Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — Picturesque Sight in the Pacific. [ARTICLE]

Picturesque Sight in the Pacific.

I wonder the “authorities” at Honolulu have not set their faces against the displays of fireworks with which every visitor is so delighted. These take place on the north side of Kauai, where the cliffs rise sheer out of the water to a height of nearly 2,000 feet. On a moonless night the spectators put to sea in their canoes and the “pyrotechnist” wtalksiip the _x;liff with a bundle of dry papala sticks (charpentieraj with their feathery blossoms. He lights one and flings it down, and th© win 1, which blows up the face of the cliff, catches it and whirls it about. Then he launches another and another, and soon there is a grand display of stars careering madly about, until, when the wind drops, they glide down gracefully into the sea. —All the Year Hound.