The Hawaiian gazette., 1896-04-28

the story now republished gives details
which the Professor had not at hand
when he published his history. From
| this il appears that the captain in
charge of the Santa Rosa when she ar
rived here was not Captain Turner. A
! Captain Turner had fitted out the ship
at the River Plate, on behalf of the
patriot government of Argentine, and
had sailed her around the Horn to prey
upon the Spanish colonies of the West
coast. His men mutinied and put him
and most of his officers ashore at Val
paraiso, man named Mcdonald taking
command.
They ran up the coast, destroying
Spanish commerce. Eventually, after
plundering many Spanish towns, rob-
bling, and burning churches, they de-
serted some forty of their comrades,
and under Mcdonald, who assumed the
name of Turner, they sailed for these
Isalnds, which they reached in May of
1918. Here they sold their vessel to
Kamehameha l. for 5000 piculs of san
dial wood. Peter Corney seems to have
got the full story from one of their
number. and informed Kamehameha
of their character The latter distrib-
uted the pirates among his chiefs,
making each one answerable for them.
The party deserted by their comrades
arrived here in a small brig under the
command of one Griffiths. Mcdonald
made his escape on a whale ship, but
the rest remained on the Islands. In
September the Argentina, a government
ship, arrived in chase of the Grant
Santa Rosa, which was given up by
Kamehameha, together with her crew.
Her commander, Bouchard, pardoned
the crew, with the exception of Grit
fiths, who was shot on Waimea beach,
Kauai, and three others who had es-
capped to Maui and were brought in by
the natives. One of these was con-
demned to death, but reprieved.
Sailing from here, with Mr.. Corney in
charge of the Santa Rosa, they proceed
ed TO California. The complexion of the
two crews were heterogeneous, to say
the least of it On the Santa Rosa,
which was an American built vessel Of
200 tons, mounting eighteen guns, were
100 men, of whom thirty were Ha-
waiians and the rest Americans,
Spaniards, Portuguese, Creoles, negroes,
Manila men, Malays and a few Eng
lishmen." The Argentina had 260 men,
of whom fifty were Hawaiians and the
rest of the variegated character of the
crew of the Santa Rosa. They now be-
gan course of legalized piracy, but it
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of the harried cities saw much differ
ence between the Santa Rosa under
Mcdonald and the Santa Rosa in the
squadron of Captain Bouchard
In the attack upon Monterey it was
an Hawaiian who hauled down the
Spanish eolors. They also sacked and
burned two other towns further south
Mr.. Corney did not make much by his
venture, for on reaching Valparaiso
in June of 1919, he wished to quit the
service of the patriots and applied for
his pay and prize money, which he
could not get unless he took his ship
to Buenos Ayres. He declined doing
this, and leaving his crew of nom
descripts, got passage to England. He
AStuA hOu W INC racine vi Tue UdTh
Columbia, and made several voyages
between British Columbia and the Is
lands, also engaging in the inter-island
trade. In 1886 he died on the Columbia
while on voyage to take responsible
position in the Hudson Bay Company's
service. His wife and family elected to
remain on the Islands. His son died
several years ago. His two daughters
still reside here.