The Arizona sentinel., 1896-02-22
YUMA, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY p, Is
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 boat and were greeted with cheers.
 To get ashcre we had to climb dowr
 q swinging ladder over the ships side into boat, both bobhing about and i'll opposite directions, which 3dded tA" e0;~0 f d1u- t1 the expedition
 On landing we j9uuJ 74 the shoI. two or three hundred Iepers samc : Of thrm were but slightly affected by the disease, and some c disGglred g.. 10 hardly resemble human beings. The disease seems to attack the ex- tremities first. Usually it first ap pears in the lobes ot the ears, and they begin to hang as if there was a heavy weight in each. Then it ap- pears in the face in great Jumps, and the cheeks swell. The fingers lose all feeling and wither away or drop off, until the hand is fingerless and the foot tOeless. Often the head is ear less and noseless. The unfortunate often loses his eyesight, the balls en- tirely disappearing. It may take years for the disease to accomplish it's deadly work, but there is no hope for the victim when once it seizes him.
 And yet it is not uncommon to see a leper on horseback ealloping over the settlement, so maimed that one cannot understands how he holds the feins. Their ears often become so elongated that they interfere with their riding A doctor who was for three years in the settlement, said;
 "I have often had them come to me and say: "Doctor, won't you cnt my ears off; they are getting in my way" :"
 There Is q house set apart for visi- tors which no leper is permitted to enter. We went to this house to wait for the horses which were to convey us across the island to the Boys Home. The lepers, to the number of several hundred, came to the fence and gazed at us so longing ly, SO fondly, as to almost melt one to tears. To them we were superior be- ings, loved friends, from whom they were forever separated.
 Senator Waterhouse, who possesses a world of moral courage and heart as tender as wOman's, was every Where among them, not hesitating to grasp the hngerless hand, and speak words of encouragement.
 "How are you, old boy? How are you to-day, my friend? Come, cheer up and be happy. You are happier here than you could be anywhere else," he said a hundred times that day.
 To which the natives for most of the lepers are natives) usually an sWcred:
 "Pilaki, PiIaki," with a sad shake of the head.
 "PiLGki'' means grief, sorrow, and all that goes to weigh down the heart. heasd the awful word a thousand times that day, heard it so much that it still rings in my ears, while the sadly disfgured faces 1 met will, l fear, never fade from my memory. They have haunted me in my deams ever since l left Molokai. Some of their faces were so horribly disfgured as 10 have no resemblance to hu- manity. No hideous mask has ever been made to equal what leprosy has done fps the human face. observed a boy about ten years of age whose eyela>hes and eyebrows had quite fallen out. His eyehds were so para lyzed that he could raise them only the fractional part of an inch, and he had to hold his head back in order to see. MT. Hutchings, the assistant and sheriff of the settlement, is one on whom the disease seems to have exhausted itself by the destruction of his fingers These are gone and his hands healed, but his under lip is par@lyzed so that,. when he speaks, it falls down, and when he has finished a sentenc: he pushes it back with his tingerlesS hand, and holds it in place with lis upper lip.
 Marvellous Results.