Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-03-14
THE POPULATION
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Is the Hawaiian Z Doomed Race !?
PRESENT AND FUTURE PROSPECTS.
tsss Holomuq, Feb. 21 and 20. Mar. and I2)

However, all the collateral evidence proves that emgra-
ton has existed all times. and that tho Hawaiian
for adventures has been modern years the same as
these periods recorded in their oral radl
tons when they left in large bodies for other regions of
Pacific and the last instance Of which the disastrous
expedition Of Boki 1929 with whom lost 19 OF the
best Of the country may be here allowed to say as
DEPRESSION, that Boki turbulent hgh-chief of Oahu,
who made Governor of the Island by the regent kaahu
He squandered his account the treasures of
piled up for the of the government plotted
against the King and frsv growing ashamed of lIs ia
lessness determined Ia reform and make up for las
hezzement Fer that purpose he fitted ont two schooner
The kanshsmeha and the Beckett Tor expedition 10
the New Hebdes where sandawood had then recently
been discovered He sailed December 3 1929 arrived al
Rotumah from whence he departed for Erromango leav
ing the Beckett join him later at the island
which however he reached. be must have been
caught cyclone which shpwrecked him the reef OF
district called Iva. Sava Samoa, fact not gener
ally known here He and his companions landed safely
But probably disguised the failure of his scheme which
put end his ambitious dreams in Oahu, he made mp
his mind to take allegiance Malietoa and settle in
Samoa where many of his descendants still bear his
The two canons of Russian make which armed his ship
were still in the principal village of Iva, at the time OF tue
Hawaiian Embassy to Samoa uSS6) The Beckett left
Erromango after suffering dreadfuly from the deadly
climate and did manage crawl back to Honolulu
floating hospital, only OF
of whom white people who behaved shamefuly to
the poor natives.
But to return subject most of the modern emgra
ton has been through the readiness of the aborgnes to-
Join any ship willing to engage their This began
with the last of the past century kaehua being
taken to Boston in 1872. by captain Ingraham Other
Hawaiian sailors thus carried to New England about 1Se
or 1909 were certainly the immediate OF the American
Missionaries being sent here instead of those OF the London
! vho ed i'm he Pacific.
Their pleasant cheerful temperament their intelligence
ready adaptation to and willingness for work
soon made Hawaiian sailors favortes with navgaors and
with the growth of the whaling business they finally
exported regularly every year, in large numbers Old
residents of Honolulu still remember the times when
500 wbaers moored in the harbor alone OF
which had several Hawaiian sailors board many having
nearly their whole of Hawaans For quite while,
between and thousand Hawaians all men in the prime
of life used to go off yearly great many of which says
Jarvis never returned Mortality among them must have
been fearful from the hardshps of that kind of navigation
and the trying effects of changes from tropical to glacial
climates Those who did back, the holokshki as
thew were termed by their reports and examples of foreign
habits did certainly for the immediate and wonder
fully rapid cvsation of the of the Nation than the
lessons and hymns of the missionaries at least
fully helped the installation Of their teachings
For many years laws regulated the recruiting of these
sailors bat many abuses committed against them,
so many kidnapped and failed to be returned
according their shipping agreements, that Legislation
was fnallv enacted which embodied in 1852 IN the
Hawaiian Penal Code. by witch no Hawsiisn could De
shipped without the permission of the Government and
Bond Of $500 with security subscribed order 10 insure
their return But when these wise dispositions we've N
fri sorceora eas. supposed ba enfcres many we're
recrnsd canlestsneiv and lgs nRber 81 yoaths trod
If msoaAry Schools kept ruanin avsg they d. esen
to-day SHIPS cruising along the COASTS no onciai co1t
II whom could rs be undertaken Several OF present
most nssieoat and best educated Natives sefnade
men who thus ran away violation Of the shippngsSs,
and had the good luck be able 10 return when others
could not But many among these legally shipped
also failed return BY being easily induced 70 settle IN
other eongenal countries and far back as lsii Jarvis
mentions The existence OF s,nsn colonies OF Hawaiian
settlers amounting to thousand IN Tahiti, orsgon
Peru ETC. with unknown foatng numbers IN Europe and
America number Of them took part IN the American
war and served honor That OF these sers sFe
eventually taken with desire 10 return to their native land
i asssste by the necessity which has been found TO keep
vesr after year in the Haxaiisn Budget special apPsO
prasion for the return Of INDECENT Hawaiians bot ior
few Who did obtain such help how many died lar away
resreng the sweet country they had abandoaed anu when
their desersion had contributed to depopuzts
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