The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-07-10

glare Of the day.
The morn broke over clouds motionless as ice
bcrgs, as the purple light tinted them with ros'
hues. The sun rose red and fiery, casting a fierc,
and angry glare toward the west, which gloweC
in the radiated light like the aurora boreaIs. The
sun rode on in his fiery career through the glow
ing sky and over the motionless ocean. The heat
was intensified. The odor of bilge water rose with
concentrated force. \ radiant glare glimmered
from the deck into our faces, fercely and scald.
ingly. The senior member of the bar took his
roasting philosophically, Richard was nonchalent,
his Honor the Judge, resigned but fdgety, while
gloom settled around the coun;enance of the At
torney General ike n heavy fog around n Drum
mond light. when you can scarcely see a ray of
light struggling t~hrough-like patience on a mon
ument, except that he did not smile Mt grief.
Pbrarque in complaining resignation, took it
p%uihngly, and Harry looked as though he was
continually exclaiming,
@sad vas the hour and IueSiess was the day.
When from the PiOneer Mills bent my way"
The heat drove US to desperation. We had reached
n point beyond which there was no endurance.
The natives lost sight of their Christianity and
went back to their first love. The old melon
vendor commenced his offerings to the Hawaiian
God of the Winds with solemn words and sancti-
monious countenance. He sliced his melons, CON-
mittcd them to the great deep, and feryently
prayed that his wind-god would shake his airy
wings over the hot and seething waters. Then
followed others with offerings of breadfruit, and
with hope-illumined faith depicted ON their faces.
Then an old gray-haired mother that had assidu-
ously nursed her purP during the voyage, sang n
mele to the winds, with accompaniments of the
hands and arms that strongly reminded me OF the
emphatic gestures IN an Apache war-dance. All
looked on the ceremony with countcnances either
solemn or ludicrous, in which there was n strange
mixture Of faith and credulity. The haohs had
all along sworn that there was n Jonah OH board,
and some asserted that the man who killed the
albatross-the ancient mariner, himself was among
the passengers, and many and wild and curious
were the srcculations among them.
AL, however, looked back with fond rcmem-
brance to the old Kiiauea, and ,oithOut a dissent
ing roice rOfed for steam navigation. / gave in
and voted for it unanimously. We had been
literally steamed and roasted. We had suffered
all the horrors of a prison ship-we could sympa-
thise with the sufferers of the black hole Of Cal
cutta the freight of fruit on board was rotting
the grapes, the bread fruit, the manages had
been sodden or completely cooked the porkers,
that were wailowing In fat when they came ON
board, were now lean, lank and hungry-the hot
steam had evaporated the lard tine horse ON
board had become so thin that it would have
taken two like him to cast a shadow the chick
ems all had the gapes, excepting those that had
been killed and eaten to save their lives, and who
among US could say n word in favor of inter-
Island navigation in sail vessels, if we could get
steam? In the hot and smothering agony none
dared raise n voice to oppose us.
The sun was descending toward the western
horizon in one unclouded blaze of living light.
The Judge, Disguised with all attempts at amuse-
ment, was reclining on a Japan mat, Otium cum.
The representative of the Crown, IN the utter
hopciessness of despair, sat on the tafrail like
Niarius on the ruins of Carthage, brooding over
the unpropitious and unappreciating winds, and
the uncertainties of sail navigation generally.
looked like the Grand Turk, just escaped
from his seraglio, and hopeless as everything ap-
peared around, was not without hope, while
Phranque pulled away like n burgomaster, with
gloomy and agonizins effort ut looking indig-
nant. The Acto was gazing westward absorbed
in thought. lie was dreaming of phantom ships
and enchanted seas. Far away on the horizons
serge nc gazed with weary eye:
WHEN looking Westward, I behsd
At first II scented a little srcck,
And then 10 80 med n mist.
y novsa and mo cd; and took at last
sPeek,s mist, a shape, I visit,
Aud still "a n.afcd and ncared; /.
IL plunged and tackled aud vecred."
With all the appearance of n square rugged vessel
Indcr full sail. L called attention to the object, ,
not being gifted with second sight, no other !
crson seemed to sec anything but a lonely white
shaped cloud. Onward it moved over
he still AMI waveless sea. {
"see s-ei ] cried, she taeks no more,
Mither TO work Us veal;
Without a breeze, without n tide, G
she steadies with upright keel. =
The western wave was all afane, !
The day Vas well nigh done, L
Almost upon the western wave
Restei the Lruad bright sun, (;
H ~ y 2 ! am1 |. sap drove suddenly {
At the instant 1 felt the air stirred refrcshingly !
my brow. The waves came dancing with (
re trade winds, our sails were filed, n
The fair breeze blew, the white foam neS t
The furrow followed free" 4
/ looked toward the west, the phantom ship n
as gone, and in her place the " sun was Gccked " !.
18th golden bars, aud slowly set in a STROUD of a
DRY. u
As we sailed through the sea with a fresh free 6;
-ecze, gloom and melancholy vanished and gave T.
ace to mirth and joyous hilarity. The natives 81
in sweet voices their wild and plaintive melo- !.
es, while the haoles joined in a grand anthem al
ON " Old Dan Tucker" The ancient melon We
ndor claimed the honor of raising the wind, II
hich was disputed by the ancient mother with 81
Re purp, while the bread fruit sacriGcers declared w
ey had done some at putting. The night was ae
%=autiful, and we felt like prisoners freed, when in
C morn dawned brightly and Diamond Head an
in its rosy smile. We entered Honolulu til
the morning of the fourth day out, faded, su
orched and burnt red and brown, and some of
looked rather blue. We had nineteen cabin
ssengers with berths for two-not over-crowded mr.
and we came to the social, religious and politi- No
| conclusion that We would go in for a subsidy IN
the hiLauea or any other steamer, that would of
.rt inter-island steam navigation. n