The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-05-21

erted. The pleasant way he had OF
exDounding the Scriptures to me, quot
ing several passages of Holy writ "a
show me the error Of my ways, made
me feel very much like Agruppa before
the APOSTLE Paul. I could say as he
l6f5. Almost thou persuadest me to be
q Christian. - I did not tell him so, how
ever. no matter how much I may have
felt like doing so.
There we had pleasant weather. the
! teacher Of the island came on board
and a number of canoes alongside.
One Of our visitors was a half-caste
Of the Sandwich Islands. He has lived
in that group for a number of years.
| IS married and has q family. His old
! est boy was on board with US. He had
been a year at the training school on
Kusaie and had just returned TO his
family. His little daughter goes to the
| girls training school We took her on
board when We left the next day.
The Hawaiian referred to had the
misfortune OF losing his right hand
while fishing with giant powder This
has prevented him from doing much
work. He is fine blacksmith. Owing
TO the misfortune. he wants to get
back home once more and to bring his
family with him I told him I would
see what could be done for him when
! got back again in Honolulu
After dinner on the day of our ar
rival. DR.. Rife. Miss Palmer, the school
girls and boys went ashore to see the
people. Found everything satisfactory
there and the good work going trium-
phantly onward.
Next day, AIS p. m. November 18th.
20 under weigh for Namuick: passed
0~t of the lagoon, 4:4O. into the open
sea. As We wanted 20 get 10 the next
place bright and early the next morn
ing. We sailed and steamed: II O'Clock
that night stopped engines: $3.50 a. m.
raised land miles away; started en-
gines again: soon we were running
along the coast for the Mission sta
ton. This was one of the islands
where We had TO lay off and on. as
there is no entrance into the lagoon. |
When abreast of the station. lowered |
boat. DR.. Rife. Miss Palmer. with |
their crowd, went ashore as usual TO
see the people. This is the only island |
in the group from which no canoes
came alongside
We were in luck on account of hav-
ing such fine weather The people |
ashore told US that it was the first fine |
day they had seen for two or three
weeks. If we had arrived there the day
before, We could not have landed
Found the work here as at Ebon. |
progressing. We left few passengers
whom we had brought from the other |
islands. TO helm the good work.
els p. m.-Boat returned with Dr. |
Rife. Miss Palmer and the rest Of them. |
We then braced forward, made all sails |
bus the royal and set out for Jaluit, |
our last port in this group.
Since the Germans have taken these |
islands, they have made imperative |
that vessels shall enter and clear from |
Jaluit. This makes il very inconveni- |
enr as far as the Morning Star is con
cerEed. for when she leaves Kusaie TO /
20 through the Marshall groups with |
The training school girls and boys on
hoard TO see their relations. she will /
have TO pass Namiuch and Ebon to 90 |
20 Jaluit: wereas. If she could call at /
those two places on her way there. il |
would shorten her voyage considera-
bly, She would then proceed on her
rounds Dy way of Mile and go the |
whole circuit with wind and current in |
her favor. Ujae then being the last
island TO visit She could make a bee
line for Jajuit. with 3 leading wind in
her favor.
But as il is now. she leaves Ujae for
Nameneh, then Ebon: after that she
will have TO beat up 10 Jaluit against q
strong head wind. accompanied with |
bad weather. The distance is not much |
between the islands, but the Star is not
a very fast boat. especially II there is |
any beating to windward on the pro- |
gram.
Her eating-to-windward qualities |
puts one in mind of q hog going to war. |
-o-wit. ''broadside 10 leeward.''
Wen. we were quite fortunate this |
trip in making the run from Namerich |
TO Taluit in three DAYS. over a distance 1
of Is or so miles, Came 10 an anchor /
of Imroig. Jeremiahs station Jere-
miah ii viii be remembered. is one Of I
The Oldest teachers in the group We |
stopped there that night Next morn I
ing. the 18th. started down for Jaluit 1
station with the intention of getting /
our clearance and of getting away that |
same day for Kusaie.- Judge then. |
our surprise when we were told by the 4
Commissioner that, as il was q day ap- |
pointed by the German Emperor for |
thanksgiving. no business could be /
transacted until the next day.
We found at anchor there one Ger |
man man-of-war. two merchant barks /.
one brig and one schooner. One of the +!
barks left that day with a fun load OF 1
copra.
Next day. 18th. we weighed anchor /
FOR Kusaie. Notwithstanding il looked
as though we were to ENCOUNTER bois-
ferrous weather. It did certainly look
gloomy. Just as the anchor was
weighed. one of those squalls. which
the Marshall Islands are noted for,
overlook us. II did not discomfort the
captain one iota We kept on, steam
ing towards the south passage, al
though one could not see further than
the end of the jib-boom.
When we consider that these lagoons
are full of shoals. II was risky to .
certain extent. but the captain knew
what he was about. He had been there
so often that he knew his bearings.
He had that confidence in his own
ability that he could. if necessary, go
out of the lagoon in the night, and I,
myself. believe he could
I would like to say right here that