The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-03-31
PELEKUNU VALLEY WAS
INVADED BY TYPHOID

mouse mad out one room, the n0Or COW
ered with Hawaiian mats. DIR. Yosi
entered and at once began his investi-
cation.
All had come from Pelekunu
Paahao, the sick man, was thir-
ty years of age. He had had head
aches, nose bleed and other symptoms,
which at first pointed to typhoid. Then
things were said that pointed to mala-
ria as the ailment. 1t was difficult to
arrive at any true solution except that
I the man had been very sick and was
now convalescent, and that the three
| children had recovered within a few
days DR.. Mouritz had happened along
that way OPPORTUNITY on Saturday and
left medicine which had done much
| good. The party had been at Halawa
since Thursday.
one of the women, young girl. in
answer to a question said that two OF
her brothers had died at Pelekunu and
that another was sick and might be
dead even then. The invasion OF fatal
sickness into the house had caused the
others to seek safety in flight.
BELIEVED IN KAHUNAs.
|
| had come with the Pelekunu party, and
who answered most of the questions,
was asked whether kahunas had had
anything to do with IL. He replied that
one of the boys before dying had CON
versation" in his delirium, with some
one whom he had named as kahuna.
1t was evident the speaker was i'm
pressed with this conversation" for
he said some one must be anaanaing
the natives of Pelekunu. This super
stition of being prayed to death is
strong with the Aolokai natives, still
far removed from the real world of
modern life. They are primitive peo-
pies in the little villages of Molokai,
and the old native superstitions cling
to them. Asked how the kahunas could
anaana them, he replied that they
might, for instance, pollute the water.
But this was going into superstition
and not facts. and after having medi-
cines and provisions landed, DR.. Yost
ended his examination. The sick man
said he did not wish to come to Homo
lulu for treatment.
Messages were sent from Halawa by
telephone to Kamalo and thence by
wireless to Honolulu. by Dr. Yost, Sec
rotary Atkinson and the reporter, and
the party again boarded the Likelike
which was plunging and careening at
her anchorage like an unbroken bron-
cho.
MAGNIFICENT SCENERY.
The glimpses of Molokai which one
obtains from a steamers deck while
passing to Honolulu from San Francis.
co or in passing to and from Maui, give
the impression that the island Is bleak
mountainous and desolate. Skirting it.
shores on the Halawa, Wailau and Pc
lekunu sides on Wilder's fine steamer
Likelike, gives a far different picture
For miles sheer precipices rise from
the sea and tower 1900 feet into the air
They are not bleak rocks but are GOV
cred with the greenest of verdure
Now and then, and sometimes II
groups, beautiful waterfalls are seel
on the face of the cliff, now falling
in clear view for couple of hundred
feet, now hidden under denses masses
of foliage, only to reappear furthe
down, another silvery link in tn
watery thread which ends in a splasl
and scintillating mist in the breaker
below. Here Is a waterfall, tumblini
over the cliff the entire distance with
out a break. A pretty valley Is dis
closed and in the far end a waterfall
1t is land of waterfalls, with million
of gallons of water all finding way t,
the sea, doing no good except to rende
the precipices more impressive an,
H. a IL i,te
paradise. Could these falls be harness
ed and sent overland to the fertil
stretches of Kamalo and Kaunakakai
what a wealth in sugar they woul
develop.
PELEKUNU AT LAST.
Now the steamer rounds into anothe
bay and a beautiful panorama is ex
posed. Another valley with little hut
dotting the beach and rugged hills be
yond green and greener as the height
are reached by the gaze. But what
place to land. The sea here is excep
tionally rough and the lava cliffs shoN
jagged teeth on shore over which tn
waves swirl, crash and beat unmerci
fully, the spray flying far up the cliffs
A derrick poises its long arm far on
beyond the rocks. The boat come
underneath 1t, but the boatsteere
thinks he can land the passenger
without it. The bow is run between
two rocks. 1t grinds this side, nov
the other with broken waves boarding
the boat often. 1t is an exciting time
but everybody gets ashore safely.
BY a circuitous path the people seal
the cliff, almost like mounting tn
pyramids and then trail leads aroun
the mountain and down into the val
ley where the huts are scattered. No
an inch of soil in yard. Nothing bu
great rocks worn smooth by the water
Every yard is a stonepaved court. A
paths are rounded stones. The school
house sits in the midst of boulder
and the pupils playground Is on
layer of loose. smooth stones. Her
and there a depression shows a tar
patch. and it is these. probably NOR
than anything else. which started tn
typhoid fever epidemic.
WHERE DEATH STALKED.
| DR.. Yost led TO the house where tn
two boys died and from which other
fad On fho foor uvaa a suffartna hox