The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-11
OLOHANA

Rv Jas. w. Girvin.

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On Sunday morning ] had ensconceo
myself on my long chair and with the
--latest revolutionary novel and jar OF
tJared Smiths Hawaiian-biend and a
good meerschaum looked forward to a
dav of unalloyed rest. Presently MY
ears were arrested by a 'clump
| slap" which I knew to be the step
of the Missourian coming onto my Ia
lnai The vision of rest vanished NOW
In had thought that the thirty-five-mile
walk 1 had furnished him on last Sun
day and the climb to the 2300-foot ciin
from whence we had viewed the strand
| ed S. S. Manchuria on Walmanaio
| beach. had given him his qnietus, but 1t
appears that he was stronger than L
calculated and now he hobs up serenely
for another tramp. He said: You are
bringing me and my State into disre-
pute Last night gentleman treated
me to soda water and asked the chi
nese boy behind the slab, What do you
do with Missourians? Put them in
iau.' replied the Chink. Now, wouldn't
t..at jar you, coming from Celestial
who is not supposed to know the
States of the Union, let alone the char
acteristics of their inhabitants?"
OLOHANA.
In seIf-protection, conceived the idea
of interesting him at home and told
him the story of John Young, dubbed
by the natives, "Olohana." When a
boy in Canada had read in a paper of
the kidnapping of two Englisbmen by
the cannibal king of the Sandwich Is
lands, and after my arrival here 1 be-
gan to make inquiries in regard to
them I learned to respect the char
acter of Olohana above all the early
foreigners who settled on these islands.
Thinking to impress the story on the
Missourian, 1 took him ND to the city
of the dead" and there, behind the
Royal Mausoleum, pointed out a slab
which bears the following inscription:
Beneath this stone are deposited the
of John Young (of Lancashire, I
the friend and companion in
arms of Kamehameha, who departed
this life December II, 1885. in the 93rd
year of his age and the 18th of his resi-
dence on the Sandwich Islands,
We then walked up the valley until
we reached the land spoken of in late
papers as the Queen Emma Place and
which was the. home of Olohana and
was given him by Kamehameha, and /
which Olohana called Observation-Disclosures :
in memory of his place at Kawaihae.
where he had first made home. AS
we wandered through the grounds it
vas perceived that the place has all the
natural requirements for park, and
the biography of Olohana and
If the great assistance his enforced
residence here had been to the great
King and to the Hawaiian people, we
concluded that it should be kept as a
park to commemorate the good deeds
II John Young. Let it be called
OLOHANA PARK,
Ind maintained for ever by the Hawai-
ans for the respect they bear to this
rood man. Away with the iconclast
Who would dispose of this property of
ne people IOT d lew ptllFy
way with any one who would blot out
he honored records of Hawaiian his
orical events. Rather let US seek to
preserve by every possible means, such
s monuments or otherwise, everything
pertaining to Hawaiian history, which
S so dear to those of Us who have
earned to love the land and the hos
stable kindly people who welcomed
Is 70 these shores
Ohm YOUNG AND ISAAC DAVIS.
That I am not building up an imag-
nary ideal character in writing of Olo-
ANA, let me use the art preventative
O copy a letter from the great dis
overer and benefactor of the human
ace, Captain George Vancouver. which
peaks of him and of his appreciation
f. his high character. After viewing
he embryo Olohana Park, we proceed
d up the valley to the residence of
DR.. Edgar Henrioues. where I knew
he records and heirlooms of the house
f Olohana are sacredly kept. Here L
vas shown two of the original letters
f Capt Geo Vancouver, which, if the
anily cared to dispose of, would j
ring large prices in London. Their
eference to John Young and Isaac Da-
on that Capt. Vancouver had personal {
Citations with them:
CAPT. GEO. VANCOUVER.
Discovery. Karakakooa Bay.
"Owhyhee, Mar Sth. 1898. '
Il beg leave to inform all comman-
ers of vessels, etc, into whose hands
his testimony may fall, that on Feby I
LIST. 1893 I was visited at sea by Ia
naah Maah (Kamehameha), the sole
acknowledged king of Owhyhee Ha-
valid. and in company with His Brit
nnic Majesty's armed vessel. the l
nathan, on the following day en- {
cred Karakakooa (Kealakekua) Bay, r
,here we remained until the date !
ereof. having tents, observatory etc.
II shore, where they We're protected !
nd guarded equally by the people Of
'amaah Maah as by ourselves, and {
.ho with the people under his author
" supplied US with water, wood and Z
II kinds of refreS hnantS etc in the