Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-05
Henry A. Pilsbry One of Party
That Visits KahooIaWe and
MQOkini

| Especial Star-Bulletin Correspondence
iWAILUKU, Maui, March 3.-Henry
a. Pilsbry, the greatest land shell
authority in the world, accompanied
! by Mr. Montague Cooke, John I. G..
Stokes, and Charles N. FORREST, trus-
tees Of the Bishop Museum. and stu
dents of land shells and botany, to
gether with. Eben Low, the manager
of Kahoolawe and Rev. Henry p.
/ Judd, an invited guest. made an inter-
sting trip to Kahoolawe and Mookini
this past week. Leaving Lahaina
Wednesday morning at quarter qf
five, after a three hours sail. the
party anchored off Mookini as their
| first stopping place. Swimming ashore
from the boat they spent two hours
wandering over the little island,
which is horseshoe in shape, with he
| the entrance to the little harDor OPEN
! ing out toward MacGregOr,s landing
on Maui. After going about the in
teresting small island. which Is the
.op of a crater, the bay of which Is.
filled with a great variety of fish,
| the party found that they could do.
no work .on either shells or botany,
| for there were no materials to work
en-, so they set sail again and at noon
Thursday and Friday were spent
studying the shells, only a few of
which they were able to find be
cause so much of the island Is only
barren waste. Little new work,
| too, could be done along botanical
lines. The island afforded scant ma
terial A Part of the last day was
spent in Hunting and some game in
the shape Of wild goats was secured.
At the start of the hunt, ABOUT nine
in the morning, a serious accident
occurred to Mr.. judd.
Mule is Independent.
The mule he was given was used
enough to it's owner, but when a
stranger tried to get ride the mule
had other intentions than giving him
an easy seat When one foot was in
the stirrup, the mule began 20 act up
nearly succeeded in getting his other
foot over the back Of the animal and
so get a mount, but the mule, with a
terrible jerk and then lunge, threw
Mr.. Judd up in the air and upon a
pile of loose stones. The fail was on
the elbow and head. and for a mo-
ment the body of the thrown man laid
as if he were dead. The head was
bleeding terribly. He could not lift
himself, the blow was so stunning and
the pain was so intense. lie and his
companions feared the arm was bTok-
en-, or the shoulder thrown out of
joint The nerve was completely par
alyzed, so he himself could not tell
how severe the injury until the badly
bruised arm and shoulder were all
gone over by his friends. 1t was
found that there were no bones brok-
en-; the pain was circulating, and al
though the bleeding from the head
near the temple was quickly stopped |
by the application of ice which the !
party had fortunately brought with !
them, yet there was no way to stop |
the pain. Mr. Judd had to spend the |
day lying in the tent while the others !
were off for the hunt. After they had |
done all they could for him, nothing |
more could be done, and he insisted
that they have their fun and get what /
game they could.
On Friday the trip was made back
to Lahaina and by four o'clock Mr.. I
Judd's bruises were looked after by
DIR. VIM. Osmers. who pronounced the :
fall an unusually severe one, and the