The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-06-05
A BATTLE
FOR LIFE
From sundays Advertiser)

(FrOm Sundays AdVertiser)
Like a story out of the olden time is
The relation of the wonderful adventure
that befel Edward X. Devauchelle. The
traditions of these islands are full of
stories IF long swims by natives, some
times from island TO island, sometimes
fIom capsized boats in the channels,
the swimmers reaching shore after be-
Ing I'm the water for almost incredible
lengths of time and after swimming
for distances that have been recl<oned
be yond the limits Of men.
Devauchelle has lived one of those
stories, In our own time. For seventeen
hours he was in the sea between Molo-
kai and Maui, and he reached land
after swimming between twenty and
thirty miles-reached land after little
crabs had bitten his naked body, only
to have to swim again to Molokai from
the tiny lslet where he first touched
solid ground.
Il kept my pants on" says Devau-
cheile, who Is a half-white naively, 80
that my white legs would not attract
the sharks And when those hard and
| spiny little crabs began to cling to me-
/ wished that / had kept my shirt on,
! too"
| Accompanied by three natives, Kama
kee, Dan Pawaa and George Davis.
Z better known as keoki, Devauchelle
| left Pukoo on the island of Molokai,
last Monday evening for Lahaina The
boat was filled with fish, which were
sold at Lahaina, and soon after day
light Tuesday morning the men took to
their boat again and started on the re-
turn to Molokai. 1t was dead calm, so
they rowcd their boat.
HOISTED THE SAIL.
After about twenty minutes, "A breeze
came up, very softly, and they hoisted
sail. The man Keold, thinking the
wind would hold light, made fast the
down haul of the sail instead of hold
ing It, and when the boat had reached
a point OF Kaanapali the wind fresh
ened The men, at this time, could see
people on shore very plainly. Sudden
ly, a squall struck the boat and before
the sail rope could be slackened away
the wind caught the sheet and the boat
went over on the port side filling with
water level with her gunwale,
! Dcvduchelle ana the men with him
made desperate efforts To get "A start
so as 20 bah the water out but could
do nothing, although they lightened the
craft by throwing out some sacks of
sand they had on board, Devaucholle
, who Is a good swimmer, proposed that
, he should swim ashore Tor help. lie
could see the people on the landing al
/, ISaanapali then, and had tried 10 sigma
them, but 90 no purpose,
The other men realized, too, that they
. must get help from shore, but keok
D and Eamnkee said that they would go
\ Instead oi Dcvauchello, and with a raj
. made OF four oars and the mast OF th'
q boat ,hey started away. The mast hn'
n tha oars have since come ashore on Mo
q lokai, but of these two men nothing hnl
since been seen,
y sTAlp WITH THE BOAT,
q For several hours after that Deyau
70 chrue aud his one companion stat,
y with the boat drifting farther and far
y lhsr tp sen, Al lasr thuy gave up hop
Al thlt tho Others would come back and
b. lasnIHs iha boom and lhr gan together
n lNna tNo ALSO abandoned the swamp
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a Wa a. about trn wl.rs Tom lhu NAV
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