The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-04-07
HAwA11Ax DooroRs.-Although Hawai-

HAWAIIAN DoCToRs.-klthougha a Hawai-
ian Board of Health has been instituted in
accordance with the Act of the last session
Of the Legislature, yet so far, no Hawaiian
has yet been licensed by the Board to prac-
tice the healing art. However it would ap-
pear that, regardless of the existing law, a
good many of the professed doctors continue
to practice During the last week, three of
these pretenders were brought up before the
Police Court, and after fair hearing, were
fined each the sum of fifty dollars. The
money not being forthcoming, they were
sent to prison, to work out the fines at hard
labor. One of these worthies had very in
genious way of working upon the credulity
of his countrywomen-the fair sex being ap-
parently more easily duped than the men,
Some ten or twelve women, who casually
entered his presence, were at once informed
by him, that by the magical power with
which he was invested, he perceived that
they had some hidden disease, which he only
could cure. The sum of one dollar was paid
hO"h D1 NaSh vi Bdlitulcs anu
mummeries were gone through with. After
the lapse Of few days further sum of one
dollar per head was demanded by the doctor.
"Insatiate monster could not one suffice ~
And SO the patients rebelled, and informed
the police of the Doctors doings, and thus
he got arrested, tried, fined ana imprisoned.
WE translate from the MeSsGger de Tahiti,
under the date of January 9th the following
item.
"The Italian ship Theresa arrived at Macao
after having left that port for Callao five
months since, and reports a mutiny on board.
According to the statement of Capt. Bolos,
the Theresa left Macao on the 9th of Febru-
ary, having on board 296 coolies, and cargo
of silks, tea, &C. At the end of 62 days, they
arrived in sight of New Zealand.
While the crew was occupied in the fore
part of the vessel, the coolies rushed to the
cabin, to possess themselves of the arms
In this they succeeded and scarcely ten min
utes elapsed before ten Italian sailors were
sea. The mate of the vessel who defended
himself bravely, was shot by sailor belong
ing to the crew whom the coolies forced to
commit this murder
The second mate received nineteen
wounds; they put him in irons, and after 50
days of horrible tortures, they drove nail
into his head ETC., and killed him two DAYS
before the vessel reached the Chinese coast.
The most horrible part of the whole affair
followed: After having murdered almost all
the crew, the coolies commenced to fight
among themselves; fifty of them were killed,
the conquerors decapitated the corpses, the
heads of which, placed in cases, were sto owed
down in the hold of the ship. AT the expi-
ration of sixty days, the odor, exhaled by
the corpses became almost unsupportable.
The unfortunate wife of the captain was sub
mitted to the most terrible treatment
Most of the coolies were pirates, and they
knew perfectly well how to make use of the
compass and charts, and obliged the captain
to take his course for the port of Tin-pack
The Theresa arrived in that port and was
plundered by the coolies; the Manda arms
assisted in the plundering. The vessel aban-
doned by the pirates finally arrived at Macao,
having on board the balance of the European
crew-eight sailors, and the wife of the
captain.