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with undertow are constant, these hazards are always Government Road ended at Honolulu and only the ala 'ught present-an extremely dangerous situation for swim- hele, the circle-island shoreline trail, continued on to h his mers. A large "Danger-Undertow" sign is posted con- Kapoho. The village was located among the trees mauka spicuously on the point. There is no convenient public of the storage shed, but former residents of the area say d on access to the beach or to any of the adjacent shoreline. that a developer clearing the land for house lots leveled for The shoreline from Kea'au to Honolulu Landing con- the entire village with a bulldozer, completely ob]iterat- own. sists almost entirely of low sea cliffs, with only a few ing house sites, graves, and other platforms and walls, geed low-lying azeas such as those at Ha`ena and Maku`u. ali of which had been in excellent condition. The only This Also located along this beach are two large subdivisions, ruins that survive are the interconnecting rock walls on at Hawaiian Paradise Park and Hawaiian Beaches Estates. located in a depression that also harbors a large dense Sip- On the shoreline of each subdivision a small public pazk grove of tall old cocoriht trees, a common sign of for- d for is located on top of the cliffs. Hui Hanalike Park, mer Hawaiian shoreline habitation sites. The depression ~rld. named for Hawaiian Paradise Park's lot and home- is directly mauka of the boulder beach and like much of Hilo owners' association, is a 6-acre azea situated near the the surrounding land is completely overrun by halo, leav- end of Paradise Drive. Hawaiian Beaches Park consists philodendrons, and other dense vegetation. cious of 3.6 acres at the makai end of Kahakai Boulevard. Prior to the subsidence of the shoreline in 1924, >f his Both of these undeveloped parks are frequented primar- Honolulu was a canoe landing visited periodically by I also ily by picnickers, fishermen, and `opihi pickers. During coastal trading vessels to pick up coconut, coffee, and i and the winter months humpback whales often come in very dried `awa. Canoes dispatched as lighters were launched state close to the sea cliffs in these azeas; on calm nights espe- over a black sand, olivine, and `ili `ili beach and paddled n has cially, their noises and splashings can easily be heard. out to service ships anchored in deeper waters. The are beach may have been created during the eruption of with (1 1840 that built the sand hills fn Nanawale. In the August ctinc- Honolulu Landing 29, 1840, issue of The Polynesian the editor reported ~wai`i After conversing some time [at Kahuwai7, we traveled that "two beaches were thrown up [near Nanawale] ea`au in an inland direction to Honolulu, a small village situ- where previously there was nothing but bold rock. The s ser- ated in the midst of a wood, where we arrived just at the longer is on the north of the hills and about 100 yazds in ta. setting of the sun. whilst the kind people at the house length; the other lies at the farther extremity of the lava small where we put up were prepazing our supper, we sent and and is but a few rods long." er of invited the inhabitants of the next village to come and Ships called at Honolulu Landing particularly for sand hear the word we had to speak to them. They soon `awa {Piper merhysticum), especially the `awa kau Id `au arrived. ream We afterwards spent a hour in conversation and prayer of Puna, the "tree-resting `awa." These plants grew in andy with the people of these sequestered villages, who had the crotches of trees and were believed to be extremely . and perhaps never before been visited by foreigners, and then potent. The root of the `awa contains a resin that acts as dis- lay down on our mats to rest. a mild motor depressant. The Hawaiians and other Pol- tch is JoarnalojWilliamE!lis, 1823 ynesians used `awa as a ceremonial and medicinal drink, er of but Westerners were most interested in its medicinal pro- rding Three places in the Hawaiian Islands are named Hono- perties. Most of the commercially produced roots were west- lulu, the "protected bay": the capital city of Oahu, a trans-shipped to the mainland United States to be open large bay in Nahiku on East Maui, and this former vil- rendered into various types of tranquilizers and anes- ntin- loge and canoe landing in Puna. The only easily visible thetics. Between 1846 and 1932 Hawaii law required a tl riP landmazk at the site, a small, deteriorating building con- license to sell `awa, but the regulation was intended :rtow strutted of beach boulders and concrete, was apparently chiefly for revenue-producing purposes and was re- oint. built in the 1920s by the territorial Board of Agriculture pealed in 1932. d the and Forestry as an equipment storage shed. The old In April of 1924 a series of violent earthquakes caused 33