The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-28
Life in the Sandwich Islands.
From Miss Birds Letters from Hawaii.

Here winds are things almost unknown, except
the trade winds, which blow ever gently and
steadily, with a breadth of balm and healing.
Low breeZes whisper softly morning and evening,
rain drops with the soflest of touches and the
murmur of drowsy surges alone breaks the still,
ness. The great expanse of ocean is disturbed
by little more than mere ripples. The skies are
rose in the cool morning, gold in the cool
evening, while sails come and go no
larger than butterfly wings on the horizon.
People speak in hushed yoices, and move as IN
lethargy. Life ID dead, and existence little more
than delicious languor. Even the energetic for
eigners soon yield to the spell, and become as
Tennyson's lotos-eaters:
They sat them down upon the yellow saad,
Between the sun ana moon upon the shore;
And sweet it was to dream of tatherland,
........; but evermore
Most weary seemed the sea- weary the oar
Weary the wandering field of barren foam; :.
Then some one said, "We will return no more"
Here, everything in nature is profuse, fervid
passionate, vlvifed, and pervaded by sunshine:
The earth is restless in her productiveness, and
constantly repeats the miracle OF Jonahs gourd
All decay is quickly concealed and through the
glowing year, flower, bud ana Iruit Wa,ch each
other side by side on the same tree. Ferns are
always uncurling their fronds, bananas unfold
ing their shiny leaves, and spring continually
blends her promise with the maturity OF summer
Is it wonderful, then, that the native pines and
dies when away from his Pacific home, and that
even the foreigner who has once tasted its de-
licious life looks back with longing to Hawai-?
A week or more ago, an Ohio River packet
which left here late at night had queer passen-
ger on board, in the person of tail lllln1lslan
whose destination was some point near the In
diana line. He patronized the bar freely, and
talked loud and continuously. The subject OF his
conversation was narrow escape from highway
robbery which ne had met with, in this city. on
the evening before. He had been waylaid in the
dark and pounced upon by number OF men,
and nothing but bis great courage strength and
presence OF mind saved his money and his life.
In the fight he was compelled to kill one OF his
assassins-shot him right through the heart
and was very sorry that he had not killed them
all.
This story, with painful minuteness as to de-
tails especially of the death scene, was repeated
time and again against the earnest protests Of
Captain and passengers, all night long, and no.
body got any sleep on the boat. Morning brou2ht
no relief and the prospect being for continu-
ance of the nuisance all day, the Captain realized
that something would have to be done, and q
happy thought struck him. Just after leaving
Paducah he rushed up stairs to the bar-keeper
and called so that his man could hear: " Look
here, bar-keeper did you notice that man who was
talking last night about having killed man IN
Cairo? 1t appears there was man killed there
last night, and here is description OF the muir
derer"
"That was our man." said the barkeeper, ''but
l think he got off at Paducah." Noisy had lis.
tened to this conversation with eyes spread and
mouth open, and seemed actually to sink straight
| down into his boots. "Well," said the Captain,
"I'l look on deck. He may be aboard, and IT he
| is, we must put him under guard" AS soon as
| he was gone, NOISY, with trembling limbs, ap-
| preached the barkeeper and solemnly declared
| that he had never hurt hair on any mans head
| in his life-had never been molested by any one,
| and could not be the man the authorities were
after.
| The barkeeper explained the situation to him
| and told him there was but one way to get him
out of this scrape and that as to hide him away
| until they arrived at his destination, and then
| smuggle him ashore. NOISY" was only too
willing, and all day long he lay under bunk,
top of him. and listened to doleful Dialogues that
were carried on for his benefit at his state-room
door About shutdown he was led ashore, in the
| guise of very weak old man, well wrapped up IN
| Quilt, by his friend, the bar keeper. The part
| ing between the two at the top of the hill was
brief, but touching, and duly appreciated by the
passengers and crew who were drawn up in line
| ON the boiler-deck to witness it.
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