Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-04-26

huul. w thia Whunrt ten days paaaed by
.luuug which Dr. .ueurih un,-i away, and NJ
lay 200 bis back M The bottom NJ tho boat
awaiting bis hu,i end when, Just rs the
sound ui hia rmyep tp iu,tllh vts growing
faint ANIL u srrmcd o. II any moment might
ic The last. lu : as In dream. thcrr came
waited ln his nustdls . pctiumsd Eastern
htcc5e, which be- M sooner f,lt than his
spirits revived. and he was himself once mote
"Smnrc thought he. and. raising his
head, glanced round the horizon, whore lhcfc
stpui fanh In the ~ distance mighty island,
ihc htsr5r from which, every limc Il touched
him. gave him sensations " iudetcnbahlr
delight iull II iay. therefore, hc determined
Go make tof lhr island biz hands, q, they
managed Dho uar. recovered irgtrr n
strength lhat hll not hrcn lhcir To- the last
twenty days the noi'of he drew to the land,
the hIghc, TO-, hi, spirits ~, voice began to
Keep Time with the uaf, and, after about hnll
a days ,,criun he reached the land in safety.
lh' hrt care on stepping on shore, vis to
luul around him loi the means ol satisfying
his long psnt up craving iot drink NJ water
and he ,oon found spring VI IN unknown
Kind OF water fragrant exceedingly. aud rcd
in color Not without hesitation did he take
some n 1t up In the palm OF his hand. Hut
~ imughl mfdccd 10 show him how sweet 1t
tasted NOS had 1t scarcely been qnofcd before
II inlcrpcnctmicd every vital part giving
strength md ihmncss to the whole frame,
satisfying In a moment the ponGs Of hift that
had been Accomplishing tof 70 many months,
and making him feel more robust than he had
cycr fclt before. "What god. thought he,
"can have come to my rescue Is this China,
~ IS II Japan, ~ Is II Indian ! must make IN.
quirie,." So he climbed up great cmbanl.
mcnt, and, looking down on the scene that
opened out beneath him, saw that both the
vegetation, the fashion Of the dwelling houses,
and the general aspect Of the county were
altogether different To- those of his native land
and not only different, but vastly more
beautiful. And, as he ga1cd around him in
hcwidcrmcnl, crowd OF men and women
came pouring out Of the town and soon sur.
rounded him, viewing him with evidcn, sur
ptse, and talking 10 each othef in an unknown
tongue, No this could never be japan I
neither were the people like those Of Yelo or
Of Looohoo. Surely It must lie either Nan.
king OF Picking that was the abode of all this
spcndor. So as he had always been proud
Of his Gucney in Chinese, he put ON his most
gcntcc tone OF voice, and began questioning
the natives in 0ine, cEdRg, doRg But their
faces plainly showed that not a word did they
comprehend aud all the while the crowd,
like crows gnthcted round an owl, continued
TO jabbcr away in language that was neither
Chinese, nor Dutch, nor anything else Of
which Wasaubiyauwc could make on, one
| syllable lie was, therefore, in despair and
at his wits end But just then five or six
persons, apparently officials, came forth, and,
after holding counsel together seemed to send
TO fetch some one, Only a short time easped
before there came, pushing aside the crowd a
man Of abou, forty years Of age, with his head
unshavcn latter the ancient Chinese fashion,,
who, making his way TO where Wasauhiyauwc
stood, thus addressed him in the Chinese
tongue;
"What is your worship'S country, and what
fate has driven YOU to these shores p
To which Wasauhiyauwe, also speaking in
Chinese, made answer =" am a native of
NagaSah in Great Japan, and have been
blown hither against my will by the violence
| of the wind. Pay tell me what country this
may be-"
Upon this, his intcrlocutor clapped his
hanls, and cried -" Is il possible Well, you
are waif from distant land But you are
fortunate as well. This country is one OF
which you canno, but have heard tell i, is
the Land of Perennial Youth and Life. 1t is
divided from the shores Of the Middle Flowery
Kingdom by distance Of fifty or sixty thou
sand leagues, nor is i, within the power Of any
man to reach it unless endowed with special
knowledge Like yourself, |, who now stand
speaking to YOU, came originally from abroad.
| am he who, in the world of mortals, bore
the name OF Jyofuku, and served Shikuwau.
! lei, king OF Shin, in China. This Shikuwau-
lei, who was violent and foolish prince,
chose TO institute search for the elixir of life.
The task devolveJ upon me and, after many
dangers and troubles, | finally managed to
reach this place. But considering that, even
were to return with the elixir, prolonged
Shikuwautci could scarcely end otherwise than
in unhappincSs, at once determined to re-
main where | was and here have been ever
since, living on during several hundreds OF
years without the slighies, deterioration either
in my physical powers or in my appearance.
II you viii elect to pursue the same course,
you may prolong for ever life tina, is subject
to no maladies, while, even supposing it to be
your desire to return to the lahd of your binh,
you will find il no easy matter to do so across
all this vast expanse OF ocean. So you had
better make up your mind 10 remain among
US"
A, the sight Of wasaubyauwe's joy, Jiyofuku
grew more and more delighted, and remarking
that, as Japan was the nearest county to his
own old home, he felt all the more particularly
drawn towards the newcomer, led him of 10
his own house, where, as guest or dependant,
Wasauhiyauwe spen, the mex, two OF three
hundred years,
The chief feature Of life in this country was,
as Wasaubiyauwe observed, the absence both
OF deaths and OF births One death might,
indeed, occur once in every thousand or couple
of thousand years, and would be compensated
by one birth. hut this was only rare ex
eepiion among the many myriads of inhahi
,anls, all Of whom presented the appearance
Of being about forty years Of age, and wer'
! all, both men and women, free from ever,
Kind OF sickness. The seasons, too, were per
feet the succession Of breczes and Of rains al
that could be desiredi The crops good ant
plen,ilul-altogether a truly happy land
Every household kept is stud 81 siorks. jus, a