The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-03-16

of their long swim, but seemed to have taken
good direction.
They could see no land when they left the
place of the wreck, the sea was so rough,
swan all the night and all the next day. Mon
day afternoon, they were swimming bravely
and had Kahoolawe in full view.
DEVOTED WIFE.
It was not till the sun was getting low on
Monday, that Mauae grew weak and his limbs
benumbed. His wife's bucket came to pieces
Monday morning and she swan with nothing.
Now that Mauae was weak and could not
swim. they stopped. She lomied him thor
ourbly nomi is a Hawaiian practice of sqeez-
ing, rubbing, and pressing the body to restore
circulation or relieve pain.) Mauae was now
relieved they were now not much more tnan
a mile from Kahcolawe shore, and swan ON,
but Mauae soon became weaker than before.
He was lomied again but with no effect. His
wife next put her long hair into his hands;
his hands slipped off repeatedly and she as
often nut them on again, and when she
could not rouse him even to such an effort.
She told him he must pray. He could
only utter few words of prayer. She
then nut his arms around her neck, held them
with one hand, and with the other started for
the shore, which was now less than one
quarter of a mile off, but she soon perceived
that he was entirely dead, and she was
obliged to leave him. She landed amongst
the rocks and climbed upon the land, greatly
exhausted of course, and her sight at first
seemed to be gone, but by a little rest it
returned, and she saw clearly. Sac was an
entire stranger there, and knew not where to
go to find a little settlement on the Island.
What could the poor woman do, on desoiaie
Island, IA miles long and broad. She would
have persisted, had there not been much ram,
and she found water standing in the tops OF
some of the rocks, but she had more yet to
endure The sun went down when she came to
land On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day. she looked around in vain for inhabit
ants: had nothing to eat all that time. Fri
dav morning, she discovered patch of
vatermelons, and after eating one, she crawled
under a hedge, so weak that she concluded
she must die. Soon she heard human voice,
saving, Somebody has been stealing water
melons.p She haC barely strength to utter
Owau-I.'' There were two fishermen who
| took her down to the settlement, and the next
day, Saturday, Nay 10th, she was taken in
| canoe 25 miles to Lahaina, where | met her as
before related.
! Daring ALT be time that Kaluwahinenui was
giving me the above narrative, Hood OF tears
was flowing over her face. | thought per
/ haps ii was the effect of the salt water on her
eyes, that made her weep so, and l asked her,
"Why are you weeping so % She replied,
" Ever since let my husband so, have done
nothing but weep" l was greatly struck at
this last answer of hers she was weeping for
! her husband. Had she not for the past week
been in the very jaws OF death herself, her
whole life ebbiug as it were TO the last partl-
/ Gle. and VET mourning so intensely for the one
/ bf caann1 To fOrOpt herself
and there is no doubt that this love for hus-
! band nerved her up to all her efforts in the
| extreme peril of both their lives, to save him
| from death, fully justifying the remarks OF
| Mr. Jarves, in the Polynesian newspaper
/ which had a mere sketch of the catastrophe,
! that it " contained touching record of con-
nubial love-" and that faithfulness was some
! filing more than the mere instinct OF savage,
it ennobled it's possessor. if her skin was dark,
and rendered her worthy of page in the
record of noble deeds of women"
In reading the foregoing narrative, even
Hawaiians will find many things to wonder at.
In the year SO or 81, the schooner ha-
nadmdlu went down, (probably near that same
spot Not soul survived to tell the story
Probably greater number OF Hawallans would
reach the shore when very distant, were 1t
not for the hungry sharks, which abound IN
] tins part OF the ocean.
We cannot but be astonished that Mrs.
Thompson and the two yonng, Lahaina natives
should have reached Kahooawe, thirty miles
in six or eight hours, and the reason is not
very plain TO us, why Mauae and his wife
should have taken thirty hours to reach tue
same place, but have noticed that those of a
slender build shoot through the water like an
arrow. The great wonder respecting these
two is that, having been SO long on the way,
they should have lived to get there at all.
What gives infinitely more interest to the
story, than the long swim, is that Ha-
waian woman lately heather, after swim
ming thirty miles in one day and quarter,
with nothing to eat or drink, should follow up
such persistent means to save her husband.
Well may we say with Mr. Jarves, such con-
nnbial love and faithfuness have never been
surpassed, even in a christian land. My mem
DRY recalls many other escapes OF native
Hawaians through their swimming powers
but none that seem more superhuman than Tic
case of Mauae and his wife.
| will give you hereafter, one or two more
however that will excite no little wonder, bu
no more wonder than the fact that so few
Anglo-Saxons learn the art OF swimming, anc
we sometimes wish that government woulc
make law requiring all TO learn to swim
How else can an end be put to the burial o
hundreds in the ocean, from burning steamer
when the land is in sight, and not far distant
FORTY MILE SWIM.
The first work of the early Missionaries a
these Islands, was to preach the gospel and t.
establish schools in every district on thu
group. The Missionaries at Lahaina had thu
oversight of the schools at Lanai, an islant
separated from west Maui by channel mint
miles wide.
Missionaries at that eafly day always ha'
the favor of the high chiefs Nahienaena wa
young princess, of the highest grade. Sh
and Mr.. Richards had appointed day to ex
anime all the schools on Lanai. So kapaleau
moku, then Governor of Lanai, was ordered t
, 90 over the day before the examination, anC
summon all the people to come together at tn
Amounted place. he started in "a canoe, witt
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