The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-08-18

NtOlOkdl ISLE anu WIN
deep gulches and ravines and almost
dividedinto two separate and distinct re-
gions by a rugged mountain range whose
TOW ering backbone Is almost envel)pei
in fieecy mists. is the one island of
the Hawaiian group which Is the least
| known and too frequently the most
maligned. Islanders and strangers alike
have peculiar conceptions concerning
his long, narrow, mountainous and in
| teresting island.
To the world in general the island OF
Mo'lcltoi Is associated with the scourge
so vividly described in "Ben Hur." To
speak of Molokai is TO at once conjure
an islet in the wide expanse of the
Pacific ocean, devoted entirely to the
segregation of the thousand and one
u fortunate inmates, who, by law. have
been isolated in Settlement by them
selves. And that is one reason why
the word Molokai is the Jonah of the
is.nrds in the commercial and travel
ms worlds. But the true Molokai is
an island which nature seemed to have
designed for just the purpose of afford
ing most complete isolation of the
unfortunate afflicted ones, on the one
tutal possibilities on the larger and
more important section, on the other
hand For this larger portion is rich
in cattle and sheep pasturage and fair
ly we'll adapted for the development OF
small farming. The Settlement is COM
pletely and absolutely apart from the
remainder of the island. The great
ba clibone of the Molokai pail rises to
precipitous heights where few may
climb, and this forms natural barrier
between the two sides of the island.
Therefore it is the greater part of
Molokai which has much of interest to
the traveller and to the islander. Bleak
and barren as it is on the leeward and
windward shores nearest Oahu, the
portions closest to Maui are wonderful
| ~ beautiful 1t is veritable Isle OF
waterfalls dashing down the sides of
massive and precipitous cliffs rising
hundreds of feet sheer out of the ocean,
and to whose lava walls cling the
greenest of vines and MOSES.
BEAUTIFUL MOAULA FALLS.
Perhaps nowhere else in the islands
may be seen more beautiful scene
than in the farthest end of Halawa
valley. Like a giant 'V' laid flat on
! the island, with the widest part open
ing out upon the sea, the valley is
largely devoted TO the raising of taro,
from which those engaged in it's cult
walton derive most satisfactory profits.
Quaint little native grass "huts and
small, but modern, cottages, dot the
y landscape, some hidden under and be-
hind masses of foliage of mango, kukui
and mountain apple trees. The sides
Of the valley are covered with giant
tree ferns. Tropical is the word that
expresses all its beauty. Courslng
down the center of this attractive re-
treat is a wide stream supplying all the
taro patches and the gadens the waters
thereof being fed by the Moaulu falls.
From perennial springs flowing out of
the very topmost portion of the Pail
the sivery cascades have their source.
Through cleft in the Pail the great
mass of water falls over cliff, the
: spray dashing upon projecting lava
stones, where it is beaten into mist
which ever and always in the sunlight
/ shows prismatic colors. For hundred
I or more feet the cascade falls until II
loses itself in a pool lined with tree
ferns, and then again through another
cleft it courses only to fall over a Sec
ond cliff of moss and vine-covered lave
and into a second pool, emerging once
: more for its last great and inspiring
leap of several hundred feet over 9
| third cliff and into a great chasm, al
most circular, and perhaps more than G
: hundred feet across, forming lake II
, miniature, whose depth has never We
been touched by daring Hawaiian div
ers. 1t is a most fascinating spot, one
, in which the artist would revel and
? rave over it's rare possibilities for trans
fer to his canvas. The shores of thu
: pool are covered with trees indigenous
to the soil of the islands.
. THE AVA GATHERER.
Ava, the root which many Ha
t waiians have an Unsuitable desire t.
, possess, is grown in a mysterious spo
!, somewhere near the source of the falls
!, An old Hawaiian woman knows tn,
g secret of the locality and to her tn,
natives of the valley pay a dollar apiece
Z when they wish section of root. TIL
: old woman climbs a steep trail leading
) over the cliffs as If she We're still
young ana athletic Blrl. but with uoi
f; lars as the prize and the appetites o
> her patrons as the incentive, she fire
quently makes the hazardous climb
Why don't the natives raise their owl
, ava roots in their own yards? you ask
> Well, anywhere else in the islands tn
= answer could be the same. Ones neigh
Dor might covet your patch and on
would have to grow 1t in a steel-pro
: tected cage, and so none of the native
> in Halawa ever attempts cultivatin
u ava root in his kitchen-garden.
In sight of the falls a pretty littl
cottage has recently been erected b.
a School Inspector Charles King, tn
8 mansion" of the valley, where mos
B exquisite view is obtained.
AGRICULTURAL MOLOKAT
: The section OF the island from Kau
!, nakakai to Pelekunu, with the village
|, of Kamalo. Pukoo, Waialua, Brown,
: Halawa, Wailau in between. present