The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-10-08
Cruise Of the 4lOrnim Star,to tbf Wtatqas-
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A DAY ~ SEA

pay SEA.
In preparinga few sketches of the scenes witnessed
by the Morning Star, d her first trip to Heathen-
dom, it would be easier to begin at the end and speak
of the first impressions made by the cloud-wrapt sum-
mits of the distant rocks which form the Marquesan
Group but the Missionary Packet, although a clip
per, is not a fairy grasshopper, to leap with one bound
the intervening space of ocean-she must bow, in
spite of herselfI TO the waves roll when they get
ready to roll Ana still when they get tired ) and
gress, must go out OF her course without the slightest
respect to the wishes of the Captain, or the nerves of
the passengers. Time, in this world, is measured by
seconds, minutes and hours, but is multiplied by
days. The story of one of the twenty-four long null
Implications which separated the Hawaiian from the
Marquesan Islands, on the first trip of the Morning
Star, may not be uninteresting to the stockholders.
In order to include as much as possible in the COM
pass of onsalay, we choose the primitive mode of COM
putting Ell 8 the evening and the morning were
the first IL &c., commencing on Saturday. May
10th, 1857. Glorious-hued, evening is magnifcently
beautiful. Two sets of clouds rest one above the
other, contrasting silently with the still blue ether in
the depth. beyond. The lower stratum, of a ripe rus
set color.4 s parallel to the horizon the upper is thin
and white, streaming nither and yon from south and
north, to the zenith, in forms as various and twisted
as conto ted streaks of cross-grained oak and curly
maple-all these tinted by the setting sun, changing
and frding ike the rays of sunset alone. Supper is
over. When the steward is ready we will have pray
ers. Ehe passengers are all on deck it is "dog-
watcji;' the Morning. Star is ready for Sunday.
GfFfiie what's that. Nothing. Didn't you hear
K f4 splash. It's a shark bring the shark
- Il .l~-l- lol- -, soul lo,D,--
will two big eyes over the rail, asks, Where! where?
Then don't you see. Where's the shark-hook /!
Z ;2comes a sailor with the shark-hook and a lot
of M hemp rope. Why didn't you bring the cable /!
Herys the bait. Oh, take half of it-take half of it ;
the Sork is worth more than the shark shouts the
mate. He's gone. No, he amt there, there, didn't
you see him, close to the hook Hurrah | told you
| should catch him bowse him in, boys pull away.
Hola on-hold on, L tell We Dro1on him! Don't
puli.him on deck yet.
Those two watches would have had Johnny Shark
ON deck, if it had not been for that order, for they
pulled with a will, as if they had been eating the
anchor to the tune, sIt's time for us to go.' Get
the har ON Where is that fellow' Bend on a
line he. let me take it, | am an old .whaleman
Good for Aething|it won't stick in. Perhaps not ;
but nevertheless, the shark squirmed as if his feelings
were injured it. Bring me some ratline stuff ;
make a running swline haul away, boys, as hard
as you are a-mind -! Over the taffrail poor Johnny
Shark is hung to dry, until the stewards Ratchet
enters his yitals-which,\ * the way, are situated on
the end of his nose. Then giving his tail a good wide
berth, the boys drag hiIs forward, jam a h~andspike
down his throat. exclaiming, g Imagine that my leg,
and chew away They then slice him up, looking
at the steaks with a hearty regret that the pig had
been killed, and the lament that shark wont keep
over Sunday.
Sabbath morning dawns, calm and not. The
whole long day we swung, without life or motion,
"As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean"
Not quite, for the current was on the minus side Of
the equation, and carried us to the west at the rate
ofa mile an hour. Our morning service occupied an
hour. Then the Hawaiians occupied the cabin with
their al 0 ka la. Shortly after there was a general
feast on roasted pig, the only noticeable incident of
which was the breaking of the carving-knife, in
what proved to be a fruitless attempt to separate the
sutures of the skull of 6 the abomination of the He
brews,'' and finally the Uranium was placed whole
ON the plate of one who was anxious to indulge in the
luxury of the brain.
Hawaiian service was held soon after dinner, and
to those having occasion1 go below. this was the
amusing disposition of forces a haoie on tie sofa,
eyes shut, and mouth in that relaxed position that
indicates intense repose. A kanaka under the shad-
ow of pigs head, his crown so dropping as to be
prevented from falling on the floor only by his
neck the preacher, huindrum, got to preach,
and bound to do it. -Nauwi, the servant, poi-mixer,
and man of all work, looking muddy-headed, hot and
sleepy, and as if he would be heartily glad to be On
deck. Nor would it be amazing if this was the feel
ing of all, for the early morning had been ushared in
by two fnll-grown sharks, the one caught the night