The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1875-08-21
NATIVE KAHUNAS.

1T would appear. from the following,-which
we translate from the native newspaper ia Lahui
Ha,caii,-that those wretcbed empires, the so
called native doctors, arc still permitted with
IMMUNITY to prey upon the people and to carry
on their work OF destruction.
During the past few days, in this district Of
Honolulu. has occurred an instance of the deplor-
able ignorance of the native doctors, exhibiting, at
the same time, one Of the agencies whereby this
nation is being destroyed. 4 young woman, about
twenty years Of age, has come to her death by
these doctors. She had for several years led q fast
life, and in the latter part of July was taken with a
fever. Foreign medicine was obtained for her, one
dose of which she took at once, and was to have
taken another after the lapse of several hours.
Meantime n native doctor appeared. He sagely
remarkedIFT This trouble is not from sickness; it is
a result Of the law. Foreign medicine will do no
good; but | can effect o cure Whereupon the
sick woman and her friends consented for him 70
practice On her. Not long after, in came another
kahuna, whose diagnosis of the disease agreed with
that of the first, disagreeing however as to the mode
of treatment. But he was emphatic in declaring
that foreign medicine would do no good in the case.
The sick woman began to believe in him, when
Doctor Fool No. Q anne in. He was No. 8 in this
instance, but he belongs to class No. l of down
right fools. His name is Know-nothing, (Ikeole)
and the name describes the man. lie has killed
people in his practice before this. And what does
Know-nothing say? He declares that the woman's
sickness can be cured by simply laying on of hands
and sprinkling Of water. So a lot Of loafers were
called in, together with some Of Know-nothing's
disciples, as big fools as himself, who surrounded
the patient, placing their hands upon her and
sprinkling water. Adeantime the woman was in
great distress and pain, apparently in the agonies Of
death, and while her tormentors were saying
" Don't cry; the spirit is being quieted; it will soon
depart, and then you'll be easy;'' she EXPIRED
We're it not for the sadness that We feel for the use-J
less sacrifice Of this young woman's life, We should
be inclined to laugh at the ridiculous proceedings
of these kahunas. When they found that their
victim was dead, all they said was God has ap-
pointed unto every one their time to die, and this
woman's time has come This is one of the most
outrageous cases that has ever come to our knowl-
edge. 1t would seem that human life is a mere
matter of sport in the hands of the kahunas.
When will this nation cease to believe in the
lying kahunas? When perhaps the race is about
persisted. 1t would seem as though all the good that
is promised to the nation through the rising genera
ton, to teach and to nourish which so much is being
done, is in danger of being brought to naught
through the wretched doings of these ignorant
quaeks. Is there not sufficient power in the law
and its officers to crush out these enemies of the
opinion the proper place for such doctors as
these whose doings We have described, is in The
insane asylum-or perhaps the prison"