The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-08-13

ing trees, while around them rose stately
palms, casting their shade on the flower
ing plants and shrubs that carpeted the
forest path.
Late at night they suddenly emerged
from the forest and found themselves in
another village, large one. close 10 a
river. This they found to be the village
of lemon. five miles from the sea and only
twelve miles from Pangah, where they
were last held captive, so that they must
have been led by roundabout paths, to
mislead them rs to distance There were
many huts in this village built ON posts,
and they were led to the largest Of them.
one with a double floor Here they re
manned eight days. On the fourth day
word came that n Dutch hawker was in
the village, selling goods. The hawker
turned out to be a spy, carrying letters to
| the captain from the Assistant Resident at
Olehleh, and from the commander of 4
\ Dutch man-of war The tenor of these
letters was that they were in the hands OF
n ferocious savage. who was dead to all
sense of honor, and that they must not be
obstinate in anything, lest additional OBJ
stacles should be put in the way of their
release.
On the morning of the eighth day they
were again called out, and had to prepare
| for another march. and after ten hours
journey they came to place where five
huts had been built by the riverside
Three centre ones, fifty yards apart, had
evidently been prepared for their recep-
ton, while the remaining huts were evi-
IDENTIFY to be used for guardhouses. Nc
sooner had the prisoners been placed in
the huts than their goalers commenced to
run up bamboo stockades, making each
hut a jail by itself Here, for the rest OF
his term of capture, the captain was con
| fined: and here. so far as we know. the
crew remain. The time hung heavy on
their hands. No labor was given to them
but absolute inaction was almost intolera.
bic, and semi starvation added to then
miseries. At night they heard the cries OF
tigers. and knew that if they did escape
from the huts, it would be to meet death
in the Jungle in a worse form than that
which was hanging over them every day
The only chance was the river, but they
did not know its name nor where 1t led
As matter of fact. it was the lemon
River, and if they had constructed raft
and got on to it, an hour or two would
have taken them past lemon. the village
in which they had last been confined
Escape there would have been almost i'm
possible and if they had escaped that dan
ger the raft would have been broken by
the surf that lashes the bar at the mouth
OF the stream Only practiced boatmer
can pass this bar, and the sharks are never
absent.
After another period of captivity extend
| 4
kydd 1.-THE second engineer) and the cook
We're allowed to leave the huts to confer
with the English Consul, who was OF
board Dutch man-of-war off the coast
Kydd was blind and almost dead at tn,
time, and when the captain asked permits
sion to take him to see the ships doctor
the Rajah kicked him contemptuously a.
he lay, and said he might as well go as di,
there. Emboldened by his success, thu
captain asked for the chief officer; bu
upon this the Rajah went into passion
declaring that if another request wer,
made no one should so at all. SO tn,
three men went alone, leaving the twenty
five behind them in charge of Mr.. erich
ton. the chief officer. What else there Il
of the narrative Is well known how. tina
when once on board of the man of war, tn,
consul would not let Capt. Woodhouse anC
his comrades return, how negotiations hav,
gone on without intermission, how th,
Raiah declares that the capture of tn,
crew was a special dispensation of Proyi
dencc in his favor against the rule of tn
Dutch, how he would willingly give up hi
country to England, but how suddel
delicacy on the part of the Foreign Offic,
makes them consider English interference,
impossible; with the result that the GREY
are still captives, and, for all the ForeigI
Office is inclined to do, may remain so for
ever, or at any rate until the patience o
the savage chief is exhausted and the wore
is given dor the willing Acheenese t
butcher them.