Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-27
ONE TREE ISLAND.
By JOHN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
copyright, 1890. by John Dloundclle-Bur'
ton
CHAPTER I.

CHAPTER i.
"Matey," he said as he rose and put
his twisted bit Of paper between the
bars of the fire and lit his pipe, THAT
there's good yarn, specially for
kings man what den t sail over eslolar
seas, and don't deny 1t. But this here |
being a rough night, and we all Assem-.
bled comfortable. | thinks as how | can |
tell you one that'll take the wind out of
the sails Of yourn, and this is how it
goes.
Ii was rough night outside. as he
had said. and the old signhoard of the
Ship and Fair Wind, the inn in which
we were all sitting mt Portsmouth, was
Creaking dismally in company with that
Of the signboard of the Kings Head
the head of his present gracious males
~ King George IlI--God bless him
opposite. and we certainly were al.
most comfortable round the parlor fire.
Two marines. kings men," as he had
somewhat contemptuously called them,
and two sailors of the same vessel they
were OIL were drinking a bowl of punch
between them. He who had spoken as
above was drinking hot rum, two or
three other Jack Tars of the trading
service were drinking hot gin and wa.
ter, and all were smoking
alone was neither drinking nor
smoking, for, in truth, | was then
nothing but bcardless, not full grown
boy, who my dear mother-the Lord
rest her soul-would sometimes let sit
in the parlor of the inn and hear the
stories told by the seafarers who used
our house. she being the landlady of
the Ship and Fair Wind. And perhaps
it was because my father had been cast
away and lost in the seas off the Der.
mudas that l listened always with such
very great eagerness to all the stories
that these rovers Of the ocean would
tell aud hoped myself to be one of them
some day, and perhaps also because Of
these very stories my mother allowed
me TO sit in the room and harken to
them, she hoping always-dear, good
mother--that my fathers dreadful fate
and these terrible stories OF shipwrecks
battles by sea and land and awful en-.
counters with savage beasts in the wa.
ter and ON the shore would drive from
out Of my boyish head tine hopes ell.
tertained of myself being, some day, u
great sailor But this they never did.
Eyes" he began. "this is how it
goes. And yon. matey, as n kings man,
listen most attentive. For never, in the
few seas as King George's-his health,
God bless him-vessels sail in, will
You have the prospect Of encountering
such an adventure as this here which
I'm a-going to tell - .. #
The marines and the kings sailors
smiled scofilngly at this remark. or at
least IlthiDG they meant to do 30. and
tue sailors OF the trading vessels assum-
cd 0 very superior look. as much as to
say. We are the real sailors who plow
strange distant seas and visit farof
savage lands. and he himself, q rugged.
weather beaten, scar faced man, who
had lost three fingers Of his left hand,
lit again his pipe. took one more great
yulp Of his rum and then proceeded
with his story. And I. a gaping boy
though now. as l write this down, 9
man and the captain Of my own ship,
trading between the port OF London
and the Indies-was not his least spell
bound listener.
at was more nor 10 years agone,
he now proceeded to tell us, "being, al
I afterward heard, the very year wher
old King George Whose memory
drink-died. that we was a-making fol
Cambodia. in the gulf of Siam. where We
was trading for rice, or was In hopes Of
trading for rice, in exchange for thu
English goods and stuffs we had OF
board. Our vessel. the Loving Friend
was ship about 240 tons burden, an(
We carried II guns and 80 men, besides
the master, his wife and his boy. mi
being the bos'n. We had been on
from the port of Bristol more nor yea
and a half, atrading in and out during
all that time exchanging with ont
country the goods what we took In an
other. bat always keeping together
many bales of English stuff. which W,
purpOsed to exchange at the last por
at which we meant to trade, which wa
the port Of Cambodia. Well. we wal
Amazing for the gulf of Siam. or as
should tell you, shipmates all. for thu
China sea. we having come away from
New Guinea and the Papons, will
whom we'd done u little trading II
beads and colored cloths. We wa
through the Sooloo sea and likewise tn
Mindoro sea. and observing easy the is
land of Palawan a-lying north north
east, and being then in about the lati
tude Of Z degrees Is minutes, and steer
ing away northeast by east, with goo,
800 miles of open sen before us. B.
good fortune for us the rains, that las
In these latitudes from May till August
was over. and the hot air of these her
tegions was tempered by the gentl
wind that was a blowing from the south
wast and "A tuy inc us aa Az IN Dur cQur az