The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-08-31
FREAR DENIES
He WAS LOST

~ was not lost; on the contrary
said Governor Frear yesterday morn
ing. referring TO the story that came
over from Kauai to the effect that lie
and his party were lost on the pail one
night And then the Governor ez.
planned.
ave climbed up the pail on one
side he said, "expeeting the natives
to come up from the other side and
cut n trail. But when we got to the
top, we found they had not arrived.
We waited while, but they did not
come, although we were so close to
them that we could call to them. They
explained afterward that it was i'm.
possible for them TO reach us. 1t was
about o'clock in the afternoon, and
we knew it would take us at least
six hours to go down that way, so we
concluded to 60 around the other way.
Most of the party went down the Ma
pail trail to Kalalau, the leper valley,
From there we went on in a sampan,
our whaleboat having gone back be
fore we reached the valley. We slept
in a big cave at Kalalau, and that
night a party of 20 or 80 Hawaiians
came down and sang meles to us. They
stayed there all night and helped us
off the next morning. Some of them
went on to Honopu with us to help
us land, as the landing was very rough
at that place. In fact, it was impossi-
BILE to get the boat in to shore, so
we all took off our clothes and held
them above our heads while we waded
ashore. We went back to the boat the
same way.
ave went on to Milolii in the boat
and from there climbed the pail, sew.
eIteen or eighteen hundred feet. The
pail there is very steep and precipi-
tous. We had by that time got around
into the dry section of the island. We
climbed up on top of the island and
there found horses waiting FOR us.
From Kekaha to Hanalei we travel
| ed in automobiles, making few side
trips Last Saturday we rode horse
back to Kipokai.
went through the swamps and saw
many of the streams. Most of them
flow along comparatively shallow can
yons with sloping sides, then drop sud
denly into the Waimea canyon. which
|
to take the waters from the upper
lands; perhaps to construct reservoirs,
although the flow is pretty constant
from the swamps. The distance to
where the streams flow down onto the
arid side of the island is not very
| great. There is a large area of land
toward Kekaha that could be brought
under cultivation if the streams could
BE taken out to that district.
Altogether, we got over most of
the island and had fine trip
Mr.. Mendenhall, the expert on un-
derground waters, who was with the
Governor during the entire trip, stat
ed this morning that it is too early
i to say what the possibilities for irri-
CATION and the conservation of the wa
tiers of the island are, but he said he
could see no good reason now why
conservation should not be possible
and practicable.
"But what we want first, and what
we must have before anything else
can be done,n he said, "is to have
series of complete Typographical
maps of the islands made, That is the
reason that Mr.. Campbell sent cable
10 the head of the geological survey
, asking that Topographist Marshall be
sent to Hawaii. Mr.. Marshall will
come and make preliminary examin
alton and see what is needed This is
the kind of map we need here, y
and Mr.. Mendenhall drew out big
roll of contour maps of various dis
tricts of other states and territories
In some of them every variation of a:
much as five feet was indicated, al
roads, bends in roads, houses, in fact
every feature of the landscape. "Wher
l we get a series of maps of this kind
5 we shall be ready to go ahead ant
do something" he said.