The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-12-05

Nh. EDITOR Thinking that the following might
prove Of interest to some Of your readers. and per-
haps Of warning, TO -sea-faTing men, l send it to
you, and will youch for the veracity Of the affair,
myself being n sad loser and eyewitness of the
scene.
Near the middle of March, 1860, I arrived At Bay
lies Island, accompanied by six children and a SER
want girl. from sypan. 1 had been residing at Sy-
pan for three years. but feeling very anxious to reach
New Zealand, had sailed on board the whaleship
I7retic, Capt. Phillips. for this place. 1 had thought
to have remained upon Baylies' Island for quite a
time, or at least a year, before l could reasonably
expect a ship to touch there. At the same time there
arrived with US a native family of nine persons, on
board of the whaleship Leri Stqr6uek. These per-
sons had been engaged by me to assist in raising
hogs and fowls upon Baylies' Island. They were
taken by me to this place, purely from motives Of
charity, as they were in a starving condition at
Sypan.
At the time of our landing upon the island, we
found two Englishmen, by the name of JAS. Motley
and Bob, and one kanaka, a native of Wellington's
Island. and Moitley's wife, q native of the Kings
Mill group, who were engaged in raising potatoes,
onions, hogs, etc. We had lived pleasantly together
for about two weeks, at which time, through the in
trigues of Moitley's wife. all of my natives left me.
From this time, the minds of the whole were bent
upon the destruction OF myself anu family. L was
quite infrm at he time, and the Englishman, Bob,
plying my distresses, forsook the other party, and
came to my residence 10 live with me. This excited
the bitterest enmity of Motley, and, consequently,
he now sought every opportunity to provoke o quar-
rel. He at one time charged my people with having
broken down his corn, and upon my proving to
him that his own people were the depredators, and
bad only done it to excite his animosity towards us,
he determined to ommence, with the aid of his butch
ering gang, to deprive us of existence. My family
at this time consisted of myself, aged about so years:
Bob (the stranger Englishman,) 90 years; my daugh-
ter Caroline. nearly IL years; my son john, IA years;
my daughter Eliza, IL years; my son Charles, 9 years;
my son Henry, z years; my daughter Susan, 6 years;
and my own servant, 40 years. $3.50.
About two hours after the complaint about the
corn, as l was about sitting down to breakfast, under
the trees outside of my house, I looked up. and saw
two natives approaching, one armed with a club. and
the other with a gun 1 started up Immediately, as
we'll as did Bob, upon which the native with the gun
fired at me, but luckily missed his aim. l instantly
fell, upon which they all rushed over my PROSTATE
form, thinking they had killed me. and now COM
menced the work of b~utchery upon Bob. he, poor
fellow, upon seeing me fall, had run into the house
to seek a weapon with which to defend himself. All
facts l gathered from my children, who
nj the first onset fled into the bushes nigh the house. !
They saw Bob first struck by a club in the hands Of
n kanaka, upon whom Bob managed to inhict a slight
wound with an old bayones, which he had procured
at the house. A this time the native who had fired
upon me, having reloaded, discharged his piece at
Bob, taking effect in his hands. While I was escap-
ing, l heard Bob ask Motley, What did you shoot
that man for - He answered, " Because he was n }
id old scoundrel. Bob returned. "No, he was not"
This was the last | heard from Bob. The children
that Motley pointed a gun at him, and threaten
ed to shoot him, if he attempted to escape. The ma
tives then commenced to stone him to death, which
they soon accomplished. My family and myself were
now fleeing for our lives up the precipices covered
stunted trees my son Henry and myself being
John and Eliza of another party, at no great
distance, being able to see everything going on with
my Oldest daughter Caroline, son Charles, daugh-
ter Susan. and servant WON; n. were following on
behind. Shortly after, I lost sight of them by a turn
Of the party, and from that moment until this, my
have never been blessed with a sight of my dear
children. The pursuit after us was con-
tinued for three days, at which time, feeling almost
distracted Of the loss of Caroline, Susan and Charles,
determined 10 put Henry in a place of cOncealment,
and to search about for them. After having proceed
ID to a rock from whence l could overlook Moitley's
| soon saw the monster, who, coming to q tub
IF water, proceeded TO battle himself, with as much
apparent unconcern as possible, and from his appear
,nce, one would never have imagined him to have
the chief worker In the helllsh and diabolcal
outrage Just perpetrated. Not seeing any of his party
around the house, with the exception of an old wo-
nan, I then conjectured the rest of the party to be
n the woods, searching for US, and with this feeling
urued to retrace my steps. to the spot by the water
.un, where / had left my little son Henry. / had
nearly to the spot of his ccncealment, when
o my horror l saw him a prisoner in the hands of
wo Of the most bloody-thirsty of the natives; they
,eing accompanied by two women, who seemed to be
kindly to the poor boy. Upon seeing the
,arty, L turned Immediately and fed, followed close
Y by the entire party. did not run far, however,
or seeing a place which afforded good concealment,
,nder the decayed leaves of what is called there
aabbage tree, imagined myself in a place of tempo
airy safety at least. They however soon discovered
ny whereabout. and one of them, armed with the
bayouet which had served poor Bob so poorly,
with its point aiming at my face. The
wretch then seized me by the collar, and exasperated !
ought TO MAIN me by thrusting the steel through my
high. l however turned the weapon TO one side,
nd in passing from the vigorous lunge, it done me
10 other injury than to pass through my pants on
he inner side of the leg. The other kanaka then .
up Furnishing a cutlass, and while il was de- l
cribing circles over my head, l threatened and expos J
ulated with him, and endeavOred to tell him of the
consequences of the act, in the future. He however
My answered. in the usual fash language of Mott !
ey, mo bloody fear" But he finally desisted.
carried me to Moitley's house, and there ie-
eased me. Motley instantly said, :" You have been
Ioing a pretty thing. What did you put into that a
mans head, I(meaning Bob,) that could induce the i
atiyes to kill him 2" | answered that l did not :
now that | had, and asked his grounds for any such 4
ccusation. lie then said, . was lying asleep one
ay, and Bob, passing me with an axe upon his I
boulder, turned out of his path to see whether | was C
| Immediately assured him that a more q
eaceable man than Bob had never existed. lie 8
DESTROYS to change the conversation. and say =
ne that rs | had no one to cook for me, thatI had bet
er remain at his house, until the rest of my family
eturaed from the poodS. This, l was compelled to I
o, and, bringing my fowls and pigs to his residence, +
emained with him during a period of eight months, :,
offered the natives at different times, S2O-SS0- =
nd fffy dollars-but all of their searching for my p
ear children were unsuccessful. |, cripple as | vas, ii
ave way TO the agonizings of a fathers heart, and a
ent repeatedly into the deep and tangled forest, u
linking TO have, if nothing better, the melancholy :.
of finding their remains. But no traces II
the poor sufferers were ever found to my knowledge.
cd alone knows as TO whether they persisted by the
hives Of the savages, or by the pangs of hunger. 81
There can be no doubt that the sole object Of the Z
was to get possession Of the money which c
possessed, some three or four hundred dollars, as "
uring my absence in the woods, they ransacked my