The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-09-04
(C0ntinued.)

DTlDSllS JuOuSduu SUlulclo aillNCu,
and few days later transport with
munitions of war and food. (Every
three months a vessel brings a new
supply of food. The Governor and
officers live well, chicken, pigeon,
pork, fish, breadfruit, yam, various
kinds of fruit and canned food, be-
sides fresh beef two or three times a
month. There is but one baker for
all the officers on land and on the
hulk. Every officer had at least one
servant, and many of them cook
besides. The soldiers, of course, do
not fare SO well, poor quality of
rice, breadfruit, yams and occasion
ally fresh and salt pork, is the ex-
tent of their rations.)
Being informed by the Governor
that they were intending to shell Qua
soon, the missionaries left the sta
ton, Mr.. Rand with some of the
ladies going to Xiii, twenty-five miles
from Qua, and the others going to
Kusaie on the Morning Star. Sep
TENDER 18th, the Spaniards began
operations against the Metalanim
tribe in earnest, and continued until
the goth, Smelling and burning vii
lagos near Metalanim harbor. Four
villages were destroyed. The day
after Qua was shelled about three
hundred soldiers landed. A bat
tie was fought ON the flats and at
the landing. Driving the natives
back into the bush, the Spaniards
marched up the hill and leisurely
plundered and burned the mission
houses, then hurried on board their
war vessels and returned at once to
the colony. The number of killed
during the weeks engagement was
forty Spaniards, including a colonel,
and three natives.
From this time on the natives and
missionaries suffered much perscou-
ton from the Governor. October
10Th, the L. :. $. Alliance, Captain
Taylor, arrived. AS missionary
work was prohibited, and the lives
of missionaries not considered safe,
and as nothing could be accom-
plished by their remaining, Captain
Taylor urged and strongly advised
them to leave the island. He accord
ingly took them to Kusaie.
November 22d, three more vessels
having come from Manila with
large force, four men-of~war anchor
ed in the Metalanim harbor and com
menced Smelling Japalap, a village
two miles distant. The same day
about eight hundred soldiers were
landed at Qua to march to Japalap,
a distance of eight miles, also four
hundred at another village, three
miles distant. The breast works at
.Japalap were held by one hundred
and ten armed natives. They held
out three days against this large
force, then retreated with loss of
only three men, having captured one
hundred guns and thousands of
cartridges.
The Spaniards who were exposed
to the Ponapesn bullets along the
whole course of their march, sustain
ed loss of between three and four
hundred. After destroying the
breast works and burning the village,
they returned to the colony. Since
Nov, 1890, there has been no fight
ing. Governor Cardarso and most
of the troops have left. The present
Governor has a garrison of two hum
dred or less at Kenan, besides the
armed hulk and a man-of-war sta
toned at jamestown harbor, or as
the Spaniards call it porto Santi-
ago"
Just what the outcome of the
trouble between the Spaniards and
the Metalanim tribe will be no one
can tell. AS yet nothing has been
gained; and the tribe is more deter
mined than ever not to submit to
Spain. They pay no attention to
the Governors orders prohibiting re-
ligious meetings, but continue their
Sabbath services, even rebuilding
one of the three churches DESTROYED.
Many of the Christians in the other
four tribes have returned to their
heather customs. Drunkenness and
all its accompanying evils are rife,
and there is great danger of the
peoples getting into a worse state
morally than they were before they
received the gospel.
Note.-The present condition of
the people of Ponape since the de-
parture of the American missiona-
ries, Nov. 4, 1890, is about as fol-
lows:
lst. All public assemblies, includ.
ing of course those for worship, are
forbidden over Ponape, The Metal
anims, however, the tribe at war
with the Spaniards, disregard this
tabu and worship as they please.
Even the meeting of class of
girls in the retirement of the mis-
sionary's home for the study of
arithmetic or the Bible was forbid
den. AS an immediate result the
sixteen churches and fifteen schools
with their thousand scholars are
closed, and the pupils are at the
ommand of him who finds employ
nent for idle hands. The people
have gone back to their kava plant
ing and drinking, to the distilIation