The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1906-05-24
HONOLU LUSIGHT SEEING
Ned Keller Writes Another Interest
ing Letter of His Sight Seeing
the Hawaiian Islands.

DEAR ONES AT HoME:--I promised
you would write you one more letter
describing our trip to Hawaii and the
Volcano, Kilenae.
We left Honolulu at noon, on April
3rd. We had booked for the same
trip on April 10th, but learning at
1890 on the morning we sailed, that
we were the only ones booked for the
10th, and that the party III in ally
were to have a native guide on the
entire trip, we decided as / usually
do, on the spur of the moment, to go
on the Bird. Coming up to our rooms
we hastily threw a few things into a
suit case and in less than an hour
were down to the dock ready to go.
We boarded the small steamer Kineau,
1000 tons, and secured our berths
after we were on our way. The
weather was fine and conditions favor
able for pleasant trip, which we had.
We were not out of sight of land on
this trip, one island appearing before
the other is out of sight. Off the
coast of Maui we saw several whales
spouting and playing in the water and
on various occasions we would see
porpoises. One morning a school of
four, appeared near the shore making
for the ship. They got under the
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them play and frolic along with no
apparent effort to keep pace with
the ship. After half an hours sport
they disappeared in the water to be
seen no more by us.
On the lee side of the island of
Maui the ocean was perfectly calm
scarcely rifle to mar the glass like
smoothness of the surface. We made
two stops on this island, one about s
o'clock and again about 10 p. m.
There being only two points in these
islands. one at Honolulu and one at
Hilo. All passengers, freight and
mail, is loaded by small boats, which
are capable of carrying three tons in
most any sea. went ashore at the
last stop and here we took aboard
some pigs. They tie their feet to-
gether and hoist them aboard, half
dozen at time, with a donkey en-
CINE. The only reason they didn't
make more noise was, there were not
more of them. This is the one night
/ have not slept since left Salt Lake.
Our state room was forward just off
the dining salon, near the kitchen
and pantry, with pigs squealing on
deck, and Chinaman jabbering, rattle
ing dishes and pans all around us,
with two or three more just above
scrubbing the deck, and to cap it all,
the berth | was in, an upper, was
built for short fellow, about as wide
as match. My head touched at one
end, my feet at the other, | couldn't
lay on my back without both should
ers hitting the sides, nor could 1 lay
on my side, l stood it until 2. O'Clock
in the morning. Then | got up and
dressed, went up on deck and sat on
the bridge until daylight, when we
made the first landing, on the Island
of Hawaii. All day we sailed along
the windward side (north and east,
This side of all the islands is very
different from the lee. Here the coast
line is rough and rugged, rising from
100 to $4,000 feet almost perpendicular
with no beach at all, caused by the
lava cooling more rapidly than on the
lee side where it flowed gradually
down to the sea.
These perpendicular walls are 9
picturesque sight, all covered with
moss and many places with trees anc
shrubbery, and here and there a little
rivulet trucking down the side OF
plunging boldly down into the sea
above is one sugar plantation ant
one after another all down the coast
the sugar mills being located a
at the most convenient place loading
the ships as we'll as getting the cam
to them. The cane is brought to tn
mills by various methods. The on
used chiefly in Hiwaii is the fumes
A continuous V shaped trough in
clined towards the mill enough so
little water running through will
carry the cane to the mill. Man
places these fumes are elevated 60 o
10 feet to cross a gully, and agail
they are in a trench on the hill side
Others use what they call the "Tram
an endless cable running out from tn
mills and carrying bundles of can
every so far apart, same principle a
the "Trams" used in mining an
logging camps. Others use minatur
steam railroads using portable track
which can readily be laid int
the fields. The blowing is mostl
done by steam. The planting mus
no done nv hand as the stocks mus