The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-10-11
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have yarn, and they an stick to u like
loi ~ s,n lawyers living under oath They
say that lost iv'forc tho rumpus tegan
what they call blue devil" came down
ON dock right uut ~ the smoke from the
stacks and walked up tu them The whole
bilin u EN- doclarc they saw him, and
that be- said the steamer was going ~ hc
wrecked nnd nearly all ON liunri lost lie
said, ~ they give IT, that them Is just one
honest Cinnamon ON h1ari, and that for
his sake he came to give them warning.
They say that when the blue devil gut
through with his palavor he gave an awful
grimace, walked backward into the smoke
and disappeared And now they arr rs
crazy N March harss, and every mothers
son Of EN- In a blue funk with fear that
the Nam Chow will go to Davy Jones
locker In the next hour
The captain was visihly annoyed, but
he said little lie had sailed too long In
Chinese waters 20 be thrown off his bal
anco by any queer freak un the part Of
lot Of Chinese deck Passengers but his
Scotch blood was too full Of belief In sec
ond sight not to give him u feeling OF relief
when the harbor Of Annoy was reached in
. safety Within week the cargo was dis
charged, and the vessel was ready for her
roturn trip to Singapore. But, though tho
/, Nam Chow usually took several hundred
Chinese deck passengers not one was
booked OF could be induced to go. The
native cooks and walters had also deserted
the ship, leaving their wages with the
purser. The story Of the blue devil had
got around, and not n Chinaman would
put his foot on the steamer for love or
}. money The captain was in quandary,
but shrewdly set to work to find way
out. He consulted the local authorities,
and in few hours he had every Chinese
priest In Annoy down ON the steamer beat
Ing tomtoms, burning joss sticks and rails
{. ing a general hullabaloo to scare of the
- blue devil and exercise his evil influence.
When this was done to the satisfaction Of
the priests, they pronounced the vessel
s. safe, and inside the next "a hours the
- missing members of the crew and the nor
nal passenger list put in an appearance,
and the Nam-Chow sailed. Within is
hours tho propeller shaft broke, pounded
5 a hole In the bottom Of the steamer-it
- was Mt highland of the 400 odd souls
aboard only 80 were saved.
"The Chinese, continued DIR. Bedloe,
"are firm believers I'm the transmigration
e. Of souls. The dogs in the streets may con
tain the spirits of ones departed ancestors,
and they treat all animals with the great
est clrcumspection.
al once went with a party on tiger
L. hunt several days journey in the interior.
- We arrived at last in the tiger country and
made inquiry at n village II there were any
tigers in the neighborhood. The head mag
Al lstrate, shrcwd old Monaghan declared
- In the most positive terms that there were
none nor had there been, he affirmed, in
many years We had been Informed other
wise but could learn nothing and SO pro.
u. ceeded further into the country. We had
proceeded but few miles before runner
came from the village we had just left
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r begged our most humble pardon, but
: would the illustrious and most benevolent
gentlemen be so kind as to return at oncei
He had been mistaken in saying there
were no tigers in the neighborhood. There
was one, and 1t was very bad and most
dangerous one. Just after our departure
It had entered the village seized young
woman and made off with her into the
Jungle. Would we be SO condescending as
to hunt up the tiger and kill himf
1--WE returned, got ON the track Of the
tiger, and with strong force Of beaters
succeeded in killing him after about foul
hours of cautious hunting. We then re
turned to the village, leaving TO our at
PENDANTS the task of skinning the tigei
and bringing In the hide. The old mags
trate could not abase himself enough fol
the falsehood he had told u.s. but his apol-
ogy was the most remarkable feature He
gave us a good meal of curried chicken,
bamboo sprouts, fish and some excellent
tea, and as we ate he told us the following
story:
One cannot be too careful about ami
mails, said he They may be good ami
mails, and ones own parents might have
passed into them. Think how sad it would
be II one should kill IA relative thinking
1t was tigerl This tiger which you killed
today had never done us any harm, only
taking goat or dog once in awhile, and
we thought him good tiger until today
when he seized the daughter of Sung Tsao
We had a bitter experience In this villag,
once which shows the truth of what say
Our village had been guarded for many
years by good tiger. He gave warning
. of his first visit by stopping outside tn,
village and roaring, to give us time to ge
into our houses and out of the way. Their
he came in leisurely, looking around, ant
teizing goat made off. We knew at ono,
be was good tiger and did not attemp
TO drive him away. Once or twice weel
he would come and get "a goat or a dog al
ways roaring before he came and after h,
had gone. He generally came In the day
time, while bad tigers usually come a
night.
In lone night we heard our good tige
roaring fearfully outside the village, bu
he would not come in, staying outside ant
roaring fearfully. We knew that some
thing was wrong, and we went outsid,
and listened. We heard the rushing of
fearful flood in the river and we had bare
ly time to escape to the hills before tn,
food came and washed the village away
Then we knew that our good tiger hat
come to warn us and recognized that h
held the soul of great philanthropist VIII,
had died only few days before the tige
made his first appearance.
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