The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-06

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made; also the much beloved spring
and the garden where cups Of taro
caves were made to dip in the spark
Ing waters. The spring still bubbles
md flows. clear as crystal. but the /,
place where some of childhood's happy
hours were spent Is profaned by a for
eign horde. being now Japanese roost. !
The following from the Friend for I
December is OF interest as the recollec-
ton Of DIR. Serene Bishop of Railua IN
oiGen days
Ny earliest memory OF our home was
at Of two matched cottages set
closely side by side and raised up on a
srw stone platform. One was matched :
: IN la-i. the other with pli-grass.
Z = my fourth birthday. in February
~ !. my father led me a few rods in I
lard to see the stone house he was
building. I remember the awe with ,
which I gazed into the gloomy depths
Of the still open cellar. A Mr.. Castle
was the carpenter. Most of the lumber
used was koa, from the forest inland.
The floors were OF wide boards, sawed
by hand. under Mr.. Castles superin-
tendence. He afterwards made shin
giles for the house out of the same tim
Der. although II was at first matched
with la-i. The shingled roof yielded a
supply of rainwater in the rainy sea-
son. This was stored in casks In the
cellar. The house was we'll built and
commodious, with three rooms in each
story and verandas on the seward /
side. There was also an ell inland. con-
tanning the dining room and kitchen. |
In the kitchen was brick oven. also |
an old iron stove of Anticipated form I
In the fireplace were the usual equip |
ments of crane and pendent hooks for
kettles
! DIR. Andrews succeeded US in 1887 In
the occupancy of the house. In 1888 his
son was born there. DIR. Geo. p. An
drews, now OF Honolulu. OF the five
years spent in this house I have vivid
and many pleasant recollections. From
the upper veranda my older sister and
myself often watched the active gam
bols of the crowd of natives sliding or
the great rollers of the surf. which we
could see through the stems OF a grove
of cocoanut trees. That now nearly
forgotten sport was then In its fullest
activity. In the absence of horses
equestrian sport had not displaced II.
Each one swan out with the light surf
, board under the arm. diving under the
incoming combng rollers. Reaching
, the point where the waves began to
, comb over. they adjusted themselves
, adroitly on the front of the wave in
PROSTATE position on the board. With
, a few rapid strokes of the hands and
, feet they were I'm motion. and the wave
; did the rest. shooting them forward
The sea spurted in front of the dartinF
, board. while the surf foamed over them
: behind as they slid down the steep hill
!, of the wave, which ever came pushing
|, up under them. II required great skill
: TO maintain the precise position on the
A slope OF the wave which was necessary
> and sometimes "A less practiced one
= would be overtaken by the comber and
= left behind. But a majority of the per-
: formers were able to kneel on their
/, boards and many of them to stand
= erect after getting started
!. This was, a universal sport of the
n the chiefs and common people alike
n The ponderous chiefs had very large
a boards Of light wood. In the BisnoI
Museum may be seen today an Inn
:. mense surf board of the cork-Iike wiz
will wood. on which the famous Pax
, used to disport himself at Lanaina nit
- years ago. I doubt whether kuakin
W with his 800 pounds was agile enoug
= 20 attempt II. In handling canoes tn
- natives were most adroit. kona, W.T.
- it's great koa forests inland, abounde
!, In canoes. There were no boats. Tn
people were skilled fishermen and ofte
= went many miles To sea, in pursuit
~ the larger deep-sea FISH. A name give
Ia n af hah
at waa" or Canoe-oescrier. The cano'
on were Of elaborate form and smoothnes
ne Most OF them were single canoes viii
n outriggers. Many large ones. howeve
were rugged double. six or eight te
apart with a high platform betwet
eo them. All the fastenings were of car
bic fully plated sinnet or cocoanut hbr
n the lashings being laid with great ca
Iys and skill. The mast was stepped
nv the platform. The common people N
ne mat-sails. Those OF kudkinis cane
- were OF sail-duck.
co. 4 think A. was a year later than OF
W. that Mr.. Thurston built his wood
the house at Laniakea, a quarter mile
wo land and perhaps $50 feet higher
ro- was a very rocky. arid site. The wall
,,ta enclosures must have occupied
- acres. A little back in the premises v
a lofty pile OF clinker stones, wh
got may have been natural. or perhaps
Of heiau OF place of idol-worship. A-ou
the base OF this pile on the oa.l
ade rocks grew number of the singu
~ pilo-pilo plants very luxuriant. III
have large piumy flowers which 90,
VI ted a strong odor like prussic acid.
urn fieshy iegume was on the end of
un- Itng pistil and could be picked as
by caper. During the shorter moist :
urs son. the common weeds of the pl
Ger were mustard. and a thorny poppy "
y. a large white flower. This was pr
~ ably introduced from Mexico with {
'ipie tie. Purslane abounded. "A conn
the weed in Kaiiua was the No-hu. WI
pear We barefooted children held In dread
ma account of its large seeds with >
mia sharp prongs. zone of which was alV
49,, IN n vertical position. The bright
low flower was very pretty one;
areu called them daisies. and the rum
pre- plants briars.
ried. Just back OF the Thurston house
. by n deep Dit. which was the mouth o.
.arne immense cave extending TO the sh
"a ending In a pond of brackish water
ahu sea level We occasionally Joined
most party of visitors In exploration or
from cave with lamps. There were on.
two difficult passages. and one