The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-22

would be easy to hold a point or so
Of luff but this would take US off our
course and the straightest line to Ho-
nolulu is the one we must follow, no
matter how the wind shifts.
The wind has been steadier today
than any time yet and if it holds as
it is now in force and shifts Just a
trifie over our quarter land this is all
very probab le), we shall be off Dfa-
mond Head in five days. What we
shall find there is on the knees of the
gods. Every fresh puff of wind fans
into life the spark of hope that dwin-
dies to nothing with each calm At
any rate we are better off than the
watchers at Diamond Head for we
have work to do and they can only
wait.
| I found an additional spur to hope
| tonight. 1t comes from noticing the
marvellous steadiness of the yacht in
/ the water. On deck, especially if one
| looks aloft, she seems to be rolling
and pitching nerci1ess1y. Down be-
low / am writing at the table almost
as comfortable as though we were at
anchor There is just slight thwart-
ships movement but not enough to
| joggle the dishes against the fiddles on
| the table. Now this means that most
| of her movement is on the pendulum
order, that she is swinging easily on
| her center of gravity. The main
| power of the yacht has only one
| movement and that is forward. I am
not technically adept enough to ex-
press well what I mean, but those Of
you who are will understand and those
who are not will please take my word
for it that here is an especially good
point about the Hawaii.
The steward made some delicious
cookies today. He calls them tea cakes.
They are shaped something like cheese
cakes with a very high rim and they
taste like Scotch short bread with the
delicate flavor of a sponge cake. To
my certain knowledge Ray has con-
sumed seven of them and 7 am not
far behind.
FULL MOON AT SEA.
I was just going to jingle about
those cakes but give it up for I
have just been on deck to read the
log AS poked my head above the
companion way the beauty of the night
fell on me almost with a shock. The
rising wind had blown away the lead
en- curtain of clouds and the sky was
clear save for a few flying, whirling
wraiths of vapor and black bank of
rain clouds on the western horizon.
The moon sailed majestically in a
sky of the deepest, warmest blue have
ever seen, lighting the world with her
silver rays and turning the crest of
each following wave to shimmering
molten metal. The sea all around was
but a shade deeper than the sky and
through it all the little yacht fairly
danced over the water. The Hawaii
had suddenly come to life. So far
she has been as one only half awake,
going through the water doggedly yet
rather sullenly. But tonight there is
teeming. singing life in every line of
her sails, in every rope and spar and
every graceful lift of her dainty hull
Standing there on the after deck it
seemed to me that I was in a dream
in which God was showing me the
most beautiful works of his own and
mans hands. Everywhere was the
most perfect poetry of light, of sound
and of movement. And so I came be-
low to try and tell Of it and wonder
at the goodness of things out here
in the realm of our green girdled moth
er ocean
ALL HOPE LEAVES THE HAWAII.
Tuesday, July Hiatt. IS deg. Is
min. N, long. 142 deg. min. w.
Distance $50 miles
Hope is dead-aItogether dead-and
reverently slipped over the side to a
watery grave. In it's place is the cer
tainty of a bad defeat. I feel almost
happy. It is. after all, uncertainty
that is always so raeking and now
that there is no possibility of our
coming in even second, we can only
wait while disappointment is dulled
to heavy ca1lousness.
The wind has been dead aft all day,
just moderate breeze, about the same
as on July when we made 100 miles
almost on the wind. But the Hawaii
is sleepy. There is no get up and
get about her and she wallows along
as though she had till Christmas to
reach Honolulu.
Tt is practically certain that the
wind will continue as it is the rest of
the way and the most we can look
for is a bare $50 miles for each twenty
four hours run With nearly 900
miles yet to go this will land lis off
Diamond Head some time on Monday.
San Pedro. In this breeze, dead aft.
the Lurline is merrily logging to 9
miles an hour and the other two are
probably doing nearly as well. We
are making about IA, sometimes not
as much as that. IF the wind had
elected to blow over the quarter and
blow hard, there would still have been
a remote chance. but there is nothing
doing in that line and now it is only
a matter of how long after the others
we shall finish.
CONSTANT JTBING TO HOLD THE
COURSE.
Wednesday. July 15.-Lat. 25 deg. SO
min. N, long. AS deg o. min. W. Dis
lance 165 miles.
Tt is heart breaking to think of those
watchers out on Diamond Head, wait
ing there and peering into the night
for a sight of rocket while we are
still seven hundred miles away. Well, |
there is nothing to be gained by brood
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