The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-26
STILL LOOK FOR
LOST MEN
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been actively engaged a few months
later if they had duly reached their
restination at Panama. There may
have been, therefore, an entire ships
company of men, now without coun-
try, cast away upon this mysterious
island about forty-eight years ago,
some of whom might be still watching
fora sail.
A marvellous, thing, indeed, would
this be, but is Tot all beyond the range
Of possibility. The mutineers or the
BauhtE, toulId on Pitcairn Ilsland,
lived there eighteen years before they
were discovered, and the extreme and
solitary isolation of this supposed
land of the Pacific would fully account
for the long undiscovered sclNsion
| Of the castaways. ii there be an
island, or islands, in this uttermost
part of the sea, and if, sooner or
later or should be found with survivors
of the Lovant, it's story might well
be thought the sIrangest real romance
of the sea in the history of the world.
There is another bit of circumstan-
tial evidence indicating the existence
of an island in this neighborhood.
Some years ago the ship James Camp
bell was abandoned near latitude ~
degrees north and longitude 12O de-
grees, west, 800 miles from the coast
to winGward and 1890 miles from
Hawaiia to leeward. Two boats left
the ship steering for Hilo, Hawaii.
The larger and better boat, we'll adapt
ed for sailinng, contained the captain
the captain with his wife and girl
baby and several sailors. The second
boat carried five or six sailors. The
captains boat made sail, and at first,
towed the other boat, but after two or
three days parted company, leaving her
behind. After twenty-three days,
the second boats crew reached Hilo,
expecting to find the captains boat
already there. The weather had been |
extremely favorable, the sea smooth |
and nothing whatever had occurred to
account for the failure of the captains |
boat to arrive, 1t is thought by some |
that the captain may have sighted and |
landed upon an island, where if he |
found it habitable, he might have pre-
ferredto stay rather than take the |
risk or further voyage in an open
boat with wife and child.
Among the persistent rumors and
even detailed descriptions of elusive
islands in the mysterious region is
the account of Capt. John De Greaves, \
for a number of years a resident OF
Honolulu. Capt. De Greaves claimed
to have discovered, in 1859, on islanu
in this locaiIty, and to have explored
it for two days. He then sailed away
from the island, and from that day to
this no person, as far as known, has
ever laid eyes upon the place. Many
expeditions have made fruitless search
for it, for De Greaves described it as
being rich IN a variety of mercantile
products, notably guano and phos-
pilates.
The fascinating figure of Lola Monez
is connected with DE Greaves discov-
cry, for it was indirectly through one
of the whims of that celebrated dan
Ger and singer that the island was
found. Capt. De Greaves had seen ser
vice in the old East Indio Company, II
having entered its employ when but
thirteen years of age.
About IS years ago when Lawless'
ship the Australia, was stapping at II
the Hawaiian portanmdtaoin rdl aoind Il
San Francisco, De Greaves met his for.
mer friend of Fiji. To Lawless he men
toned the lost island, and the former
became interested in rediscovering 1t.
So persistent was .le conversation OF 4
the two upon the subject that others
heard of the mysterious island, and, \
like Lawless, took more than a mere
superficial interest in the story of DE
Greaves.
On one of the voyages of the Aus
tralia, from Tahiti to San Francisco,
In March, 1902, Captain Law
less reported what he afterwards stat
ed he believed to be indications tend
ing to show the existence of De
Greaves Island. These signs and tok-
ems consisted principally of two pat
ches of discolored water, about 100
feet square each, which Lawless took
to be shoal water, denoting the pre-
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