The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-06-03
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STAID WITH THE BOAT.

| VI SeNefal hours AFTER that DeVau-
chelle and his one companion staid
with the boat, drifting farther and far
| Their to sea. At last they gave up hope
that the others would come back and.
flashing the boom and the gait together
these two also abandoned the swamp
cd boat. They We're then. IS they fig
ured, about ten miles from the Maui
coast, with wind 10 bear them in that
direction. For long time they swan
and fioated, and at about noon Pawaa
discovered that the current was bearing
them away from Maui and toward Mo-
lckai. so they concluded to make for
ti1at island, which they then thought
to be about six miles off
1t was six O'Clock in the evening when
they sighted the reef line of Molokai
The sun went down, and the moon
light flooded the sea, and still they
swan on. Pawaa was getting weaker.
Devauchelle, abandoning the support
of the spar, left it to his companion,
who still grew weaker. Thus SWIM
ming, side by side and about ten feet
apart they reached within 500 yards oe
lofty rock, Mokuhooniki. off Puuo- |
hoku, Molokai, when Pawaa threw up
both hands, saying:
Eddie, am going TO leave youi''
He sank. DevauchelIe kept on. He
was too weak to even try~to help his +,
comrade, who did not rise again, but !
he swan on and finally clambered out |
on the rock at some time Wednesday !
morning, after the moon went down !
He slept there until daylight, when he
found some shell fish to eat, although
he had no water. /
After daybreak, he saw some men
fishing along the shore of Molokaf and
to them, but they paid no
heed TO him. And at o'clock in the
afternoon. seeing that nobody was COM
ing, he plunged in and swan the re-
naming mile and half or two miles
to the shore of Molokai He had been
hours in the water when he
landed on the high rock.
After Devauchelle reached home at
Pukoo, launch was sent to search for
The two men who had first left the boat,
out could find no trace of them. 1t
vas learned, then, that neither of them {
vas a good swimmer, and it is more
TALES OF OLD TIMES. Il
This experience of Devauchelle re-
.alls many old tales f. G.. Hitchcock, q
MARSHAL under the republic. was cap
lied in a boat in that same channel f
nee. and reached shore after he had
,een in the water "a hours 1t was be-
ause of that experience that Hitch
ocl< got the name among the natives
f being a great kahuna. They thought
e had conquered the sea, perhaps.
Judge Kalua. Circuit Judge on Maui,
ras in boat with his wife in that
anne vicinity, when the boat was F
by heavy sea. The Judge -
nd Mrs. Kalua We're in the water for
he better part of twenty-four hours.
nd finally reached the shore of Lanai
lfely.
r native. going from Kauai to Niihau
a small boat, was capsized and
ached the smaller island after having
zen in the water for more than TWEEN
-four hours. This man, too, landed
an isIet from which he swan to
iihau.
on Sunday. the 10th of May, 1910, the
hooner KeoIa foundered in Hawaii
annel, a considerable distance west
Kohala Point. A Mr. Thompson of
lhaina was drowned but his wife and
o young men reached Kahoolawe
xt day Mauae of Lahaina. and his
fe, Kaluahinenui swan together.
ch with an empty bucket for support,
til Monday afternoon, when the
ms strength failed. His wife then
* his arms around her neck. holding
IN with one hand and swimming
tn the other. until she found he was
I'd. when she was obliged to let him
in order to save her own life. After
lset she reached Kahoolawe. having
n in the water thirty-six hours.