The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-18

exterminated the rest of the population.
SO you see 1t is only natural they don't
like dagoes."
Clancy nodded. Quite so. But 1 can
assure you that I'll treat well any men
you can get me, give them a hundred
dollars each in advance, before leave,
another hundred each when we get to
Valparaiso, and a free passage back to
their home
That is an offer they can't resist,
said Tate, land although they would
rather go anywhere else than to South
America, they know well that they will
| be safe from harm under the old red
| flag of England. You can easily get
/ ten or twenty good men, but not right
| away, as these people are much at
| tached to their homes, and have strong
/ family ties and all that sort Of thing,
! and there viii have to be some feasting
and fareweiling, which will take cOu-
pie Of days"
"Ah. well, It's not grumbling I am"
said Clancy, with a laugh. And then
he asked Tate If he would get some ma
| tives to at once come on board and cut
or saw the troublesome ng1ia logs into
| lengths suitable for the furnaces
| This matter Tate soon arranged with
the chief of Hanga ROa, who was pres
ent, and who was most anxious to go
| on board the steamer and see the won
drous engines which made the ship
| fight the eye of the wind"
Clancy and Tate, accompanied by the
chief and a number Of natives, went off
to the Warrigal and Tom remained on
shore, for he was anxious to see as
| much of Easter island as he possibly
could. Christie had told him that the
island was one of the wonders of the
world, on account of the huge sculn-
tured human figures. stones, and ter
raced platforms which were TO be seen
oil tod
an ethnOgraphical problem that had
never yet been solved. The present
people had but one tradition which was
that the builders of the platforms and
the carvers of the mighty statues had
come to Rapa Nui Great Rapa) as
they. called the island from Rapa-iti
Oittle Rapa) the island at which the
WarTigal had stopped. in five great ca
| noes, each carrying many hundreds OF
men. With them were two kings
, brothers. who caused the statues and
? the terraces to be made from the hard
trachyte taken from the extinct crater
, Of UtU-iti on the north side of the
{ island
: As Tom was leaving the traders
! dwelling he was met by several natives
: some of whom spoke to him in English
and asked him to visit their houses and
2 ''eat something" Declining their hos
pitable offers, he explained his desire
S to see the carvings, terraces and GU
4 rious and ancient houses of stone, som,
2 of which were in present use by thu
| natives.
q Two of the men at once volunteered
! their services as guides, and after pro
viding themselves with some bottles o
water-for the island being treeless
walking under fierce sun over the rec
4 volcanic sand, sCOriae and jagged Law;
e which covers much of the land, sOol
created a great thirst.
Y After tramp of half mile the frs
Of the great par aku or terraces wa
q reached. and here at its base were twt
Of the huge stone images of trachyte
both in an upright position. with thei
8 bases buried deep in the volcanic san,
and their faces turned towards the sea
4 Each mead was crowned with a circl
q of red tufd stone qudrried from one o
q the many craters with which the is
a land abounds, and the figures them
d selves were nearly twenty feet j
: height.
Tom stood beside the colossal figures
q gazing upward at their strange. mass
d i've and disdaiEful faces. wonderin
& whose were the hands that had carve
q them, and for how many long centurie
n those hands had been turned to duSt
and when occurred the awful catastro
q phe that had wiped out of existenc
o what had certainly been a teemin
: clad and fertile land into a barren an
sterile wilderness of blasted mountain
= and sand-cOvered valleys of desolatioI
a melancholy and appalling to the huma
d eye.
Leaving the first terrace, they. wer
proceeding towards tho coast, wheT
there was an ancient village of the cir
cular stone dwellings, which Tom wa
anxious to examine, when they hear
P. a cry from behind. and, turning, ToI
d saw Pohiri. the Savage islander. run
l. ming towards them, shouting and ges
lie ticulating wildly. and pointing back
e over his bare. red-brown shoulder
d had discarded his shirt on account {
p the heat. When within q few yards {
II Tom and the two men he gave flu
= play to his lungs, which were by n
y means weak.
l. "Te vaka af. Mist Tamui TIE yak
aft pu fana. TIE mana-oa! Ke tosi I
IS vaka kila tolu?" GA steamer, NJ
: Tom! A steamer with cannonsI
lie man-of-warI 1t is towing a ship wit
d three masts.)
d Then he added that soon after Tol
l. had left the village the steamer Ia
s. appeared suddenly coming round I'll
= western point OF the island. with
ID barque in tow, and had dropped anchC
quite close to the Warrigal.
II us she an English man-of-war, Pr
1t hiri?''
r NO. Spaniola CSpanish),'' replied Pr
y hiri in English, but the barque hs
IN English flag"
te Then he explained that Clancy an
IN Tate, who had gone off to the man-o
war, had sent him to seek for Tom an
ask him to return to the village
rs quickly as possible.
ID No time was lost, Tom and his thrt
lie companions setting off at run, despi
Pr the intense heat. When they reache
g. the traders horse they found IT SUI
in rounded by excited natives, and insid
lie seated around the table, were Clanc
I'd two strangers in the Gillian naval un
t form, another in civilian clothes, ar
10 Tate.
m AS soon as Tom entered Clancy ros
I'd tom, 1 am glad you have returnt
I'd so soon. This gentleman here is Ca
IS, tain Ramon Tompson, commander
ne the Chilian warship O'Higgins. This
ed the doctor, whose name cannot Or
IS nounce, as I didn't catch it and dor
or understand Spanish, and this is Ca
tain Grace of the barque Meg Me
ed rilees. And now you will have to ia
in Spanish for me to Commander Tom