The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-25

I girl, l cry very much. L ike eat, 1
want some water. We have nothing.
The boat leak; we dip 'em out we
have calabash to dip. One man dip,
| dip, all time. Some man get sick, 80
can work. Some man go crazy, pupil;
| no see any ship ten day, ten night; L
no remember: | sick. I crazy, too. l
think so one more DAY we have no
| boat-boat go break up into. piece.
Some man see SAIL he holler. Ny
uncle take up show me ship. Man lift
up hands to make them see; then they
get us; take us on ship. After while
they feed US little bit; no give us much
Ieat-make US die; give little drink, too;
bimeby get well. 1 nurse little baby.
he belong to captain wife. I no know
name of ship; no know name of cap
tain. l too little; L seven-eight years
old. I go China; my uncle come China,
too Other man-other five man he go
Ladrone; native man eat hfm-you call
him cannibals.
| II go Macao China. My uncle come,
too Missionary take me; I learn talk
English; ] take care of baby; Miss
Nellie good to me-like me very much
After while my uncle die; | left all
alone. I go Canton. [ go Hwuichau.
with Miss Nellie Mister Brown he
go Shanghai, too; 1 go everywhere.
| think so 1 stay China five-siX year;
me big girl. Miss Nellie say she go
New York, take me to go to school. 1
come New York with Miss Nellie. Ev-
erybody look see. They like talk to
me; they write me in PAGER, make pic
ture; / all time like core back Ha-
wai. Miss Nellie die / feel very bad;
cry all time. Miss Nellie good to me-
Then | go Miss Bates. Mister Bates,
he missionary. take care baby. Bime-
by everybody go California get gold
money. Mister Bates like go: Miss
Bates and baby come; come too We
Iconne ship Hope Well, come round
Horn; have plenty trouble; big storm
come; take long time. We stop VAL
paraiso; we stop Peru; we stop Mexico
I've stop everywhere We come Mon
terey, two house; everybody hunt gold
We stay two, three months. We go
mother place, all time travel on land;
Mister Bates he missionary
II like come Hawaii. Mister Bates he
say he come here. After while we
take ship come back here. I big girl
now, big wahine; when / go way I lit
tie girl. Long time 1 be away. l like
come back. / very pleased when L get
back.
II came Honolulu. I stay here Miss
Bates; | send letter my mother. my
sister; I have brother, too; they no
die. My father die. 1 no see him. My
| iSidtiNS lHlHh Ole long Time. Iney
surprise All come see me. Have big
luau. Everybody come All Kanaka
he come; everybody come look see
four, five hundred Kanaka come. 1
stay Miss Bates; Miss Bates like me
stay; l no go back Kauai; my mother,
my sister go back. l stay Miss Bates
maybe one year; then l go Kauai see
my mother, l get married.
Continuing. Mummy related the
story of her various unfortunate matri-
monial ventures, reckoning the time by
such events as lone big smallpox
come; two big smallpox come" Her
last husband she voted good man,
and her features softened at the men
ton of him. The particulars of his
death We're learned from Mrs. West.
who lives next door, and whom Mum
my" has taken into her confidence.
The old woman has face of the bet
ter type of Hawaiian, and as she re-
lated her remarkable story in the light
of the old barn lantern, squatting there
on the doorstep of her tumble down
old hut, she presented such a weird
and striking picture as would have
furnished an artist with an opportuni-
ty for a rare study.
In concluding her story the white
haired old woman expressed her con-
tent with her lot. 'I all time go every
where when I am little girl; when I
am big, too" said she. 81 all time have
trouble; L all time like come back. I
like come back Hawaii; I no like go
round too much. / like stay here my
own people. My husband that die last,
he good man. very happy. no have
much trouble. l no like go away
again. 1 stay here"
Thus it is that Mary Maihiai, who is
uncertain as to her exact age, blu,
who is somewhere near the fourscore
and ten mark, lives alone in a pictur-
esque little old hut behind a high
board fence on Vineyard street, be-
tween Nuuanu and Fort, washing the
clothes of the haoles for her fish and
poi, and making a splendid picture as
she goes about the neighborhood with
a basket Of clothes poised on her erect
white head, her wonderfully 1.-the body
swinging along with almost as little
effort as if only nineteen summers, in
stead of ninety, numbered the years OF
her life-weH content, after a life of
much adventure and turbulence, to be
peacefully at home under her own vine
and fig tree, in Hawaii-nei
NAN BYXBEE.