Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-23

and many Of them are hunters of new
sensations, and the natives are pre-
pared to give them most any kind OF
a thrill they desire.
The carcass of a dog or calf that
has been two or three days dead is
taken out beyond the breakers and
anchored, and concealed in the meat
Is a big shark hook.
Just why the meat should be old. ]
could not determine, bat concluded the
sharks like ii better mushy and rare
A boat with native sport manager
and the dead game tourists waits at
the end of the line. The meat usually
attracts many of the monster fish and
one is pretty sure to swallow dog
and hook.
Then commences the fun-to those
who call 1t finland the sportsman
who has worked a half an hour to land
game 40-pound salmon can form a
proportiOnate idea of the time and
excitement he would have to land a
shark big enough to eat him at a
mouthful.
The big fish will tear out to sea
with the boat in tow faster than a
racing launch. He will do everything
that a harpooned whale does-f1ght,
go down, try to escape-and some Of
his struggles make it lively work to
handle the boat and keep 1t from
-oyerturning
. They. say it is game sport. can
believe it and that it takes game
sport to play it. While he is Keeling
in and playing out the line and won
dering If the big fish will take a
right angle Jump at the next slack, he
has the game contemplation that II
the boat capsizes one of the big can
nibal sharks may come up from under
and bite his legs OF. pie. r. ~.
For that class of sportsmen who
like to parade their hunting and fish
ing toys, but who do not care for the
thrills, the natives take them out in
boats between Diamond Head and the
harbor and let them shoot flying fish.
as they rise from the water singly and
in schools. This is as exciting and as
dangerous as quail shooting in pas
ture. - =
In former letter l spoke of the
great hold superstition has on the ma
tiyes. Here is a true incident in IL
lustration. 49,. - -. -. r.
4 native court officer stopped me.
on the street and asked me il was a
resident of the territory. Answering
no had to prove by my card and tell
him at what hotel was stopping. He
made no explanation and followed
him along the street curious to know
why he stopped me. A white man
standing in the door of furnishing
store was accosted and saw the ma
tive hand him paper. III
The explanation l got from the
American was this: j.. 49,. !:
Some of the natives were hunting
In the mountains when one of them, a
boy, was accidentally shot. The shoot
er was to be tried and the panel of
native jurors had been exhausted be-
cause of the prejudice of superstition
and the officer was trying to- find a
jury Of white men.
The father of the boy explained to-
the court that he (the father1 had an
enemy whose will was stronger, and
that he had willed the shooter to kill
the son, and they told me that every
native called on the jury admitted
that they believed this was the reason
for the killing.
[ forget the native word for it but
the Hawaiians sincerely believe that
certain men have the power by mind
transmission to force others to dol
their bidding, and the father was posi-
tive that his enemy, who was said to
possess this power, forced a man to
kill his son in revenge; and the father
asked the court to have the sorcerer
arrested and tried as an accomplice
of the crime. H..
This superstition is common. The
man with the greatest will can use it
against the weaker man. 1t is said to
be a relic of ancieI1I .dasonry, of the
days when this power of mind over
mind was taught and practised, and
that 1t was one of the greatest reasons
for the overthrow of Masonry in the
islands. - .-9-.
Anyhow, after that turned the Ma
sonic emblems on my ring under and
kept my fingers crossed so that some
conjuror wouldn't be wishing some
thing on to me.
About thirty years ago a white man
landed at Honolulu from a steamer. |
He was about thirty years old He |
had a trunk and a big box of books.
He secured two attic rooms in one !
Of the business buildings, and lived
and slept there for ten years or more
without anyone knowing who he was
Or what his business was.
He never mixed with the whites or
blacks. Only at meals or in occasional
walks was he ever seen. He was never
known to receive or despatch any mail |
He attracted some attention by his |
strange ways but in the days Of the
the Hawaiian islands har-
bored many strange character who
found refuge there. .@.. ~
In 1893, when the United States de- |
posed Queen Liliuokalani, with the |
aid of the U. S. troops. this strange |
man came out of his shell and talked |
some, and it was soon discovered that
he was a lawyer of education, and it |
later transpired that he was a con-
stitutional lawyer and one of the most |
learned.
Judge Dole. John L. Stephens and
others who had prominent parts in |
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