The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-05
PILOT WAS
DISCREET.
Didn't Go Aboard the
China.
PLAGUE IS limited At
Two Days Late on Account Of
Sickness MISUNDERSTANDING
island Found.

The Pacific Mail Steamship China ar
rived off port from the Orient about |
10: 80 o'clock last night. The pilot, Cap
tain Macauley, went out to her a few
minutes later and arrived alongside
together with the Advertisers char
tered launch. The latest copy of the
Advertiser was thrown aboard giving
them the worlds news and then a con-
versation was opened concerning the
cause of the China's delay. Captain
Seabury himself told the story of the
vessels trouble in a very few words.
The China was two days late in leav-
ing Yokohama. A Chinaman in the
Asiatic steerage was seriously sick and
il was thought that the man was af-
fiicted with a contagious disease.
What was the matter with the fell
low?" asked the newspaperman from
the launch
"Oh! He just had little cold, that
was all" replied the genial captain.
What was he suspected of being
troubled WITH" urged the reporter.
Il tell you he had bad cold and kept
us back two days" said the Captain.
Was it thought to be the plague2"
Il don't know what it was"
Might it have been the plague?"
II suppose it might. / don't know"
Did the doctors say it was the
plague?"
They were undecided what it was"
Pilot Macauley also had a little talk
with Captain Seabury. The snorting of
the gasoline launch drowned the words
as far as the reporter was concerned.
The result of the conversation, how
ever, that Pilot Macauley decided not
i to go aboard the big vessel. Il don
want to go on Quarantine Island for a
month or so,' he said afterwards.
When the pilot boat approached the
China. Captain Seabury gave orders to
anchor. The pilot always goes aboard,
but in this case it was risky business
for the pilot TO undertake until the
local quarantine officer had been
aboard.
Did you have experience with ty-
phoons In the Orient?" called the Ad-
vertiser man. after Captain Seabury
land Captain Macauley were through
talking.
We haven't had anything to do with
ltyphoons," answered Seabury.
we thought that you had been de-
layed by some such cause" beloved
the reporter.
NO, A sick Chinese kept us back
Two udyS
With d bad cold?"
"Yesl A very bad cold"
Have you any missionaries aboard
from Gilman
oh. yes; any quantity of Them
We'll; good night"
Good night
The China lay at anchor last night
in forty fathoms of water, about a mile
and a half outside the entrance TO the
lchannel, and only a few hundred yards
from Seabury's Island.
Don't know what Seabury's Island
is? OF course not. 1t was only dis
covered last night. Captain Seabury
discovered it.
Seaburys Island Z lies something
over two miles from the shore, almost
exactly in the course which vessels
take to approach the entrance to the
harbor. 1t is a pinnacle-shaped islanC
evidently, and nobody ever heard oil
knew of it, before. Captain Seabury
discovered it by sounding with the
lead. He was steaming slowly along
towards an anchorage in forty fathoms
of water, when all of sudden the LEAD
struck at nine fathomS Seabury
realized that he had discovered a rap.
idly growing island, or the crater OF
an eXti1ct volcano. or a higl
lnoll-like bank. He reported the mat.
ter to Captain Macauley, who gives il
to the public through the Advertiser
captain Macauley says this nine faith.
ON bank ought to be rich in fishes. Il
is expected that various parties will in.
vestigate the matter today and endeav
or to ascertain the dimensions ant
exact location of Seabury's Island.