The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-09-06
IN "OUEEN LIS" DOMAIN.
Letter From Former Oakland Lady
Now Residing in Honolulu.

CiiO 1OIIONluS IGGGGI from MISS Lille
A. Brown, a former resident of Oak
land and very entertaining writer
who is now living in Honolulu, Ha-
wall. The letter was written at
Kawaapae, which is situated on the
island known as Maui, one of the
group composing the Sandwich Is
lands, and was mailed to US August
18th from Honolulu, reaching here
Tuesday evening, the 4th inst:
"Kawaapae," Maui, is situated
at an elevation of about fourteen
hundred feet above sea level in the
Makawao district. 'Kawaapae"
commands one of the most extern
sive residence views on the Hawa-
ian Islands. In its more immediate
vicinity is a slightly rolling, gradu
ally sloping, open and extensive
country of fine grazing land, skirted
and crossed sby professions Of eu-
calyptus. Far below, spread out in
panorama,are numerous sugar cane
plantations, the light green of the
extensive fields forming a pleasing
contrast with the reds peculiar to
y be soil of the lowlands.
( Specklesville plantation, with its
eleven camps, stretches itself en-
tirely across the seven miles of low
isthmus joining East and West
Maui. Beyond the narrow neck of
land are the bold and peaked cloud
encircled mountains of West Maui,
cleft by many deep, dark gorges,
famous among which is lao Valley,
the Yosemite of Hawaii. This great
upheavel is skirted by a belt of
lowland dotted by the green plan
tations and villages of Maalaea,
Walkapu, Waikiki, Waiehu and
Walhee. Oftentimes the clouds
roll away and the greater part of
mountainous Molokai, looking oyer
the lower spurs Of West Maui,
comes boldly into view. The eme-
raid greens and turquois blues and
surf washed shores of Kahulul bay
to the north, and Maalaea bay to
the south of the isthmus, together
with vast cXpanse Of ocean occa-
slonally blue and calm, but oftener
lashed into white capped waves,
reaching nearly out to the elevated
HORIZONTAL combine to make an
eyer pleasing picture, new every
morning and colored anew every
evening by the rare grey and gold,
amber and heliotrope effects of sea
and sky.
An upward sweep of the eye takes
in gradually sloping and some
what open, rolling country, with
occasional belts of forest land edged
here and there with the white cot
tages of homesteads at perhaps an
elevation of four or five thousand
! feet and finally rests upon the sum-
NIT of Haleakala, ten thousand feet
above sea level. What one really
sees is but the rim of the largest ex-
tinct crater in the world, thirty
miles in circumference, several
thousand feet in depth, containing
thirteen extinct craters, and COM
handing an unparalleled view of
sunrise and sunset above the clouds.
In early morning the summit stands
out clear cut against the sky, but
usually, later IL the day, the clouds
envelope and sweep oyer it, their
dark and varying shadows even OBJ
literating bright belts OF sunshine
and adding to the grandeur Of the
view.
The climate OF Makawlo is I'M
paralleled. Cool and almost con-
slant winds sweep down from the
mountain-top snow clad for days at
a time in mid winter. The air is
bracing and inyigorating. Even at
this season Of the year, the Their
mometer seldom exceeds 500 ,oftener
standing between 700 and 750. In
winter 1t has never been known to
fall below $50, frost never occurring
at this elevation. At night during
any part of the year one is COM
Portable under two good wool
blankets; though thin clothing can
be worn even in winter until late in
the afternoon.
The roads all oyer the greater
part of this island are exceptionally
good, and might well do credit to
any level country. The red dust
of the lowlands is left far behind
before reaching this point, and
although this is the dry season of
the year, the dust is no worse than
in many country places in the vari-
able rain region.
"Kawaapae' is a most excellent
starting point for the extinct crater
of Haleakala. Parties leave here
about ten a. M, and haye an ex-
cellent road as far as Olinda, six or
seven miles up the mountain. The
remaining seven miles is q steep
trail. Even at a walk, which is
necessary for the last half of the