The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-01-22

tho tourists. the sklne one that would |
be generous with his smokes. said;
You're nicely situated here, Mr.. |
Buchholtx. now what are you going to
tax uH for the dinner, lodging and
breakfnst7"
He was not speaking to an inn keep |
err but to n man who would gladly |
put up" n wayfarcr for the night and
give him something to eat and. per-
haps. noggin OF drink. He never
would accept pay for the service and
to be asked for n price for the accom-
modations was the one thing that
CALLED him more than TO have anyone
draw from his pocketa handful of cigars
and make an offering OF them to host
or guest. Looking the man In the eye
Buchholtz replied:
II will charge you nothing, my dear
sir for you are not going to stay
here" And then the guests for the
moment were shown the door. 1t Is
said that this incident soured him more
than anything that had occurred and
he afterward moved away to a place
a mile in from the road and all up
hill. As I have said he was an expert
mental farmer. He dabbled also lit
tie in stock, ! mean live stock, and at
his death he left bunch of about two
hundred head OF steers, everyone of
them wild to a degree that made hand
ling a matter of moment to the cow
boys. The day / was at the place
there was a drive and the natives and
Portuguese were busy bringing in the
cattle from the hills mauka OF the low
er house. One of the boys about the
place told me that the persons In
charge of the estate had made deal
with Joe. Mendonca whereby he was
to take the cattle at six dollars head
on the range and move them away. A
part of the agreement / could not I'M
derstand. He told me Mr.. Mendonca
was to pay 5000 for a hundred head,
or less, and intimated that as less
than hundred had been located on
the range he thought there would be
scurrying among the lantana to
bring in the rest.
THE LAST STAGE.
At the beach, two and half miles
below the place, is the landing known
as Hoopuloa The road is bad and as
steep as it is rocky, so the few men
| who have rigs for hire don't care TO
use it. For horses 1t is right enough.
| but it is not every tourist who goes
| to the flow who cares to go horseback
1t was at this place that some OF the
Kinau tourists disembarked yesterday
morning, but they went the balance
of the journey in a four-horse rig
merely on account of the little stretch
| Of bad road from the beach.
Less than mile away is the last
house before reaching the flow. 1t is
the last place for water and the native
who lives there Is doing some in the
matter of selling 1t. For some reason
1 was not thirsty at any stage of the
road l had cool water at breakfast in
the morning and did not drink again
until at dinner the next afternoon,
though / had a gallon in a demijohn
in the rig.
From the last house to the flow is
about twelve miles. Leaving there at
shutdown the traveller gets his first view
of the glare a short time afterward.
and so bright is it that it may well
be compared to a brilliant sunset. We
had had the smell of sulphur in our
nostrils all day. but it was not strong
enough to cause discomfort. The
smoke from the burning trees that were
in the path Of the lava was everywhere
visible Occasionally the red glare
would turn suddenly to a brighter and
| whittier shade, an indication that the
flow had reached new fields of de-
struction. AS we approached this
seemed to extend distance of twenty
miles or more and as the trend was
not known to us, being deceived by the
glare, which, apparently, turned east
into west, we were of the opinion that
the reflection was over the width,
rather than the length.
FIRST STARTLING VIEW.
Suddenly we were confronted by a
streak of fire and q shout from the
driver. 'There she is, look at her
coming down the hill" 1t was appal-
ling and as we drew nearer grew in
size, and the wonder of 1t all grew
with it.
Night was turned into day and lamps
were not needed on the carriage. When
we reached the flow there We're two
carriages ahead of us and number
of persons who had made the trip on
horseback. Fifty or more had footed II
for miles and among them were Ha-
waiians and Japanese and one lone chi
nese. There was perfect babel OF
tongues when anything new and start
ling took place and Suggestions as u
source, cause and effect were as nu-
merous as there were individuals max
ing Them
At the end of the road, where the
lava struck 1t, there was barrier
forty feet high. A black mass with
millions of twinkling lights which made
, one think of well-lighted cities. Al
times and in places these twinklers
J would enlarge suddenly and become
/ tumble of living Goals. Far down the
; slope toward the sea this black mass
extended snake-like,' moving, wrig'
Cling and deafening in its noise.
GASPAR'S RECKLESS DARING.
In the crowd that had preceded oui
carriage was John Gaspar, sinai
farmer and owner of livery rigs II
Napoopoo. John is as familiar witt
lava, alive and dead, as anyone, so hi
did not restrain himself when the
spirit moved him to ascend the How
which at the moment seemed to have
| subsidized He declared his intention L
go and have a look and see where thu
5 roar came from. Mounting the mas
!. TO the top he waved his hat and call
4 ed for someone with camera to TAX
D his picture. None forthcoming, he re
I marked upon the heat and came dow