HOLIDAYS IN HAWAII 
other to the other. This is a feature of a new coun- 
try geologically; the rains and other agents of ero- 
sion have whittled the mountains to sharp edges, 
but have not yet rounded or leveled them. 
The northeast trade winds which blow upon these 
islands nine months in the year bring a burden of 
moisture from the Pacific which is condensed into 
rain and mist by the mountains, and which, with 
the rank vegetation that it fosters, carves them and 
sharpens them like a great grindstone revolving 
against their sides. At a place called the Pali — 
and at the Needles, on the island of Maui — it has 
worn through the mountain-chain and made deep 
and very picturesque gorges where, in the case of 
the Pali, the wind is so strong and steady that you 
can almost lie down upon it. 
It was near the Pali that I saw what I had never 
seen or heard of before — a waterfall reversed, go- 
ing up instead of down. It suggested Stockton’s 
story: of negative gravity. A small brook comes 
down off the mountain and attempts to make the 
leap down a high precipice; but the winds catch it 
and carry it straight up in the air like smoke. It is 
translated; it becomes a mere wraith hovering above 
the beetling crag. Night and day this goes on, the 
wind snatching from the mountains in this sum- 
mary way the water it. has brought them. 
On the walk with the Governor we made the ac- 
quaintance of some of the land shells for which these 
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