Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-06-04
BESPIDERWEBBED PAST.
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wards Rainbow Falls, traverSing a
fearfully rocky road for about a
mile and a half. Away over the
cane fields and along our path are
the little cottages of Portuguese and
Japanese settlers, even to the dis
tant forest where the electric car of
Life glides along so smoothly and
swiftly, like the world, you would
never know it was moving at all 4!
Scores of lusty boys and girls are
around these houses on the way,
and the wonder comes into your
head where their parents can corral
enough grub to feed them all.
In two hours the edge of the
forest was reached, then a stream
about half mile further where we
had to strip to cross over. A swim
followed in the clear cold water,
then a climb up a slushy vine
entangled trail for another half mile
to the high falls, near which Puka
Maui is said to be, known as the
"Natural Bridge" OF the name
of those falls, as the truthful hiStor-
ian of the R. T. c., have made
much inquiry, but fail to find any,
so we initiated them into the gang,
calling the two falls "The Rag
seys."
We are now on enchanted ground;
here is where in the misty receSseS
of the beSpiderwebbed past, with
the haze of many minds encluStered
ineXtricably round it, ku and Hina
God and GoddeSS), resided with
their four big sons, Maui, the
youngest, being quite an ambitious
and lively youth. Hna, his mother,
had a cave somewhere close by,
where she used to sit all day and
make kaba, spreading it out to dry
in the warm rays of the sun. But
the sun used to travel so fast at
times the kappa would not dry at all
as fast as Hina wished. She spoke
to Maui of this, and he commanded
the sun to "let up" little, but the
stubborn sun just blaZed away and
took no more notice of them than
he did of the little black flies that
clustered on the rocks in the stream,
seemingly trying to suicide in the
whirling waters. Then Maui got
awfully mad and SwOre by the hair
of his auntS-SiSterS that he would
alter that state of affairs, so, taking
one of his hugeSt nets he airily
sped away to The summit of Hale
akala, on the Island of Maui, where
he hid in large cave and waited
,, for the sun to come by. The sun,
, never once SuSpecting what was in
store for him, came Shiningly along,
r and Just as he looked into the cave
Maui threw his net completely over
: the very much surprised sun,
breaking off few score of his
! tlipperS to that gentleman'S aStoniSh,
ment and horror. The bewildereC
5 sun begged loudly for mercy, anC
wanted to know the cause of the
, pilikia. Maui told him he was &
|; little too ely" in his movements
that he must 90 slower and give hi;
"old woman" chance to dry hel
kappa; that, to be brief, he mus
"come off de rooSt" little
Secondly, he must not get so "ho
in the collar" as usual. The sur
gladly promised to do all this, 81
Maui let him 90. The kamaaina,
say that is why the weather is 81
much cooler up there than in mos
other places
Whilst Maui was performing thi,
Sonly act, Hina was up to her necl
in pilikia nui loa. A mighty moo
(dragon) had StrOlled around where
she was doing up the kappa in the
latest Partisan style, and for little
diversion tried to stop the waite