The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-27
4 GIRL ROBINSON CRUSOE
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| pared a great stick for use in defend
ing herself, and, grasping this, she
| backed into the corner of her frail hut,
| ready to strike.
A moment later she recognized her
| pet, and called him. An angry snarl
answered her, and the beast leaped.
| The girl realized at once that the
savage instincts of the brute had been
| aroused, and that he turned upon her
| to kill and devour her. Like flash
| she swung the club, and there, alone
| on the island, thousands of miles from
| friends the two that had been friends
| fought a duel to the death.
FORCED TO KILL HER PET LION.
Again and again the maddened beast
| leaped for the white throat of his mis-
| tress, and each time was driven back
| by blow, and, finally, as her strength
| was deserving her, Liela swung the
| club with an effort born of despair and
| laid the half grown cub senseless, and,
before it could recover, she killed it,
| and then sank down sobbing beside its
| body. -e-------------
Her last friend was gone, and she
| was alone. So she sobbed until day
skinned the beast, and cooked part of
it for her breakfast.
She felt that she must keep busy or
go mad, so, after the first six months,
she began to build herself a home of
stones-two rooms. She spent months
selecting stones of the right shape, and.
piling them one upon the other and
across the top she placed the boards
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home, and she matched it all over with
leaves from the trees and with
grasses.
She searched the island over and
planted little vines and flowers. Near
the end of the first year, as she count
ed time, using stones in small piles,
one stone to each day, she had fright.
No rain had fallen for weeks, and the
little pond began to go dry. Day after
day she watched it dwindle away.
Finally it was a tiny pool of muddy,
unpalatable water. and she retired that
night in despair. and during the night
rain poured and filled the pond again.
The fruit from the palm trees, a spe-
cies of edible root. some delicate sea-
weed that she found, oysters, a spe
cies of shrimp, and fish constituted
her main diet. although at rare in
terva1s she caught a gull, and once She
caught a small green parrot.
Hope still lived. She believed that
some day she would be saved. Her
only hardship was loneliness. and she
talked or sang to herself to keep her
mind busy, and she climbed to the top
of the trees and sat there gazing out
across the sea.
She was in a tree top on the after
noon she was rescued. She was sit
ting gazing southwark toward the IA
miliar speck, day dreaming of her
whether she ever would see it again.
She had been there for hours when
suddenly she gasped and almost fell
out of the tree top. She heard voices. |
A moment later with cry that
startled the sailors, she slid and jump |
ed down the tree, and, rushing towards i
them across the sand, laughed and |
cried and laughed again, begging them
to speak to her. One of the sailors |
spoke French. He told her they wereI
from the trading schooner Cyprus, and |
would take her aboard.
Then the strange, sun Drowned, grass
CARRIED beauty fell, still laughing. fell /
fainting upon the sand, and before she |
recovered, she and her little store of |
tools she had made, were safe on board
the vessel, bound for Noumea and,
eventually, F'rance-Chicago Tribune
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