The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-05-08

were OOllSCO W I'LL hCA as
reimoku told me that he had kindly
received the unfortunate Aleu-
tians and Russians, as he did not
wish to return evil for evil. Even
Scheffer had been permitted to go
on board of ship from the United
States, which few days before our
arrival had sailed for Canton.
"Kareimoku had scarcely finished
his account when Mr.. Tarakanoff,
agent of the Russian-American
Company, came on board with
several of the company's officers.
Tarakanof, who, according to Bar
| anoff's orders, had been placed en-
tirely under Shelters command,
expressed his disapprobation of the
proceedings in Atooi, through which
they had all been placed in danger
of their lives, and he considered it a
great miracle that, in their fight
from Atooi, only three Aleutians
had been shot, as Tamary (Kau-
mualii), who regarded them as his
bitterest enemies, might easily have
killed many more.
"He also mentioned their danger
Gus voyage hither, and was now,
with his people, in the most miser-
able situation, as, of course, they
could not have provisions without
paying for them.
Fortunately / had laid in such
provision of stock-fsh in Unalaska
as enabled me to send these poor
creatures provisions for a month.
Tarakanoff, who seemed to me to
be very sensible man, had con-
Guided a contract with Mr.. Hebet
Captain Ebbetts), the owner of
two ships lying here, by which he
bound himself to maintain and
clothe the Aleutians a whole year
on condition that he should bring
them to California, where they
should employ themselves in catch
ing sea-otters on the islands there.
After the expiration of this year,
Hebet is to bring them to Sitka,
and to give the company half of
the skins obtained"
Speaking of the new heiau at
Honolulu, Capt. Kotzebue says
"This moral was very quickly
erected near Hanarura, because the
natives had been obliged to destroy
the old one, which had been pro-
famed by the entrance of DR..
Scheffer's people. The fury of the
natives at that time was without
bounds, and Scheffer's men would
certainly have lost their lives if it
had not been for the interposition
of Young" This must have been
after their return from Kauai.
THE SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF BARA-
NoFF AND sCHEFFER.
DIR. Scheffer, as we have seen,
after making his escape from Oahu,
proceeded to Canton and thence to
st. Petersburg, where he presented
the memorial to the Minister of the
Interior, which is mentioned above
by Jikmeneff.
He left Russia in disgrace, but !
soon turned up again in Brazil,
where he managed to ingratiate
himself with Don Pedro L.. who
conferred upon him the high
title of Count Won Frank
enthal, and sent him with COM
mission to Germany to recruit men
for his body-guard.
DIR. Scheffer died peacefully in
Germany at very advanced age. |
AS for Baranoff, the old autocrat |
of Russian America, after nearly |
thirty years of arduous service, he
was relieved at his own request,
in January, 1918, by Capt. Hage-
meister, who had been sent out
with a commission from the di-
rectors.
The property which he, turned
over in Sitka alone was worth two
and a half millions of roubles
q In all the complicated accounts
Of this vast business" says Bara-
noff, the new commissioner failed
to find q single discrepancy. The
cash accounts, involving millions,
were in perfect order"
The task of transferring the pro-
perty and accounts of the company
occupied many months.
1t seems, the weather beaten old
pioneer at one time had thought of
sailing to the Sandwich Islands, to
end his days at the court of King
with whom he was
On friendly terms. But finally he
decided to return to his native
land, where his advice would be of
great service to the company.
Accordingly he embarked on the
Kutusof" for Kronstadt, but his
health failed rapidly on the voyage,
and in the straits of Sunda, on the
18th of April, 1919, he breathed his
last.