The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-12


1t is not of big game and the siren
uous chase one usually thinks in CON
nection with Hawaii, Hawaii nei, fond
ly termed by those who live there the
Paradise of the Pacific
Hawaii nei-of many one thou art,
Each scattered fragment an essential
part;
No jewelled setting is more fair than
thee,
o, emerald cluster in beryl sea,
Thy life is music-Fate the note pro-
long!
Each isle a stanza and the whole a
song"
So said Geo. w. Stoddard long ago.
And of one particular place, another
singer, Rollin Daggett sang as though
he loved it,
20, Waikiki! o scene of peace!
o home of beauty and of dreams,
No haven in the isles of Greece
Can chord the harp to sweeter themes;
For hours haunt the broad lanais
While scented zephyrs cool the lea,
And looking down from sunset skies
The angels smile on Waikiki
Nothing, certainly, in these songs,
would call the dogs from their kennels
or lure the hunter from the lanai
shade These, with so much more we
think of about Hawaii, are foreign
enough to the huntsman's spirit. or
mild-eyed lotus eaters, sans souci, as
the essential genius and spirit of Ha-
wall we too often dream. AS a mat
ter of fact this idea of idleness and
ease is but the poets link in the long
chain of mainland misconceptions of
insular life.
For work in Hawaii there are COM
mercial and industrial enterprises that
invite the energetic and able; and, for
recreation toward which the live
sportsman would turn, the mountains
and forests abound in big game to
challenge the hardest and most brave.
The topography of the islands is
such as to make natural game pre-
serves of large areas that reach from
the inland boundary of the sugar lands
to the mountain SUBMITS. Here are
the mountains and forests that afford
hiding and feeding places for game OF
all kinds known in the islands.
First above the plantations come
vast cattle ranges; above these in wild
and broken regions, Astounding in lava
crags and assures, deep glens and lofty
cliffs, is the home of other game in the
pursuit of which the hunter may find
for himself and his dogs all he desires
of danger in the chase, and enough to
test his nerve when he drives to bay
the angry quarry.
The hunting grounds are not hard to
reach in point of time and distance,
but unless the hunter is able and will
ing to attempt some vigorous climbing
it is well for him to be content with
the gentler sport of shooting birds
which frequent the foothills. OF these
he will find in abundance, turkeys,
pheasants, quail, plover and snipe
In the pursuit of big game the hunt
er should first be prepared to meet
wild cattle. These, of course, are not
native to the islands. None were there
a hundred and thirty years ago, or be-
fore Vancouver arrived with the first
the natives had ever seen. These were
liberated on the big islands of Hawaii
with a ten years protection placed ov-
er them. During this tabu the animals
were unmolested They roamed at will
and free from harm in rich and album
dant pasturage and in the ten years
period multiplied wonderfully. Many
of them, however, roamed away and
remained hidden and free in the fast
nesses of the high mountains, Mauna
Loa and Mauna Kea. From these an
archists of the herd came the hardy
descendants who have remained until
now rebellious and untamed AS a