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all the streams in this district are either impassable, or 

 crossed only at great risk, and travelers shonld not ven- 

 ture over, when cautioned agains't it by the natives. 



" The valley of Wailuanui, or the two large waters, is, 

 perhaps, the most romantic on the island of Maui. It 

 is quite broad, and broken by ridges or spurs of the 

 mountain into valleys or ravines, in which orange groves 

 and apple trees (ohia) abound, while the pine apple and 

 banana grow wild almost everywhere. The coast is ab- 

 rupt and rocky, consisting mostly of steep precipices, 

 and destitute of harbors, between Hana and Haiku. In 

 J uly or August, the traveler through this wild district 

 may witness a sight not often seen, which is — 



THE LARGEST APPLE ORCHARD IN THE WORLD. 



" The wilderness of Koolau, Maui, contains a forest 

 of ohias, (native wild apple trees,) countless in number, 

 stretching from the sea far up the mountain sides. The 

 trees vary from forty to fifty feet in height, and in the 

 harvest season, from July to September, are covered 

 with fruit, some white, but mostly red. We passed 

 through the forest, when the trees were loaded with 

 ripe and ripening apples. What a sight ! For miles 

 around us, up the mountain and toward the seashore, 

 was one vast grove of ohias literally red with ripe fruit, 

 their branches bending to the ground with the bounte- 

 ous harvest. Birds of gorgeous colors, of mingled red, 

 blue, green, yellow and black, were feasting in countless 

 numbers, and making the forest ring with happy cho- 

 ruses. The crop of these apple orchards, which nature 

 has planted so generously in this wild and solitary 

 waste, would fill a fleet of one hundred steamers of the 

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