Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-18
With THE HONOLULU BOY SCOUTS

/ ment? Why doesn't it belt these isl
: ands with a decent metal road? Where
, are all the ante-election promises
Where" but the mule is now ford
! ing a stream called Alele. Together
, We made the other side. Twice his
feet left the earth-a boulder here and
a whirl of water there helped US over.
This mule is some Kahanamoku, be-
!ieye ire. Below me saw, when at a
turn in the trail beyond a seething
froth of yellow water-only fifty yards
below where We We're actually swim
ming. Where is the road sign Dan
gerous Crossing" with proper warn
ing of this death trap? In Kaupo my
, host, Mr.. 0msted, tells me that to
cross the guleh in flood time is court
ing death. Alele falls are 300 feet or
! so and year ago Mormon elder do
ing just exactly what / did went over,
horse and all, and was found three
days later when the freshet had sub
sided, in the whirlpool below. But, no
warning sign!
Oh, we'll; here we are in Kaupo.
Is this the rock-strewn desert that
the name Kaupo brings to mind? Signs
of many habitations now deserted, it's
true. An old native temple, Puupuiwa,
dominates these ruins, but back of it
and up the slopes OF Kaupo is certainly
the loveliest country in Hawaii, with
leaping cascades half hidden in a won
derful forest of native trees. Here the
waiawi, a sort of guava, has attained
lordly size and is so thick as TO grow
tall and straight as spars. Oranges,
lines, pears, everything seems to flour
ish and with breadfruit and bananas,
sweet potatoes and papaia to feed on,
hogs and chickens thrive. Alas, no
road to get out by. A bride path most
~ at a grade ofNM TO the umpth is no
road. All the inhabitants bemoan
their fate. I'VE are considered bump
tious (Kuaaina). Nobody minds us"
Here visited with Mr.. Omsted and
with him rode to the upper lands.
Here l found ideal country for
scout camp. Wood, water, scenery nm
paralleled, and those open spaces that
are rare where the forest is old
just the place for a months camp.
Here no one but second class scouts
camp experts-good cooks-need
come. 1t is as il the Maine woods
were brought to Maui. Here we could
practice real wildcraft-with wild cat
tie, wild pigs and quail to keep us on
the trail-with Hama scouts for path
finders, and Mokulei, Omsted's ranch,
a larder.
One morning l passed searching
among the deserted homesteads for
my mule, what "a scout he would
make. Being lily white he had rolled
in mud as disguise 1t was after
capturing him and saddling him that
l noticed a small boy standing at the
alert, three fingers at his forelock
cycling me from an old stone enclos-
IRE. Its a ghost thought l. One of
the old time sons of Kamehameha' s
general who beseiged Kaupo and took
it with awful slaughter But not
was Elias Mitchell-late No. 7 Ulili
Patrol, Nuuauu Troop! A real scout
in Kaupo Of all places. Here l had
given up trying to find even a scout
master. So Elias and | had a long
talk and the result is that maybe the
scout movement will climb over those
passes and swim the streams and
start to root and bud in Kaupo like
the oranges and lines Perhaps the
Rev. ]. M. Mitchell will be scout mas
ter-I'll let you all know when the
good news comes.
Hama again-great times The
would-be scouts have pulled off scout
ing game No. y "Smugglers over the
Border" or rather "Dispatch Run
nerS."
1t was great sucCCSs-the first Of
many planned. A sampan has landed
suspiCiouslooking bag beyond Kau-
Xxi and three "ill-favOred" men arei
reported watching it. From their
movements (signalled by semaphOret
by scouts watching them from the topi
OF KauikD thew are guessed to be try
ing TO move their bag into tho town
This the scouts of Hama will try tot
prevent. The usual iron bound rules |
goVerned-but alas-these big boy |
scouts were too many for the rank
and file. They adopted a ruse which
worked and all three got through -
due, as has happened before. TO un-
t1edged scouts-tC-be being tempted 10
abandon their posts TO see what is g. !!
ing On around the corner The court
house was the goal. BY mischance
the popular sheriff, Mr. --------------
was not told of this. They say hoI
was in 4 reverie when Hama boy
)urst in on him with Murray, We