The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1882-02-01
The Morning Star"

Letters lately received from Capt. Bray and
Others, report the KO,irg Star up to October llth
OF last year:
The passage from Honolulu to the Gilbert Is
lands was made with light but favorable winds all
the way. Passed Bakers Island. July 9TH, sighted
Byron's Island en- the morning of July i2th aud
on the same day arrived ~ Peru Island where she
sen; some books ashore, and then pissed ON to
1apltUea, where she anchored ON the 18th OF
July. The Storm Bird had arrived there the day
l--fae, anl last leaving when the AOSAiHy
S..iI- arrived.
Cheering reports come from the Island of No
nOuu of reformation gUing on there. From
IapltOea, the N0THi9g SfJr passed up through
the Gilbert group, touching at Aienama, MalaLi-a.
and AaTakei, and anehoflng ut Apalang outside OF
q Q lagoon the 22nd of July. Here she remained
nine days, while the Biennial Meeting of the Gil
bert Island Mission was in session. Tn the 2ud of
August, she left for Butaritan, with the Mission
aries and delegates ON board making total Of 80
persons including officers and crew. She made the
rounds of the group again, returning the mlssiOn-
aries and delegates their respective islands, and
returning to Apalang, where she arrived again
Sept. 4th. Accounts from Iapltuea aTe saddeulng.
At Peru. the Samoan teachers found 10 be IN
destitute condition. the J0hH Williams had not
made her usual Visit to them. They were furnish
cd With such supplies could be spared.
A tsaCher from the Gilbert Island Training
School, len 1lbwe, was placed Un the Island OF
h0nouti, and received with delight 10y the people.
Another teacher from tue same school, IerlOi, was
placed on the Island of Apemania aud gladly well
coined by the King, WHO has at last given up
twenty-Hins of his thirty wives, and become a
nUnOgamist.
Having completed all of her work in the Gilbert
Islands, the Morning. Star sailed, Sept. 9th, from
Apslang for the Marshall Islands, having ON board
Rev. A. Z. Malkup and wife of Apalang, who We're
bound for kusaie on account OF the critical con
dltlon of SlTs- Nalknp's health which rendered 1t
necessary that she should have medical care under
DR.. Pease.
Touching at Jaluit, the supplies for the mission
aries at Arno and MejurO we're forwarded by a
schooner which about to sail thOse islands,
and tie AOTriEg Star continued on her way to
knsaie, where she arrived after passage Of seven
teen days from Apalang. at kusale the Star had
very narrow escape from destruction Capt
Bray account Is rs follows:
We we're near the island three days before we
reached ii. During this Time 1t was calm, and the
Star drifted nearer and nearer the breakers By n
strong current. l think there was no on board
that did not give up ali hopes OF saving her. am
sure did, as We saw her drifting silently on and
on We got all the ladies III a boat, With two
sailors to pull them away from the breakers, while
tine rest of US stood ready to do anything that
could be done to save the vessel. When within
her length of the breakers that would have short
ly broken her IN piece the water suddenly
shOaied and We dropped 10th anchors which held
her Just clear of the breakers without touching.
But then We were III preoicament, for the current
VAS far too strong to TOW with the boats, for We
had tried that"
Fortunately however, after while, a breeze
came Od from the land which took the vessel out
few miles to scaand relieved the peril
The H0rEi,g STAR remained ten days at kusaie,
lanGed the supplies for the missionaries there and
tue lumber for Mrs. Shows aud Miss Cathcarts
house, took 60 barrels of soil for Apliang, and
all necessary preparations for her voyage West
ward. Leaving husais, Oct. 9Th, the Morning
Star arrived ut POnspe on the 18th. Found Mr..
Doare IL excellent health and spirits. From there
size would irst vi-I. PIngelaP and MOii. and then
60 - the AlOrtiock Islands thence 10 Ruk
hUgOlen Islands, and thence return. As the Star
will have to return Mr. Doane to Ponape, then sail
again for KusaIe thence take DIR. Pease visit the
MARSHALL Islands, and after completing that work,
return AGAIN to Apaiang, from whence she will
sail again fOT huslIe, and make that her point of
departure for Honolulu, according the schedule
of the voyage prepared By the Board of the Hawa-
i'm Evangelical Association. she can hardly be
expected back here before the last of March at the
earliest and it Is not unlikely that she may not
arrive before the middle Of April. These letters
we're sent from POnape 10 San Francisco by the
schooner PmF0HiI, and arrived here by the last
steamers mail
We regret to hear from Capt Bray that the yes
sci vas leaking considerably, although she had
not 80 far hid Is 9 touch or 4 scratch" Hc thinks
the worms must Be getting II the WOOD there
are places where tie copper Is uOrii out and break
lag Of" All on board we're veil at latest dates.