The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-01-12

East Los Angeles, and rais8 gardeh
truck and chickens, has $40 other
things in the long years of 1is life.
One of these things was asw vessel
which went Ep and th down
to stay. "captain jed live Gin shack
alone with th memories oI OF r days
and by habit is uncommaniHti A
reporter fou@ him deep p the mys-
teries of greed onions and what to do
with a hen that insisted pm sitting.
1t was Sunday morning. and scores
of welI-dressed people, old and young,
passed by on the other side Of the
road, going to the several churches.
Many had a CHEEKY word or kindly nod
for the old man.
Yves, 1 used to go to church once, .
he said, reminiscently, ''but since the
winter of 1878 have never been in
side of one.
an 1878 1 shipped on the whaler Arc
turus at Honolulu, and we put to sea
with 400 barrels of oil and some bone
to meet the Brutus. another ship OF
the same company, at Callao, and
send our oil and bone home in her.
We had a thorough seaman for Cap
tain, but he was a heavy drinker, and
hard to work for when he was under
the influence. 1t was no place for me,
and I was glad when we made the
land off Callae, for 1 determined to
leave her at the first opportunity.
1.-The Chile-Peruvian war was on
then, and we found Callao blockaded
by the Chilean ironclads. We were
hailed and boarded by the Amajonas,
the Pilcomayo and the Loa in turn.
and had no trouble till the Loa's boat
came alongside The boarding officer
of the Loa hailed US in good English
and cursed US voIubly. Finding all
things right, he was about to go over
the side and I had thrown the end of
a line to his men to hold the stern of
the boat in. A heavy swell was on
and the line caught under the boats
quarter pull as he reached her gum
vale and he was pitched headforemost
overheard. They pushed off the boat
and got him with some difficulty, and
we filled our topsail and stood in for
the anchorage.
Our skipper had to board the flag
ship and explain the matter to Adj
miral Lynch before whom this board
ing officer had gone with the tale that
We did the thing on purpose. I went
was most gentlemanly, that it was
purely accidental, and ne was satisfied
No so the boarding officer. He was in
his boat at the ffagship's gangway,
and when I came down he called me
all sorts of names, and jumped to the
bow and struck him with an oar,
knocking him senseless.
This all meant trouble for me. and
as I did not like the ship asked the
OoPSoAh " Put liz cSAAOLC tA1I AAA6Akg
and he did. landed on the beach
some three miles north of the mole.
and spent all that might in the iron
hull of the United States steamer Wa
teree, that had been driven far ashore
in the great tidal wave of some years
previous, and which lies in abandon
ment there to this day.
ct had a bag of clothing and $500 in
gold coin. and felt could make out If
I got any sort of a chance. It was
about midnight, and I had scraped the
dry sand out to form bunk and was
lying in a doing state when heard
voices. I distinguished a word now
and then in good United States, and
jumped up, calling out to the new
but instead of waiting till I
could get to them they broke for the
high beach like quarter horses. I call
ed to them, and after some parley 1
could see them returning and soon
treasured them that was no ghost
or spy. They proved to be two San
Francisco men who had been hired by
the Peruvians to trap and sink the