The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-29
sea serpents Are superseded.
BY w. II. CLARKE.

are not uncommon sights at sea, bu
when the fiery bodies take to sailin
) up from the horizon, instead of adheI
ing to the conventional course, the,
are out of the ordinary.
This phenomenon was witnessed b.
the officers and passengers of tn,
japanese liner America Maru, arriving
yesterday from the Orient, on Angus
Il, and those who saw the heavenly
body come apparently out of the se5
and shoot like a skyrocket uLwarC
across the vast void say they viii
never forget the sight.
1t is no fairy tale, because Captain
Alfred G. Stevens, the commander, is
ready to back his passengers in the
story.
! II have seen many celestial bodies
at sea-" said Captain Stevens, but
never anything like this. 1t was not
lcrg after dark that the meteor ap.
Peared down on the horizon in the
northeast To the great fiery head
was attached a bright tail, which
seemed to swing as the meteor moved
up into the heavens, describing an arc
.of 40 degrees, and travelling slowly
and not in a flash like shooting stars.
1t was beautiful and aweinspiring
sight and one not to be forgotten"
The America Marus log confirms
the story with this entry, which will
be sent to the astronomical depart
ment at Washington: thine, 1856 p.
m. position of steamer, 23 degrees
latitude, 155 longitude. Large meteor
Using from horizon bearing north 80
east (Mag), north II, east (true), and
describing an arc 40 degrees, approxi-
mately, and disappearing to north
west"
Sailors Married Island Bellies.
San Francisco Call: "All's well that
ends we'll" agreed First Mate H. H.
Hatfield and ten of the crew of the
ill-fated bark Puritan, who arrived
here yesterday on the royal mail
steamer Aorangi from Papeete, Ia
hiti, in the wake of their skipper,
Captain Chapman, who came up sew
eral weeks ago with full details of the
disaster.
From the looks of the men it would
never be supposed that but a short
time ago they spent twelve days in an
open boat on the burning bosom of
the South Seas with little food and no
water and the sharks ever ready to
swallow the first delirious one that
sought surcease in the waste. All
hands appeared to be in the Link of
condition yesterday and they state
that their trim shape is due to the fine
treatment they received at the hands
of the natives of the Island of Anaa,
on which they landed after sailing and
rowing 1000 miles over the ocean.
There's nothing wrong with them
black-and-tans," said the mate, land
thought l would never get any of
the men to come away. Two of them
they were Harry Smith and Martin
PetersOn-remained at Tahiti What
do you think, couple of dusky queens
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REPEAT, Am. schr., for Aberdeen
Wash, from Honolulu, August 2S.
Am. scr, from Columbia
River for Honolulu, August 9.
R. c. SLADE, Am. schr, left Honolulu
for Aberdeen, Wash, April 29.
R. P. RITHET, Am. bk., from Mahu-
kona for San Francisco. July %.
ROBERT LEVERS, Am. schr., from
Honolulu for Tacoma, August 7.
ROBERT SEARLES, Am. schr., from
Mukilteo for Honolulu, August IS.
ROSECRANS, Am. S. s., for Mon
terey, from Kaanapali, August %.
schr, from Mukilteo for
, August 22.
SANTA RITA, Am. S. s., ar Port
San Luis, from Honolulu, August 6.
MARIA, str, from Port San
Luis for Honolulu, August %.
5. c. ALLEN, Am. bkt, ar. Fort Bragg
from Honolulu, August 2S.
5. G. WILDER, bktn., for Port Town
send from Everett, June 8.
U. S. A. T., from Homo.
lulu for Manila via Guam, August IA.
U. S. =. T., e." Homo
lulu from Manila, August Is
SIBERIA, S. s., ar. Yokohama from
Honolulu, August 4.
SIERRA, Am. S. s., for San Fran.
cisco from Honolulu, August %.
ST. ROGATIEN, from London for Ho.
nolulu, April 27.
'ENYO MARU, from Honolulu, ar
San Francisco August "a.
Am. S. s., sor salina
Cruz for Kahului. August O