The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-13
CAPTAIN BARBER
AND HIS SHIP
Assistant Harbormaster Trip
Tells How BARRIERS Point
Was Named.

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among those who have been in the
Islands for many years or have stud
| led the history of them, who under
stand why so many haole names are
attached to many of the landmarks
| of Nature. BARRIERS Point, on the
coast of Oahu, for instance, was nam
| ed after Captain Barber, whose vessel
| was wrecked there in the days when
| Kamehameha I was on the throne
| Captain Trip, assistant harbormaster
| than whom there are few having a.
| more intimate, first-hand knowledge
| of the natives in the early days, tells
an interesting story regarding Captain
Barber. Captain Trip does not know
| exactly the year that BARRIERS ship
| was wrecked, but he thinks it must
| have been about 1918 or thereabouts
! for it was while Kamehameha was at
| the height of his power. The latter
| died in 1919.
Captain Barber came from the New
| England States,' said Captain Trip,
! land his vessel was loaded with rum
| He anchored off the coast here, and
| sent samples of his liquor ashore to
| the King. Kamehameha tasted it,
| found it good, and gave Barber a
liberal order. When the stuff vas sent
| ashore, however, it was found that it
| had been Watered to a great extent,
and Kamehameha didn't like it,
In the meantime, however, Captain
| Barber had taken his ship up North
| trading. He came back in the course
| of time with a miscellaneous cargo,
| composed, in the main, of valuable
furs. In beating up the coast of Oahu,
his vessel was lost at BARRIERS Point,
and the most of the cargo was either
washed or carried ashore. The King
was at that time over in the noun
tains of Hawaii, making canoes, and
| the natives took a number of liberties
| with BARRIERS cargo which the latter
! greatly resented. They packed away
| the furs, refusing to give them up.
so Barber and another white man
| who lived on the island got a big
canoe and went over to Hawaii to
| talk the matter over with the King
| Kamehameha greeted them very pleas
| antly, apparently having forgotten
| the fact that Captain Barber had wa
| tered the rum which he had sold to His
| Majesty. But Kamehameha hadn't
| forgotten. He had a big demijohn of
| whisky in the mountains with him,
and he offered the white man who was
| with Barber drink, The a-captain
! was ignored entirely. Barber, who had
| a genuine sea-dog's thirst, then ask
| ed the King for drink. Kameha-
meha laughed, and said: You don't
| like whisky; you only like water
| And he wouldn't give him a drink.
But Kamehameha was angry at his
| subjects on Oahu for stealing the
| cargo, furs, ETC., of Captain BARRIERS
! wrecked ship. So he gave Barber a
little wooden bowl, covered with a
piece of white tapa, telling him to
| show it to the sub-chiefs on Oahu.
| Barber and the haole who accompanied
| him then returned to Oahu, via canoe.
They showed the bowl to the chiefs
| without taking the Empowering off
at first, but it produced no effect.
| Finally they took the tapa off. and
| inside, set around the inner edges of
| the bowl, We're the teeth of the chiefs
who had dared to oppose the authority
| Of the Great Chief, Kamehameha. But
| there was vacant space, the circle
| had not been filed. 1t was an ominous
| threat, and it produced an instantane-
Gus effect. The Oahu chiefs had no
| desire to have trouble with Kameha-
| meha.
| $50 every fur, every thing down to
a needle, that had been taken from
| BARRIERS cargo was restored to the
| owner by the natives
| Fnr+ Ceorro Tucr,raueo Paid
Iloyds has paid the insurance on
| the British bark Fort George, which
| ers, the Matson Navigation Company
| of this city. The Fort George has
| been on the overdue list for a long
| time and was recently posted as miss
| ing at Lloyd's. She sailed from New
| Work, July &c, 1908, for Honolulu with
| general cargo, and the last news of
her was when she was spoken August
| 9th in latitude II north, longitude %
| west. Captain William Fullerton, who
commanded the Fort George, was well
| known here, and his tragic end and
| that of his wife, who accompanied
| him on the Inflated voyage, is sadly
| mourned by his many friends. The
| Fort George was a four-masted iron
bark of 1705 tons, 260 feet long. 40 feet
beam and % feet depth of hold. She
was built in 1884 at Belfast.-S. F.
| Exchange.
Overturned Derelict.
The United States transport Logan
| sailed from San Francisco the day fol-
| lowing the departure of the Alameda,
and the day after the troopship left
port she wirelessed to the Alameda
that she had passed a floating wreck
in the ocean. The craft was over
turned SO that only her bottom was
showing, and it was therefor impossi-
BILE to determine her name or what
she was. She was evidently a large
craft, however, and the Logan wire
| lessed the Alameda to beware. But
the latter boat had, of course, passed
| well out of the danger zone. Other
| boats are warned to be on the look
out for this dangerous piece of wreck
! age for some time. One rumor is tC
| the effect that the boat which is drift
| ing upside down is the Fort George
| the vessel which disappeared com
| nIateJy some months ago Rut this il