The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-06-25
MAVERICK O|LER
TELLS MYSTICAL
TALE OF CRUISE
lose CamaIiche Spins Story Of
Search For Schooner of
Lower California
THREE HINDUS ALSO ARE
THROWN INTO LlMELIGHT
British Men-ot-War Ask Why
Steamer Lies SO Long
of Island

A tale so fantastic as % &c aim 1st
Incredible was told of tic steamer
Maverick by an oiler from the ship,
Jose Camaliehe, at the Queen s II 1s.
Pital last night. The Maverick arriv.
ed at HilO, June il on a mysterious
mission. She is reported from Hilo 20
have sailed Monday for Java. ~.
Readers may believe as much or as
little of the story as they like. II was
told in apparent good latin by Canal.
ache. ..
| In his narrative there are curious
things related: Clearing from San
Pedro with a crew recruited in San
Francisco; waiting about stands of
Lower California for a three mastcG
schooner that did not come; finding
-four men maroOned on an island with
la letter from the master Of that schOora
llaT; being boarded by officers from two
British men-of.war who wished to know
I"why the hell that steamer was wait.
Ting around there;' and finaiiy sailing
for HilO with five Hinduu rs cabin
tpassengers-nen who wore rugs -.
about their heads, as Camaliche said,
and were generals having things
on their shoulders which presumably
were epaulets. "a
Camaliche could not say why the !
steamer was going TO Java. In justice
TO him, 1t should be said that his story
lcheeks we'll with tina; told by capt. W,
II. Nelson TO Samuel dc Freest OF
Honolulu, except that the captain did
not tell as much, of course. Captain
Nelson did say to Mr.. de Freest that
) he had gone from Lower California to
; unnamed islands and thence had sailed
for Hilo. In this the stories agree.
The Maverick sailed from San Pedro,
April %, with a polyglot crew recruit
ed at San Francisco. Camaliche sail
, his passage TO San Pedro was paid, as
was that of the other men. Why was
the crew signed at San Franciscoi
r l' Because the captain no want people
= lat San Pedro TO know what he was do.
e ing" Camaliche explained.
= Men of the crew were told they
$ were going to Mexico and would return
a to San Pedro. The sip did go TO
o Mexico. "San Jose Sandical' was the
. best that could be made OF Camaliche Is
uncertain RECOMMENDATION. 1t was 1870
y miles to MaZatlan, however, he said,
$ and the port would appear to be SaI
T. lose del Cabo, which is on the tip OF
! the peninsula.
II Two days were spent there. AS five
, days had been taken by the passage
II from San Pedro, the Maverick ap-
:. parentIy sailed from the MeX:an por,
: about April 90. That was Camalicho 3
l. recollection. q
Speaks Of Two SChooners
It would be we'll to understand that
Camaliche spoke of two schooncrs, the
little one, "ali bad at top" and the
larger for which Nelson sought,
After the Maverick had been at this
island ten or twelve days, a big British
man of war came up. Cama!iche was
sure she was British.
Men come In boats and ask captain
what the hell he doing there. Captain
show papers and they go away. After
while little ship come and want to know
what the caotain doing there. He say:
Oh, just cleaning ship, AMI they ; q
away, too
Camaliche was sure these ships had
NJ connection with the Maverick. lie
was positive they were not japanese, al
though men of-wat of that nation would
seem likely to be of Lower California
and not British.
Now, on MAY 20. the Maverick, firing
of her long wait, departed from the isl
and of the four marOoned men and the
British ships. She set her course for
what sounded like "San BenitO' AMI
there is an island of that name OFF the
Sebastian NiscainO bay. halfway up the
Peninsula of Lower California. Sht
searched here for the stray schooner
she went to Guadalupe, AGO miles away
Camaliche said, and to the northwest
Hero the geography appears good. Qua
dulupe lies in us west aud 80 north
San RenitO in ll5 west ana % north.
, Six Months Provisions
Opposed to this parsimOny, there i
Camaliehe 5 statement that the steame
Maverick had provisions for six mouths
and more now that she has taken mea
) at HilO. She also has oil for "a yea
or six months" CamaIiche said; it wa
difficult to learn just how much, but sh
!. had ninety or a hundred barrels" oil
1 deck, full of OIL" Mr.. de Freest un
0 derstood she had 5000 barrels in ALI Tn
] steamer 5 crew was made up of Captain
2 Nelson, three mates, the purser, tire
= fremen, three oilers, one wiper, cigh
: sailors and four engineers, Camalich
4 said. He himself was an Oiler.
d "The captain say sailors talk to
8 much, so he pay them of at HilO,
Z Camaliche said. "lIe put steward ash
n ORE. - With Gamaliche, six meu appea
4 to have been dropped from the ship u
y IIlo. .
9 Cnmaliche sought medical attentio
y from DR.. +, 4. Trotter, who sent hin
= to the Queens Hospital. The ma
N thought he was i'll Of tuberculosis, bu
. DR., Trotter does not think So lie wi
IL return to San Francisco soon.
D Advices from Hilo yesterday said I'll
l. ship sailed Monday for Angler, Jaw,
:, Captain Nelson told Mr. de Freest
., was going to Java. Camalirhr sai
4: " ROrneO, that waV, somewhere
y This wear is 1918; it is in the twel
. tieth century: il thu Maverick did a
!. these things il would appear that "
are living about 1850.