The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-10-07

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needing no word of command, showed
| off through the surf, sprang aboard
over the gunwales, and, bending to their
oars, shot the boat through the angry
sea at the mouth of the bay with all
the skill and precision of the finest
small boatmen in the world
Meanwhile the schooner had run close
to the rocky shore and with a great
swapping of canvas rounded into the
wind, her broad wings folded like a set
Ting sea bird. The moment her wav
was checked a number of bales lying
forward on her flush deck were heaved.
one by one, over the side As she made
sternway they strung out forward like
line OF corks, tossing playfully about
IN the swell. The moment the bales
were lettisoned the sheets were trimmed
with purring of blocks, the sails filled.
and with no hail or sign to the whale
boat the schooner fled away southwark.
The sampan, far out to sea, was mere
speck on the leaden waters.
While these events were happening
three men rode furiously down the
beach road leading to Hanama and a
tugboat, hidden by the Intervening
promontory, crept stealthily along Just
clear of the shoal of sand and coral.
Each rider had silver star upon his
breast, and the men aboard the tug wore
caps, upon which devices were worked
IN gold cord There was a tension of
deadly earnestness about both of these
expeditions which were approaching a
common focus from different points of
sea and land
The cavaliers rode to the top of the
ridge, their winded horses laboring in
distress. Here they dismounted and,
concealed by the low bushes, stole for
ward to the margin of the cliff, below
which lay the bay spread out like a
highly colored map. The whaleboat was
noslng the heavy channel sea in which
less able craft would have capsized,
but her crew were men bred to the surf
and, now posing on the crest, now slid
ing down the long seas, tactfully urged
forward, while Englehart welded the
steering oar, she drew nearer to the
tossing bales. The man in the bow
now laid aside his oar and with a boat
hook drew the bales alongside, whence
they were carefully lifted aboard.
The horsemen, meanwhile, had de-
scended the cliff by the steep and mar
row trail to the beach. The whaleboat
was about a quarter of a mile from
shore and perilously sunken with her
load, for at least half the floating mer-
ehandise was slowed between the
thwarts. AS she headed for the beach
the tugboat, wheeling and putting, the
black smoke pouring from her stack and
the seas leaping from her bows, came
suddenly into view from round the
point Twice her whistle screeched as
she made for the laboring whaleboat.
"That means hands up! - said En-
glehart cheerfully f'Now, boys, pull
like the very blazesi He swung the
long oar and the rowers put forth all
their strength, but the cargo was slowed
high between the thwarts, the craft was
overladen and unmanageable, and the
men were hampered at their oars. The
tug babe fair to overhaul them before
they had made half the distancec and
as tottering bale overbalanced and
wedged in a rover Englehart gave a
sharp order and it was heaved over
board; then aother ana another of the
dearly won parcels We're consigned to
the deep, all thought of salvage being
apparently lost in the race to escape the
tugboat.
"By Georgel'' said one of the three
ON the beach, who was watching from
behind a lantana bush. "Do you see
thats That ain t like Billy Englehart.
There s a heap of stuff there and it
never his way to quit in pinchi -
The tug, few hundred yards away,
footed hoarsely, and Englehart bent for
ward, urging on his oarsmen as huge
wave formed and came rushing on be-
hind. The natives, however, needed no
urging. They bent to their oars till the
stanch whaleboat. llghtened of her last
bale, was picked up by the great wave.
Her stern rose and the oars ere at oEce
shipped, for there was no need of fur
Their effort except by the helmsman.
This was the South Sea art of surfing
in'' and with the crest of the wave be-
meath her stern the boat was borne at
tremendous speed clear to the strip OF
beach. The tug gave up pursuit ana
sheered seward where her crew deVot-
ed themselves to the mating covered
bales still aimlessly tossing about,
though barely visible in the waning day
light. The schooner, UNDECIDED by the
actors in this stirring chase, was speed
ing far away to the south.
As the Hawaiians stepped ashore and
made the whaleboat fast, the three men
came forward. Englehart, still seated
in the stern sheets, looked at them sour
" but without apparent surprise. with
some embarrassment he produced an an
| cient briar pipe and blew tentatively
| through the stem.
"Come ashore, Billy" said one of the
| men, politely. "We want you mighty
bad
'sWhat for9'
"Nothing much, /" replied the deputy
| marshal "We want you, that's all.
Come ashore, Billy. Where's your
| friend, the commodoreP'
| 'sDon t know the gentleman SAID
| Englehart. "Wen,' he continued, dry
! ly, as he stepped ashore, 81 guess the
game IS up, deputy. Sorry to put you 10
so much trouble. Now, how much am
| in for7 What's the fine for breaking
| quarantine and the duty on corksS'
| ECorkss'
eyes, corks. There's cork IN those
| bales, and I'd have brought it IN and
/ Ia i..4s. Ill SL;r.-shann and ErlStOl