The Arizona sentinel., 1896-02-15
NUMBER 13.

a Japanese family ot wanderers. The father of the family WIS carrying a pole on his shoulder with the house. hold goods on each end, and the mo- ther who had taken off those silly, short wooden sandals and was going barefoot, had baby laShed to her back, and two or three were walking. At the sight of us, the mothers wc- manly pride asserted itself and she stopped and put on her ridiculously small sandals, and came on limping like cripple.
 During the entire journey we did not meet single white person. Wan- dering Chinese and Japanese without any home, or g}ing to the markets were the only persons, save the na- tives, living along the road side.
 At last the Pali was reached. The path winds along the pass between two mountains through which the wind sweeps down with such terrific force as to sometimes almost take one from his feet. The view from the Pali Is sublime. On one side may be seen the sea, with Honolulu looking like speck in the distance; on the other are the plantations and houses looking also like mere specks in the dim distance, with the dark blue sea for a background. Gigantic, grim, and silent as the sphinx, stands the frowning cliffs on the right, and on the left a sharp cone-like ridge ex- tends so far away that 1t is lost in the distance, while the only possible place of crossing the island is at the Pali.
 One cannot but admire the military genius of Kamehameha in securing this pass. It was the Thermopylae of Kalanikupule, the last Oahuan chief Here was fought the great battle which made Kamehameha, the Ha- waiian, Napoleon, master of all the islands.
 Before the battle, Kamehameha with q fleet of war canoes and one schooner and some artillery, appeared off Oahu and landed at Waial@ Bay and, after a few days spent in arrang- ing his men, he marched to Nunana ! Valley, where Kalanikupule has post ed his forces.
 Kamehameha had 8 good general in an American named John Young whose descendants may still be found on the islands. There were several Americans in his army, and their skill with artilIery glined KanIehameha his victories He encountered the enemy at Laimi and Puiwa, where the Oahu troops made . brave resistance until Caiana, their leader, was killed by % cannon ball, when they gave way They were closely pursued up the va ley, some escaping up the ridges on either side, while others were hemmed in and driven over the Nuuauu Pal or precipice north of the road, and dashed to death on the rocks. Then bones may still be found among tie bare jungles or algero5a forests one ] thousand feet below. KalanikupIe wandered for several months in the Koo!au Mountains until he was finally captured in cave above Waipio, brought down and offered in sacrifice to the conquerors' war god at Moara- hua
 The Pali looks like the gate between two fairy lands. It is a pass that could be made impregnable. A feH hundred men could hold an army of thousands at bay. On the east side opposite Honolulu the descent is very steep and rocky. Two or three hun dred feet below the top spring gush out from the rocks, falls into poe e, very inviting to the thirsty traveer. The road is traversed almost ccntl0- ualIy by the energetic Chinamen, the wandering Japs, and the tourists vl3 are loud in their praise. Of its beas.y and grandeur.
 JCL4V F EIvSICE.