The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-07

however, grew from avails of city lots
in Rochester, N. Y, originally a piece
of primeval forest inherited by Mrs.
Bishop. AS missionaries went forty
years ago, these old people were count
ed among the rich missionaries who
| had robbed the poor Hawaiians.'
| was in Eva three and half years,
being then sent home" to the States,
after the custom of missionaries child
rem. During that time 1 witnessed a
constant and arduous devotion of my
parents to spiritual and educational Ia
Dor for the native people. My fathers
parish was a large one, extending from
Salt Lake to Kaena Point, including the
districts of Eva and Waianae, with a
population of seven or eight thousand,
Exclusively Hawaiians. Owing to their
contiguity to large seaport, the NOR
al condition of the people was more
corrupt than at Kailua. In Eva con-
siderable body of hopeful Christians
had been gathered into the church.
Most of the people gave a friendly at
ltention to religious teaching. The pro-
prietary chief of Eva was the pious
|
cured the general adherence of the peo-
pie to the missionary. 1t was other
wise in Waianae, whose proprietary
chief was Liliha, or Madam Boki y
who had long been hostile to the Prot
lestant missionaries The Waianae peo-
Iple were accordingly averse.
We had a most excellent near neigh
Dor in Kanepaiki, the old head man. or
Konohiki of Eva for whom I formed a
decided affection. He was very efficient
| in completing the unfinished church.
and in building a large adobe school
house. not far from the present District
school. In year or two, very COM
lpetent teacher came from Lahainaluna
ISeminary, fine-looking native, named
IHooliliamanu. He grew to be high in
the Kings favor. and became a ''Hulu-
manu. or member of the Kings per-
sonal staff. Here and there in the vi
cinity lived native men or women of
class above the common makaainanas,
although hardly chiefs. yet in posses
sion of such Ills of land as to enable
them to keep a few dependents. OF
such was a kind old Deborah who
had a very lazy horse, always at our
service when needed for trip to town
common people We're generally well fed
Owing to the decay of population. great
breadths of taro marsh had fallen into
disuse, and there was surplus of soil
and water for raising food.
The dwellings of the common natives.
I think. were in poorer condition than
those of Kailua. Doubtless the moister
climate caused more decay of the
toh he III,
drunken and dissolute. AS in Kailua,
there was no dwelling of a native not
of the old Hawaiian style. Three miles
west at Waipahu stood a partially
framed house occupied by Mr.. Thomas
Hunt. The clothing of the common
people was mostly in the old native
costume. A few more men wore cot
ton shirts when out on a weekday, and
now and then legs were encased in
pants when at church. No beasts OF
burden were in use All burdens We're
carried on the old native yoke or mann
aka, just as Chinese now carry them in
the streets of Honolulu. AS in Kailua
numbers of lean swine hung around the
outer walls of the villages, or were oc-
OCCASIONALLY enclosed in pens. Owning nc
land and dependent on the caprice OF
their superors, the common people
were shiftless and indolent, living from
hand to mouth.
Money wages for labor were nearly
unknown. Perhaps along the wharves
lin Honolulu Iaborers might earn a real
or hapawalu a day Domestic servants
or ohuas were glad to be employed for
their keep. 1t needed quite a number
of them to perform the work of a house
1;rrlof IN AI,A lot
thirties, the missionaries began to be
paid regular stipends of $500 for each
couple, and a small addition for each
child This was found to be compare
tive opulence, with our very plain way
of living. Our servants cultivated the
title glebe, and so fed us and themselves
Pigpen, cowpen and goatpen contrib
luted. with broods of fowls and turkeys
Supplies of bananas, sugar cane, mel
ons. squashes and other eatables were
bought for books, states, etc. A very
common article was pia, or arrowroot
which came in the form of balls in a
dirty condition, imperfectly separated
from the fibre of the tubers. This we
would wash and strain, leaving the
now-white sediment to be dried in the
sun. Pia was a favorite diet with the
little mission children in Honolulu, and
probably wholesome. I had specia
aversion for 1t, owing TO an unhappy
linfantile experience. 1t was with dis
ltressing loathing that used to see the
little tots gorging themselves on theil
home steps with the brown jelly in theil
tin cups 1t was colored with molasses
But those little Clarks and Judds al
grew up healthy. A chief use of pis
was for starching clothes. To separate
1.-THE starch from the potato-like tubers
required only grating, straining ant
washing. The tubers grew wild. prob
ably an imported plant, with an arrow
shaped leaf.
Our family made repeated trips to tht
home of Rev. John s. Emerson a
waialua during those years. There wa:
, then no road save foot path across ths