Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-09-09
DISTINGUISHED TRAVELLER.
Continued from 1St Page.

o'clock / was on board the vessel"
At the .Marquesas he found
much to interest him, including
idols of most grotesque conception.
Leprosy is devastating the popula.
ton. "One generation more, no
Msrquesans," was his contentious
judgment. He watched the pearl
divers at work there and brought
away a fine collection OF pictures
of the performances. Baskets are
lowered with lines, into which the
divers load the pearl shells as
they snatch them from the bot
tom. He had been told that the
divers descended to a depth Of
twenty fathoms, but ascertained
as the truth that they did not
go down more than eight
or nine fathoms. Also,
while they were reputed to stay
under water for three minutes, on
timing them be proved that two
minutes was the maximum time
and even that rarely achieved.
The diver springs from the boat
feet first and, after descending
about once or twice his height,
gracefully describes parabola
head foremost as he propels him
self to the bottom. Captain D.
Albertis tells the interesting fact
that the device of pane Of glass
fixed in the bottom of a box is
used to survey the depths from
above. The box is submerged and
objects beneath can be deserted
through the glass without being
obscured by refraction. 1t is an
especially interesting fact to be
related of the Marquesas Islands,
when it is only lately that Amer
lean papers have mentioned a
similar device attributed to the
invention of an Investigator in
Newfoundland waters, who fixes
the glass in the bottom of his boat
and through it makes notes of my
riads of fish far beneath the sur
face, 4.
Captain D'Albertis takes a great
interest in Easter Island, with its
remains of ancient civilization.
He would have visited the island
on this occasion, but his "oppor-
tunity" did not come to the scratch.
The captain has in his possession,
however, photographs of the fig
ures of deities and, maybe, human
chiefs, and of the inscriptions on
the monuments and rocks OF East
er Island, besides copy on @
large scale in ink of a long in
scription. A popularity of thu
Easter Island writing is that i
alternates between right to lef
and left to right. There are an
cient monuments at Ponape IL
the Caroline Islands and in the
Friendly Islands, but no writings
anywhere in the Pacific islands
except in Easter Island. Captain
D'Albertis sees in these remaini
evidences of communication be
tween the Americans and the Poly
nesians.
Hundreds of photographs ant
sketches are among the trophie
being carried home by Captain
D'Albertis from the South Pacific
He has pictures of the roya
family of Tahiti, showing remark
ably intelligent and comedy faces
and of the chiefs of other group
including King Malietoa of So
. moa; also of Robert Louis Stever
son and his interesting househol
: at Vailima, and of scenery til
most picturesque imaginable i
various groups. One curiosit
noted by him, of which he ha
drawings, consists of the bambo
navigating charts of the islands
shells fastened to the functions ,
the sticks showing the landin
places. Samples OF these char
are in the Bishop Museum her
In South Africa the captai
visited the battle field of Door
korp, where Jameson's forces wei
SO disastrously routed by til
Beers. His visit was few day
e after the fight. Krugersdorf, thu
at first gave its name to the battl
is the nearest railway STATIC
. Doornkorp is ten miles fro
johannesburg. While maxim
pictures of the graves and 9th,
scenes on the spot, the captai
2 saw an immense cloud of smol
rise nine miles away, while Il