The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-02-03
PALMER
CALLS AT
PITCAIRN
All Is Well With
the Far Away
Islanders.

The schooner John Palmer. Captain
Railroad wharf, stopped at Pitcairn
Island on her way up from the Colo
MES, and received a lot Of fresh fruit
and provisions from the descendants
of the mutineers OF the Bounty and
gave them In return some news of the
outside world that was most grateful
to them. Captain Delano also brought
letter from Miss Susie Young. who Is,
in effect the queen OF the Islands. be-
ing known to them as Aunt SUSIE" to
Mrs. Kerr of this city. 1t will be re-
membered that Miss Young passed
through Honolulu some years ago on
her way to San Francisco for surgical
treatment and was extensively enter
tained by local people OF prominence.
"The Islanders are well and happy"
said Captain Delano yesterday, cor at
least they were all well and happy on
the 9TH OF January, when j touched
there. 1 laid the ship close in to the
Island, where there is first class
anchorage on the northwest side, and
they brought us Off fruit and vegeta-
bles and fresh food of all kinds. did
was away on a visit to Mangeriva,
one of the Pomotus, to get the mail for
the islanders. You know they have
bought a. little sloop lately, the island
ers. and they run down to Mangariva
often to get their mail and to mail let
tiers to the outside world. 1t is ninety
miles away, about. but they think little
of that. In fact, that sloop is to the
Pitcairn islanders something like what
the cable is to Honolulu folks. Makes
them think they are in touch with the
outside world, sure enough, and they
are mighty proud of her.
There are $50 people on the island
now, In the ratio Of about three women
to one man, and they all seem in the
best of health and spirits. Miss Young
Is still n kind of queen among them.
They all follow her lead in everything.
and her school Is in a fiourishing condl-
ton.
Every ship that passes through
those seas tries to make Pitcairn now.
] have tried to make II before myself.
but could only run up this time, and
] was mighty glad to get the fresh fruit
ana the chickens they brought Off,
can tell you. The owners of the British
ship Glencona and of the British ship
Fortevit, both big foremasters bound
around the Horn with wheat from Ia
coma, will be glad to hear that those
ships were or Pitcairn island on De-
cember ~ only 2s days-ou from their
sailing port That is steamer time.
and is the record. The American ship
Susquehanna. with wheat. from San
Francisco to New York. passed PITT
oairn on December 81. / do not know
how long she was out, but all was well
with her lii .. Him
IT tell YOU those Pitcairn Islanders
are just about the finest people in the
world, and their being where they are
is a good thing for Pacific Ocean sail
ors. 1t was not SO long ago, that Cap
tain Brice put In there with his ship.
the Pyrannese, on fire, and expected
nothing else than to lose her. Instead
of That. they offered to put couple Of
men aboard Of her and run her down
to Mangeriva for him. where she could
be beached. They did 1t. too. and she
ls now In San Francisco, safe - and
sound, That Is a vast deal better, than
going up against an island where they
will eat you alive II you happenito be
In Distress" stT