The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-02-21


one visits older-seemng spots amid
the emissions Of the great mother
mountain he finds deeper soil, more
vegetation, until he sees the impene-
trablr mugles that cover some Of the
upper-lauds and finds i'm them beneath
their wild profusion Of tree and creep
er, and fern, deep, hidden caves and
holes corresponding TO the lava bubbles
of the dead modern flow. Somewhere
fn the heart Of the inconceivably bulky
mountain the fires still burn and mol
ten seas Of the sort which may be inn
agined as responsible for the invention
Of the traditional Hell are awaiting a
chance to come forth and flow again to
the a.-but quietly now and though
i'm streams still grand and awful to be-
hold only i'm dying activity as compar-
ed to the Titanic-vomits of the past
Perhaps the queerest village of those
along the coast is that of Hoopuloa,
which has two twO-story houses and
about ten others. On the wharf I ask
ed one of the leading citizens what the
population was and his first answer
was that he had not counted. Then he
said About sixty" and after a quick
count ! agreed with him. HoopulOa
nestles. i'm an endless coast of leafless
black beneath fifteen or twenty palm
trees and a few sickly algarobas. There
We're half a dozen races on its tiny
wharf when we landed, Each indivi-
dual knows a few words of the Ian
guage of each of the others, as in most
parts of Hawaii, and the resulting dia-
| lect is beyond description We know
what it is, for example, when a Jap
/ tries to talk English at short notice.
How must it be when he gets mixed up
with German, English, Portuguese and
Hawaiian and perhaps talks pigeon
japanese with a Chinese associate?
Hoopuloa is a nice place, and needs
a first class newspaper to advertise its
attractions. Even the citizens all of
them prominent ones. seem Indifferent
to the beauties and advantages of the
place A newspaper could stir them up
and make the town what it should be.
Kau had it's first newspaper a week
ago 1t is Japanese and is "a counter
part of the Kona Echo-forerunner of
scores of Japanese newspapers which
] will soon circulate among all the PLAN
tatons of the islands. The japanese
press has come to stay and grow amid
plantations and 1t will be a power to
be reckoned with. The Kau Weekly
has - pages, written by hand and
printed" on a mimeograph by j. H.
Maxine and G. n. Nagusa. AS for
"style,"-a prominent Chinese of the
district temporarily lost his lady-love
last week, when she ran off with a KO-
lys account: "A pretty little Chinese
maiden, under the spell of the Konishl
(New Year, fell in love with a would
be Lochiwar from the Hermit Kingdom,
with the result that the latter has
fed, the former is sad-eyed and visit
full, wishing for his return and the
! guardian of the pretty young maiden
has his back up and breathes dire VEN
| geance should the bold but indiscreet
/ lover return. The course of true love,
etc"
Punaluu has a strange-looking black
| beach, smooth and sandy, and the
waves roll up 1t and break just as they
do on the white and yellow sands of
other shores. 1t is a queer sight to see
an inky-green ocean break in white over
/ the fine, level, black sand. The count
less poets who sing of golden sands
should take a trip to Punaluu and try
/ to ring in some changes in their songs.
Far up in the hills of Kau is a huge
stone in the rude likeness of a man,
once worshipped as god. The story is
told of a haole who once defied its pow
err. He jokingly put leis on it and
finally Clipped a piece off the divine
] IN, Of g ,fv,or
That night the storm came. Rain
washed away homes destroyed crops,
and the haole's home stood in three feet
of water before the wrath of the ele-
ments abated. If not convinced of the
gods power he was at least silenced,
for the natives needed no more to ar
que In their own way they could point
with pride and write their Q. E. d.
Fish are so abundant in the waters
of this coast that they may be seen in
literal swarms whenever the steamer
stops, and members of the crew haul
some out of the water at every port.
The lowland native fishes and the
highlander raises poi. They exchange
commodities and both are happy. They
even have fish drives" like the great
jackrabbit drives of Australia and Cal
ifornia, canoes and swimmers in a half
or three-quarter circle soaring schools
of fish into the waiting nets. Over six
teen hundred ihihi were caught in a re-
cent drive of this sort at Keauhou.
The party of tourists who returned
I this trip from the volcano, having en-
joyed the Kinau trip from Honolulu
returned enthusiastic in praise of their
trip and their treatment. The pleasure
of seeing the wonders of Kilauea was
added to by treatment of the most at.
|, tentive and liberal kind from Managel
|, Lycurgus of the Volcano House and
J these visitors from Mainland homes
, speak with the highest praise of the ia.
BILE service in this isolated spot, and II
their palates are to be trusted Lycur.
gus is raising fresh vegetables which
= compare favorably with the best II
America. He will be heard from will
them in the Honolulu market and per.
haps California viii lose some of thi,