The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-10-22

change for his soul I put it down in
pencil when | got back to the ship.
Sixty five prizes were taken by the
+ Alabama during the time she threaded
the seas, Prussia said. Before going
= to Singapore she had sunk the Hat,
teras, sidewheeler, off Galveston.
"She was tin-plated and we ought to
have sunk her. She had one gun. -
Then, in the Caribbean, the steamer
Ariel was caught. She was bound tor
Aspinwall, now Colon; but the Ala.
bama let her 20 because of her passen.
gers. Her master signed bond; "it
/ was worth one-half cent; but if the
COnfederacy had come Out victorious
we would have hal some pre- money
from that ship. we took a twenty
pound rifle from her"
Runs Into Kearsarge
And, in Cherbourg, the Alabama
found the Kearsarge waiting outside
for her. She put out.
"That ship had anchor cable chains
looped along her from bow to stern.
I We didn I know it then; but we would
have sunk her, chain and all, If our
powder had been good. We put l00-
pound shell right between her rtern
posts 1t didn't explode, or that ship
would have been sunk. You car see
the shell in her stern in Washington
now. ! was glad it didn t explode, but
I couldn't say so then. I'm not a
Democrat or Confederate!"
II was June 10, 1854, that the Kear-
sarge lay outside CherbOurg, and the
Alabama left the harbor al. nine or ten
clock. The fight lasted one hor- and
thirty five minutes. 1--WE began firing
a mile away; and the fight lasted an
| hour and thirty-fve minutes. Why, we
sunk the Hatteras in thirteen min.
/ utes,' - said Prussia. And it was of
Sunday that we met the Kearsarge.
Boats were ordered cleared away
when the end was in sight, but Prussia
did not wait for boats. He jumped
! ov erboard and swan. 1t was mile to
q French fisherman 5 boat, he said, but
h made the boat, although he had un-
derestimated the distance; and 80 the
Alabama passes out of this history.
Twelve men of the Alabama were Kill
cd, he understood ~ heard that Cap.
tain Simms went to Cuba during the
| ten years war as one of two captains
on a Administering boat
Bee ONES World Rover
From Cherhourg, Prussia went to
London in Hartlepool schOoner,
thence to Liverpool in the bark
Bcesburg. flying the Stars and Stripes,
"hut really a Conferate ship, to Mas
sau; and thence in the steamer Fanny
| blockade runner, to Charleston. From
that port he returned to Liverpool in
a cotton bark, and then got home to the
| States. He was an. engineer in ta'-
tory for eighteen or twenty years IN
Massachusetts. Then came the Alaska
! gold fever, and he went to the North
but he had followed a false report, and
| he lost all his money searching for GOLD
| in n river "as bare as this floor.
From Seattle he went in the old Nip
pon Yusen Kaisha Yamaguchi to Yoke.
, hama; returned in the old Northern Pa.
| ific Tacoma; and again arrived in JnOa"
| in the Victoria ON February %, 1904
| Stree then he had served as an all
! round man, quartermaster or enginee',
| for the Pacific Mail in Japan.
Prussia was born in Belfast pe"P."
| be- n, 1913. and was naturaliZed De.
cCmber -, 1886 His parents came t."
the States when he was three years nd.
and when he was niue and one nan
years old he slowed away in New
Bedford whaIer, which circled the Horn
| and went sperm- whale fishing in tn"
| South Seas. He slipped ashore In the
! Society islands, ~ wish | hadn t lett
+ there; might have been chief now,
h. said 'Of all the people / have
| found, like the Kanakas best
| Finally Bee ONES Stowaway
| He stOwed away when the fancy took
him and left the ships when he would
| The first time he was in Hobart
brigantine. Again he hid in gaff top
rail, where no one thought to search
fer a stOwaway, and thus he covered the
South Seas; Fiji, Society, Samoa, Her
/ vey, Raratonga, Navigator, with the
| little trading schOOners, that gave
beads, iewsharps and tObacrO-'n one
had any use for clothes for sponge
pearl, sandalwOod, cocoanut oil and
| ! each lamar 1t was long ago.
And 30, after three or three and one
half wears, he came to Honolulu i'll the
EIig Hobarttowm. The houses were
bamboo. at is changed now So ne
commented az he walked uptown yester.
| day. He was here about two weeks;
| he got to San Francisco in brig;
| slowed away in the old ship Red Jack.
ct for Liverpool, sailed out of there
! slime, and there his Alabama adven'
1 lures began.
"And are all the Alabama 5 crew
| gOne''i he was asked.
Dead, all dead; years ago! he re-
Piled.