The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-24

might be called Shooting the chutes on
| big wave Generally two brawny
native men man the oonderous canoe
| cIilt with ouTriggers so as to ride the
| waves and they paddle out about two
| miles TO meet the incoming surf When
| they see a wave which they think large
| enough, they, very expertly, turn the
i canoe so as to receive the full force
/ of the waters on the stern. and are
| driven shorewards at lightning speed,
tipped at an angle of 40 degrees
Another interesting trip was that
! through the Honolulu Plantation and
| the sugar mill. which is the only mill
| on the islands having its own refinery
We We're shown the process of manu-
featuring sugar from the cane being
brought in on one side of the mill TO
the refined sugar sacked up and ready
for the market on the other. The cane
comes in on cars and is taken by ma
chimes and deposited on an endless
belt, which carries it into the rollers
1t is crushed at enormous pressure, and
so dry is it afterwards that the refuse
is dumped into the furnaces. serving
for fuel, so that they do not have to
buy any coal. The whole process is
down to a meal and uses sugar in his
tea and coffee little does he think of
the vast amount of labor necessary to
produce this article.
Having seen Honolulu pretty thor
oughly, we planned a side trip to Ha-
wall and the volcano, and a most in
teresting trip it is. Everyone should
take it, if at all possible, for Kilauea is
Nr1lx TOW f10c IN.
the whole world. We left Honolulu
on Tuesday at noon by the Kinau-a
300 ton steamer belonging to the In
ter-Island Steamship Company. The
sea is rather rough between the Islands
ton the down trip, but there is so
much of interest along the way that
one has hardly time to be seasick.
After you leave the dock at Honolulu
you do not touch another until arrival
at Hilo-all the landing of freight and
passengers being done by means of
the small boats which the steamer car
ries. Several natives man these boats
and the freight is thrown to them by
the deck hands on board. In loading
horses the animals swim out to the
boat and hoiSted on board by
means of a block and tackle and dom
key engine.
We arrived at Hilo on Wednesday,
about p. M, and We're met at the
dock by Mr.. George Lycurgus, the
genial Greek proprietor of the Demos
themes Hotel and the Volcano House
After driving to the hotel he took us
out to view the celebrated Rainbow
Falls, situated in a most beautiful
spot mile or two from town. The
growth of vegetation around Hilo is
wonderful, and almost every known
tropical plant and shrub thrives.
There is very little difference between
day and night temperature and it is
essentially an open air place" There
are no snakes on these islands, and
even the centipedes here are not
poisonous. owing, l am told, to the fact
that there is an entire absence of min
eral in the soil.
Well: after a fine dinner at the
Demosthenes, we retired early and |
We're awakened at break of day to take
the train on the first part of our in
teresting journey to the volcano A !
nice ride of % miles through sugar |
plantations, and past numerous mills
with an occasional glimpse of an aban- |
doned growth of coffee, brings us to |
Glenwood where stages are taken for I
The stages are CONFERENCE.-The roads |
are good, and the vegetation is luxu-
RANT and wonderful. AS you near the |
hotel you see all around and on every |
side quantities of steam and smoke es-
Gaping, coming from the cracks and /
blowholes. This is one of the reasons
that no damaging eruption has ever |
occurred at Kilauea. Earthquakes are
very seldom felt here. After arriving
at the very comfortable hotel, Mr.. |
Lycurgus, the proprietor, took US down
to the immense banks of pure sulphur /
deposits which have been forming
here for years. We were also shown
saltpetre in small quantities, and were |
very much interested in the berries
which grow in great profusion on the
lava and rocks. These berries resem-
BILE our cranberries and make delicious
pies.
After an early lunch we all had
horses Saddled and started out to see
the fern forests with their dense
growth of tall ferns; the tree moulds
made by the lava in some ancient erup-
ton running down around the tree and
burning it out, leaving only the i'm
preston of the trunk, Gas it cooled;
to the small crater, Kilauea- Xxi; then
back to the hotel where we got some
pommel SlickerS in case it rained and
lanterns to light our way, and after