The morning news., 1889-03-27
ROBINSON CRUsoE M'INTYRE.
A Castaway. Who Spent Four Years
with a Race of Giant Men Fridays.

From the Pitts51rg Dispa ch.
Mr.. Dan F. A Mcintyre has had some
rarnarkable experiences on the seas. He
has spent a good part of his days whaling
in the Arctic ocean and hunting the sperm
,vbale in the south Pacific seas. Mr.. Nc
Intvre's ship was once wrecked on coral
reef and he was the only man of the crew
Who was saved. His companions were
,vashed up on the rocky beach of the Mar
ouesas islands and killed. Mr.. Mcintyre
still bears an ugly scar over his right eye
that he received during the storm, and,
when he came to his senses, he found HIM
self living on the rocky shore with group
of natives bending over him. Here he re-
maiued for four and a half years, the only
white man on the island, when he was
nicked up by a French man of-war. Relat-
ing his experience yesterday he said:
stThe Marquesas group on which found
rnvself consists of sixteen islands, twelve of
which are inhabited. The greatest distance
between any of them is about forty miles.
The natives, away back in those times,
nassed from one island to the other in big
canoes and small sailboats. During certain
seasons of the year the Pacific was stormy ;
INIT the natives were well acquainted with
the weather, and knew when to venture.
The islands are located in latitude 9 south
of the equator.
ne people De1OuR W DuO LudldJ NlebeS,
having dark, straight hair and swarthy
complexions. Like the Fiji islanders, they
are very tall and muscular, plenty of them
measuring in feet hight. l never, before
or since, saw such powerful fellows. They
are rather bright men, and live, like the
Samoans, on the fruits of the islands, that
grow in abundance without much cultiva-
ton. Wild hogs and sea fowls were the
only game to be hunted; in fact, there were
min ale thA islands The
tiyes spent most of their tie in taking
life easy, occasionally hunting and fishing.
my life for four and one-half years
among these people was pleasant, taking it
altogether. The first six months l c5uld
scarcely endure it. If had been imprls-
ioned in cell could not have led moro
miserable existence. Day after day l
climbed the highest mountains, and sat for
hours scanning the horizon, looking for q
sail: but none appeared. The people were
friendly. and tried to console me in their
uncouth way l appreciated their
kindness, and, after while, learned enough
of their language to be able to converse
with them.
Life then became less unbearable, and
prepared myself to wait for vessel to
come along. The king of the island made
me a namesake of his, and | lived with him
for the first wear. When | found | would
have to stay for some time built house,
and. to amuse myself, | was III the habit of
going into the forest and pulling up young
orange and lemon tress to plant about my
home.
1.-The king tattooed his name on my leg,
which made me privileged character and
equal to one of his relatives If broke any
of their laws | was not punished, and the
king would not allow any of lis people to
insult me or treat me rudely. In thi,
respect l must say that l was & eatly
admired by all the natives. They have a
vast deal of respect for white man, and
many of them envied my white skin.
''The natives on the different islands were
hostile to each other, and most of the time
were at war. The king would never allow
me to mix up in any Of their fights. He
held me in too sacred light. Once l was
captured by a neighboIing tribe. They
knew by the tattoo on my leg that L be-
longed to their enemy, and they decided to
tattoo me all over. They started on my
lower limbs, but the pain was so great that
1 could scarcely stand it. 1t seems some
French missionaries had visited the island
forty years before, and, failing to chris
tianlze the natives they left. Ole of the
old men had learned fton them to talk a
little French, and In that language begged
him to go to my king and inform him OF
my plight This he did, when my master
made peace with his enemies and was re-
leased. IL Cn6y LEU ulSllSuIou my ldCo l.
don't believe should ever have come back
to America.
"When the French ship came along |
boarded it and went with them to the island
Obatite, where number of Europeans live.
There remained for two years before re-
turned TO San Francisco. The French man
of-war was making soundings and surveys
for tie purpose of locating a naval station.
Since then have learned that they estab-
HahSd aoslinU or N tho iRla nd EharN
spent four and a half years of my life."
Mr.. McIntyre's story of how he aston
ished the natives with an engineering feat
ON the Marquesas island where he was so
long castaway is very good. They had,
from time immemorial, been in the habit of
carrying all their drinking water from
springs away on an eminence in the back
ground of the principal settlement. In
that tropical cline this was quite a task,
yet they could conceive of no way to i'm
prove upon 1t. First convincing the king
that he had a much better plan, Mcintyre
was granted the necessary assistance, and
succeeded in constructing a sort Of bamb %
pipe line from the springs to the settlement
80 that the natives thereafter got their
drinking water without any labor whatever.
IL was great scientific triumph, to, their
notion.
When Mr.. Mcintyre came back TO Pitts
burg he found it so greatly changed that
the old familiar city was new to him. FL
nally, however, by diligent inquiry, he 10
Gated his brother, a liq or dealer, in the
eastern part Of the city. One day we went
out, ordered glass of beer at his brothers
bar, and, without making himself known.
engaged in conversation with the gentleman.
~ ou had brother DauP' said he.
Yes" was the reply; 'but he was
drowned in the Pacific ocean-went down
with his ship-a good many years ago"
But, was the rejoinder of the returned
Dan II met fellow, not so very long ago
either, who claimed he had recently seen
your brother Dan, and that Dan had great
story of how he had lived a castaway for
years, with savages on an island"
lmpossiblel He's dead-poor Dan"
But do you think you'd know Dan if
you saw himg'
Yes, indeed Add twenty years more to
each of our lives ami I'm sure I'd still be able
TO recognize my brother Dan, if l could only
See nlm alive again, in any part Of the
world or under any circumstances"
But years have already passed, and Dan
mas changed good deal since you saw him"
lie might have changed-if he'd lived -
BORN
well, then, John, am Dan Mcintyre,
your brother, and Pm not drowned. Here
am; look at me closely and you'll seep
Recognition really followed very soon
ana the liquor dealer became counter jum-
per and embraced the brother, seemingly
returned from an oceanic grave to life.
GGOrRa Par CrnffN0 a. r.xy NUnrk