The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-02
EURaOaIPTioE
90 CEGTS PER MONTH
THE SPANISH INVASION OF
P0kAPE.
"a paper by Mrs. F. K. Rand, American
Missionary to Micronesia, read be-
fore the Hawaiian Mission Chill
dren's Society, Honolulu,
II. L.. Aug. Is. 1891
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lOIl LlliS ttlhC TIC VI
the natives by the Spanish Governor
became more and more unbearable.
He not only required thirty men out
of each tribe to work week without
pay, they furnishing their own food,
but he tried to break up their tribal
system of government, and would
not acknowledge the authority Of any
of the chiefs, except those two whom
he had appointed as sub.governors
in each tribe. He also forbade their
holding feasts or other assemblies
and paying tribute TO the chiefs. The
natives had up to this time faithfully
performed The labor required of them,
but on the last day Of June, the
members of the Jekoiti and Nut
tribes determined that they would no
longer endure the brutal and degrad-
ing treatment of the officers put
over them by the Governor.
On the first day of July, the chiefs
and people of these two tribes
gathered together in the feast house
of the king of the Jekoitj tribe, two
miles distant from the colony, to
plan what they should do in case the
Governor tried to force them TO work
The Governor fearing they were
planning to attack the garrison, sent
messenger to arrest and bring the
two kings. The latter hearing that
they were to be hung, refused to GO
A squad of twenty-four soldiers were
then sent to fetch them. Without
making known their errand they sur
rounded the feast-house and fired,
killing two and wounding several.
Although the Spanish soldiers were
armed with repeating rifles, they did
not have an opportunity to fire
second volley; for the natives imme-
diately rushed upon them with their
long knives and despatched eighteen
of the twenty-four.
The Governor at once began build
ing a stockaae or block house 20 by
40 feet in size, near his own house at
Kenan, using for the sides logs that
had been prepared for house build
ing and roofing it with corrugated
iron. 1t was rude fort finished
that night. The next day the COM
mander Of the hulk sent part of his
men ashore to reinforce the Govern
or, together with boat load Of am
munition. On their way from the
landing to the fort they were attack
ed by the natives and five Of them
killed. This was Saturday. Sunday
about 2 p. M, while the priests were
going off 10 the hulk, native fired
into the boat. Immediately an in
cessant firing commenced on all
sides, which lasted till midnight when
there was lull. Governor Posi-
dillo and those left in the fort, took
this opportunity to attempt an es-
cape to the hulk. While running
across the flats, the natives attacked
them and killed the Governor, all the
officers and many soldiers. In the
three days fighting, beginning with
the attack on the natives in tue feast
house at Jekoitj, the loss of the
Spaniards was sixty killed and
twenty-three taken prisoners, of the
natives ten killed. The rest of the
Spaniards, about forty-tive, remain
ed on the hulk from the 4th of July
till the last day of October. For
two months they had no communica-
tion with the shore.
September lst, man-of-war ar
rived from Manila bringing back
Mr.. Doane. The captain of this
vessel and the captain of the hulk, i,
Capt. Don Juan, who was appointed
Governor pro TEN or ad interim, now
tried in vain to settle the trouble with
the natives. The missionaries at length
succeeded in persuading the natives to
return the boats, cannon, most OF the
guns and other things captured from
the Spaniards, but they absolutely
refused to surrender the three of
their own number whom the Govern
or demanded as the ones who killed
Governor Possidillo. They also re-
fused TO aid the Spaniards IN recov-
ering the twenty-three Manila men,
who were still with them, and who
refused to return to the Spaniards.
The war vessel then left for Ma
nilla, taking the Governor, and the
second in command was left in his
place. The ad interim Governor,
Don Juan, now gave the natives ten
days to give up the three Ponapeans
and the Manila soldiers. As they
did not accede to this demand, about
the middle Of September he began to
shell the four villages within range
of his hulk. Although forty shells
were fired, the only damage done was
house destroyed, woman slightly
wounded by spent fragment Of
shell and chicken killed. Failing
to bring them TO terms by this means,
the Governor awaited the arrival of
two warships from Manila, Which
came Nov, lst, bringing 1000 addi-
tional soldiers, more than half of
whom were Manila men. The otli-
GERS were Spanish.
The new Governor, Cardarso, was
very different man from Governor
Possidillo. Cd his arrival he sent
for the missionaries, and begged
them to aid him in persuading The