The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-11-18

rockS and send q sea clean over the Land bluffs
on to the dry land. "Now, stand from under
these times; up killick and work out o. that
when We saw them fellows out at sea. The brig
Mountain Spring, was at anchor in here bilin'
out a hundred and thirty barrel whale, an
the Capin thought he'd hold on. An he did
'ntil some reglar old busters of rollers come
heavin IN and jest tore him all TO bits. When
the fleet came back from outside, they found the
captn'n, and a boat steerer dashed 10 a cat head
of the wreck, but all the rest was gone. An
now If you'll let me get my pipe lit again, III
tell ye a yarn bout that same time"
1.-THE way ont was this said the old man
as he drew a match across his breeches where
they were the tightest. 1--WE were pullin' up
long the coast, keepin' close in shore, and
lookin' out sharp for whales. when all to once,
one of the boats ahead sot a waif. We cal'ated
they wanted to speak US bout somethin' else
than a whale for dye mind, if any one of US
rz a hump, we just nat'rly went for it, aad
didn't stop to do no sort o advertisin' of that
fellows hereabouts. No, no. We just dropt
down onto the thwarts and pulled to pull. e
the rest seed us,-an' they generally did bout the
time the smartest man got holt on his oar-then
twas a race to see who'd go on. So, dye see
when We sighted that are signal, We knew some
thin else wuz up. Give way, b'ys' seq our old
man. L see him. It's q wrack ashore up in the
head of the bay up there; and l reckon she's
got a distress signal hyin'---too. Pull, now my
sons; them bloody Arabs IL have that ere crew
if y don't pull hard; let's git there first An
we did pull, an we were there right amongst the
very nTSl. well, my mu, twas an English Orig,
that We found ont arter'ward had got currented
in on that coast, and it fallin' dead calm, she'd
been anchored waitin' for q breeze off
the land. Now. dye see the breeze didn't
come; but the kaikOO did and then Arab Bedwings
they did too. And I'm damned to tell We watch
is the wust. Them great big black devils with
nawthin' over them but q bit o. sheepskin-an'
its mostly too hot for that eyen-comin' a
swarmin' over them sand hills and just goin' in
for every thin they can. Whales carcasses is
jest dun with the raisins in to them, and I've
seen them when they jest had to crawl away
from alongside one O. them big mountains o
meat and spread out, and have one
o the squaws walk up an down on
them till they had made close stowage
of what they'd taken aboard, and then they'd
fall to agin and chock everythin' tween decks
with more meat. An steal ! Them niggers waz
wuss than tie wust ring-tailed monkey ever ed
Dictated on a man-o'-war school ship. They'd
steal a thing when twas red hot, an SO, when
we saw EN- jest a swarmin over that brig we
knew nawthin wouldn't be left on board 'cept q
few ring Lofts and tree nails. Not that we cared
the whippin' of a ropes end what they done
with the brig; what we was askin' each other
was, where the devils the crew? For, dye see,
twas on this identical ere coast that Cap'n
Riley was cast away when l was a boy, and you
was a babby; and We knew twas the brothers or
daddies of these here niggers that we saw, as
had carried Riley an his men off aud sold 'eln
at Moroccy, and them as wasn't killed on the
voyage over the sands, died under the cat an
at the sweeps O. them dummed gallies; AN AZ
we didn't see none of that are briggs crew round
we jest run our boats on the beach an grabbin'
our irons an lances, an the bonn gun and boat
knives and hatchets We bore down on a yellin'
crowd of the blaggards to get satisfaction out on
sum-" By this time Rory had worked himself
round until he was "on his hunkies"-as he
would say-in front of me with his hat off and
his half smoked pipe clenched in one horney fist
and a card of matches in the other. when
they seed us a comin-they kinda scattered, an
out from the ruck busted a half dozen reglar
English Jacks with the Bo'sn at their head.
They were pretty well under bare poles l tell 20
for they'd bin givin away their jackets an
hats and some on 'em their shirts so as to
keep on the right side of the black devils: not
that twas doin' any good for they'd a bin triced
up and bundled off in no time if we hadn't a
hove in sight as we did. Well, we had a hand
shake, and then they began to tell US all about it.
But our cap'n's they was in a hurry, and so they
slowed the better part of their yarn away till
we could get on board, an then they told us
they couldn't find their captain ! Here was a
pretty go. He'd come ashore all right enough,
but some of them Arabs was a hidin' him. An
so dye see we commenced q Sarch. There was the
crowd o niggers q howlin' round their sheik,
who was sittin' ON a bit of skin, an smokin' as
caam as n duck pond.- There was a lot of camils
a kneelin' round with O bit Of seizin' stuff stop
pored round their jints, and nawthin else 'cept
a lot o. wimmen huddlin' up by theyselves.
Well, we looked and sung out, and hustled them
Arabs roun' pretty well, tho some O. them be-
gan to handle their Algerine muskets am look
savage. Bim-by the Bo-s'n he sung out, Here
he is lads! bear a hand lively" and we all made
a rush and there the Cap'n was wound up in a
bit of cloth, with a stopper on his jaws: an laid
away in a hole scooped in the sand. They'd
spread a small prayer carpet" as they called it
over the hole; an if the Bo's'n hadn't
caught his foot in a corner of it
and fetched the whole thing away we'd
never have found the old man. As twas We
bowsed him out and unlashed him an then
We had a fight. Them devils just come down on
us but they sheered off when they found what
run for their camels. Horsepower we want
goin' to let 'em off easy, so We jnst cut all their
skin water-bottles an when they saw all their
drinkin' water split on the sand they jest howle'd
and bellered and then set sail on them camils
for the nearest water holes, bout sixty miles off,
Some of 'em was pretty dry, now, my lad, afore
they got there and so was We when we got board
ship again with the crew from the wraok." And
Rory settled back to have a quiet smoke.