The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-12-16

three men. Their death was reported |
at Hobart Town. A squad of soldiers |
was sent out to take vengeance. The |
village nearest the scene of the murder /
was burned to the ground, and every
man, woman and child killed by shoot.
ing OF the bayonet The victims mum 1
bered more than one hundred. This
was not the only crime of the kind.
They occurred frequently through
series of years. In addition every in
ducement was offered the natives to
buy drink.
These circumstances combined to
carry them off in alarming numbers.
Meanwhile Eugli h missionaries had ar
rived Through their representations
to the home government those outrages
were diminished. Then came gov
ernor who really wished to do all that
was possible to save the natives, but he
made a fatal mistake. He thought II
would he better to remove them from
Tasmania, so the few hundreds left of
tanning population were transported
to a little island, i'm full though distant
view of their homes. Every arrange
ment was made for their comfort. a
missionary went with them to act as
friend and guardian as well AS teacher.
This well intentioned act proved the
acme of cruelty. Their hearts were
broken. Nothing could rouse them
| from the apathy into which they fell.
| They would sit all day upon the shore,
| looking at their home and their fathers
home. They died more rapidly then
ever. No births occurred. 1t soon be-
came apparent that to save even Il
remnant they must be returned to Tas-
mania. This was done. They Were
happier, but again exposed to the out
rage and moral danger from which they
had been removed. They had lost
courage, the women to protect them
selves and the men to avenge their
wrongs.
Shortly before my visit in 1886 the last
full blooded native, Truganini, an old
Christian woman, had died and there
remained only three elderly half castles.
Before the eiri Of 1887 received a Tas
manian newspaper with paragraph
marked. This gave ain account of the
death of the last of the half-castes. the
last person bearing a drop of Tasmanian
blood in his veins. In little less than
century from the landing of the first
Englishman, the race was extinct.
When did the English ask for the
land? To whom did they pay anything
for it? When was a native, even the
wisest. admitted to council with the
English! When was plebiscte taken
to ascertain whom the natives wished
to rule over them?
Many more questions might be asked,
: but these are enough. The writer re-
commends all those who want to know
the story of Tasmania more fully to ad-
dress any bookseller in Hobart Town
, or Launceston for a copy of every book
: on hand containing chronicles of the
l early days. All that saw were written
by English missionaries, clerg, men and
officials of the Government.
KING THEEBAw.
After delightful journey up the
Irawaddy in well-appointed steamer
landed at Mandelay Until n few
? months previously it had been the CAPT
tai of Upper Burma and the residence
of King 1heebaw. An immense moat.
full of lotus in bloom, lay at the foot OF
] turreted walls of masonry. Having
entered this walled city. which was re-
served for palace people, retainers and
{ hangers on of the court, we penetrated
r toward the center. The next barrier
was high stockade. Having passed
, the gate we found a roadway Just
wide enough for two vehicles to
pass, occupying all the space he
: tween the stockade and an inner
brick wall at least ten feet high,
but much lower than the stockade.
f After passing two angles of this wall
we passed through the last gate and
found ourselves in the enclosure, where
stood Theebaw's palace, his temple, the
pavalion of his queen, the barracks of
his inferior wives and various other
, structures.
The kings palace and the temple
L., IL, 81
90 crllsted with gold within and without
So great splendor / have not seen in any
1 palace, but it was after a rather bar
e barrie fashion.
This king was independent not a
! vassal of England. She had conquered
I and held lower Burma for half II cen
fury or more, but upper Burma had
D never yielded. England surmised
= probably with reason, that Theebaw
contemplated an alliance with Franc,
/ that would he inimical to British in
:, terests in the east War was made. anC
Theebaw defeated.
r Scarcely had the echo of the last can
non died away than rheebaw, one anC
probably the last of long line of kings
and his queen were dragged from thei
palace and ordered to mount miser
= able one horse cart, such as none bu
: obeyed, but his queen refused to be ;
party to sych an indigr ity. They wer,
forced to lift her to her place beside he
husband. They were driven to the river
:, put on board a schooner, carried Il
Hindustan and soon over to the Yves
coast, where they were shut up in
place of moderate dimensions. TIT
grounds are surrounded by solid wal
of masonry of great height. Neithe
V Theebaw nor his queen have left the en-
Il closure, nor ever will.
Somewhere about q generation age
IL the king of Dude, attempted something
e against the English rule in his owl
If kingdom. He was transported from hi
capital to spot below Calcutta on tn,
:, Hoogly, placed in a spacious dwelling
IL its compound or grounds surrounded b,
7, high and strong wall of masonry.
(. guard of English soldiers saw that non'
came or went. An ample allowance,
D. was given, which he lavished on wive
e and bears. ] know not which to men
% ton first. He had more wives thai
y bears, but a bear cost more than wife
?. therefore he grieved more over the dealt
x of a bear than of wife
o But his own last breath was drawn il
Ne 1887. AT the time | was not in the cap
l. ital of his province. Thirty years o
captivity he suffered.
e A somewhat curious circumstanc
% happened within few days after hi
lie death. ,Eighty-fve widows sent pc
lie tition for pensions to the English Gov
T. ernment
am not criticising the action OF tn
is Government in Theebaw's case excep
II as to the cart they took him away in
a or the last mentioned royal parsonage
h.. 20,
he do not object to English rule in tn
T. East. Whatever may be said agains
the methods in many instances by whicl
n it has been brought about, or of tn
re evils they now allow OF enforce by law
j. the millions of Hindoostan and Burma
is are happier and more prosperous unde
n English rule than they were unde