The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-01-09
OLDSH|PMATE OFF,
LLYHAYESHERE
Freebooter Was Not As Bad As
Many Report Says Captain
CaIlaghan OF Cecilia Sudden


the Pacific, during which the voice of
the investigator has ever been raised
against him In condemnation, ''Bullyn
Hayes has at least one old acquaintance
who paints him less black than most.
This is Captain Callaghan, who arrived
here on January in, command Of the
four. masted schooner Cecilia Sudden
and who signed of the articles here in
order to return TO New Zealand. Cap.
tain Callaghan is one of the few men
alive who sailed with t'BuIiy" Hayes,
having been with him six months be-
fore the mast. .s.. ~ s.. ... 1870
Bully Hayes was not as bad as
nearly every one says he was, ,, said
Captain Callaghan yesterday. "'He
dealt squarely with men until he was
cheated and when he was he became
a very bad customer indeed. But"
said Captain Callaghan, with his eyes
lighting with a score of "reminiscences,
che certainly had no use for niggers!
Not To Be Trifed With r,
81 remember on one occasion when
Hayes vessel, the Leonora, was lying
of Sow, FIJI, when I was with him.
The English had not taken over the
group at that time. Hayes had put in
for pigs and other provisions and con.
sidered himself to have had the worst
of the marketing. He consequently
planned typical Bully Hayes re-
venge. .
HE had already got native and his
wife on board ship, having been offered
fifty pounds for pair Of them by
New Zealand squatter If he could slip
them in and had previously made 4
little money in that way. He had to
take practically his entire crew ashore
to carry out his plans and had to leave
his two prisoners under the guard Of
his wife, who he had on board with
him. :...... ...-
He started in by burning down the
entire native town and driving its in
habitants into the bush, and the ex.
citement, noise and glare startled the
prisoners on board so much that both
jumped overheard and swan for IL.
Mrs. Hayes promptly pulled down
gun and fired at them as long as she >
could see them, but missed with every
shot.
"When Hayes got back, his wife
had lot to answer for and il did her
no good to explain that she had done
lbsT best to shoot the fugitives. She
lad, in Bully s eyes committed a griey-
GUS crime. There was no excuse to
aim for failing to hit 'nigger.tn 4.
Hasa Daughter Living Thals,lAJk "a.
A daughter of Hayes, says Captain
Callaghan, is now living in Levuka.
She is a Mrs. Bentley. Sons Of the
famous old South Sea daredevil and
pirates are also living, he says. T..
Captain Callaghan, whose seventy
years have not dimmed his eye or des-
trOyed one bit of the recollections Of
a half n century of Pacific seafaring,
expects to return on the Ventura on
the fifteenth of this month, but having
seen four days Of Honolulu, Is not so
certain that he would not like to change
his residence in Honolulu S favor.
There are few things that are done
in the Paicfc from trading to black.
birding that Captain Callaghan has not
had a hand in. He has been in the
Fijis for thirty years, and for twenty
of that was is command of the Cover
nor's despatch boat; it fell to him TO
be pilot and guide to many distinguish
ed travellers.
Entertained King George
Among the latter was King George
of England who was at that time
Duke of York, simple naval officer
with no thoughts of a throne and
sceptre. He WAS accompanied by the
Duke of Clarence whose death later
opend up the road to Buckingham Pal
ace to the other. Captain Callaghan
took them about the group and found
royalty to be the best of companions.
At other times he has had with him
Miss Gordon Cummins, the celebrated
traveller and told yesterday of another,
an Austrian ambassador whose name
he had forgotten but whose dignity and
importance he guaged surely by the or.
der he received to convey the distin.
guished parsonage to a certain latitude
and longitude where Royal Mail boat
would be waiting to take him on--and
the Royal Mail liner was obsequiously
there. -0.. 49,.
Just Missed His Wife
Captain Callaghan took command of
lne Sccellh sudden AT Anklanu under
none Of the unpleasant circumstances
of incipient mutiny on the part of the
crew, as has been advertised. He sailed
via Leyuka hoping to meet Mrs. Callag.
han there but was twenty-five days on
the voyage instead of the twelve he en-.
pected and found on his arrival that
she had already left for New Zealand.
He came direct TO Honolulu, therefore,
getting his first glimpse of the most
nOrtherly group of Polynesia fifty-seven
days later. His mate, Paulton, will
take the vessel on from here to San
Francisco. The Cecilia Sudden il a
bald.headed fourmaster of American,
build, transferred only recently to
British registry and owned by "JamH
Jones of Hobart Town, Tasmania,
whose preserves are famous in anti.
pOdal marts and even heard of in Ho.
nolulu. Her crew includes the newt
able ScOtChman and several Swedes hut
the majority of them are Hobart Town
ers.
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