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Article: Names for the New World. (searching for the place in Hawaii where botanist David Douglas died)(includes related article on Douglas's trail)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- November 1, 1998
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The Mana Road, on the island of Hawaii, starts off politely but gets obstinate fast. From Waimea it leads east through Parker Ranch lands, the long slope of Mauna Kea a shadow to the south. This is a Hawaii you don't expect: cattle country of an amplitude that recalls Montana except for the fleeting glimpses of ocean and the heavy tropical air. Then pastures give way to feathery koa trees, the pavement to clay as slick and red as a wound.
I am riding shotgun beside Terry Nevin, a Waimea resident who guides visitors around this part of the island. We are looking for the place where, more than 160 years ago, a man named David Douglas sought knowledge and found death.
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