Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-07-30
A MISSIONARY EPISODE.

| How the Good Work in IIiIo Was Inter
rUpted BY the queens Sacred Hog.
! Shortly after the arrival of the first
! missionaries at the Hawaiian islands a
small party of them landed from a
schooner at IIilo on their way to visit
the volcano of Kilauea. At that time
no missionary had been stationed at
| iiilO, and consequently but few of the
/ PEOPLE of the place had ever had the
opportunity Of hearing preaching.
As me party were detained in the vii
age over Sunday morning they appoint
CT morning and aftcrn 3Cn services. II
s. happened that the only building
large enough for the pr posed meetings
was canoe house situated on the
beach. Ihither the congregation as
sSmblcd at the appointed time in the
forenoon, filling the house to its utmost
capacity. There were old, SCARED and
whitc-headed warriors who had fought
in the wars Ct kanehamcha. sitting in
their kappa kihcis, through whose quiet
dignity Of manner there shone certain
expression of expectation; there were
dried up cid c-ones, to whom tn,
emancipation from the kapu had come
almost too late, and there were Younger
people and children and babies, more or
less dressed, according to the conven-
fence or whim or wealth of each indi.
vidual. The posts which supported the
roof of the house were appropriated by
some of the more agile boys to elevate
themselves above the crowd. where.
clinging on like monkeys they awaited
proceedings with countenances express
i've of the greatest triumph and delight.
Others, with equal ingenuity and great
er comfort, climbed to the outside of
the roof, and by stealthily
enlarging small holes, which they
found through the thatch. or
making new ones, had en- unobstructed
view of the inside. and the enormous
size of their eyes, visible from below.
showed how they appreciated it. I'm
der these favorable circumstances the
meeting commenced; the preaching was
listened TO with great attention by the
audience, and the missionaries felt that !
they were making an impression.
Suddenly, when the meeting was |
about half through, there ensued a scene |
of the widest confusion, men and wom- |
en- rushed out of the building through |
the uncovered sides, or wherever there |
was an aperture large enough, rolling |
over each other in the attempt, and |
screaming most unaccountably. Babies |
screeched as they were tossed around in |
the panic, little boys dropped from the |
posts and rolled from the roof In less
than a minute the house was empty, ex.
eepting the missionaries and an i'm
nense hog, which quietly made its bed
on the straw in the middle of the floor.
At the beginning of the disturbance
the missionaries supposed that it was a
sudden attack from a hostile tribe or an
uprising against themselves; but they
soon ascertained that the black hog
which lay granting in comfort on the
straw, ''puaa anana" Ia six-foot hog),
as the natives call those of that size, be-
longed to Queen Kaahumanu, and was
held sacred by the natives; that the
canoe house was its accustomed resort
in the heat of the day, and its abrupt
entrance among the crowd, swinging
It's sharp tusks from side to side with
perfect contempt of the common peo-
pie, was sufficient to cause the exodus
described.
There is no reliable authority that the
made any satisfactory PRO
yress at Hilo till Kaahumanu's pig died
Paradise of the Pacific.