Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-04-10
ROUTED BY THE
Winged PESTS
Festive and Tuneful Wanna
naIo Mosquito Was Too
Much for HikerS.

| GERS mot Leader Fred TiCglCr SGtur
cay afternoon at the end of the Kai
nuh car line, ready for the forty
m!lc hike around Makapuu Point anC
back To Honolulu by way Of the Pail
George Dwight alias Dusty White
set the pace, and II was - cracker.
At the end Of the first I'VE miles
there was bunch Of dozen In tn,
lead. with the rest trailing behind Al
tho end Of the next five miles. when
| koko crater was passed. Dusty" led q
scant half dozen weary walkers. A
| mile or so further ~ there were hut
three who were keeping mp the killing
| paCc-"Dusty" Young. Gilbert Brown
and the secretary Of the Trail and
| Mountain club.
Loses Lead.
| At the Kings Highway. a prehistoric
| roadway of rocks. now on end Young
Brown stopped for q drink Of water
from his cantocn and never caught up
nrain, for Dusty" merely walked up
tn" side Of prcCipiCCs as would fly
up window pane. and the sec
r"iary's tongue hung out Of his mouth
The start was made at 3:l5 in the
afternoon, and at $40 Dusty" and the
secretary stood on the ridge that looks
down into the sea about Rabbit Is
land. Five minutes later they passed
the camping cave and were at the
camping ground on the beach. \ few
moments later young Brown Joined
them, and for the nCXt five hours
straEglcrs continued to arrive, un,il
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p'S nus 'Hc iSh'h"uS" Keeper WIN wa
w. ieuh III inns hII"d uitN can
thc intention OF inc Jul
iiIor ran ana M"uhtainr"rs' VIII" ire
fu'h' ',is part OF lhr lsIhhd on hc-
VI Wv Hut"HE III INC SEA ana
wy S"'' .Sii""tIhE on the mountains To |
"s"'ts inc erection or a rcst-housc
W. 'I' Pipe iil' ana directly above
=. 'o"H I!!ns peuch'
"osqu'toes WIn'
IL was the intention Of the fifty odd |
10 camp FOR the night on the beach.
ana one and all spoke EIccfully Of the
fact that there was neither wind nor
rain and no one had brought blanket.
About midnight there WIS some COM
plant concerning mosuuitocs. and AMI
hour later detachment arose from
the beach and beat Il toward woimu-
nulo. Soon more than hair tho romn
was on the march by moonlight. There
was no wind at Rnimanalo; there
were Mosquitoes.
A Fierce Scrap.
The first detachment Law down on
The lanai of tho postofricc and roughtl
Other new arrivals of the
mixers" lay down and fought the lit
he pests that were now millions
strong. The mosquitoes won, and the
mixers" uros~-thcrc was nothing for
hem but to keep moving. Lights
burned In the big Waimanalo sugar
mill one of the party entered andI
made thrilling discovery. Mosuui-
ocs do not like brown sugar. WithinI
I've minutes thirty weary mon and
BOYS were spruwlcd on bags of sugar,
sleeping the sleep of the lust The
dCH of sleeping In the omen was nban-
Toned. At O'Clock in the morning an
IthCr detachment Of mosquito tortured
Hampers broke into the sugar mill and
hose who were sleeping soundly were
oiled OFF the sugar bags for the new
.Omers So II was that about a score
If unfortunate forced out of the mill II
were chasod hy the mosquitoes wait
ng outside and fled to the hills.
Had TO Give Up.
Dusty White" the pace maker, was
away back in the rear with Manager
zieglcr. looking after straggICrs. so
Rom Cummings, Gilbert Brown. who
wa making his first long hike, and
II" secretary had to do the pace max
ng They attempted To outwalk the
II had been the intcn-
ion Of the "hilirrs" To spcnd the dav
rnuu, Nuimunnlo. but there was not
.unItyh rnntn I,rt In IA, ntn,ngnhnrp