The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-11-18

..os If the wind aud work up the bay nasn'''l
r. Z, unite Of cur best endeavors We are st'ii PTS
..~ The open space that was ahead OF Us tas
-or;nc was closed mp by the drift frs"' inc no.'A,
-.,a h.fsre we conil get 10 it. although We n~1
- and anchors in constant use. The -
s, n.rhons a quarter Of a mile absad o. e. Dus = :.
.. Eat I. Ne ars. A. AZ. NJ, hotA vessels
nrls, .uvrr vtthiug and lay at = drih. the shore oi
~ Oukniskoi being abont four miles on tn outer
most or ward peak beArineS y. byA
- ancrpp Marxos-AprH 30ths ct sppsef' ! mo-
.;c.d . mirage IN the southern horizon, aphencmenon
-I;cb 10 ou;te common in high latitudes- For . d's-
lance Of thirty-six degrees on the horizon there sP-
neared to be a wall Of ice rising about ten degrees
ahove the surface of a streak Of clear water WINCH
WAS right under it. 1t had the exact appearance Oh
an immense cataract frozen solid in an instant' snow
ing a blue shade in some places and giittering icicles
an others. The upper part was perfectly level WINE
its base seemed to present the boiling ana sureing
apoearauce that we see in the pictures Of Niagara.
por.R AsmAIs-JunE 19.-To-day We have seen
n,entv Of valrus and any quantity Of SEA fowl All
Kinds Of ducks, such as canvas backs, black ducks
.rovsL hill ducks. ducks with . red topknot. ducks
With a black and ducks with q white topknot. cormo-
QUlN8 " Wu0kV UtA0CD
sbip in such numbers as would make . sportsman's
heart beat with delight. Unfortunately We are not
supplied with the proper ammunition. and can only
now and then tickle our palates with . bit Of game.
I fred at several ducks to-day. and though the charge
fairly buried them, it had no other effect; the shot
were too small.
The Bav of the Archangel Gabriel, notwith-
standing its lofty title. proves to be q great hum
bug. as we are satisfied that no such bay exists.
at least not in the vicinity of its reputed location.
We have thoroughly searched the coast between
Capes Navarine and St. Thaddeus, and an opening OF
the magnitude described on the charts could not pos
sibly have escaped our notice.
JUNE 2O.-To-day a new species of duck have been
about the ship in great numbers. l say new species.
because we have not seen them before this season, but
1 remember having seen them in this sea in 1852 and
1858. They are quite small, almost black, have .
Fat bill and q little knot on their heads, which looks
very much like a cocks comb. We used to call them
.. bedbugs,'' because one of our sailors. q Portuguese
from the Western Islands. said one day that these
ducks were no longer than the bedbugs at Fayal; but,
in spite of the disagreeable name, we found them good
eating, and had many a nice sea-pie made OF them.
Bedbugs are certainly no worse an article OF 1000
than $. billed lice,'' q dish which l have frequently
heard announced; and. by the way. not a small por-
ton of the population of the islands prefer the latter
article raw.
HABITS OF THE EsouIMAux-JuNE Plate in the
afternoon a party of Esquimaux came aboarl. They
brought nothing to trade for, but pretended to have
a large quantity of whalebone and ivory at their
dwelling place. l thought it a good time to test the
value of Norton's Vocabulary, and found many OF
the words to be the same spoken by the people. The
numerals were almost identical. / was able to make
q few additions to it, mainly Of words that will be use
full to us in our trade with them. Two Of the party
were married females. They were tattooed on the
chin, with lines about q quarter of an inch apart ex-
tending from the lower lip and the corners Of the
mouth to the base of the chin. Their dress is exactly
the same as the mems and they can be distinguished
only by their unshayen heads and hair parted in the
middle. Their faces are not unpleasing, but their
short stature makes them look like children. June
23.-We were soon boarded by canoes from shore. and
in less than an hour after anchoring had probably
over a hundred natives on the deck. A few brought
trade with them. but the majority seemed to have
come from curiosity and to get what they could by
begging and stealing. They are certainly the most
unblushing " out and out'' thieves l ever saw. They
will pat you on the shoulder with one hand in token
of friendship. and with the other relieve your pocket
of anything you may have been unguarded enough to
leave III H.. NUT Il tuey NJ IA uaCk"oIV oeh-
ing for what they want. Allday have been pestered
for tobacco, beads, knives, etc., by rascals that had
nothing to trade for. 1 think if they had the ship
and cargo they would still be unsatis6ed. The little
trade that was brought off we secured at the best
rate possible, but could hear of no trade on shore that
was worth going after. Towards evening a canoe load
came down from the upper bay. where the head chief
" Pelekante'' lives. They were most of them intoxi-
Gated, and we came very near having serious trouble
with them. A 8, P. NJ, finding there was no likeli-
hood Of any more trade coming off, and the crowd of
natives were on the increase, We got under way for
the purpose of getting rid Of them. By the time We
had got a mile from our anchorage they had all
cleared ont, very much to our satisfaction, as their
company is not at any time very agreeable. particu-
larly SO when they have nothing TO trade fer.
A BURIAL AT SEA-JULy s.-This morning died
wahinenoholaa. one of our foremost hands, a native
of Hawaii. The poor fellow had been sick for month
or more from a disease that resembled pleurisy, but
which seemed to be entirely out of the reach Of any
remedies our limited skill could suggest. There be-
ing no place on shore where a grave could be made,
except right in the village, the corpse was sewed up
in canvas in the usual manner, with weights at the
feet. and placed at the gangway. Permission was
then given to the kanakas to perform any ceremony
they wished, and l was much surprised to see one of
them produce a Catholic prayer-book, and after de-
voutly crossing himself, read q portion of what / pre-
sumed TO be their burial service. The rest stood
around with hats of, and when the reader had I'm
ished he made the sign of the cross on the body, and
it was then launched overheard. As usual, the lighter
feelings of the crew had been restrained while the
corpse remained ON board. but in FIVE minutes after
its disappearance beneath the waves everything was
as before-no one would have supposed that we had
just been witnessing the burial of a ~shipmate.
An EsouIxAux ViLLAeE-JuLY 9.-We visited a
native village, which We found to consist Of perhaps
fifty huts. The population We were unable to form
any idea Of, but, from the great number Of children