The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-01-22

OHIJ supper.
The Commodore and 1 embarked
in the Snake-the crew having first
been captured while he was running |
to take part in the fight going on over |
the ashland then compelled to |
"paamp ship" as the Commodore |
styles baling out the craft, and we go |
on board the Julia again. The boats |
had returned with some recruits, and |
we were entertained by the Second |
Mates account of the days work.
"Those niggers over there on the
MAN," he says, because they live
on a little bit of an out-Of-the-way
chunk of dirt and rocks, hid away
behind Mele, think they can go-as-
they please. They loaf around with
out the first scrap of anything on 'em,
Except they have around their waists
! about cables length Us fathOms) of
thin line that squeezes them up so
they look cut half in two. That they
call dress L s'pose, but know I
| wouldn't like to be seen walking up
the main street of my native town in
that rig" (Which we think very
likely.) You ought to see them
women when the recruits went off to
the covering boat! There was &C.
loots." Smith was very fond of
naming the recruits as soon as he Sc
cured them, and the two he had
brought aboard that day were "Ga-
loot" and Pidgeon.") "There was
Galoots' mother and aunt, and Pid-
geon's grandmother and sister, a
capering round in the sand with their
arms full of calico, first bowling like
mad an then scolding and jawing the
other women that was trying to steal
their tuPkey-red a whOOping an a
, crying out 'zif their hearts were
> broke, and then grinning and laugh
l ing over the calico. Galoots' mother
l they said twas his mother-she
jest tore round until she lost her
: liku" (waist belt) d" and then she
! stopped to wind herself up in the
/ | calico, and the crowd got around her,
and the last we saw she'd got hold OF
: club, an was laying 'em out all
e round her lively p
e What did Galoots say during this
e performance Pr l asked.
e /" He just laughed and said-what
aid he say, Jim ?'' turning to one OF
the boats crew standing near.
Jim grinned and said "He speak
that OIL feIla- wohman he mather
All same one strong MAIN. She
fight all them fellah-boy, lick ZEN
ahl o.
After eXhausting about all the
s present resources of the islands i'm
8 mediately about Muna, the Julia wa:
e got under way again, and. hauling
y sharp on the wind, was headed fol-
k the island of Apia. We passed by
e Matuso and Monument Islands-tht
# latter being a slender, Symmetrical
: peak $50 feet high, with diameter
|. at the base of about 100 feet-anC
o went to the windward of Mai, a triple
s peaked island wooded from the sea tc
a it's summit. From where we were
b then we could count fifteen islands
q strung along apparently in a line, but
: forming cluster, amongst which in
r bad weather the navigator finds il
i extremely difficult to work his vessel
k The danger is much increased by the
J, close proximity of Cooks Reef
e which lay on our left as we passed
d through the chain.
S The population of this cluster o
e fifteen islets is estimated to be abeu
y $500, most of whom are primitive
e heathens and cannibals. By night
fall of the first day from Muna, thu
e Julia had moored into deep bay or
IS the south side of Mai passing a higl
g detached rock at the entrance, anC
l. all through the night the vessel tack
q ed in shore and out: now running
a close to the land where the shadow
n were thick and dark and the forest
1t were filled with gloom, and then NOV
n ing out to the open water again. OF
# the east arm of the bay was a grass,
IS islet that in some way had caugh
So fire. At first, all that could be seel
sr was faint glow of light as of tn
IF moon behind the hill. Then thi
IS grew brighter and stronger until, jus
t. as we were looking to see the edge o
1t her disc peep over the woody outline
o there shot up tongue of flame like
II an advancing banner, and then
b long line of fiery points mounted thu
r ridge and charged furiously upon tn,
n solid woodland masses, as the Manu-
d luke horsemen did upon Napoleon!
!? squares in Egypt. And it seemed, a
q? first, as though the leaping, CHANGING
e flames had met with the same fate al
g did the Musslemen: for the Hgh
= faded out, and the clouds of smoke
u that rolled away in the luminou.
e darkness of the midnight sky seemed
g to be that of the musketrY that ami
e hilated the glittering throng. But
soon that smoke grew lighter anC
I through it shot new tongues of fire
p that rose and sunk and rose again fec
e into fury by the very obstacles they
t encountered, until the whole broad
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