to cards was lighted
by gas and sweet with flowers. Horses
and oxen could not drag word OF poll
tics INTO TINS sketch but rlght mere l am
reminded OF the frequency with winch
nave lately read IN anu annexation
papers screeds about the awtul conse-
quences winch would follow tine an
soTptioh unto our lhanherS as wen hs
politics., l suppose) or lot OF halt'
civilized kanakas. Our most was "ka'
naka OF the class which would, II the
ISLANDS were annexed represent iiawili
III our hatlohai ahars' uecilne y,
make inc con ii-"ith "o'erho'
waite OF senator relei.
Inc next morning we started OUT aitel
pigs. BEFORE we started our most wire
: with lou OF her MAIDS, came 10 the cor
, raj where the horses were Deihg sauuie'
ana gave each OF us lei that had oeei
woven that morning. we maze quit
calvacade OF 1t as we started-our host
l ten servants, two pack animals and tn
five guests. We rode until we reache'
! rough and broken, but stu lnxurlantl
l green, part OF the mountain before W
e heard the first cry OF rig! pig! VINE
I we had come well among them some
I the servants, with the pack animals
I went ahead to pitch camp ana the res
OF the party scateereu' eaGh sues' h"'ii'
| never discovered that my guild
knew any English word but pig" yet
- imbued his understanding with the faC
that there was silver dollar that woul
'e be his when had killed boar with
big set of tusks. His interest in me d.
~ ,,oIonoa into an,busiaSn, Ha was n,