The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-09

distance, riding for dear life though he
was. The laborers suddenly looking
up, as this cry reached their ears, be-
held a sight well calculated to rouse
their worst superstitions, in the shape
of a foreign devil literally flying over
their country on a hellsh contrivance
of glittering wheels and pumping legs
1t was as if the thing had dropped
straight out of the sky; so with inflamed
passions they darted towards the path
with upllted hoes, and thus heading it
off waited to deliver a swinging blow as
it passed-as they would have awaited
some wild beast. Meantime Mr.. LEM
pressed on, thinking it more prudent
to run this murderous gauntlet than be
surrounded by bowling croHd, eager
for the blood of a flying devil file
lodged this blow, charged that man,
and besides a knock or two on the
knapsack on his back, and some bad
bruises on his machine, was doing
wonderfully well; until, he found him
self suddenly confronted with an EN-.
bankment, about farty feet high,
whose crest was crowned with about
one hundred and fifty excited China
men, awaiting his arrival with hoe and
bamboo. He was now enCirCled, SO
got off his machine and walked for
ward to the embankment to meet his
fate.
The mob yelled furiously as he ad.
vanced, and on arriving close enough
one of the leaders, an old man, aimed
murderous blow, with hoe, at the
head of the cyclist, which would have
cleft his skull and finished the business
had not Mr.. LEM lodged his head and
received the blow on its side, glanCing
off to his ear and shoulder, but partly
broken by the head of the hoe falling
on the top of his knapsack. Then fol
lowed a shower Of blows and stones.
The machine was wrested from its own
er and the spokes hooked out, and vari.
Gus parts broken and damaged. Get.
ting out Of the thick Of his ASSISTANTS
Mr.. LEM made towards few Of better
looking class of natives who were hold
ing aloof in rear and apparently better
disposed, and to these he appealed by
gesture to intercede and give him a
hearing. In this he succeeded, and
the mob was induced by these better
class Cinnamon to desist and
listen. The machinist than picked
up his machine again just as the out
distanced mob came up in rear, and
others closed in from all sides. Thus
entirely surrounded this single foreigner
surely in one of the tightest of tight
fXes-eXplained his machine by gesti-
Culation, and played some funny tricks
with it, until he succeeded in melting
the awe-stiCken and solid angry faces
around him and caused laughter to rip
pie over them, which he eventually
turned into peals Of laughter by in
creased fooling. A spell of this and he
made motions to be allowed to proceed,
and the better class natives interceding
for him the circle opened ard he was
allowed to 60; so he descended the
opposite side of the embarkment and
continued his journey again; to the in
tense amusement Of his late assailants
the assembled spectators. Pushing
on mile or two not now pursued by
the shout of Strike p or "Kil he
found the natives less hostile and so
put up at an inn, at a little hamlet a
few miles distant from the place Of the
encounter, to await his soldier who
presently arrived badly bruised and
beaten and relieved of every article of
value from his person.