Show notes acs ics from tile the San sandwich divich islands editor enquirer although I 1 arrived at al laie oahu bahu I 1 ha head qu artora of if the mission on the 0 of september last the first opportunity for ft a tri trip 0 on n some of the oth other r islands w ler offered ed about ten days ago when I 1 was fro from no say my labors on the plantation for a tow few weeks to go to maui mani thi the hrat first island that I 1 visited when on an I 1 my mission here in 1877 wo iva left honolulu alu nt it t oh 10 b 1 lo 10 c k a m on the dinst for a 4 run of about niety miles to maalaea bay on cu the west nest side bide of this island and 6 found us ua entering tho the ever calm sea ben of the old town of Laha lahaina iua situated at the foot of tho majestic mountain i ln libus hors here we stopped for about an hour sending a several boats ashore loaded leaded with various commodities it was here that brother lorenzo snow in in 1861 came near losing hill hia lifo life in in an attempt to go in in on a boat load of barrels on nearing tle the beach the boat was caught antho in the surf and up set all on board saved themselves by clinging to barrels except brother snow and the captain when the latter was picked up b by y to the d ivers divers he ha was found clinging wi with t b a de death a th grip to it a bag of money which was doubt less the cause of hie bis sinking brother snow was under water twenty mm min utes but bat through the blessings of bod was waa finally found and restored to life we had bad no sooner moved out from the protection of mount mae than the wind returned to its doleful musio in in the rigging the memory of which even today to day provokes a fooling fading of nausea at 9 we dropped anchor at Waa Was luea and after a halt balf hours rowing in the darkness we set but foot once wore more on land what a relief I 1 looking back at the light as it flickered on th the i water 1 was re mind minded edof of a lino wo we used tosi to ring ng years ago on such occasions to tho the sick nick manners ma life on the tha aavo c the fellow fell who wrote it was green ife he never had been to a seit sea the ocean ho never had seen lie ile never had nevii get n a fat at woman growing thiner every everyday lay leaning over tile vessels aide throwing 1 her er lifo lie away carriages Car nages were in waiting into which we tumbled promiscuously the japanese natick and whiteman White mau the samoan women with the ba baby baand and the woman with will wet clothes who had fallen into the abo sea getting sailors she although alt bough wet was decidedly the best tempered and was wan banded about like a shuttle cock none of the passengers a mon gers not even the gallant protectors PF a ee tors of the weaker sex appearing appold ng t te 0 relish the idea of setting so close t to 6 wet dry goods tor for a ride of seven miles even though there was a 4 female the first town alter after leaving I 1 maalaea bay am awl just across the isthmus was reached in in an hour land and a aalfs drive where roost 0 of the pas got oil off the balance going on to waitea a b e a three bree mites bolies further on 0 n arising n r i s ing next scone of years ego ago lay out before me the mountain libua now on the west word iho look of defiance at my illy left the blue pacific quietly q ca anwa the alaffa d and beyond them ali I 1 among the cane hila i i far ar across abo e a the t h 0 brans that bearg paa had furnished nought to and famine mall or bouat beast but to towering in gloomy contrast con to the rich robed sentinel santi cef at whose feet I 1 oat stood the crater haleakala to this distant spot near eighteen miles away I 1 directed nay my mule after a wearisome ride across the dusty plain and up the ascending slope elope I 1 drew dr RW up 3 my animal tit at the door of the good ekiyo 13 iata sister rosans it w was near uis allago that br brother 0 ther geliga Q nuison n baptized baptised bp teed sed the th first native who pied the truth nothing now re mains not even the pool to mark the wred spot A short ride up tip the iho molt iain brought me to tho end ot of toy ny journey id ii hi k the island of maui is is the second in size it ID the group the salubrious climate and sudrick rich volcanic vol cania uil soll sli special ovial ly adapts it to the tha cultivation ut of the sugar cane tho the amount produced lucid per acre is la incredible 8 to tn those unacquainted quain ted with tle the actual results m duany a n y persons accumulating una fine for tunes from the cultivation of a few hundred acres the ilia great res 11 I 1 ia produced here in respect to quan ily per atre acre is is due la in a mea jure ture ai tho ar great eat improvement ro la in ry do daring I 1 bog t the a lost last twenty years in 1861 I 1 in process of turing was so BO rude that it seems hardly possible that the present pru pro eras cess has been evolved from it then I 1 lieu as now the cane was compressed bo be tween iron rollers but bat the juice was vas reduced red need in in open pans or pots from which it was turned into coehrs to granulate the bagasao was wan hauled off or thrown throop into the river river as aa a leba article firtl cle sod and coal c was used for fuel while now 1 or I here at least it is horned burned in the fur furnaces on some 0 plan lations dir direct pet from froia aces the anol r rollers 1 le re and generates all the necessary for the conversion of the juice into sugar sugar produced on the tha old plan was undoubtedly an expensive article compared with what it Is la bow al though produced by slave slava labor I 1 dont remember the quotation of the sugar market at that time alma bat remember ine niber thinking it must be very high when sold in salt bait viko city for one hundred dollars per sack ahe the plantations here are ara generally lit limited cited to narrow strips of atland land along alon the beach and on the bluffs to wind ward tho the len sid sidi i being too dry with out irrigation ittle or no water beier found there these choice pieces or ol land suitable for cano cane ran up to fabulous prices ast us after tafter the probity treaty with tho the united states estates in 1874 some home plantations payi paying g hand rods of dollars per acre tini chis i i price the planters could well null afford to pay for the tha land would produce from four to eight tons tona of 0 sugar per season that sold in in san francisco fur for about 00 per ton it was during daring this thia period r i 0 d that claud Spro ckles of san er francisco encisco conceived the idea of converting the dry and worthless plains on the isthmus between east and west maul into fields of worth and beauty by lb Ingi nsf the rushing tot torrents rents from the other side of balea kala J F a GATES maui I 1 july 36 0 |