Waipi‘o Valley in 1830

“From the lofty precipice on the south-east of Waipio,
I had an enchanting view of a Hawaiian landscape of
singular beauty and grandeur…..The numerous garden-
like plantations of bananas, sugar cane, potatos, the
cloth plant, and the kalo….the unruffled fishponds; the
quiet hamlets near the cliffs, the small scattered
thatched huts of the inhabitants….Scarcely a sound was
heard....except the repeated and reverberating strokes
of the cloth mallet, on the bark-beater’s beam”

Source: Bingham 1969: 379-380