The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-11-11
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WHALERS ARRIVE
ALMOST TOGETHER

1 The following accounts from the Gan
of October goth and the Chronicle OF
October 10Th give interesting reports OF
two whalers that passed through here
last year.
Another blubber hunter arrived N
port yesterday being the third whaier
oil laden from the northern waters TO
| come home at the close of the season.
The vessel is the bark Charles w Nor
! gan. Captain J. A NJ Earle, thirty
three DAYS from the Ohkotsk Sea, with
1000 barrels of oil. The catch was forty
seven sperm and two right whales.
Mrs. Earle and her little son were pas
sengers on the bark during the cruise.
| One of the crew. Manuel Silva, died at
sea November IS.
The Morgan left this port November
~ 1908. proceeding by way of the Ha-
waiian Islands to Guam. At this naval
| station about half of the crew prepared
| to desert the bark. One night when
! the captain and most of the officers
were ashore the men made ready to
/ leave, They could not lower the boats
from the davits, as this work would be
| too noisy, so they took all the covers
from the matches and dropping them
| over the side dashed them together,
1
| transportation they were preparing to
paddle away when the alarm was given
| and one of the officers appeared en-
| deck. The tackle which had been used
| to lower the raft over the side was still
attached to it, and the officer ordered
| the sllea that were yet on board TO
hoist away The result was that the
| improvised raft was tilted up and the
deserters, with their dunnage, spilled IN
| the water.
1t was a clever trick, and as the bay
is full of sharks, who prefer dish OF
sailor to anything on a Guam bill of
fare. the would be runaways made
brilliant records getting out of the
water and up the bark's side. They
were all very penitent and as
sured the skipper that nothing was
so enjoyable as catching whales, and
blubber in the Charles w. Morgan all
their natural lives. The skipper gave
them his blessing and set them to
slushing down the n1asts to keep them
from getting homesick. Those whose
baggage is yet drifting somewhere out
on the broad Pacific dipped into the
''s1op chest" for new outfit at about
four prices for each garment, stiff de-
duction from each mans payday Of oil
and the spirit of desertion was dead.
When the vessel reached Hakodate
Captain Earle TRANQUILITY passed into
the harbor, where he received bit OF
information that almost Jared the
oakum out of his seams, He was sail
ing over some of the liveliest mines
ever planted for the smashing of a
ship. The light draught of his little tub
of bark had carried her safely above
the submarine infernos, and the nitro
glycerin volcanoes Were still a-slunber.
The port pilots took charge of the fur
Their navigation of the vessel and the /!
Japanese officers exhausted their Eng
lish and their breath explaining to
Captain Earle how near he came to
taking a cruise UP in the clouds. After |
that when the Charles w. Morgan had
an occasion to enter a Japanese port
she was more acknowledgements, |
Oct. 90.
The whaling bark California, Captain
Joseph, arrived yesterday, thirty-eight |
days from the Kurile Islands, north of |
Japan. Her seasons catch is a light |
one, consisting of twenty sperm whales. |
yielding 800 barrels of oil She left this |
port December 2, 1908, going to the |
Hawaiian Islands, Guam and west to |
the coast of Japan. The whaler Will
liam Banks was seen at Hakodate July
% with 1000 barrels of oil, and the An
drew Hicks at the same port with 600
barrels.
A death occurred on the California
while the vessel was cruising off the
Hawaiian Islands. Jesse Bean, one of
the crew, a native of Denver. Colo,
was afflicted with heart failure and had
shipped on the whaler thinking that
possibly few months at sea would be
beneficial Bean told his shipmates of
the possibility of his death and asked
them to look out for him should he be
struck down suddenly. He was on the
main yard with a number of other sail
ors furling the mainsail when the ex-
pected end came. The stricken man
was seen to drop the fold of canvas he
was grasping andslean Imply over the
yard. He would have slipped from his
insecure perch and fallen into the sea,
but the man next to him held Bean
across the yard while the sail was be-
ing slowed.
There were no loud, CHEEKY, ooh,
heave Obs as they rolled the canvas
into close furl, for on that yard death
was lending hand, and though death
sails with Jack and is always ready to
lend hand. the monarch of terrors is
an unwelcome shipmate. Bean died on
the yard and his body was lowered to
the deck. to be buried next day in the
blue Pacific.
AS the California was nearing the
Golden Gate Friday evening the man
up in the crows nest" raised a big
right whale close to the vessel. Here
were 140 barrels of oil skylarking right
outside the crews home port. and they
had cruised a whole season and not a
single right whale had come to their
harpoons. Captain Joseph backed his
main topsail and prepared to lower the
boats when the whale sounded. Tt was
travelling rapidly to the south and
darkness was on the sea before it again
arose for breath.-Call. Oct. 80.