At 8 a.m. I set out for Wailuku. Before I left home, I called my family together and blessed them one and all and dedicated them to the Lord. I found no place between Lahaina and the foot of the mountain where they wanted to hear me preach; it is a distance of about 12 miles. The road leads along the beach, lush and good traveling, several streams running down from the mountains which lay in a range about 2 miles from the beach. The highest one, or the peak of the highest one, is about 8000 feet above the sea level.
I arrived at Mr. Brooks’ about 1 p.m., quite tired and hungry. He told of how much he had done for my brethren, how he had fed and lodged them and he wanted them to stop whenever they were passing by etc, but he did not say a word about my eating with him. He is an Englishman and quite partial to his countrymen. I rested about ½ hour, and then set out over the mountain without eating or drinking in Brooks’ house as he made quite a poor mouth about so many passing by without buying any beer or anything to eat. Some, he said, would stop and get a drink of water and so pass on. So I thought I would not trouble him at all although I was quite thirsty. The road over the mountain is very rough and stony, dry, and dusty, called about 6 miles over it down into Wailuku Valley on the great plain laying between the Wailuku mountains and the Kula mountains on the south. The plain is about 15 miles wide, and as much or more broad. This is what separated east Maui from west Maui, it makes them look not unlike two separate islands. About halfway over the mountain, there is a very deep ravine where water sometimes stands for a good while after the rains, but when I arrived there I could not find but about a half a pint of water and that so far under a rock that I could not get at it to drink. Although I was very dry by this time, traveled on till I came to the path the leads down to Kahalia. As I was tired and thirsty, I took this path, for it was the nearest way to water and there was a branch of the church at Kahalia. I thought I would go there and stop overnight and meet with and give them a preach. Arrived there, sun about an hour and half high, and to my great chagrin, there was not a member there to be found, all had gone to Kula on the potato business. Got a drink of brackish water and set out for Waikapu, a distance of about 5 miles, against a very strong trade wind which blew with fury across the plain, got very tired and laid down to rest several times before I arrived at Waikapu. My right leg got very weak as it always does when I go on foot far. Arrived at Antonio Catalina’s just at sundown; he was glad to see me, got a good supper for me, and I went bed very thankful.
