The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-02
Smallest Kingdom Never Conquered
 Is Being Revived

Honolulu, T. H., Sept Tine king dom that "died'' but never was con quered; the kindom with the smallest standing army on record, three men: the kingdom of Nualolo, behind it's walls of mountain and surf in an al . most forgotten corner of the Island o Kauai, is being "rediscovered.'
 This ancient domain, the only part the Great could not bring under his scepter when he routed all other rivals in battle and united the islands, has been reopened. A rope ladder once again dangles from the Nualolo cliffs in the identical place, fastened through the same holes cut in the rocks by the Hawaiian warriors of long ago.
 The kingdom of Nualolo is on the northwest coast of the Island of Kauai of the Hawaiian group, in the heart of a wonderful precipice sec tion which rises abruptly from the sea in almost perpendicular cliffs from 2,500 to more than 4,000 feet in height. It comprises nine valleys three large and six small, each ending at the sea in a precipice.
 Three Trails.
 There are only three practicable ways of getting into this old domain One is by dangerous trail upward from the ocean front, a second is by mountains from the land side and the third and easiest, is by rope ladder from Nua1olo beach and thence over a narrow winding path, cut out of the rock, where a misstep means a fall to death. The latter route recently
 has been reopened by the placing of a new rope ladder where it's prede- cessors hung many years agb. When Nualolo maintained it's inde- pendence in the face of the advances Of the Great Kamehameha, before the days Of high explosives and airplanes three men only were needed to keep
 Its gates An old Hawaiian, named ku, has given the following graphic
 description of Nua1olo's simple but effective method of defense One guard sat at the top of the HoIlopu beach precipice with a pile of rocks at his side. Only one ene- and in case of attack the guand drop ped a stone on the head of each enc
 my as he appeared from below. or smashed his fingers with 8 rock as they clutched the overhanging ledge.
 At Nualo1o wherse the trail is up ladder, one guard was stationed at
 the top of the ladder with a stone axe. As each hostile head appear d the axe came into play,
 One Push Enough. "On the Kamile trail from above
 on the Hand side, a guard with a pole of sight of the approaching enemy. When the latter came within reach along the narrow pathway the guarsd would give him a shove with the
 polo a 2,o0O foot drop did the rest''
 Locked behind their barriers of | towering mountains and pounding
 surf the people of Nua1olo developed a system of agricultural irrigation which remains to this day as a. tri- bute to their industry and engineering ability.
 According to Dr. H. E. Gregory, of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, no finer ir1ri igaItion system ever has been worked out by the sHawaiians than l that of the ancient valley kingdom. Every available foot of the steep wales was made productive. Very few persons have been able to get into the old kingdom during the past three-quarters of a century but the recent placing of the rope ladder near Nnalolo beach is expect ed to end Nua1olo's decades of iso- lation and reopen it's historic ter races and trails once again to the foot of man.