The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-09-01

be linr After esplami one and tho
disclaiminf of any intended insult
accepted his extended hand and con
sidcfed The ines lent clogod
Many ffienls Of llawau'a Delegate
TO Congress, Hon. Jonah X. Kalaniana.
ole, will probably be interested in per.
us NJ again letter printcd In The Ad
vertiscr just ten years ago this month,
telling Of his experiences in South
Africa, whcro he was then travelling
extensively. The article, headed
! Prince Cupid Kills Big Game and
Fights Beers is as followsi
"wc left Cape Town on March Goth
for Kimberley, and the accommoda.
tions Of trains here are very poor in.
deed, ubout as good as on a third class
American train. On arriving at Blood
River, nine O'Clock, March 2lst, we
stopped, as the Beers had cut the line,
and here / received my FIRST expe.
rience of warfare. Five hundred troop
ers were sent up country, following
about an hour after us, when we found
out what had happened. The train com
ing from the opposite direction had
been derailed, and We waited patiently
until the soldiers had arrived and got
to work raising the engine and fixing
the track. 1t was dusk then. We were
getting ready TO proved and the pick
cts were returning when we heard two
or three shots fred. We learned later
| e haIa al,
| by the Beers. Shortly after the bugle
sounded and the sold ers advanced in
different directions from the train.
Five minutes afterward we heard more
shots and then the soldiers fred volleys
to draw the Boer s fire. 1t was very
dark now and in few moments bal
lets were flying in all directions, and
we felt badly scared. 1t was n funny
sight Chat is, it was funny sight
after the fight was pau, all the men
/ hid ng Under the cars, or running here
and there very excited, while the
women were taking it easy and laugh
i ing at the men. The shooting stopped
in about half an hour, and men were
/ sent out, returning with one of oar
pickets shot and two killed Beers.
They were buried near the railway. We
left that night for Dc Aar, arriving
there next morning. The commandant
/ Of the place told us that the Beers had
broken the lines in front of us, and
that two Beers were caught and shot.
/ Here we wero far from Cape Town
and in a nice mess. We left soon after
for Orange River, where we met
Major Mann, the officer in command,
who told us we could go no further
that night as the Beers were all over
! the country, and it would be dangerous
to 90 on. We dined with him and his
staff and after dinner he presented me
with n gan and cartridge belt which
he had taken from a Boer at the bat
tie of Modler River. The Engl sh were
charging the Beers, and while the
major was giving wounded Boer some
water, the fellow tried to shoot him
but the major was too quick ald kill.
ed him with q shot from his revolver
He took the gan, belt and shambox
away as a souvenir and presented the
last to the princess. We had rather a
jolly night and left next morning for
Kimberley. passing over the battle
fields of Belmont, Gras Pan, Modder
River, Magersfontein, arriving at the
famous city lext morning. Here We
wanted to see the diamond mines, but
first we visited the strong room of the
De Beers Company to see the diamonds
there, and it WAS worth seing the piles
of precious stones, valued at $4,000,
900. Mr. Gardiner Williams, the man
ager, took us around and showed Ii
everything from the diamond filled
sand coming down up to the sorting
rooms. The output amounts to $4,000
per day. l had several photographs
taken of the works. We went through
the mines to depth of 2,400 feet and
when we returned, De Beers presented
the princess with an uncut diamond oil
q very odd shape. The stone is small
but on it is seen the face of man
eyes, nose, chin, forehead and even
moustache being quite clear. 1t was
found that way, and it is very inter
esting curio. They showed us an un
cut diamond of two hundred and seven
lty-fve carats which was not so valu
able as small nine carat pink dia
mond. never knew there were SC
many fferent kinds of diamond. Their
are sparkling white, ordinary white
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white with black veins, light yellow
dark yellow, dark and light blue, darl
and light pink, and coffee colored. TIL
costliest of all is the dark orange, o.
which we saw four carats one, WORT
$4,000. We had letters from Ceei
Rhodes and that was why we wer'
treated with so much courtesy. Oh
the 2Sth left for Buleawayo with 81
Charles Metealfe and some officers TO
hunting trip to the zambesi Rive
and the Victoria Falls, and we hat
good shooting, killing big game. wal
out one day with Captain Hawks wheI
we met a herd Of bufEalos. The captain
wounded one and the Infatuated beasf
charged us, knocked the captain dowI
and then / fred and killed him with /
shot through the heart. Had missed
him you wouldn't have got this lette
and my remains would have been mea
for some African animal. ] have hat
the head of the buffalo stuffed AMI
will bring it home, I killed leopard
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