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to as ''The Kahuku Flow." A portion of the latter is now being 
closed by the 1907 lava flow. 
Puna District : 22 miles, 20 per cent, macadam and 80 per 
cent. a-a. 
Landing at Kawaihae, on the island of Hawaii, at day-light, a 
carriage can be secured for Waimea. One mile along the beach, 
through a straggling village, hidden in palms and algarobas, then 
the road commences the climb of 2,700 feet to the plain, the grade 
being steady with a 6 per cent, maximum. In the cool of the 
morning the ride is delightful, the view, as one nears Waimea, 
is a revelation. On one side is Kohala Mountain, 5,489 feet high, 
with its green slopes of forest and its rain clouds ; straight ahead 
is rugged snow-capped Mauna Kea, 13,825 feet high; away to 
the right, Hualalai, 8,275 feet, streaked by the forest and flow, 
catches the eye and between, in the hazy blue which charms and 
baffles description, is dome-like Mauna Loa, with a possible cap 
of snow, standing up 13,675 feet. Between and to the foothills 
stretch from 15 to 30 miles of comparatively level plain. On a 
clear day a glance behind will reveal Haleakala, 10,032 feet high, 
and the coast line of the island of Maui. 
A spur of the main road branches from Waimea around the 
flank of Kohala Mountain, climbing to an elevation of 4,200 feet 
by a tortuous and crooked mountain road. It then drops by easy 
grades to the north coast, a distance of 26 miles. North Kohala 
still clings to earth roads but a change is coming. 
The first three miles of road from Waimea towards Kona has 
never been built, and had better not be attempted except by day- 
light or with an experienced guide. The prairie is cut by nu- 
merous old trails worn deep into the soil and made dangerous by 
numerous dry wallow holes and many boulders. It is only three 
miles to the graded road of a-a cinders which makes the heart 
glad; then 16 miles across the plains to the foothills and the wel- 
come forest ; then 9 miles more over the old a-a flows and 1 mile 
over the '59 flow, with a road to make the autoist crowd the speed 
limit, brings one to Puuanahulu : 26 miles in all. without a siglit 
of a house and probably without sight of a human being. Only an 
occasional flock of tame sheep, and after the forest perhaps a few 
wild ones or a wild turkey or goose are all the life seen besides 
the forest birds. 
Puuanahulu is a ridge of red earth which the voracious lava 
flows failed to cover. Beyond the ridge are 4 miles more of 
ragged forest, where the kauila, uhiuhi, the wiliwili and an occa- 
sional sandal-wood or other rare variety of tree adds interest, to 
the edge of the 1801 lava flow. The road crosses this floor on a 
practically level grade for two miles, then climbs 2 miles of 5 
per cent, grade to the opposite side of the flow. Crossing this 
flow gives one who has not seen a flow of lava a better idea how 
it travels than can be had in any other way, for in this immense 
flow, looking in many places as if placed but yesterday, lava chan- 
