The Hawaiian gazette., 1881-03-16
SKETCHES OF MISSION LIFE.
From the Southern workmaa.l
No. III.

VIZ
From the Southern workmaal
No. II.
This month Mrs. Armstrong; narrative
which is expected TO continue through seven
or eight numbers, gives way to the following
letter from the Rev Dwight Baldwin, a veteran
Hawaiian missionary DR.. Baldwin has oeen
forty wears stationed at the beautiful seaport
town Of Lahaina, on the front OF winch roll
Lon, lines of breakers. through which all traffic
has TO go Many a capsizehas been tile con-
sequence and the Doctor learned to realize
more than most men the advantages OF swim
ming To native ducking was only slight
Inconvenience. but it was far otherwise TO
white man. who had not only to meet the dan
GERS of an unaccustomed element, but possibly
ibe laws of the dreaded ground shark, that lay
ON his back under the breakers, IN the path o.
the boatman. waiting for victims, rather avoid
inc the Kanaka, who would fight him under
water. and preferring decidedly. the flavor OF
the foreigner.
A PRAYER MEETING IN THE WATER, FoitIH
YEARS AGO.
Nothing strikes the visitor from civilized
land as he comes TO these sunny shores of Ha-
wall more than to see how much at home IN
the water are all classes of their population,
from the highest to the lowest. Men, women,
and children seem to enjoy their gambos In
the sea, about as much as the sporting por-
noises or dolphins. ] have seen boys, IN some
of orr river towns in America, very fearless
and expert in the water, as the warm season
came round. But never till | came to this
land had / seen a troop of boys, one after
,untl,er. in auick succession, leaping from n
point of rock forty or fifty feet high, feet first:
into the deep. Christian civilization mas
separated the sexes in these ocean sports, but
the skill of Hawaiian women in the art oil
swimming is not, in general, inferior to that OF
the men. Indeed, it is notorious that The
Young women, somewhat fiesby, do not yleld
to the death chill Of the water so soon as does
the harder muscle OF the men.
In one Of our channels, sixteen miles wide, a
boat became disabled and sank in the middle
of the channel: no hope left any one but IN
swimming. OF the sixteen souls IN the boat,
one half reached the shore. An old man,
cared for all the way bv young woman, his
daughter. had reached the land as he thought,
but died while wading in shallow water to
get on dry ground. His loving daughter had
not only saved him from the deep, but had also
taken good care of her oalabash OF clothing
THE 1LL-FATED "KEoLA."
When I first landed at Honolulu with other
missionaries, in June, 1881, meeting oil the
Hawaiian Mission soon assigned to each oil us
his post of labor. The station assigned to me
was Waimea, an inland place on the Island oil
Hawaii, of about 1000 feet elevation. IL was
cold and stormy region. The severity oil Inc
climate, aud the great exposure IN traVellns
to minister to the medical wants of four or five
mission stations was too much for my consti-
tuition. and brought on fever and dangerous
inflammation of the lungs. / was obliged to
remove from this post to the mider AIR OF La
haina. on the west end of Mani. l had, how
ever. been at Waimea three years and half,
and in the first year of my residence there had
gathered little church of eight members
Mauae was decidedly the leading member OF
the little church, a man of medium SIZE ana
then about thirty years of age; llIs WIFE, Ma
luwalinenui might be five years younger
both of sound constitution.
The Reold was a small Hawaiian schooner
Of forty or fifty tons, and about nifty ieet long
1t belonged 10 Gov Adams, of Hawaii, ana he
had chartered it for one or two months to
foreigner named Thompson, who seems TO have
| leen driving, headstrong man, who had had
the schooner already five times aground II
| going in and ont of Honolulu harbor. Tins
! frequent grounding of the vessel had undonbt-
! eddy strained her, and prepared her for hel
4 unfortunate end.
On the 9Th Of May, 1910, the schooner heolc
! arrived at Lalaina where vessels bound loi
! Hawaii generally touched Our friends Maua'
J and his wife had then been visiting friends IL
Lahaina for a week. They had called seYera
| times upon us; we were much interested II
their appearance. Mauae especially seemed
awake TO religious things, seemed humble ant
! tender-hearted, which led me afterward Il
] tt,,4 ToI then nrpnarlUE nm
for a translation to better world. On tina
dav. Saturday, late in the afternoon, May 9tli
lsjO, they both embarked on board the heota
bound to Kawaihae, Hawaii, on their wa.
home. They soon found they were on board
leaky vessel, which they knew FROM the ire
quent use of the pumps. r.,
In lust one week from Mauae and hs wife
sailing on the ReoLd, almost the same hour 0
the day, Saturday, May 10th, as | returned
from visiting in Lahaina, 10 my house, tile hrs
sounds / heard were. "Ke0Ld is wrecked
Mauae is lost; his wife is now at the Gov
| erness's house, half mile distant" In m.
haste TO know the whole, not knowing wha
she had gone through or endured, sent ma
10 tell her to come 20 me Immediately. In
few minutes she came in, but when met heI
her face was so blistered and parholled by III
salt water and the sun that | should not nav
/ known that / had ever seen her before, put ne
mind was fully awake to all that had passed
/ soon drew from her the following narrative
A THRILLING STORY,
After going on board the schooner, Saturday
Nav 9th, they learned so much of her leaking
that they wished themselves back on land, br
there was no retreating. They sailed slowl
that'right. and on the next day Sunday foun
themselves in the midst of the channel betwee
Maui and Hawaii The trade-winds were yer
strong; they rush through all the channels 0
the Islands with peculiar force; the sea wa
rough, the waves we're high. OF course tn
lurches of the vessel were very heavy, $
heavy, the young men say, that some OF I'll
stone ballast rolled over to leeward. Inc
put it back again, but soon afterwards tw
barrels of molasses and a cask Of water 6l
poorly blocked up rolled against the lee $40
of the vessel This was the great and lat
accident to the vessel, and caused her to spi
open from the stem down to the foremost 81
plunged at once, head first, into the ocean, an
as she went down the stern was the last pa
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