The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-20

William Dudley Foulke, who is
travelling In Honolulu has written the
following letter to w. P. Robinson:
have been told that Kauai. ''The
Garden Isle the most northern Of the
group, was the most beautiful OF the
| Sandwich island. Comparatively few
tourists visit it. There is. q nasty
little stretch of sea between it and
Oahu and in the tiny steamers nearly
everybody is seasick.
l took passage on the Maui, small
boat hardly big enough to swing cat
in. Beds were laid for some OF the
passengers on the deck floor, but |
was lucky enough to get one OF the
tiny staterooms.
was not Ill but ! could not sleep
for the pitching and rolling, and at
about two in the morning, the CHATTER
of anchoring and lowering the boats
made further efforts In that line use
less. So got off with the rest and
bohbed up and down upon the waves
between the rocks and the coral reefs,
to the shore at Nawiliwili.
Finds Many Automobiles.
There found many automobiles. "a
dealer told me he had never seen even
q large city where trade in this line
was as active as here) l made bar.
gain with a Japanese to take me In
his Ford to Waimea, % miles away
from which place / proposed to start
for the Waimea canyon. He also pro-
cured a Chinaman as another pass
enger to plantation on the way.
1t seemed at first rather uncanny to
be riding alone with these Asiatic
strangers on this unknown island In
the small hours of the night. but the
road was perfect. and about five in
the morning the chauffeur landed me
at the little country inn at Waimea.
Here found an English landscape
painter of some distinction. A Mr.
Christmas, who was going . Start
with guide up to the canyon at day
break to make sketches. i followed
an hour later, after breakfast, with
another guide, young Hawaiian, who
rode q horse that had an eye gouged
out and stumbled terribly, falling with
him on one occasion, on the rough
trail.
Rides on Strong Animal.
The animal given to me however,
was q strong. surefooted little beast
and we started out, at first through
cane fields, over muddy plantation
roads, then on little narrow gauge
railway that brings the cane down to
the seaboard. Here the horses had
to pick their steps on the ties between
the rails.
It rained so hard a few days ago
that the water stood foot deep in the
roads at Waimea and my guide told
me that in his kitchen 1t was to his
waist But this morning was bright
and beautiful. Later in the day,
clouds came up and showers too, be-
fore us, behind us and off at one side
but it never reached the precise place
where we happened to be and for us
the day was as perfect as one ever
sees at this season.
Soon we came to a place where
they were shooting the sugar cane in
great quantities through q drainage
flume that came down from the noun
tains and loading it in cars on the
little trainway. Here we left the hot
Plain and began to climb, at first up
the side of a ravine that protected us
from the sum But the shade did not
last long and as we emerged on top
the Hawaiian cried. Paul" word
which in their language means That
is the end of it."
There we passed a small hamlet OF
little houses for the Japanese laborers
then up through cane fields, then be-
yond the area of irrigation through
tracts Of prickly pear up to the edge
Of the lower stretches of the canyon
where there was a fine view of the
group of mountains in the interior of
Kauai, then up along the edge of the
canyon sometimes leaving it for
while), then returning to some fine
viewpoint, and so on and on until
nearly noon when we overlook the