The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-16

chance to sleep, there was the mate awake
and stirring him up with a ropes end.
Keola saw it would never do; and he made
up his mind to run away.
They were about month out from
Honolulu when they made the land. 1t
was fine starry night: the sea was smooth
as we'll as the sky fair. 1t blew . steady
trade; and there was the island on their
weather bow, a ribbon of palm trees lying
Hat along the sea. The captain and the
mate looked at 1t with the night glass, and
named the name of it, and talked of it, be-
side the wheel where Keola was steering.
1t seemed 1t was an isle where no traders
came. By the captains way it was an isle
besides where no man dweit; but the mate
thought otherwise.
81 don't give q cent for the directory"
said he. 'I've been past here one night
in the schooner Eugene. 1t was just such
a night as this. They were fishing with
torches. and the beach was thick with
lights like town."
well, WELL" says the captain, tits q
amt any outlying dangers by tho chart;
so we'll just hug the lee side of 1t. Keep
her ramplng full, don't tell your" he
cried to Keola, who was listening 20 hard
that he forgot to steer.
And the mate cursed him and swore
that kanaka was for no use in the
world, and If he got started after him with
Delaying pin 1t would be cold day for
Keola.
And so the captain and mate lay down
in the house together and Keola was left
to himself.
This island will do very we'll for me-"
he thought. "If no traders deal there the
mate will never come. And az for Kala-
make, it is not possible he can ever get a.
far as this"
With that he kept edging the schooner
nearer In. He had to do this quietly, for
it was the trouble with these white men,
and above all with the mate. that You
all be sleeping sound, or else pretending.
and if a sail shook they would Jump to
their feet and fall on you with q ropes
end. So keola edged her up little by little
and kept all drawing. And presently the
land was close on board and the sound Of
the sea on the sides of it grew loud.
With that the mate sat up suddenly
upon the house
What are you doingf" he roars. you'll
have the ship ashore!"
And he made one bound for Keola. and
keola made another clean over the rail
and plump into the starry sea. When he
came up again the schooner had payed off
on her true course, and the mate stood by
the wheel himself, and keola heard him
cursing. The sea was smooth under the
lee OF the island; it was warm besides. and
keoia had his sailors knife, SO he had no
icok Va n llttic way uIIu
the trees stopped; there was break in tho
line of the land like the mouth OF . har-
Dor; and the tide, which was then flowing,
took him up and carried him through.
One minute he was without, and the next
within. ana iioated there in wide shall
low water bright with ten thousand stars,
and all about him was the ring OF the land
with its string Of palm trees. And he was
amazed, because this was . kind OF island
be had never heard of.
The time of Keoia in that place was in
two periods, the period when he was alone
and the period when he was there with
the trioe. At first he sought everywhere,
and found no man; only some houses
sta nding In hamlet ana the marks of
fires But the ashes Of the fires were cold
and the rains had washed them away; and
the winds had blown. and some of the nuts
were overthrown. 1t was here ne took his
dwelling; and he made fire drill and
shell hook and tshed and cooked his fish,
and climbed after green cocoanuts. the
Juice of which be drank. for IN all the isle
there was no water. The days were long
TO him. and the nights terrifying. He
made lamp of cocoa shell. and drew the
oil OF the ripe nut. and made a wick of
fiber: and when evening came ne closed
up his hut and liz his lamp, and lay and
tremhled till morning. Many a time he
thought In MS heart he would have been
better in the bottom of the sea, his bones
rolling there with the Others.
And al! this while he kept BY the inside
OF the island for the hnts were on the
shore of the lagoon, and il Was there the
palms grew best, and the lagoon itself
abounded with good fish. And to the
outer side he went once only, and he
looked but the once at the beach of the
ocean, and came away shaking. For the
look of it, with its bright sand and strewn
shells, and strong sun and surf went sore
against him. q.
lit canno, be-" he thought. ''and vet il
Is very ike. And how do l know? These
white men. although they pretend to
know where they are sailing. must take
their chance like other people. SO that,
after all. We may have sailed in q circle,
and I may he quite near TO Molokai. and
tais may Be the very beach where my