The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-22

the hammock nettings on the main
Geek TO stow their sleeping bags, they
We're in such an Inward panic
Wen, the skipper of the ship-Com-
nander Pigman he was, and no better
one ever ate IN one-handed mess
mad the crew called to quarters
d DIT ahead o. time that morning. and
he made US a little talk He didn't trv
70 MINIMIZE the wfckedness of cholera,
out he said there wasn't any danger
ne described the preliminary symp-
toms of cholera, and said that if any
VI the men felt any of those symptoms
turing the day they should immedi-
aeeiy report ait to the sick bay and
nave the surgeon look them over Then
ne dismissed the men from quarters.
L give you my word that quarters
hadn't been over five minutes before
lot of the towards We're feeling Of
their stomachs and edging aft towards
the sick bay. There wasn't any more
the matter with them than there ia
with me at the present minute of
talking, but their imaginations had
them funked.
AND right here, / want to put in
word about thing that has been often
called a sailors superstition-about the
sharks hanging around about a ship
when there is death on board.
Tnere are plenty of sharks in Homo
lulu harbor, and you can see their
wicked fms shooting along almost any
time you raise your eyes from the
deck. But they don't group themselves
In schools in that harbor, and I'D to
the time that our boy Goebei had CASH
ed in never more than one or two at
the outside had crept around the Ben
nington
Now. don't profess to explain 1t.
and l am only stating a fact, but that
morning, while young GoebePs body
was on board-he was carried ashore
and buried about noon-the sharks
around the Bennington literally swarm-
ed. They hung around quiet like, as il
waiting, and they didn't sheer off till
the body went ashore in the steam
cutter.
Il am not one of the old navy flat
feet, and I haven't got any supersti-
lions in me worth speaking Of, but
what I am telling you is the strict fact.
well. after the boys body was put
away in the Honolulu ground the Ben
nington was told to sheer of. She was
put under indefinite quarantine, the
yellow flag flying.
From then on we had to go SLOUGH
ing around all sorts of Hawaiian ports,
looking for bit of comfort or cheer,
and getting none anywhere First we
dropped into the roads in front Of La
haina, on the island of Maui Being
badly in need of some fresh provisions,
the steam cutter was sent ashore one
morning with the stewards with the
idea of dickering with the Lahainaites
from a distance.
THE steam cutter hadn't got within
yelling distance Of the Lahaina landing
place before whole bunch of Kama
kas, led by a few whites, were seen
lined up there with shotguns in their
hands. Our ship was a blooming 1eper
in their sight you see, and they weren't
going to let any steam cutter of ours
get within megaphoning distance of the
Lahaina dock.
eve got no provisions at Lahaina,
nor anywhere else. We lolled around
there for a long time, eating junk
and cracker hash and pretty blue, and
then we skunk up to the rough waters
in front of Hanalei, on the Island of
Lanai. where we rolled and tossed for
a space.
1.After that we crawled down to Hilo,
the town on the main island of Hawaii,
where, after watching us and inspecting
us and feeling of US suspiciously for a
long time they finally said that We
were all right. and could land. That
was the end of the miserable expe-
rience.
1.-THE crew for'ard got their longed for
beach liberty in watches, the starboard
watch first. Now. there isn't any need
to condone, for it was only natural,
seeing that the crew had been cooped
up on board ship so long, but want
to go on record as saying that the shore
liberty in Hilo Of those two watches Of
the Bennington's crew that time con-
stituted the most whopping bluejacket
drunk that I've seen in any quarter
Of the world, and I've seen some
powerful and amazing bluejacket
drunks, up and down the earth, in my
time.
1.-The Hilo authorities swore in slews