The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-11-12
He WENT TO SEA
IN A TRANCE
WITHOUT TAFF-RAIL LOG, Or
SEXTANT HE NAVIGATES EY
UNCONSCIOUS CEREBRATION."

George Sydney Plomb the man who
brought the yacht Eagle back to this
port after she had been away for
about ten days, is detained at the police
station pending an investigation of his
story No charge has yet been made
against him, but will be this afternoon
in all probability and he will have a
hearing before Judge Wilcox tomorrow.
Plomb tells a somewhat remarkable
but straightforward story.
II was the mate of the bark Solano,"
he says. II was paid off and discharg-
ed October 49,. My money and my dis
charge 1 left1with the shipping COM
missioner for safe-keeping My bag
of clothes l left at the Occidental hotel.
Then l went on a drunk, and my last
recollection ashore is of buying a bottle
of gin at the Progress saloon some time
after nightfall, and the bartender ask
ing me if it was raining.
My next recollection is of waking
up or coming to, in a dazed sort con-
dition, waking up from a bunk, and
| finding myself alone on yacht at sea
out of sight of land. My first impulse
was to find the name of the craft, the
| Eagle of Honolulu. Then 7 looked for
| fresh water and found about fifteen
gallons. Then l found a little package
of soda crackers containing six, and L
| found the bottle of gin about nalI 1ull-
| l flung the gin bottle away. The yacht
| was under sail ard going before the
| wind. How loni; it was since l had
| bought the gin, the last act ] recollect-
ed, l did not know. felt that as L was
in craft belonging to Honolulu, that
that was the last place remembered
being in, / must be somewhere near
| there. Hawaii is in the region of the
northeast trades, therefore ! assumed
that the wind was blowing was a north
. east wind, and that Honolulu must be
somewhere to the northeast So when
the sun was up so as to give me my
directions, l started to beat back to the
northeast, and l so continued for about
five days when l picked up Kauai over
TO Nthe leeward and Oahu over to the
starboard. 1t took me about a day to
beat up the coast to this barbor.
II figure out that unconsciously in my
intoxication, / got aboard the yacht,
sailed her out of the harbOr and when
she was clear of everything lay down
and let her drift, and that she had been
drifting before the wind for four days
when returned to consciousness.
The yacht is a fine one and could be
taken anywhere When l got, ashore
and was taken to the police station I
was almost famished. But the owner
of the boat made such a to-dO about it
that | wouldn't let on, and as II was
after the supper time ! stuck II but UNI
til breakfast this morning"
The police have been investigating
the matter and they find several people
who saw the yacht going out of the
harbor about II o'clock Friday night,
October 81, under her jib. Who was
aboard most of the witnesses cannot
say, but the night Waterman at Wild
er's is quoted by the police as saying
that he saw PIomb aboard and shat
Plomb was perfectly sober
Plomb says he was born in the harbor
o Honolulu, January II, 1874, on board
the whaling bark r. w. Spence, and
that his father was Captain Thomas
| Plomb.