The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-11-09

second boat which after a two hours'
struggle, landed him at the wharf about
| a. m. But the first boat had not beon
heard of, and It was pitch dark night.
Dawn was approaching when the dscoT-
ISOLATE husband met his bride safe on
shore. The boat had been driven out to
sea, and finally made the land in creek
sheltered from the full force of the wind.
An array of hacks is always found at
the Bay to convey passengers to Waikiki,
a distance of seven miles. From this
place Kahului, Spreckelsville and Pa!a
can be reached by train.
The next port to Maalaea Is Kihei on
the opposite size Of the bay. brought into
existence by a new plantation of that
name. On this part of the route magnlfi-
cent views are obtained OF Haleakala,
which rises to height of 10000 feet, and
contains the largest extinct crater in the
world. This mountain makes up East
Maui The name Hae-a-ka-la means
House of the Sun and was probably given
because the sun appears to rise out of
the crater The tract of land on the lower
slopes of the mountain and on the plain
a the base. once a desert, and now COW
cred with sugar cane, is immense. In
this tract are the three plantations, Wal
luku, Spreckelsville and Kihei.
At the next port, Maizena, large ship
ments are generally made of pigs, fowls,
corn, etc, raised by Portuguese and Chi
mountain. 1t is generally past midnight
when the Kinau has taken the freight
from this port, and as the Hawaii channel
has now to be crossed the best thing the
passenger can do is to take sound sleep
and become unconscious of rolls and
pitches until off Kawaihae-which Mark
Twain phonetic ally wrote "toe-y-high =
the boat is again in calm water. Here in
the early morning a magnificent panola-
ma meets your view as you come on
deck. The three great mountains of Ha-
wall, tinged with the rising sun, are all
IL sight, Nauna Kea. Mauna Loa, and
Hualalai. The last named being at a
nearer distance. it Is not observable how
m UGH lower its elevation Is than that of
the other two. Its height is only 5000 feet.
that of Mauna Loa and Maura Kea being
II 600. Thee mountains arc seen to the
best advant@Ge in the winter months,
when capped with snow. About breakf0st
time the Knau may be expected to drop
her anchor at Mahukona, the port for
kohala, large and prosperous sugar dis
trict with which it is connected by "A
serpentine railway track. Passengers
must not expect to find Pullman cars.
They are not needed the distance beinS
only fifteen miles. Two or three hours
are generally occupied in landing freight
at Mahukona. When again under way
the magnificent cliff scenery of the Ha-
makua coast comes into view, the mouths
OF the deep w almanu ana WalDlO Valleys
are passed, and waterfalls will be seen
pouring into the sea with a sheer descent
of 1000 feet. 1t is cliff coast all the way
from here to Hilo broken by a success
sion of deep guches torn out by the tor
rents that for ages have rushed down
from the mountain. The rainfall was
probably at one time greater than 1t is
now, but freshets of terrific force may
still be witnessed in these channels. All
along the Hamakua coast are a series OF
landings for the several plantations. but
with one exception the kinau does not
call at them. In all these cases the land
ing stages are on the rocks at a consider
able elevation above the water. Passen
gers are landed in the same way as the
freight. BY means of a crane a box which
Will contain four persons Is lowered into
he boat, and in this they are hoisted on
terra firma. The Kinau has only one
ocular stopping place between Mahuko-
Ia and Hilo, Laupahoehoe, at the mouth
deep gulch. where you can land with
out being suspended in mid-air. Whilst
he vessel is at anchor here the big rollers
enable one to experience what is the
meaning OF being rocked in the cradle of
he deep. 1t will be anywhere between
p. m and midnight when the lights on
hore tell you that you are in Hilo bay.
1t is worthy of the progress that Hilo is
making that landing here in small boats
is n thing of the past. wharf has been
constructed at Waiakea, at which the XII
nau can tie up, and passengers can go
ashore in n civilized manner and find
hacks to convey them to all parts of the
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