The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-12

Ny old AIissourian friend, whose
company I have enjoyed in the valleys
and on the mountain tops, came to me
with a proposition to so TO Pearl HaZ-
Dor on a yacht. He had obtained the
consent OF the owner TO invite a friend
Early on sunday morning We slid out
of the harbor on the good yacht Spray
and were soon heeling to the breeze
along the coast, scanning the beauti-
full scenery which the island affords
from the sea. Trailing behind US was
a fleet of white wings bound TO Pearl
Harbor to join in the afternoon races
Towards sea a Kauai steamer grad
ualIy arose on the horizon, white caps
scudded across the face of the deep.
flying fish leapt from crest to crest, and
the line of breakers guarding the coast
was distinctly visible.
Our able captain soon made the en-
trance to the harbor and We We're
quickly beating our way up the wind
ing channel which Uncle Sam has SO
we'll defined with buoys and numbered
spars. 1t was a delightful sail and all
too short to suit our hunger for yacht
ing We were quickly made fast to
the wharf and thrown on our own re-
sources
/ suggested that we walk around to
Waipio and see the oyster beds, the
l., ,I- of !, iT.E
had given the name of Pearl Harbor to
the expansive and beautiful lochs. He
was rather suspicious of there being
any oysters or of obtaining any Of the
excreta from the diseased bivalve de-
nominated pearls, but as I had never
deceived him he blindly followed my
lead
Having arrived at the land denomi-
mated Waipio, we walked along the
embankment of the immense fishpond
which is now used for roadway for
conveying cane from the Waipio Pc
ninsula. 1t afforded an opportunity to
see the great variety of fish disporting
themselves in their native element and
to see some rare specimens of jelly fish.
One beautiful anemone attracted his
attention and he would fain have gath
venient 1t certainly was one of the
most beautiful sea anemones / had ever
seen and might well engross the at
tention of a landsman.
The emhankment afforded homes for
myriads of ugly black crabs, which are
the scavengers of the shadows. Ar
rived at the Peninsula, we visited the
tomb of tne nigh chief John Ii. My
VII ha OF OFT IN
of the tomb Gall OF 20 feet) for a man
the brevity of whose name could hard |
ly have been curtailed. After learn |
ing the pedigree and biography of the
chief he remarked that for a man
with such a long pedigree a monu- |
ment of such length was not mis-
placed"
And now, my friend said he. we
will have those oysters so graphically
depicted by you l showed him q !
bank where the decaying iridescent |
shells of the succulent bivalve scintil-
lated against the dark background.
This whetted his appetite, and we wan
aered on around the coast of the pc
ninsula in a vain search for the myth
ical bed of oysters. We found strata
DC shells of oysters, mussels and CLAIMS
at elevations of from four to eight feet
above the sea, which proved that they
had been very numerous in old times. |
[ told of a jar of pearls which had |
been collected by one of the natives
and of it's having been sent to the
Coast for disposal and of it's reputed /
destruction in the great cataclysm
which had engulfed San Francisco.
His appetite for the bivalve would not
De appeased, however, and after a long
walk we concluded to return by a |
railroad which wendell its course
through the rank sugar field which
covered the peninsula. Finding the in
viting shade of an algaroba, we took
of it to enjoy our lunch.
The heat in the roadway had been
excruciating and we had both acquired
he roseate hue which the tropical sun
paints ON the skin of the northern
nan. In our conversation we reverted
o the Molokan dislike to labor in the
zane fields. He said: L do not blame
hem. for, much as they would wish to
letter their condition by removing
rom a land where they We're not at
liberty to worship as their consciences
dictated, it does not take long for the
man to discover his inability
o labor in tropical fields" We had
dmired the ingenuity of the American
n raising cane on the island and
peninsula in the loch and of ferrying
he cane to the mainland. OF his con-
-eying water through fumes and
.queducts. the latter made of wooden
,ipe reinforced by belts of iron. OF
us taking advantage of the good soil
wherever it lay and of utilizing the
waste places we We're well able TO
Judge when we reached the eminence