The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-09-07


for this memorable escape were furnish
ed by the well-kuown Nine. Adam,
the edltress of the Paris Nouvelle |
Revue. In 1884 Olivier Pain, who
hated the English even still more in
tensey than he detested the French |
bourgeoisie, set out for Egypt with the |
avuwed intention OF Offering ms ser
vices to the Soudanesc madnl IN his
war against the English After spend rg |
few days in Cairo, where | had the |
opportunity of seeing hun, he t { nth |
on his adventurous trip into the DESERT
en- route to Khartoum, the English au- |
thorltes making no sttcmpt to interfere
with his mny weuts. No authentic
news was heard Of him until the Aus
trian missionary Father Ohrwalder
who succeeded in cGgcung his escape
from Omdurman last summer rep rted
that the ex. communist had reached the
madhi in safety and that after living at
Omdurman for several years as one OF
the false prophets counselorS he had
finally succumbed to fever.
According to- Father O'rwalder,
there are several Europeans, including
the ex- Prussian Sergeant OF Artillery
Klotz, the eN-Austriau Colonel SOatIn,
besides other Germans, Greeks, English
and French, who have abjured Chris
tianity, embraced the Mahdisy form Of
Mohammedansm and who stand high
in the confidence Of the lnsurgent
leader
Out in Cochin China, where the
French have been carrying on a relent-
less warfare against the bloodthirsty
pirates, who infest the coasts and es
peclally the great rivers, the
French military and naval forces
every now and again discover that
the pirate chiefs whom they succeed
in capturing are European rcnegades,
deserters from civilization, who have
adopted all the vices and barbarsm
of the worst and most degraded types OF
oriental retaining no vestige OF civ.Ilz
alton save the white color Of their skin.
OF their names the ones which | can
recall at the present moment are those
of two FreuChmen - Caussade and
Martin-and If Dane named Oberg.
Among others Of these deserters
from civilization has been the Russian
anthropoogist Baron Macksy VIII,
spent seventeen years quite alone
among the natives in the heart # New
Guinea. He was bent on dIscov, rlng
the "missing link" but. needless t.
add, failed IN the attempt AnOthe
DISTINGUISHED Russian, the ArChprIes
NiCulai immured nlmsel! for a peri,
of ten wears IN a Buddhist monastrr,
IN the heart of China for the purb0st
If Iaarnina sufficient about BudGhis
tb-ol.uv t0 be able to combat its prupa
GATORS On their own Ground.
Tne rxpIorer Montauue Kerr founc
a P,rtugurse living among the savage
IN the heart nf unrXplored Africa. Tn
German traveller NachtIgars Austria
servant deserted hun in the interior c
Soudan. and the wnlte companion {
the French explorer Captain Trlvil
nl,ved him a similar trick. Both dt
serters are believed to be still uvIn
among the sayages of Central AfrIc
with whom they have preferred to thro
in their lot.
The crew of the British ship Tewkes
hurry which was wrecked a few vcar
ago on one Of the Caroline Islands {
the Pacific and who spent seven month
there before being finally rcscuec
relate that they would have been kllle
bv the ferOclous natives had it NJ
been for an Englisnman named Charlie
Irons. who had been left on tae islam
wears previously by a trading vesse
Irons had become a savage himsel
He had seven wives and was, accort
ING to the rescued crews accoun
ruler of the little domain in which h
announced his determination Of spenC
ing the remainder Of his life
Ii was but few months ago thi
the newspapers here contained tt
history of the SO called hermit Of Alask
The editor and proprietor of the Bostl
Courier served with distinction durr
the war and at its close took up h
Iannonskv inst off Suka. There /