The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1900-10-17


One hundred and forty-two days at
sea between the port of Nantes. France,
and Honolulu. Such is the record of
the French bark Bossuet which anchor
ed off the harbor yesterday morning.
She is bound for Port Townsend, Ore
gon, in ballast. and put into Honolulu
for the purpose of landing Captain
Lortone for treatment at the Queens,
Hospital
DR.. Jobe, of the United States Quar-
antine service, went out to the Bossuet
yesterday morning in the department
launch. He found the Captain suffer-
ing from stomach and bowel trouble
which the master had endured for
more than a month. Weak and barely
able to stand the master greeted the
physician and told him the reason of
his visit to this port. DR.. Jobe made
an examination and found the master
in such a condition that his Immediate
removal to the hospital was imperative.
Through the medium of the captain of
the launch. who speaks French fiuently
the physician and master of the vessel
were able to carry on their conpersa-
tion. Upon landing again DR.. lobe
made known the facts to Comte de Po-
tier the French Consul, in order to
have the latter make arrangements for
bringing the captain ashore for medical
treatment. The rest of the ships Off
GERS and the crew were found to be in
a healthy condition. During Captain
Lortone's sickness he has lived on
nothing but condensed milk, the only
article Of food which he could retain on
his stomach. 1t Is possible the ship will
remain at Honolulu while the master is
undergoing medical treatment at the
hospital and resume her journey when
he is well enough to continue the voy-
age.
Waterfront prophets who saw the
vessel at anchor off Kakaako yesterday
morning were of the opinion that the
entire crew was disabled and others
that she had run on the reef, and con-
siderable speculation as to her fate
was rife. These opinions were dispell-
ed by the Fearless making trip to
the vessel and ascertaining the facts.
The captain was taken to the Queens
Hospital last evening where he will re-
main until he Is recovered.
JUSTIN LEAVES FOR GUAM
The United States Collier Justin sail
ed yesterday afternoon at 8 o'clock for
her destination in the Philippines via
Guam. She took on a large quantity
of coal to enable her to make her way
across the Pacific at the slow maximum
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the day Captain Scott found himself in
a quandary as to his crew. A number
of the firemen and crew went ashore
Monday night and got mixed up in one
or two rows. Herbert was arrested and
jailed for assaulting Japanese woman
at Iwilei and three or four others be-
came so intoxicated that they did not
put in an appearance on the vessel yes
terday. The men were each given a
small amount of money due on their
wages before going ashore on Monday
evening. The only inconvenience the
captain suffers is from the lack of men
to work the little collier. Had the ves-
sci been worked by a regularly enlisted
crew and commanded by officers en-
powered by the Navy Department the
conditions regarding the deserters
would have been entirely different. I'm
der the laws and regulations of the
Navy Department the men would have
been amenable to discipline as desert
ers. exactly as though they were signed
with a battleship.
PASSENGERS BOOKED.
The following passengers are booked
TO leave on the S. S. Coptic for Japan
and China
Mr.. and Mrs. Field, Mr.. and Mrs. G..
d. Fearon and child. F. ". Renk. Mrs.
Hattie Wallace, Chow Yum, wife and
children. T. Murakami.
WHAT DIR. PFLUGER SAW.
The appended. account of the
German warship Moves visit to
the Admiralty Islands, where cannibal-
ism was found to exist, is taken from
the Sydney Herald. DR.. Pfluger, who
is now visiting in Hawaii, was aboard
the vessel and saw the evidences of
cannibalism personally. 1t was also
aboard this vessel that DR.. Koch con-
Quoted his experiments relative to ma
larial treatment, also witnessed by
DR.. Pfiuger. The clipping reads:
Only now and then has a German
warship arrived bringing tidings of
bloodshed amongst the natives of the
South Seas So that yesterday the news
which the Move brought from the Ad-
miralty Islands was especially interest
ing. 1t seems that certain tribe of
natives at the Admiraltys had estab-
~ ed an unsavoury reputation by
In ling periodical raids upon their less
VI IKE neighbors. and now and then
lei fened by success they would
lc gn upon a German trader and
lbt i'm and his native employees.
III ! at of the Move to the Admiral
ty group was made for the purpose of
! Furnishing the blacks of that little
known country, and the plans of Cap
tain Dunbar, the commander of the
Move, and his officers would have sue
ceeded but for the duplicity of a guide.
The Move took two native guides and
interpreters. One of these did not re-
turn to the attacking steam pinnace
from the cruiser. The other did. and he
told how his comrade had been tempted
by the offer of a chieftainship in the
tribe, and had gone with the enemy. So
1t happened that when fba xortxx