The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-06-11
GILBERT ISLANDS
Voyage Of the Missionary
Packet.
HARRY SWIKT0N TELLS STORY
Children and Teachers
Returning Home.
Changes In MinIsters-Difficulty in
Supplies-Some of the
Steamers Cargo.
HARRY SWINTON TELLS STORY

Harry Swint0n has finished his story
Of The. cruise Of the missionary packet
Morning star among the Islands Of
1he Marshall group. and in this morn
5-Es Advertiser begins the cruise
among the Gilbert Islands. which will
no doubt prove OF even greater inter-
est than the former The story is to be
wholly relied upon as correct for Mr..
Swiut0u did not trust TO his memory in
relating the events which .transpired,
and the things he saw, but jotted them
down on the spot Here Is the begin
uiuE OF what Mr.. Swinton has TO say
about The Gilbert Islands:
Af-e- living in Kusaie 10 days from
Cur Marshall Island trip. in order to
gel the ship ready for the Gilbert
Group we weighed anchor the Sd of
December for Butaritari-our first
purr-With so natives and II foreigners
as passengers.
Most OF the native passengers were
school girls and boys who went 10
visit their relations. The balance were
lav teachers. some 10 be landed where
teachers were required. Two couples
were bound for Barnum Island, TO be
letr there as teacher or pastor-in fact,
b1-h
The foreigners composed the prin-
cipals o. the Gilbert Kusaie Mission
Station and assistants: Mr. Channon.
wife and family. eight all told; Miss
Wilson who Is head OF the Girls
School Miss Foss. who helps Mr..
CharnCu- NJ Walkup. who goes to
visit and pay his Gilbert Island pas
IC-s and teachers. Counting the ships
company l4- we had on board S.
souls an told. One can well imagine
thar there was not much room 10 spare
when 81 is considered that the natives
EE5 lr- of trash which they took
along 20 give away 10 their friends.
In The first place. they had the quar-
Ter Geek almost completely covered
with fGub0os and canoes. while both
sides of -he aIlev-ways in the tween
decks were covered with bananas hung
u7 along the rails. The tween decks
ar- were reserved on one side for
s7arr5rE quarters for those who could
nor find q sleeping place anywhere
else on the s-arb0a-d side. the captain
had ha5lt a room for the steward, as
there was no space for him in the
cabin
Forward Of that one would see boxes
cf plants and other trash. too uumer-
cus 10 mention lying around. There
was forward in the tween decks two
s-eHraEe compartments. one for mar
med couples. the other for school boys
The s-aee for the latter was made
Cua-e hence The reserved place in the
tween decks. aft was calculated for
those who could not find accommOda-
-ior rhe-e
In these storage compartments were
piled trunks and baggage; that is 10
say. all that could be put there. The
rest was put in the main hatch. In
-ha- place was bundled all the freight
each ere brought with him. There
were cutie a number Of boxes Of stone
from KUsaie which were taken TO be
given friends 10 make linus as there
s no hard stone in the Gilberts for
Iha- purpose.
on -he hatch forward. were piled
move boxes Of plants. There was just
g ---7e srace forward OF the stewards
room -c take in and put ont freight.
Forward OF the cabin was the girls
room with the door leading into the
cabin
This. then. was our condition when
we ser san for the Gilbert Islands. The
first few DAYS ont most Of our passen-
gers u.e-e kept busy having their re-
srec-s TO old Neptune. That. Of course.
was IL he expected. They made up for
lost time however. when they found
-hai- sea LEGS Mrs. Chann0n was the
only one WHO could not get over her
sea sickness. the least motion OF the
shlr at sea WIS enough 10 upset her.
after a -e5ious passage Of l6 days,
Win adverse winds an the way, we
fua-lv anchored In Butaritsri.
Tr WIS our Intention To make Maxim
f-s- but owing te bad weather. we
gave u0 the ices We had already
sighed the place TO win6ward OF us.
we then put or for Butargari as above
s-s-e5.
There we fonn6 the people an well.
WIN the exception at Mrs Mitchell.
and cuiue 10 her an health. NTr. Mitch
ell ard Family came up TO Honolulu
with ms
Cd vas SATURDAY. The 18th OF Deem
le-. when we Oct 50 anchor In B0tsri-
tra. -hc next 6sv bo1uc sunday. we
ST went ashore 70 cburobs that Is 20
Sav sU ne school cirlS ana hoyS
1-r n-HScn. Mt. Chsnnon. Miss FoSS,
Miss n-nsor ar6 uvself on the way
tc the shore s. Scas1 overlook MS. and
a. IRE erne We cct 10 the stone wharf
tseen7sg uEs sas6inc p-et. They an
aocEes move IKE crowned rats than
srse 5rc e1se Myself s06 two or
s1-ee oAa-s nsf the Eoo& fortune 10
feee clSRErs o1s rcvorthelcSS We
were r-sl alSa
Ar3rfnc aSh0rc. most ~ them con,
rrsef rs reUw d the ship, which
sase Esf- ascor ostius ND the lunch they
hrE tsRon SShore for their &inner,
SINE asrht or rrere 90 rs weSthec0d Il
or. stsea5e3 Ssvi1e service. led by the