The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-08
THIS WASALIFE STRUGGLE
The Wonderful Swimming Feat Of an
HaWaiil Maid.

water Tor Instance OF Twenty five
Miles Help Came to Her at Last.
An Interesting Incident of Life in
the Southern Seas.
From the san Francisco Examiner.
On pleasant morning in summer some
fifteen years ago little schooner slipped
her mornings at Laupahoehoe. Hawaii
and started on her voyage to Honolulu.
so small was thelittle craft that her
only crew was one slender girl. the dauph-
ter of the captain. She had been sailing
with her father since she was SO small
that he had TO place a box for her to
stand on when he wished her to hold the
wheel while he handled the sails, if by
any chance any change of course was nee
essary.
On the morning of which I write Kalii
was about 10, a tall, slender girl, whose
brown cheek was round and ruddy with
the rich blood which leaped through her
veins, for halii having been reared in
the open air, most of the time on the wide
ocean, was strong and healthy and well
able to do the work required of her on the
schooner. When they left Laupahoehoe
the sun shOne brilliantly, but old Kala-
manu- shook his head aud looked gravely
toward a bank Of black clouds which
was piled up high above the top of lofty
Mauna LOa, kalih cared little for her
fathers misgiVings. She was anxious TO
get away, for the next day was a holt
day, and she wished to reach HonGulu
Sn time to enjoy herself with her com
p3niOns.
While she stood holding the wheel and
keeping the little craft on its course, she
was dreaming of the luau to which she
had been hidden, and thinking of the
bright leis she would weave in her dusky
hair and hang around her dimpled shout
ders. Her holoku would be as pretty as
any there, and she knew that at least one
pair of eyes would see that leis and dress
were both worn by beautiful girl Dream
ing thus. she did not notice the change
which was coming over the sky-did not
see the white caps, which showed that
the wind was rising swiftly and would
soon sweep across the wide channel with
resistess force
The pleasant islands of the southern
sea are not always serene and placid.
Sometimes the lxOna comes bowling and
shriekiug down the dark canyons and
through the narrow gorges, shifting
everything before 1t to the ground. When
it comes God help the hapless craft which
is in its road. God only can help, for
the blows which the wind and waves
deal upon the tossing, writing vessel are
uCdNN enough 70 uElAG IL DOQlN DtutdUu
the waters. kalamanu had neither hOl-
ol1u nor les to dream Of so he had seen
the kona coming and had been prepared
70 meet it TO the best of his ability He
had given the giI} his orders in -4Juick
sharp tones, and she had mechanically
Oheyed them, but without realizing what
the change Of course meant Suddenly
she was awakened, and roughly from her
dreams. wall of white water rose high
above the side of the vessel and dashed
down upon the deck, drenching the girl
to the skin.
With the shock she came back to the
present. and, looking around saw that
what but a short time before was a
smooth, placid stretch of blue water was
now foaming, raging sea, daShlng its
waves high above the low rail Of the
schooner. The wind whistled and hOwled
around her cars. She could scarcely hear
her father as he shouted his orders 10 her
from a few feet distant. Filled with ter
ror, she kept the vessel on its course, but
only by the eNertion of her whole
strength Half an hour before the
schooner had glided along so smoothly
that she could have carried trimming
cup across the deck without spilling a
drop Now it was tossing in a regnlar
witch's dance over the waves, and she
could hardly keep her feet even by hang
ing to the wheel.
Louder ana louder roared the Winu, ana
higher yet climbed the waves. Inc sun
sun shone brightly above her head seem
ing TO make me scene more lrlghtlul IMAM
IL would have appeared beneath cloudy
SKY. a kona may DIoW Tor Gays ana IL
may pass IN an hour- Inelf only nope
was that this one had arisen so suddenly
mat IL would suosIde as quickly
halamanu watched tne oIacK cIoud
when hau hrsl gwen nun " var. %
coming Irouoie' ana saw, 70 ms 10Y Cndt
IL was passing away LNIuent!S tue ho ,I1
MoIlo hoV laSC many houIs, ouo Mouau etIo
Io'o Ncs'G pui.u ,ol S1II'S vi. d l
sva, staiu tiAS terIlQ } t; pi'is anu
twisting even Tor IhaI SNORT Illle
9he was new ana reasonaoI strong,
ou. uhe ploWS sue hau SuIIoleu .i illls
IN h"Ne eSlIoNSu a SItol.SS No1 Ssii
ne Vo .l oniS nopG ioI Dlie "''It oi
On W me ran uHIll me "liiH zen, ne la 10
uone az tnaU was l,oSsIole " Sa We i -
aCnSei mus 10 u.[ loSu, "a -: " NV! tlu
NHo surrey SlhflHE' Ine "d l,'5 "iu ~ not
Ilse so hlgh a9oNe ms Acau; ! nc NoISy
was over ana ne turned ms heau 10 peak
10 Inc RirI, VINO sun ciu.lg 70 tne "neGI
neh came crash. AN t .S M Tt.iS
~ oIoktn over Uue sveII'y H.ieI .lIe l f,
Ho'u ana the schooner was SINKING lIoLl
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