The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-04-07

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SIXTY-sIX lepers were removed on SSUr-
day last from the Branch Hospital and
sent to Molokai. The removal was effected
in a very quiet and orderly n yet
attended a. usual with incidents OF u very
impressive character. The President of the
Board of Health went to the hospital a few
hours prior To the departure Of the patients
ordered To the settlement, and spent some
time in conversation with the sufferers and
their friends. 4 large number of relatives
and Sympathisers with those about 10 leave
had assembled TO the number of several
hundreds outside of the enclosure Of the
Hospital. While there was, as might rea-
sOnably be expected, a gOOddeal of lament
alton and heaviness of heart, yet there was
manifested an admirable spirit of obedience
and complete resignation. One OF the
sufferers, Il native named hailikapu, and
whose name was enrolled among those
about To embark for the Asylum on Mol
okai, addressed the assembled crowd of
sympathising countrymen as he was on
the point of leaving the Branch Hos
pital. His remarks were so pertinent
and 80 sensible, and seemed so quiet
ing and satisfying to his listeners, and
appeared 10 our reporter as he listened, so
emincntly deserving of record, that we
have taken some pains to get as full a re-
port as possible of his remarks uttered in
the Hawaiian language, which were sub
stantially as follows:
Fellow Sufferers and Friends,-We are now
about TO leave this Hospital that has been a good
home to Us for some time, and are going to a
place (Kalawao) that las in years gone by and
until very lately been considered and named rs
the place Of death To be sent TO kalawao has
been considered as being sent TO ones final doom :;
but, my friends, it is not so now. l do not
dread going there now, for l know and
have the assurance of friends who are there that
the present Board Of Health have made Kalawao
more of a home than this is, and / consider ii no
| - IL. can't Ttava Tlng GOOD hnrr-lg a -
tendance, and all that makes life comfortable is
now provided there for all that have to go and
remember this You fathers and mothers and all
that have the care of children, L appeal TO
you earnestly not to hide up your sick ones, if
any of you who hear me should in after years go to
Kalawao as lepers you have only Yourself to
blame, for if YOU will only have your disease at
tended to when you first find yourselves afflicted
you can be cured. l know this is so, for
ont there among You there are now stand
ing two of my friends who have been cured in
this hospital and have got their discharge, there
arc the living witnesses of what I state standing
amongst you 80 l beseech you not to Srieye
after us who are going from You to-day. You have
no need TO grieve. We are going TO be well cared
for, and if we obey the rules and take our medi-
cines regularly and honestly, and live proper lives,
/ have no doubt a good many of us will recover
and return to our friends again. The present
Board of Health do not give up hopes of our
recovery because we go to kalawao. 1t remains
in most cases with ourselves whether we recover
or not. Leprosy is not the only disease that kills,
Many other diseases kill people if not attended to.
This Is 4 certainty If we get better at kalawao
we Will return TO our friends, and. as l said before,
it remains more with ourselves whether we do so
or not. The Health Authorities are doing as much
as they can for us, and we should help them
too when we see them trying to do so much for us.
Once more l say unto you do not hide your sick
ones from the doctors, take them at once to be
attended to, and by so doing avoid the necessity of
having to come here. Now my friends remember
my words and heed them for your own and your
childrens' sake. Aloha I! Aloha nui loa -
The speech made quite an impression on
the assembled people, and a great many
gave expression to the approval of the SEN
timents uttered. 1t created n good feeling
among the departing lepers and their
friends.
About 6 pm, the patients to be deported
were removed from the Branch Hospital.
Some were transported in a wagon but,
as the distance to the place of embarcatiOn
from the end of a causeway near the Marine
Railroad, was very short-only Il few hun
dred yards-the larger portion walked in
sad procession to the point of departure.
To separate IL number of human beings,
even for Il temporary period, from theiI
families, friends, and associations must
awaken strong emotions anywhere among
any people and Hawaiians feel no less
keenly than any other fellow-beingS the
disruption of kindred ties. Therefore there
was on his occasion Il he~art-rending and
painful scene. Among some foreign gem
tlemen present at the time there arose a
discussion as TO the propriety of some
spiritual consolation manifestly apprO-
1 lIldlG Oil NC III as W IClltN III
feelings of n suffering people. When a
criminal is condemned to suffer the. eX-
IRENE penalty of the law it is customary in
all countries for ministers of religion to
wait upon the unfortunate one about to
suffer, in order to administer consolation.
This is an exercise of exalted charity,
although it may be in some instances Il
mere ostentation of religious p~retention.
Now, on the occasion of the segregation of
sufferers of the disease, there seems to rs as
great, if not n greater, demand for impart-
ing spiritual consolation than on the coca
sion of an execution, Here is an intlictiOn
calculated to cast the human soul into the
utteTmOSt depths of despair and If the
light of true faith illumines the soul of any
ordained or consecrated individual cog
infant of such events, it does seem to us
that he should seek an opportunity to fulfil
his high and holy mission by being present
on such an occasion, to tighten the burthen
of afflicted fellow-beings. We would not
ask, nor expect, Il complete surrender of
life to Il terrible duty, like the devotion of
the noble Damien but we do deem 1t
fitting to make an appeal to ministers of
religion to make an occasional call upon
the sufferers at the Branch HOspital-and
especially on the occasion of an embarca-
ton of Il number of patients bound to their
final home on MOlokai. Here we recall to
mind the illuStriOuS Francis Xavier. What
a monument there is in the heart of uni
versal humanity reared To that mans
memory-and why ? Solely because he
devoted his life to the service of sick and
suffering fellow-beings.
An additional lot of leperS, thirty in NUM-
Der, were shipped yesterday afternoon, per
steamer Mokolii TO the settlement OH MolO-
kai.
Deputy Sheriff Chiilingworth IS indefatigably
Gathering up lcpers. Many that he has sent to
Honolulu were sent by his predecessors aud were
allowed to return. They have undoubtedly con-
taminated others with seeds of death. How mis-
Ifraa..1 slaYQE he nplirN of this tIDEcrugnenT IN