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

IL was perhaps month later when the
people of the place arrived-she I'LL of six
great boats. They were fiue race Of men
and spoke tongue that sounded very diff
ferent from the tongue of Hawaii, but SO
many OF the words we're the same that it
was not difficult to understand. The
men. besides. were very courteous, and
the women very towardly: and they made
and gave him q wife; and what surprised
him the most. he was never sent to work
with the young men.
And now Keola had three periods.
First he had period of being very sad,
and then he had a period when he was
pretty merry. Last Of all came the third,
when he was the most terrified man in the
four oceans.
The cause Of the first period was the girl
he had to wife. He was in doubt about
the island, and he might have been In
doubt about the speech, of which he had
heard so little when he came there with
tnewixard on the mat But about his
wife there was no mistake conceivable. for
she was the same girl that ran from him
crying in the wood. So he had sailed all
this way, and might as well have stayed
in Molokai; and had left home and wife
and all his friends for no other cause but
70 escape his enemy: and the place he had
come to was that wizards hunting ground,
and the place where he walked invisible.
most close to the lagoon side, and, as far
as he dared, abode in the cover of his hut.
The cause of the second period was talk
he heard from his wife and the chief
islanders. Keola himself said little; he
was never so sure of his new friends. for
he judged they were too civil to be whole
some; and since he had grown better &C
quainted with his father-in-law the man
had grown more cautious So he told
them nothing of himself, but only his
name and descent, and that he came from
the Eight islands, and what fine islands
these were. and about the kings palace in
Honolulu, and how he was q chief friend
put many questions. and learned much.
The island where he was was called the
Isle Of Voices: it belonged to the tribe,
but they made their home upon another,
three hours sail to the southwark. There
they lived and had their permanent
houses, and it was rich island, where
were eggs and chickens and pigs. and
ships came trading with rum and
tobacco. It was there the schooner had
gone after Keola deserted; there. too, the
mate had died. like = fool of white man
a. he was. 1t seems when the ship came
1t was the beginning of the .sickly season
in that isle. when the fish Of the lagoons
are poisonous, and all who eat of them
swell up and die. The mate was told of it;
he saw the boats preparing, because in
that season the people leave that island
and sail to the Isle Of Voices. But he was
. fool of white man, who would believe
no stories but his own; and he caught ono
OF these fish, cooked it, and ate it, and
swelled up and died which was good news
to Keola. As for the Isle of Voices, it lay
solitary the most part of the year; only
now and then boats crew came for CO.
pra; and in the bad season, when the fish
at the main isle were poisonous, the tribe
dwelt there in body. 1t had its name
from marvel. For it seemed the seaside
OF 1t was all beset with invisible devils;
day and night you heard them talking one
with another in strange tongues; day and
night little fires blazed up and were
cxtinguished on the beach, and what was
the cause Of these doings no man might
conceive. Keola asked them If it were the
same in their own island, whore they
stayed, and they told him no, not there;
nor yet in any other of some hundred isles
that lay all about them in that sea; but 1t
was thing peculiar to the Isle of Voices.
They told him also that these fires and
voices were ever on the seaside and in the
seward fringes of the wood; and . man
might dwell by. the lagoon 1900 years (if
way troubled. And even on the seaside
the devils did no harm if let alone. Only
once chief had cast . spear at ono of
these voices, and the same night he fell
out of . cocoanut palm and was killed.
Keola thought . good bit with himself.
He saw he would Be all right when the
tribe returned to the main island: and
right enough where he was II he kept by
the lagoon; yet he had . mind to make
things Fighter. So he told the high chief
he had once been in an isle that was pest
cred in the same way, and the folk had
found Q means to cure that trouble.
"There was tree growing in the bush
thAro ~ aAva ha ssauA sAorp hacn n ov;i~
came to get the leaves of it. So the people
of the isle cut down the tree wherever it
was found, and the devils came no more. I"
They asked what kind of tree this was,
and he showed them che tree of which
Kalamake burned the leaves. They found
it hard to believe, yet the idea tlckled
them. Night after night the old men de.
bated it in their councils; but tho high
chief (though he was a brave mani was
afraid of the matter, and reminded them
daily of the chief who cast spear against
the voices and was killed; and the thought
of that brought all to stand again.
Though he could not yet bring about
this destruction of the trees, KeOla was
well enough pleased, and began to look
about him and take pleasure in his DAYS
And. among other things, he was the
kinder to his wife, so that the girl began to
love him greatly.
Onesday he came to the hut and she Law
why" said Keola. what il wrong with
you now?"
She declared it was nothing.
The same night she woke him. The lamp
burned very low, but he saw by her face
she was in sorrow.
"Keola." she said, put your ear to nv
mouth that may whisper, for none must
hear us. Two days before the boats begin
to be got ready, 60 you to the seaside Of the
isle and lie in q thicKet. We shall choose
that place beforehand, you and 1; and hide
food and every night shall come near bv
there singing. So when q night comes,
and you do not hear me. you shall know
We are clean gone. and you may come
forth again in safety"
The soul of Keola died within him.
"What is this2" he cried. II cannot
live among devils. / will not be left be-
hind upon this isle. l am dying to
leave it."
"You will never leave it alive, my poor
Keola," said the girl; "for, to tell you the
truth, my people are eaters of men; but
this they keep secret. And the reason
they will kill you before we leave is be-
cause in our own island ships come, and
Donat- kimaran comes and talks from the
French, and there 10 white trader there
in house with Q veranda and catechist.
Oh, that is . fine place, indeed The
trader has barrels filed with -four, and q
French warship once came in the lagoon
and gave everybody wine and biscuit.
All, my DOOR Keola, wish l could take
you there, for great IS my love to you, and
it is the finest place in the seas except
Papeste"
So now Keola was the most terrified