The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-04-20
"RAWhlDE BEN" SAILS IN
FROM SOUTH SEA CRUISE
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schooner Concord after one Of the most
romantic cruises ever made from Homo
lulu Ehcn Low sailed through the
South Seas. walked and waded over the
niol's conducted thorough search for
treasure Of fabulous amount supposed
10 have ben buried by Bully Hayes,
a dashing ex.United States Naval Of.
fecr who flew the black flag, visited
the usting remains Of the Aeon s
wreck-and came back with q, 900
South Sea eoeoanuts and a few tons
of guano.
Guano IL was not that Eben Low
sailed away from here with the inten.
ton of getting for a return cargo, nor
cocoanuts; il was treasure. There was
over 100000 worth Of junk supposedly
in the big steamer AeVn's wreck, and
besides this there was, somewhere on
the standard Eben Low ism I giving
detailed particulars regarding the spot
"A hidden cave containing thousands
of dollars worth of valuables collected
by "Bully'' Hayes in his "pirootin F."
expeditions.
Concerning the treasure Eben will say
hut little. He states that, shortly be.
fore he sailed for the South Seas on
his mysterious voyage, an old sea-far'
ing man whom he has known from boy
hood and who has sailed the South Seas
all his life, divulged the hiding place
OF Bully Hayes treasure on Christ
mas Island. All necessary bearings
were given, a chart being drawn for
the purpose, and Eben says that he
had little difficulty in locating the
pace. But treasure there was none,
nothing but number of old cutlasses,
sword bayonets, and similar relics of
beccaneering days.
"'Will you go back and make another
search for the treasurer asked the
reporter of f'Rawhide Ben.
THAT IS a pretty personal question,
Young man, ism t it3' smiled back the
hardy adventurer, leaving the query yet
to be answered And, regarding the
treasure, all of Eben Lows answers
were Yankee ones.
The Concord IS trip from this port to
the South Seas was anything but
Pleasant one. She left Honolulu in
rigging gale that threatened to tear the
.clOse-reefed sails to ribbons. 1t was
nip and tuck with the men on board
the boat for the first few days as to
whether ii were more available to turn
back than to sail on with the chances
against the little schooner s living
through the storms which seemed to
never leave her Captain Piltz, skip.
per of the Concord and himself man
who has roved the seas in small craft
the greater part of his life, even felt
some misgivings, but so long as the
courage of the handwriting cow-punch.
er, Eben Low, was game, Captain Piltz
kept his vessel to her course.
And how they did fly! To Palmyra
Island in six and one-half days in any
kind of a windjammer is going some,
and the Concord, with close-reefed
sails, made that time. She is an old
Gloucester fishing. boat, and she stood
5he strain like gallant little Trojan.
Her record days run was 206 miles.
eve went ashore at Palmyra Island"
said Eben Low, 'sand STAYED there
for a while looking over the situation.
On this island counted approximate
ly 1900 bearing cocoanut trees, and
there are about 1000 trees which will
bear within the next two years. We
were two days on Palmyra, during
which time we explored the greater
part of the place, and it was interest
ing, though hard work. Birds-why,
/ one to believe the tale. 1t Is true, never
theless, as the next man who goes to
Palmyra Island may see if he takes
the trouble to look l didn't disturb
the apparently eongenial pair, merely
watching them for while.
had my shotgun ashore with me,
but had some trouble getting a shot.
4 The birds were so tame that it took
lots of running and yelling and jump
ing on my part to scare them into the
air, and was too much of sports
man TO take pot-shot at them. coy
cred the most OF the territory Of the
little island, wading from motto to motto,
as the natives call them. A motto is
& a small island, and Palmyra is split
mp into thousands of them. The water
4 between them is not usually over two
or three feet deep and is simply TEEN
ing with the most beautiful fish have
4 ever seen. One funny thing that struck
all of us was the manner in which the
baby sharks, about two or three feet
long, resented our padding around in
4 the inland waters. / wore my rubber