The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1864-10-01

SCHOONER CUT oFF.-By the schooner .A66y For
rest. which arrived on Sunday from Micronesia, in
~telligence has been received OF the loss of the Ham
burg schooner Franz. and the massacre of her crew
and passengers, at one of the Micronesian Islands.
This vessel left the AmoOr River for Honolulu some
three years ago, consigned to Aiessrs. Meichers & Co.
of this city. The long absence Of the schooner,
created fears that she had been lost at sea or cut of
by savsges, bat until this arrival no news had been
heard from her. The intelligence Of her loss is con-
veyed in a letter to Rev. S. c. Damon from Rev. Mr..
Snow Of Ebon. from which We extract the following
particulars published in the Friend for October
EBos, May 10. 1864.
Ray. 5. c. DAaoS.-Jhy Dear Brother, If you
hare not learned the fact before. let me here commu-
nicate TO you the sad intelligence that another vessel
has been cut of among these islands. and all on
board have been murdered. Ii was sometime during
the past year, and at one of our northern islands.
The native name Of the island is Kongerik. lat. IL
20 n, long. l67 . IA E. according to Kotzebue.
The Information is from our Ebon natives who
have just arrived from the north. They have not
been 20 that island but have seen natives from there,
and obtained many things Of them taken from the
vessel. They describe the vessel as O schooner about
the size OF the .ndria, which was wrecked on this
island. They were at anchor in the lagoon, and
think il was the second day after they came 10 an
Choir that they murdered them and took the vessel.
They did 1t while part OF the company was on shore,
hdluti'h6 III hOi hahh thNb hhSSS IA 'hS 'fc
sci. So far as | can learn there was no provocation
whatever for the b~arbarity. 1t was solely fer plum
der. And they were greatly disappointed 10 find that
the things they most wanted were not in the vessel,
such AS tobacco, hatchets. knives, axes, etc. but on
the contrary there was a great deal of clothing,
prints, boxes, books, and | should Judge, bar-iron for
bl~acksmithiug, together with a great many China or
japanese boxes.
But what makes it sadder TO US is the probability
that there was a missionary family OIL board, for they
speak of one of the company-and he was not the
captain-who read from a book morning and evening,
and then stood up and shut his eyes and talked, and
while he did this all the rest put their heads down
and went 10 sleep, that is. shut up their eyes. The
white woman who was on boari was the wife Of the
man who prayed. The flag of the vessel with n name
on it is with our chiefs who are now at Jaluit. /
have n medicine chest from the vessel with a few
medicines in it, and all of them labeled in German.
An apOthecary's card is on the inside of the cover
with the name A. L. Siemens and Hamburg upon IL.
This is also in German, stating, among other things.
that medicine chests could be fitted out or replenished
at short notice and on reasonable terms, with direc-
tons in the various languages of Continental Europe.
1t is q touching and instructive fact that the na-
tives. either from his teaching or from his praying,
called the name Of the praying man Jhorah.
After they had killed the company they worked the
vessel on shore upon the reef and burnt her.