The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-24

VI r.
ish army looking for young men Vho
would like to take a fine sea voyage IA !
Cape Town and return and get paid fof-
it to boot, the boys in my section fs irly
fell over each other to get the pie ces
There were 165 applications ahead az
me, but I was picked out, with sixty |
four others who were chosen. The MIL
itary man pictured the trip as a sort
of excursion. All we would have tc do.
he said, would be to feed d few mules
twice a day on the way over. He
would pay us SIS for the trip, and then
he told of the beautiful voyage, with
birds flying and porpoises jumping ana
all that sort of thing.
I'VE went to New Orleans and ship
ped on board the Carinthia, where we
found contract which said nothing
about a return trip. The captain htllt-
ed, however, that that would be ali
right He would see to it that we got
back. On May IL, the Carinthia, Cap
tain Campbell, sailed with 1,45O mules
on board. On the 18th, we ran into The
coast of Hayti.''
Pratt told of the efforts to save the
ship and continued:
When they gave us UP they had
listed Us to over 45 degrees. Nobody
could walk on deck except with life
lines, and the mules were tumbleo
down in heaps. We had to sleep on
this slanting deck after tying ourselves
SO we would not slip down into the
scuppers. The mules We're dying by
dozens and the stencil was something
awful. The sailors refused to work and
the cattlemen had to go among the ter
rified animals and haul out the dead
ones. In two days we threw overheard
200 dead mules.
THE Wasp returned on the 9th, hat
her captain refused to take us of, as
he thought the horrible scene might
have bred yellow fever germs. we
finally got the natives to come OUT in
boats and We began throwing the live
stock overheard, which they would
guide to the shore. We finished the job
on the 18th, having lost 500 mules by
drowning. We cattlemen were then
sent ashore, but our filthy condition
from handling dead mules, made the
authorities herd US out in an open
space surrounded by soldiers for a time,
as it was thought we must surely breed
yellow fever. On the 31st the sixty FIVE
of us were put into three small sloons
and sent to Aux Cages. Then we were
herded in a vacant house and SLEPT IN
the bare floor, which was covered With
yermin.''
The men complain that the British
and American consuls neglected them,
but finally the latter got them steerag &c
passage to the United States.
SHIPPING NOTES.
The Edward May is being painted
Steamer Mokolii is due from Kama
pail today.
The Mauna Loa sails this morning fol
Hawaii and Maui Ports.
The Noeau is expected from Hama
kua today or tomorrow.
American schooner Reporter is now
locked at the new Railroad wharf
The steamer Kauai sailed at o'clocl
last evening for Eleele, Makaweli anS
. Waimea.
Hawaiian Navigation Company
, schooner Surprise is due today from
Kona and Maui ports.
The steamer Kauai will sail at
O'Clock this afternoon for ports on tn
leeward side of Kauai.
t The Inter-Island steamer Mauna Lot
! will sail at 10 a. m. today for Lahaina
, Maalaea, Kona and Kau.
. The American schooner William Bow
: den left for the Sound yesterday in bal
: last after a cargo of lumber.
: Ship j. B. Brown has moved into til
= quarters vacated by the George Curtis
q which sailed for San Francisco Wed
d lnesday.
The Dechmont has replaced the Sc
e King at the Fort street wharf. Th
s latter vessel has been hauled to IN
Wilder wharf.
S Transport Siam is looked for by snip
f ping men at any time. Just why ia
. Siam should make Honolulu a port c
: call enroute for China is not appasen
. A Newcastle four-masted schoone
. sailing northward, was sighted %
/ Koko Head yesterday morning, aoou
l. fifteen miles off coast. She was prot
d ably coal laden.
The German vessel Philadelphia wa
e ballasted under the direction of REX
e Hitchcock yesterday. He secured Ii
contract for similar work on the AlohI
which was lying at the Oceanic DOCK
: "Rex' Hitchcock is hurrying Il
. w9fk of ballasting the schooner Aloh
'e Which is scheduled to sail for Laysa
Hsland, where a cargo Of guano will
le taken aboard for H. Hackfeld & CO
s. Honolulu.
s. The refrigerator ship is now regard,
ar as an essential to every well equippg
navy. During the last year seven
SO these vessels have been fitted ouf f
- the United States, Great Britain, Bu
. STA and Japan.
% Colonel Rubin is having two lart
coal scows built for the Quarterna
a ter's Department. They are similar
ID those is use by the Navy Departne en-
ct and are being constructed with especi
r.. care as to durability.
es The bark Albert went on the MARI
a railways for repairs. Now that the co
of taking boats on the railroad n
, been reduced, it is expected there V
u be a great deal more business, as it
W almost as cheap to get ships repair
of here as it is in San Francisco.
x SAN FRANCISCO, August 1O.-T
ne training ship Adams, now at Mare !
land, will leave in a few days for Il
WI will
~ given their first sea voyage. Nam
&C the boys who were on the last crui
I'D of the Adams may see service with t
r Chinese squadron.
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VESSELS EXPECTED.