Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-08-01
\ ,&Eilfiag Ia the Pacific

Ahe grand recreation oil the SandWicn
Islandersis tl7ecoRstaflt iife]At of swim
ming. la fact, the natiVes7are all am.
iPhibious, and seem to beas much at
home in the water as on the land; and, a!
ell times of the day, men, women, and
children are sporting about in the harbor;,
or even beyond the reef, with shoals Of
sharks, perhaps, as their playfellows.-
These voracious creatures. however, are
far less likely to meddle with the abrigi.
Res than with foreigners, not that they
lprefer white men to brown, but because
they have beentaegLt by experience that
one Hawaiian he's more oftke Tartar in
him than score of Europeans. There
is'scaTcely an instance on record in which
native has suffered any serious injury
from shark IT, at any time, the latter
take the preliminary step of turning over.
ON his side 10 get q mouhtul, the former
is sure at least to elude the attack by
diving below the monster, while, IL he
las knife or similar weapon, he seldom
fails to destroythe enemy by carrying the
war into his interior. rrs ~ - ri
TO return to the swimming; il was
part Of our daily amusement to watch the
rapid and elegant revolutions of the per.
formers, more particularly Of the ladies,
who, in the great majority of cases, excel
their lords and masters in agility aud
science. Even in point of strength and
endurance one woman, short time be-
!fore our arrival, had carried off the palm
from her husband. The whole story is
well worth telling, as illustrative of some
thing better than toughness Of muscle, or
ssuppIeness of limb. A man and his wife,
both Christians, were passengers in a
schooner, which fDundered at a consider.
able distance from the land. All the ma.
tives on board promptly took refuge in
the sea; and the man in question, who
had Just celebrated divine service il the
il!'fated vessel, called his fellows, some
of them being converts as we'll as him.
self, around him to offer up another trib-
'ute OF praise and duplication from the
deep in which they were struggling to
.tarry, with combination ofcourage and,
humility perhaps unequalled in the worlds
history, In order deliberately to worship
God in that universal temple under whose
restless pavement the speaker and most
OF his hearers were destined to find their
graves.
The man and his wife had each cue.
ceeded ia procuring the support of a GOV.
cred bucket by way Of buoys and away
they struck with the rest for KahooIawe,
finding themselves next morning alone
in the ocean, after a whole afternoon
and night of privation and toll. To ag-
gravate their misfortunes, his wife's buck.
ct went to pieces soon after daylight, so
that she had to make the best of her way
without assistance or relief and in the
course ofthe afternoon, the man became
Too weak to proceed, till his wife to a
certain extent restored his strength BY
shampooing him in the water. They
now had kahoolawe in full view, after
having been about four and twenty hours
on the dreary voyage. In spite, however
OF the cheering sight, the man fell into
such state ofexhaustion that the woman
took the bucket for herself giving him.
at the same time. the hair of her head as
q towing line. And, when even this ex.
ertiou proved too much for him, the faith.
fui creature, after trying in vain to rouse
him to prayer, took his arms round her
neck, holding them together with one
hand, and making with the other for the
shore. When a trifiing distance remain.
ed to be accomplished she discovered
that he was dead, and dropping his
corpse, reached the land before night.
having passed over upward of twenty,
tive miles, during an exposure of nearly
thirty eight hours.-lSimpson Oueoland
Journal Round the World.
,@Fhe Memphis Eagle Of the 10th
ult., says: The huge carcase of monster
animal now extinct, was discovered in
the Gayoso bayou, in this city one day
iastsweek, by negro boy. The carcase
lay projecting from the surface of the