The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-04

up on the flood tide, it's weakness be-
came apparent when the captain at
tempted to pass in on the south side of
Howard wharf 8 to the berth that had
been assigned to him. The tide
caught the schooner and swung it
heavily against the stern of the trans
port Sheridan, scraping off the fresh
white paint of the transport and
threatening to carry away the schoon-
er's rigging. Half a dozen painters
who were on the platforms over the
side of the Sheridan near the waters
elge scrambled for their lives to the
deck Of the schooner, splitting their
pots of paint on the deck and causing
the frightened blacks of the crew to
scamper forward. Then Captain Mecca
burst into torrent of anger. The en-
CINE failed to reverse and the tide was
rapidly swinging his vessel around over
/ the sharp propellers of the big trans
port. 1t was a time for quick COM
mands and quick obedience.
Here, you blooming cannibals! You
man-eating niggers! Get into this boat
and hurry a line to that highland that
up" The captains words We're punctu-
ated even more pointedly, and one lus-
ty ex-cannibal with mutilated ears re-
iceived a sudden impetus as he SLOUGH
ed past the energetic skipper. The black
man alighted at the bottom of short
stairway and picked himself up with
out SO much as looking around to see
what had caused his sudden burst of
speed. The big German bosn and the
4. 1Ixy no
lines out, the first mate being down in
the epgine-room, and with the assist
ance Of the launch Sybil the Mascotte
was warped into her berth.
The Mascotte was built by Captain
Matthew Turner at Benicia three years
ago, and was taken to the South Seas
by Captain SWarting, who died soon
after arriving there. Il look the
schooner soon after Captain SWarting 5
death" said Captain .Mecco, and nave
had a lively two years of it. The YES
sci is owned by the German firm of
Hernsheim & Co., which has about thir-
| ty trading stations in the Bismarck
archipelago, taking in the Solomon Isl
ands, some of the Marshall Islands, the
Admiralty Islands, and a portion of
| New Guinea. Matupi, in the New Brit
| ain group, is the headquarters Tcr the
Mascotte. Some of the islands are sllll
savage and missionaries cannot get a
! foothold l think a missionary would
| last about two hours on the Admiralty
or Solomon Islands. On the 18th of last
August l sailed from Matupi for the
Island of Komuli, in the Admiralty
group, to take supplies and get the
| produce gathered up by the companys
trader there, H. Matzke. AS l neared
| the shore l saw three canoes sailing
away. which aroused my suspicion. Get
| ting closer l saw that all thu copra
houses were open, and that there was
no sign of life around. After landing.
however, rifle balls were fired at us
from fairly close range by SavaseS, who
! were out of sight. The mainSail was
perforated, the after rail was splinter
! ed, and very little of the schooner eS
capped being struck. In spite Of this l
landed in a small boat, the savageS TAX
= ing to their heels. Near the spoc where
the trading house had stood l came up
ron the remains of a fire, and in the
ashes We're Matzke's bones, which had
been picked clean. The bones OF sever
al black boys who had been in MatZke's
employ were also there, the ;annibaiS
liking the flesh of one another as much
as that of foreigners. l have been told
by them, however. that the flesh of a
white man is rather too salty to be tas-
t.. But at any rate, Matzke was de-
voured by the savages.
| The murder of the agent and the de-
struction of all of it's property was more
than our firm could stand, and l went
to Kusai in the Caroline group, where
| was fortunate in finding the German
cruiser Seeadler. This cruiser and the
Mascotte went direct to Komuli and
made things interesting for the canni-
balls. We counted the bodies of 100 saw
ages after we had landed who had been
killed by the rifle fire and the shells
from the cruiser. A shell would b2rst
in the midst of group of blacks, kill
ing every one of them. Those near by
would keep up q show of bravery by
hurting their spears toward lis. rs il
the weapons could cover the distance.
The natives who were not killed took to
the interior, and we landed a party and
burned $50 small villages. 1t was a ter
lrible revenge, but was needed. 1t re-
iquires something like that to make
those murderous cannibals respect you
Later, the trading station was re-estab-
llshed and the blacks are well behaved
Last June 1 was sent by the firm tc
Matty Island for the purpose of eStab-
fishing a station, but as / approached
shore in dingy, with two traders and
the supercargo, hundreds of natives at
tackled us with spears. They were fe-
rocious in their desire to kill us. 1t was
necessary to shoot to protect ourselves
Not one of those cannibals had ever
heard the report of a musket and wheT
one of their number fell struck by u
bullet, the establishment of his compan-
ions was worth seeing. We killed five
Of them and the whole pack, number
ing 1000 or 5000. fled to the interior. W.
; made no landing, however, but sue.
.ceeded two months later in establishing
a station on the island"
SHIPPING NOTES.
, 1t Is announced by VIM. G.. Irwin &
: Company that the steamships Alameda
and Mariposa will be put on the rur
between San Francisco and Honolulu
regularly, after certain essential alter
atoms and improvements have beer
made. Round trips will be made every
two weeks. In this way there will be
Just twice as desirable a service as
!; there is at present.
Pilot Captain Sanders was taken tc
!, the hospital yesterday morning. He
: has not been well for several days and
was so much worse yesterday that II
was considered advisable to remove
} him to the hospital for treatment.
The steamer Niihau took aboard
some heavy machinery from the Plant
or Yesterday morning for the McRryde