Identifier: easternpacificla00chri (find matches)
Title: Eastern Pacific lands ; Tahiti and the Marquesas islands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Christian, F. W. (Frederick William), b. 1867 Rouse, Martin Luther Ranfurly, Uchter John Mark Knox. 5th earl of, 1856-
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Publisher: London : R. Scott
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
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ally wish them well, andwhat is still more practical, a long line of rural deansof the Kekela type, to make my wish certain of fulfil-ment. And thus I take my leave of these Arcadiansof the Flowery Vale. I have described to the best of my ability thenorthern and central routes which traverse Hiva-Oa ;the third road, which branches off along the south-east coast from Tahauku, is quite as interesting, anddeserves somewhat of a detailed account. The dis-tance from Tahauku to Hekeani is some twenty-sevenkilometres according to French measurement ; thejourney, unless the traveller be very well mounted,should be broken on the heights of Moea aboveHekeani, so as to start fresh in the morning for thedescent of the zigzag path along the cliff-edge, whichnumbers nearly seventy sharp curves, a road thatsuggests a certain element of risk, possibly less realthan imaginary, but which makes it rather tooexciting to be pleasant to an inexperienced horse-man. About an hours ride from Tahauku brings me
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PUAMAU NATIVE IN FULL WAR-DRESS,WITH KUKU OR WAR-CLUB. The Three Highways of Hiva-Oa 127 to Hanamate (Dead Mans Bay) a highly appropriatetitle, for the ravages of leprosy and phthisis swept offnearly all the population ten or twelve years ago.Out of a tribe numerous and influential twenty yearsago, only two or three sickly families are left. Rightup to Hekeani the whole countryside looks as if itwere under some black spell, and the solitude of eachlovely valley is most melancholy, lying still and silentas a city of the dead. Hekeani, formerly known as Sandalwood Bay,lies deep down in a cleft of the hills, her chief watersupply coming from an ingenious arrangement ofbamboo channel-pipes running several miles inlandto a natural reservoir amongst the hills. Six orseven years ago the river failed all of a sudden, andonce more for the natives Necessity proved the motherof Invention. Hekeani boasts a gendarmerie, abuilding which combines the uses of post-office, poundand police-station, all

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