https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/6fd94e3e2d50127e6cd1aaf05dd07004.pdf c261d238e0f1f273ec9fc6d1be7fe98b PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. HONOLULU, MARCH 1, 1849. Vol. 7. 17 No. S. About one o'clock P. M. of the day that we made the island, the Captain took us all on shore, and would not entrust the steering For the Friend. CONTENTS .oar to any hand but his own, as he said, if OF THE FBIESB, MARCH 1, 1849. should be upset in the surf, he should ASkoetRcahrfHonegneI,vey slands. Original Poetry, page 17 never forgive himself. There was a high j Sketch of Rarolonga, 17 on the reef (which is only 200 or The Two Whalers, 18 BY A FORMER RLSIDENT AT LAHAINA. 300 feet from the beautiful broad shore of New York Correspondence, 19 20 Books, Our Exchanges, Decrease of Polynesians, coral white sand) which partook of the magPitcairn's Island, Report A. S. F, Society, 21 Distant nificent and awfully grand, as the wind was Encouragement to Labor for Men-of-War's men, 21—22 Departure from Sandwich Islands view of Rorotonga Landing Cordial re- high and the spray was driven by it wildly Loss of Whale Ship Cassander, 22 Daniel Webster's Opinion of New Mexico, 23 by the Engtish Missionaries—Ef- and furiously. We made thp Rev. Mr. Pitception Donations, Death's, Marine Intelligence, &c., 24 dreadful Hurricane in 1846— man's station, at first on the N. E. side of fects of the Visit to Mr Pitman's Station Decrease of the island, but as it was too rough to land Population the Rev. Dr. Gill's missiona- there, we coasted the low cocoa-nut shore ry labors, Sfc. along for five miles—not more than a mile our "Polynesian Sketches," from it, rounding a point approached Mr. In continuing For the Friend. quite unexpectedly an interesting account Buzicotts's station which is at the bottom of PEACE, BE STILL. a small bay. This was not deep enough to When old ocean foams and rages, has fallen under our inspection, of Dr. break off the full force of the trade winds, works its will; And the tempest 's visit at Rarotonga, on his voyage but there was an excellent opening in the W One soft phrase the war assuages, to the United States. We are quite confi- reef 200 feet wide, where, curious to see or Peace, be still! wave wu dent that it was never intended for publica- say, not even a roller or rough When wild thoughts put forth their blossoms, to impede our smooth, comfortible visible tion, but on that very account the testimony and safe landing. We were scarcely on And the soul with passion fill, herein given is the more valuable. Would shore before we were surrounded by the isJesus whispers to our bosoms, Peace, be still! that every reader of Herman Melville's car- landers who seized all the children in their and misrepresentations, (in his late arms to bear them where we might be going icatures Tis thy voice, O Lord of Ocean I to with one accord, all Soothes the storm, arrests the ill; work entitled "Oinoo") of English Mission- This they withobjected much discord, till they were and Maria Fears are hushed in calm devotion, aries in the South Pacific, might glance an set on their feet. They had felt pent up Hearts lie still! eye over this sketch of a writer's first im- long enough, and now on land wished once more for liberty of spirits and limba. O when on death-beds we languish, pressions at Rarotonga: Let the same soft sounds distil; "We sailed from Niihau the last of the I had hoped to see the Rev. Mr. Buzicott, Whispering to the soul's last anguish, Islands, on M., the 26th but learned that he had been gone to EngSandwich Peace, be still! of November, 1847. We have had pleas- land nearly a twelve month. I knew him New London, Conn. F. M. C. ant breezes, but light and far to the east- well by reputation, and was aware of his acward. It was impossible to reach Emeo quaintance with me in the same manner arul For the Friend. and we could reach no island more eastward had intended to lay claim to his hospitality THE TRIUMPHS OF THE GOSPEL. than Rarotonga. On the 24th of December, for my family. The Rev. Mr. Gill Christ the Lord is King in Zion, we discried the lofty outlines of Rorotonga, was at Mr. Buzicott's station. I had never Bow, ye Nations, to his sway; forty miles distant. As we approached, it heard particularly of him, but presuming on Israel's hope, and Judah'a Lion, became a beautiful object to look upon, ris- Anglo-Saxon, or rather on Christian civiliFrom the strong shall take the prey ; ing sudden and lonely—green and umbra- zation, I made good my way to his house Sons of Abraham, geous from the shore to the mountain top,— and was received by him and his lady in the Hail with joy the glorious day. so pleasant and sunny did it appear, like an most cordial manner, and as an old acquainemerald set in silver on the bosom of the tance too, —for I found that they had for a From Ihe heathen's blood-stained temple, blue sea. Rarotonga is twenty miles in cir- long time heard of me, and were expecting Foil'd the powers of Hell take wing: cumference, nearly round, and is so con- me there on my passage home- Some ships Moslems on their Koran trample, that it much resembles Tahiti. It had touched there a few days before, and structed, And Immanuel's praises sing; is 3000 or 3500 feet high perhaps, of basal- had reported me soon to leave the Sandwich Turk and Pagan, tic structure, and looks more like a great Islands, and that the "Atlantic" would probOwn your Prophet, Prieat and King. body ofland that had been sunk, than like a ably touch at Rarotonga on ncr way home. Freed from Papal superstitions, distinct volcanic mass projecting from the In all my wanderings I have never known Burdens grevious to be borne, bottom pf the ocean. On inspecting it how- such a hearty and cordial hospitality—and Thousands o'er their lost conditions ever, you see numerous signs of volcanic all so simple and homelike too—as was exWith unfeigned sorrow mourn; action on the sides of the island, —as if the tended to me and mine at Rarotonga. We Search the Scriptures, lava and conglomerate had been forced spent one night on shore and embarked the And to Christ for pardon turn. above water or near its surface. The peaks following day at 4 P. M. During this time projecting here and there, among the more the enjoyment of a month was crowded into Christ the Lord ia King in Zion, round and rugged summits of the island, a day. Christians tune your harps again; were barren, moss-grown, weather beaten Soon after our arrival a messenger waa The Root, the Branch, the Lamb, the Lion, and needle-shaped. Those and all other despatched to Mr. Pitman's station with inO'er the earth triumphant reign ; mountainous parts and vallies indicated the formation of it. The next morning he came Hallelujah, action of the elements from an unspeakable) over to see us—jest a# Mr. Gill and myself Jew and Gentile join the strain. age of antiquity. were about mounting horees for a ride to his H. N. G. Pitcairn's Island, 1848. Polynesian Sketches. THE FRIEND. "we ibreaker — — — — The Poet's Corner. — ; — — ' . ■ i however �THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1849. 18 The Two Whalers: station. I wished iprj( I take a look att book bindry under his care—the mechanical the island, and after Mr. Pitman had restedI arts to superintend and much other business OR THE ISLANDS WITH AVI) WITHOUT A 8181.F.. we started. The path led through a forestI which I have not time to name. He is well , Mass., July 3d. F of mangoes, bread-fruit, papain and banana, and thoroughly educated, possessing much In the year 1836, a whale-ship left the of well for win- harbor which lies before my open window, adapted and a scene ofother umbrageous evergreens. urbanity manners, Sometimes we were completely shaded fromi ning and retaining the love and confidence for the Pacific Ocean. While sailing along the fierce rays of the sun,—in other places iof the natives, which he appears to have se- one of the beautiful islee of that sea nearly huge trees were lying prostrate near thei cured. He wished much toreceive commu- under the equator, sdaairge number of napath. The country .appeared devastated soi nications from the missionaries at the Sand- tives came off for the purpose of trade. No that the sun and tram winds had an oppor- ■ wich Islands. He had received an Hawaii- treachery was suspected, and all for a while tunity to contest their powelrs together.—■an Bible, &c, &.c. * went on amicably. But, upon a signal from This devastation was occasioned by the hurP. S. Since transcribing the foregoing a chief, the natives sprang for the harpoons, ricane in the spring of 1846. The effects for our columns, the following translation of: whale-spades, and other deadly weapons at of which were disastrous in every direction. .'hand, and a desperate contest immediately Huge trees, five and six feet in diameter, a speech of a native of Rarotonga, has fal-i ensued. The captain was killed by a single, len our over observation, in glancing under torn up by the roots, j:ocoa-nut trees, withi stroke of a whale spade; the first mate also their thin heads torn off, were visible, and a late file of the Day Spring." We think soon after. The second mate jumped overhundreds of cocoa-nut trees were pressed its perusal, in this connection, cannot butl board and was killed in the water, and four over many feet from their perpendicular poto of our readers:—.seamen lost their lives. A part of the crew sition, and hundreds more were levelled to prove interesting many ran up the rigging for security, aad the rest the ground and their heads taking a new Change in Rarotonga.—" Not long ago into the forecastle. Among these last was wbjle you were a civilized a young man, the turn upwards. Mr. Pitman told me this pathi we were savages, third mate, by the name of was completely shaded before the gale, so)people. We them took delight in killing!'jJones, the only surviving officer. By his off each each and other's' nutting other, that the sun barely reached the traveller oni cool intrepidity and judgment, and after a it,—now it was open long distances together. heads. As soon as a head was obtained, we| long and fearful encounter, they ship was Though the island appeared charming to me, i left the trunk to twist about, and the head cleared, the chief killed and many of his he said its beauties were all destroyed. He was presented as a sacrifice to our gods. It companions, both of those on board and spoke in mournful tones on this subject.— was the custom not only to Hill each other, those who came alongside to aid in securing Whole villages were swept away. The de- i but our taste was so depraved, that we 1the ship. Mr. Jones now became their capstruction of houses aad the great and beau- thought more of human than of any other tain, buried the dead, dressed the wounded a group assembled, they would and made sail for the Sandwich l tiful churches at Mr. Buzicott's and Mr. Pit- flesh. toWhen Islands, from man's station, were painful to behold. New begin talk among each other as to how whence the ship was sent home to this port villages however had risen up, almost to ap- they would gratify their horrid appetite for —the voyage, for the want of necessary ofpearances, by enchantment, but the nativesi human flesh. One would propose that they feers, being completely broken up and tliouof this island are very industrious, and itI should eat their own younger brothers; and sands of dollars lost to owners and underwas pleasant to see what an amount of labor those who were moved with compassion for writers. they had accomplished in eighteen months. them, would take them out of the way.— The blessed gospel had never shed its inThere seemed to be no principle of love; 1 tnade a hasty excursion to Mr. Pitman's fluence on this benighted island, and there were t hey without natural affection. station. His situation though pleasant, is we considered that we were in was no power to weaken the ferocious pasnot so pleasant as Mr. Gill's. Both Mr. anFormerly isolated that ours was only sions of men. Had the gospel been there, and Mrs. P., are out of health, and Mr. P. land in the condition,and that a little the way off, how different would have been the scene. world, looked to me too feeble to live very long, unthe and seas and when the met; sky foreign- Somewhere the survivors of that massaa, less he should improve. He is lean to anjers first came to us, we thought that they cre must find an asylum. Weeping over appalling degree, but says he bears great had broken through the sky to visit us.— their slain companions, in the anguish of exercise very well. His account of the hur- When we observed their clothes, we thought their own wounds, and in the disappoint\ricane and the escape of himself, wife and■ was their skin; but we thought it was a ment of their broken-up voyage, they must household, was extremely interesting, andlit very convenient skin, for you had a number hasten somewhere for refuge. But what thrilling. My hair stood erect at their per- .of holes where you could put away your made their asylum at the Sandwich Islands with whole visit at my ils. I was pleased When we looked at the legs of'so welcome and so desirable? The gospel property. Rorotonga. We rested after a month spent| the foreigners with their large trowsers, we was there! Missionary influence had made on the ocean, and we could have been no were afflicted with elephant- the island a fit and a safe resort. The thought they better treated by our own friends. We shalli iasis, and when weall looked at their feet we downcast mariner knew that where the gosloot back long and often to this spot with were toeless. We did not pel banner waved there was safety. supposed they \ real enjoyment and satisfaction. know their feet were inside of their shoes. Let us now contrast with the bloody outOur stay was necessarily short, but I have 1I have but little time left, but if I had a rage above recorded another scene. Some not of my observations, whole day I could make known some of the two years ago, another whale-ship sailed i time to tell you now though they were numerous and mostly customs of the heathen. from this port. In pursuing her voyage she agreeable. One remarkable fact however, When the word of God came, we were arrived among the Hervey Islands in the I I will not omit to mention, and that is the very much surprised when we listened to month of November last. In a dark and I rapid depopulation of the island, which op-ofi[what the teachers told us. They spoke to 'squally night, the strong current had carcrates in t>uch % manner that the excess us about salvation; and when they said, that ried the ship beyond the captain's reckoning, | marriageable males over the females of sim-jthose who believed in Christ would pass into and she struck on a coral reef a few miles ilar ages is nearly as two to one. The exlife, while those who believed from the shore of the island of Aitutaki.— I cess of deaths over all increase has been''everlasting not would be lost, these seemed strange)iThe masts were immediately cut away to reF one hundred annually, for many years.— things to our ears. After a little time God lieve the ship, but she soon began to break Twenty years ago the population of Raro- jwas pleased to carry on his work with great- 'to pieces, thumping on the reef with dread[• tonga, exceeded 6000, now it falls short ofj er power, and those were conquered by the ful violence at every surge of the sea.— 3000. * * truth who were never conquered before. In''Here were all the horrors of shipwreck. Send to the Rev. Mr. Gill, by way of Ta- the times of darkness, everything was bad; The crew took to their two remaining boats ; hiti, to the care of the English Consul, or bad food, bad clothes, bad people, bad —three out of five having been dashed in some missionary at Tahiti. Vessels fre- chiefs, and bad everything; connec- pieces,—saving nothing but the clothes they quently pass from Tahiti to Rarotonga. Mr Jtion with the word of God, everything wears had on at the time the ship struck. They | G. is a fine fellow, and understands the ob- a different aspect, everything is ameliorated. must perish if they remained with the ship. jects of his business very wall. He has a! My word of exhortation is, let us hold fast But what had they to expect from yonder isgreat deal to do—a Seminary of twenty!to that which will endure forever. Let us land that opened on their vision as the mornyoung men under hip care preparing for mis-| concerned to send the gospel to lands ing broke? How many wrecked mariners, sionaries to the uhchristianized islands ofj still in darkness, that darkness may flee escaping from the fury of the sea, had fallen before the fury of savage men. But go F the Western Pacific, —a printing office and from them, as it fled from Rarotonga." ,, I " r .. • .. , > \ *\ . : , ' : I i • ' I ', > : ' ' ' ' • ' 1b« �19 THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1849. they must: and with anxious hearts they ply Who can contemplate the facts stated in itations in Europe continue. We are getthe oar to reach tin land. Had the gospel reference to these two ships without seeing tine however a better class of her papulagone there, or bad it not ? Oa that ques- that the diffusion of the gospel among the tion than formerly; viz: those who have intion hung their The affirmative pagan islands of the sea is an unspeakable a competence of would fill them with joy; the withi blessing to the interests of navigation and dustry, character, and some of the wealthy. property, of life with together commerce, the and in protection despair! They reach the shore drerMiedI with water, cold, fatigued, having lost their•property, as well as in preparing immortal Not a little money is brought over by them, all. And what new •master was to cap thei souls for the bliss of heaven. Jv. Y. Obser- and what is far better, good morals with a ver, July 22, 1848. climax of their woes! ( to make good American citizens i disposition But the gospel had been there! TheyI ——■——^»—«SlSB—^^^—S^"^— Well, let them come—the poor and all—si were not to be the prey of ferocious men. that they are disposed to be and do right; Their first interview with the natives showed them they might dismiss all their fears. An 1 For Hie Friend. we have room enough, and unwrought wealth English missionary was there, and he and New York, Aug. 15, 1848. enough to give them industrious habits, the natives vied with each other in showing Just think of it! Two steamers, each of healthful morals, and a comfortable living all hospitality and kindness to the distressed are nearly completed, to Politically, just now the United States arc [ 2,250 burthen, tons the left mariners. When the island captain the chiefs presented him a document writtenf run between New York and New Orleans, what the sailors would call a chopped sea; by one of their number in a fair hand. The touching at Charleston and Havana in less and where we shall bring up on snch a sursame identical paper lies before me. It than seven days. They are to be put on the face our shrewdest navigators find it impos gives in their own language a brief account route the Ist of October and two more are sible to tell. Gen. Taylor, Gen. Cass, Mr of the wreck. Eta ma eteßu ote pai,"i &c. On the other side is a translation by to be added by the Ist of April. The same Van Buren; which shall be the next Presithe missionary as follows: company have a contract with the govern- dent? is the question. Mr. Van Buren has Sirs,—The owners of the ship wrecked. ment to run steamers from Hevana to Cha- just received a united nomination by an im' This is tha likeness of the ship wrecked twice a mense convention assembled at Buffalo, and here. We rose early in the morning, andI gres, on the Isthmus of Darien, route to Pan- will carry with him all who earnestly insist Thence the overland the ship was a total wreck. We went with month. all haste to the aid of the crew, and foundI ama on the Pacific is only twenty-eight on not another inch of slave territory. He j that they were all safe. A part only of the miles; and from this place steamers of 1000is understood now to be committed to this cargo was lost, and a part we saved. This contract with the U. S. free principle, and multitudes of both politiis the amount of what we saved: 251 casks tons burthen under to Astoria.— cal parties will give him their votes on this Government run regularly The of the of oil, &.c. * * word chiefs to the owners of the ship is finished. May From Panama to Valparaiso the British have account. How the matter will go time must you obtain salvation from the Lord. a line of steamers, which with the American determine; while thousands of hearts pray Ko Valma Rangi. line make some 6000 miles of the Pacific that the burden of American slavery may be Class Chiefs: Ko Tamatoa, coast thus navigated. Add to this that we reduced to a point rather than enlarged an Ko Umkura, Manaa Tangi. have now weekly steamers from Europe, iota. Freedom for a world! J. S. Aitutaki, Dec. 17, 1857.' making the passage in less than two weeks; Under what obligation were these suffer- so that a passenger may leave Liverpool, The Young Harpooner.—The Monthly ing mariners to that wisdom and benevo- and be at the following very good story of a the mouth of the Columbia in Rose tells lence which had caused the gospel banner to whaler in Nantucket. No wonder the young wave on that island ere that ship went to less than six weeks! Don't this look like hardy seamen of that island can handle a pieces on its shores! What a fate might bringing the ends of the earth together!— harpoon with such singular dexterity, when have been theirs had Zion never said— And will it not be literally so when a steam- they begin to practice so early in life:— Wake iales of the South, •Your "Passing through Nantucket last sumer shall regularly ply between your Islands redemption is nigh 1 mer, we stopped at an out-of-the-way house This island first received the gospel and the American coast. Many shall run for a glass of water. As we approached the, through the agency of Rev. John Williams, to andfro and knowledge shall be increased. half-open door, we beheld the following that burning and shining light among the If not a fulfilment of this prophecy, these scene, which excited our risibility at the Pacific Islands. Accompanied by two of the swift winged messengers certainly furnish a time to a considerable extent. native teachers, whom the church at Riatea An urchin, some six years old, had fastenhad chosen, Mr. Williams reached Aitutaki very good commentary. ed a fork to the end of a ball of yarn which in Oct 1821. The facilities for internal communication his mother was holding, which he very dexA letter from the captain of the wrecked in this country are very rapid and easy. It terously aimed at an old black cat quietly ship lies before me, from which I quote: to Cincinnati, five days to dozing in the corner. Puss no sooner felt 'During my short stay on the island, 1 is but four days and to St. Louis, from New the sharp prick of the fork than she darted Chicago, eight stopped at the house of the English missionoff in a jiffy, while the. experimenter sung ary, whose name is Henry Royle. His York! While Portland, New Orleans, St out in high glee, "Pay out, mother, pay out, was more than kindness toward me I could Louis, Chicago, Buffalo, and all the prom- there she goes through the window." reasonably have expected from any individ- inent intermediate cities, are not one minual. As regards his christian character, he A Student of the Bible.—Among disThe interute apart by our incomprehensible lightning tinguished is a man truly devoted to God. Bible students be mentioned est he manifested to those under his care is communication! What are we coming to! the late venerable John may Quincy Adams, who at other than have witnessed any I more or rather what is coming to us? I have just recently stated that ever since he was 30 missionary station. Every morning it was returned from a trip of 3500 miles through years old, he has been accustomed, among his practice to rise at daylight to teach his val- the first things, to read the Bible every scholars. The natives are a kind and hos- a portion of the great valley. O, the morning. With few interruptions, be has pitable people. I have never seen'any more lies covered over with corn, and the fields of followed the practice over fifty years. He so. They have a large stone church which wheat and oats stretching away and away has read seven different versions, in the hundred to one thouwill contain from eight to German, like own Pacific. Bread Greek and Latin lanenough your French, sand people, and it was well filled every beside English translations. guages, world: and the a considerable portion was there. have feed I while They Sabbath likewise a large stone school-house and of the old world is coming here to aid in about twenty-five stone dwelling houses. As producing and eating it. The current of Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, addressing crowded audiences in regards civilization the natives of Aitutaki immigration is unchecked, and will doubt- we see, is Exeter Hall, London, on the Philosophy of have made as great advancement as those of less increase very much if the political agi- Labor, aad kindred subjects. he Sandwich Islands.' : destlsf. — Correspondence. 1 " I . , ' , �20 THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1849. me with his practical wisdom, I shall not do not pretend to place our " 7 by 9" sheet pine for want of intellectual companionship, upon a par with American mammoth week2 MARCH 1, 1849. and I may become a cultivated man though lies and dailies, still we have the satisfacHONOLULU, excluded from what is called the best socie- tion of noticing that some of those whaling papers make not unfrequently about the ty in the place where I live." Books, Books. The " Serampore " came freighted with |C7» Strangers and visitors will find a same disposition of our " small fry " that a some choice invoices of " books, that are,choice collection of books at the Polynesian certain fish (the name of which is not unknown to New Bedford editors) made of the books," from New York and Boston Pub-, office, in Merchant street. brought no ever Ushers. Probably vessel prophet Jonah. into the North Pacific a better selection of Our American "Exchanges." Icy Exchange papers sent to our address, standardand miscellaneous literature. Such Per " Serampore " we acknowledge files at the office of the Am. Seaman's Friend an intellectual banquet has long been de-1of newspapers from the following offices:— Society, No. 82, Wall street, New York, or sired, although the foreign community at the New York " Observer " and " Evangelist," Mission House, Boston, will be forwarded Islands wag tolerably well supplied with in- ]Boston "Recorder," "Puritan," "Youth's the earliest opportunity. Should any of our tellectual nutriment before this arrived.— iCompanion," "Wellspring," "Dayspring," American exchanges, or subscribers, have Those who haee and read good books, will "Congregational Visitor," "American Mes- occasion to complain, that our papers are ever be ready to increase their libraries, isenger," " New Orleans Presbyterian," irregularly received, they must bear in mind, Sales, we are glad to learn, have been very "Missionary Chronicle," and "Herald," that mail packets and steamers, do not, as good, and we hope book publishers will be " Whalemen's Shipping List," and " Nan- yet, play upon the Pacific. induced hereafter to keep our market well itucket Inquirer," (2 copies ) In behalf of supplied, not merely with ephemeral works iseamen, we would thank the publishers of Decrease of Polynesian Races. By the epidemics (whooping cough, measand novels, but works of real value. Hith- Ithe Boston "Recorder," " Youth Compan- les and influenza), which have raged among erto books, shop-worn and unsaleable in the panion," and " Nantucket Inquirer," for the Hawaiians, during the last 12 months, United States, have been consigned to theIhaving sent files of their papers, gratuitousit is estimated that not less than 10,000 have Honolulu market, and the publishers did not Ily for years, for the benefit of seamen visi- been swept away or about one tenth of the probably realize their invoice-prices. When iting Honolulu. Speaking in behalf of hunpopulation. An account found in another we have looked over catalogues of some idreds and thousands of masters, officers and of our columns shows that at Rarotonpart former consignments of books, the thought isailors, belonging to New Bedford, New the South ga, in Pacific, a rapid decrease has crossed our mind, that book merchants:London, and Sag Harbor, now abroad in the has been for many years. Capin progress in the United States must think that Eng-i Pacific, multitudes of whom annually visit tain Jackson's of Strong's Island, Sketch lish readers at the Sandwich Islands were this port and Lahaina, we have a complaint published in our last n mber, showed that peculiarly fond of treatises on the '' swine," against the various newspaper publishers in there a depopulation was in progress. The " canine," if not the " feline " species, for.'ithose ports (the publisher of the Shipping same melancholly fact has long been apparin verity, works of this description have,List excepted.) Some time ago we were ent at the Ladrone Islands. (See sketch in most abounded. If book publishers desire accustomed to receive the New Bedford No. of our paper.) We recently January to sell such books in Polynesia, they should Mercury, and one other newspaper publishmet with an intelligent young man, who had secure their translation into the Hawaiian, ed there, but neither has come to hand for resided several months on the Gambier IsMarquesian, Tahitian, or Fejeean dialects. at least two years New London, and Sag lands. He remarked that depopulation there Anglo-Saxon mind is operative in these re- Harbor publishers have never condescended was fearfully rife. believed, that in It is gions, and we want standard authors in Eng- ied to exchange with the "Friend," while no part of Polynesia, can the native tribe be lish and American Literature. The book the "clippings" from our humble sheet referred that is now upon the increase. to, market in Honolulu is not extensive, yet have been neither " few " nor " small," for It has appeared to us, that, as yet, adequate should there be opened a depot for Standard, itheir columns. As opportunity has offered, causes for this general depopulation had not Historical, Legal, Theological, and Litera- we have uniformly sent our paper to the of- been assigned. Some of the causes which ry works, we believe it would return a hand- fices of the several newspapers published in have been assigned, cannot be true, to the some profit. There are not a few resident all the whaling ports of the United States. extent, which some have imagined, for it on our shores and to be found among the We presume no two copies of the Nantuckwill be readily seen, by referring to the numerous visitors here, who can echo back et Inquirer are read by so many Nantucketmap, and statistics, that this depopulation is the eloquent words of the lamented Char- men, as the two sent to our office. New progressing, both where missionaries have ming: "God be thanked for books. They Bedford, New London, Martha's Vinyard, and where they have not; where are the voices of the distant and the dead, and Sag Harbor papers, would be read, (if labored, there are Catholics, no less than where there and make us heirs of the spiritual life ofisent) by very many belonging to those plaare Protestant missionaries; where there past ages. Books are the true levellers, ices, who are always anxious to obtain the are no foreigners, as well as where there They give to all who will faithfully use them, latest intelligence from their friends and famthe society, the spiritual presence, of the ilies. It is not so much on our own account are many. The increase of the Pitcairnians, stands most manifestly in striking congreatest of our race. No matter how poor ithat we complain of a want ofeditorial courtrast with the decrease of pure Polynesians. lam—no matter though the prosperous of'tesy on the part of those publishers, as on my own time will not enter my obscure account of their neighbors and fellow-townsContentment.—Contentment dwelling. If the sacred writers will enter men, frequently calling at our office for in some measure all those effects produces, which the and take up their abode under my roof, if " heme" papers. It has not escaped our alchymist usually ascribes to what he calls Milton will cross my threshold to sing to me recolection that some years since, the editor the philosopher's stone; and if it does not of Paradise, and Shakespeare to open to me of a New Bedford paper sent us word that bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them. If it cannot rethe worlds of imagination and the workings he would send his paper to us, if he could move the disquietudes arising from a man's of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich be assured of a quid pro quo." Now we mind, it makes him easy under them. " ,THE FRIEND. wv ' �21 THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1849. XXth Annual Report of Am. Pitcairn's Island. From Captain Luce, ship " Margarett," . The Seamen's Friend. Seamen's Friend Society. we had obtained a few items of recent intel- The twentieth anniversary of this Society, Encouragement to Labor for Men-of-War's Men. ligence respecting the Pitcairnians, but weIwas celebrated in the Broadway Tabernacle, are glad to obtain something additional fromiMay 8th, 1848. From the report there pre- A Sweedish Sailor restores 700 Rix DollarsMr. Buffett (one of the three foreigners re- sented, we learn that the Society was never Good effects of placing religions books cm ship-board Vessels War should be siding there), who came as passenger oni more prosperous than at present. During plied with Chaplainsof Ward-Room supofficers board the "Dover," Captain Jeffery. At; the last year several new chaplains were read the Episcopal Service, Bee. present the inhabitants enjoy remarkable commissioned to preach among seamen in In the Appendix of the last Annual Rehealth, and are generally nrosperous. They foreign ports, viz., at Canton, China; La- port of the American Seaman's Friend Sonumber 147, the respective sexes about heina S. I.; Havana, Cuba; Marseilles and ciety we find the following statement: equally divided. During the last five years, Bordeaux, France; while all their old chapG. A. S., is a native of Bjorneboro, Finonly two cases of death have occurred, one laincies have been sustained. The report land. He spent his early youth in that city of those was a small child, who died in con- also shows that more than ever is doing for in the employ of a merchant. Becoming unsteady and dishonest in his habits, he fled sequence of a burn, while the other was a Iseamen, at home. At New York, five Beth- his country, and six years ago he was huntyouth, whose death was the result of an in- els are sustained, and at Boston four, while ing along the docks of London for a sailor's jury received in his foot. The number of'at every port, from Maine to New Orleans, berth in some vessel. He succeeded, arid to America, where he shipped in a U. births during this period has been twenty- the Bethel flag waves. At the principal came States bound to China and the Pacific the lakes and canals, Bethels Ocean.vessel five, or one sixth of the entire population. !points along In the Chinese Sea he was sick Mr. Nobbs still officiates as school-teacher have been established. Much is doing for both in body and mind. A fever had seized and conductor of their religious services.! seamen, in the way of Sailor's Homes. The the former, while some words fitly spoked by a pious mariner had greatly affected the latNearly every family maintains family wor- amount of funds acknowledged by the Treas- ter. On the way thence to the Sandwich urer, is much than at former anlarger any ship, and " grace is said " at their meals. Islands he read some of the volumes of the The Pitcairnians are in the fullest sense of !nual meetings, being $24,179,74. " Christian Library," by which his convicThe Honolulu chaplaincy is one of the tions for sin were increased. He arrived at the term, Democratic Republicans. Feand was conveyed to the hospital males as well as males, all vote for Chief'oldest on their list of foreign chaplaincies, Honolulu, a wretched man. Here the Rev. Mr. Dabeen established be having in will 1843. It Magistrate, being entitled to exercise the mon, the seaman's chaplain, made his acelective franchise at the age of sixteen years! sixteen years the first of May ensuing, since quaintance. * Gradually his health returned; and about The current year, Mr. Simon Young is the Rev. Mr. Diell landed at this port. the Ist of April last he came to New York, Chief Magistrate, and Arthur Quintal Chief fCT'For the information of seamen, we' and on Sabbath to the Floating Bethel, to Counsellor. When cases of difficulty arise, would give notice that, per " Serampore," a hear from the Rev. Mr. Hedstrom words requiring an appeal to the goddess of jus- fresh whereby he might be saved. * * supply of books has been received, for He had saved his money, and now came tice, she presides over a regularly constitusale and gratuitous distribution. If any up the question of making amends for the ted court. Trial by jury, is by no means an sailor leaves Honolulu, without a good sup- dishonest deeds in his native city. He went unheard of method of deciding cases among to of useful and entertaining reading, it his minister, and with him to the Sweedthe people of Pitcairn's Island. Pecuniary ply ish Consul, through whom he got a for will be because he does not call at the study about seven hundred rix dollars. draft This he fines are the usual punishment inflicted.— of the Seamen's Chaplain. If any one will has sent to his mercantile employer, with From all we are able to learn from visitors, call belonging to a vessel lying "off"and on," penitent confession, to pay him principal and and a correspondence of some years with he can obtain a supply for the ship, as well interest, and with the request that with the them, it is our full belief, that they are livbalance he will serve some others in the as himself. same manner. At the same time he wrote a ing as comfortably, quietly and peaceably, letter to his relations, telling them the story as the same number of people in any part of War Against the Grog Shops.—A woof God's merciful dealings with him. the world. We would call the attention ofiman in Cincinnati, whose husband was in Glad are we to read so interesting an acwhalemen to the notice in another part of'the habit of drinking at a neighboring tav- count of a sailor whose visit at Honolulu ern and then coming home and abusing her, our columns. requested the landlord to give her husband will not soon be forgotton by those who be Melancholly. —We regret to learn thatno more drink. The landlord refused the came acquainted with him: twice glad to woman's request; she followed her husband, learn that he still maintains a consistent proon Monday morning, February 19th, three and as he was in the act of drinking, made seamen belonging to the " E. Freith," took an assault upon the glasses, decanters, and fession as a disciple of Christ; and thrice a ship's boat, and started, as is suppos- other rum conveying devices. The landlord |glad that he should embrace the earliest oped for California. They supplied themselves flew to the protection of his property, a portunity to make restitution to a defrauded crowd gathered around, sympathised with with a compass, watch, clothing, bread, wa- (the woman, assaulted the house, gutted it'employer. In doing this, he has done no ter, &.c. Up to this date, nothing has been completely, and then proceeded round to the more than his duty, yet undesx these circumheard from them, except a boat under sail destruction of other coffee houses in the city, istances it was a noble and praiaworthy deed. was reported the following day off Dimond ;By this time the police arrived and stopped He once asked our advice upon this very the progress of temperance reform in Cinpoint, and it is a source of unfeigned joy, Head. Serious fears may be entertained cinnati, where, in a legal way, it seems to that our recommendation has not been disrespecting their fate. Their names we learn ]be most particularly needed. to be, William Lapham, Wisconsin, John regarded. Gorman, an Irish lad, belonging to New A Motive to Virtue.—Allowing the perA few additional facts may not be uninterYork, and William Collier, New York.—lformance of an honorable action to be at- iesting respecting this conscientious Sweedwith labor, tbe labor is soon over, ish or Finnish sailor. Hs was discharged, The family of the latter, is reported to re- but ]tended the honor is immortal: whereas, should side in Nassau street, near Fulton. Should even pleasure wait on tbe commission at Honolulu, from the U. S. S. Constitution, of' we hear good or ill report, respecting them, what is dishonorable, the pleasure is soon in November 1845. At that time, neither the it will be reported. Surgeon of the Frigate or the Hospital Phy. Igone, but the dishonor is eternal. — — : ' ' ' ' * * * ,< ,'< , ',, ,' ' ', ' �22 .,,, .•.. THE FRIEND, MARCH, 1849. ■Man entertained any expectations that he) TOO rix dollars to his mercantile employer'read theEpiscopal Service," and one of those coold recover. At his own request he re- and others, from whom he had wickedly tak- officers is about to be admitted to " holy orceived tbe sacrament, and with the utmostt en the same several years previously. Wei ders" in the Episcopal Church of the United calmness and christian composure awaitedI confess that we are glad to publish a fact ofr States. his end; but as stated in the above mention- this description for the consideration of thosei P. S. In perusing a file of the Boston ad report, he gradually recovered. At one upon whose countenances might be seen thei Recorder, recently received, we find a comof our visits upon him, he referred to the■ smile of incredulity, should it be announcedI munication from the Rev. Mr. Turnbull, circumstance that he had assumed a Purser'si in their hearing, that a sailor, —a man-ot- Seaman's Chaplain at Valparaiso. In rename, (a very common practice among men- war's man had become a converted man, andI ferring to the influence of good books he remarks as follows:— of-war's men), and that he wished me to un- ■ was now living a christian life. are at which show hand, abunderstand that " William Winson" was nott Materials " A most interesting case on ship-board has come to my knowledge. When other results followed the that dantly, good ■ recentlyStates his real name. From a brief record which the United frigate Constitution sailed efforts made for the moral and benreligious we have preserved of that interview, we are three years ago, the Rev. Mr. Parker, Seaable to inform our readers of his true name efit of the ship's company of the " Consti- man's Chaplain in New York, placed on which corresponds with the initials at thetution," when she sailed from the UnitedI board of her, a set of the Christian Library by the American Tract Society. commencement ofthe above extract. " No- States, having on board the Hon. Henry published contains forty-five volumes and is sold at vamber 26th, [1845.] About noon visited| Wise and family, bound to Jio Janeiro, andllt $20, including the case. During the voytbe Hospital,—saw the pious Sweedish sailor from thence round the world. Some good age, a marine read some of them, and by whose name I learned to be Gustavus Adol- remarks of Mrs. W. on the first Sabbath the aid of God's grace, good old Dr. Dodphas Silfversten, of Bjorneboro, in Fin- morning after the vessel left New York, hadI dridge spoke to his soul. He listened, beand became converted. land. While there I met Captain Percival, probably more influence than she could have lieved in JesusChrist this ' man-of-war ' he stood up On board of who came to visit the same person. He hasi imagined they would! The self-denying ef- alone on the Lord's side. He was derided manifested, I am happy to learn a kind and| forts of Lient—in maintaining the publicI and slandered, but all this did not prevent benevolent feeling in regard to any of hisi reading of the Episcopal Service, were not him from a full and resolute discharge of his without their good moral and religious ef- duty. men whenever they have been sick." In the month of April, 1846, he made ai fects! That "Christian Library," placedI At that time there was no chaplain on an omission reprehensible in any adpublic profession of his faith as a christian, on board by the Rev. Mr. Parker of the board, ministration, which allows a national ship 1 at the Bethel Chapel in Honolulu. On hisi Episcopal Floating Chapal, in New York, with five hundred men to leave port on a examination for church membership, wheni was profitably read by some whom he may protracted absence, without any spiritual adasked upon what he was building his chris- never meet until the Judgment Day! That viser to comfort the sick and dying. The tian hope he replied, in language we shallI pious marine labored not in vain, and| marine above alluded to, finding no chaplain in the Constitution visited the sick ward and " " never forget: The foundation of my hope, will undoubtedly enjoy the sweet conscious- attempted conversation with the patients. " is nothing which I have done, but simply the ness of having done his duty as a christian, The well would jeer, and often the sick '■ atoning merits of a Crucified Redeemer." when some of his opposers and vilifiers are would utter rude remarks and unkindly reHe left Honolulu in the following June oni exercising the deepest regret for their wick- pulse him. But he was not to be driven board the U-. S. S. "Congress," but was ed conduct! It was surely to be deplored, from duty; his visits were daily repeated and he tried to urge upon all the obligations of i subsequently transferred to the "Colum- -that a ship's company of about 500 souls, the gospel. The Constitution returned home, bus," in which vessel he returned to the U.> should leave the shores of Christian Amer- and I have lost trace of the man, but not of States. After he left Honolulu we received I ica, to circumnavigate the globe, without a his labors. two interesting letters from him, and in oth- Chaplain on board, and that too, when the The officers of the ' Columbus ' recently gave her men liberty to come on shore at er ways learned that he had not turned back, vessel was entitled to the services of a mm this port, and a speaking the Canaan having once put his hand to the gospel- ister of the gospel, and moreover when one language called Swede, on me. He had been told plough. In one of these letters now lying; was actually offered, but a naturalist taken that I was here. When I inquired how and before us, he makes most grateful mentioni in his place. It may be asked how this where he became acquainted with the Saof his indebtedness to the kind treatment of! could have been? It may be answered, upon vior, he replied 'on board of the Constitution. was very ill,' he said, 'and exthe Hospital Physician. We refer to this good authority, because, in the opinion of pected He to die.' A marine whom he accufact to meet the reproachful remark, we ihim, upon whom devolved the responsibility rately described, had conversation with him have often heard made, that in the sailor,of deciding between the services of a natur- about his soul and his salvation. He felt there was no gratitude! We believe it is alist and a chaplain, it was judged that the ashamed when he first spoke with him, but now he is bold and fearless for God. Diffias unfounded, when made in regard to sea- professional services of a chaplain, would cult as it is to live the christian life on men, as any other equally large class of our ireflect less honor upon the country, than board, yet it can be done. Ofthis he isshipcerfellow men. for he has tried it and trusts he has i those of a naturalist! For the honor of a tain, Some one has remarked that one fact is;great and christian nation like the United been successful. Is there not encourage" ment for the continued distribution of these worth a thousand arguments." We doubt:States, we hope a similar decision, may little messengers of truth and life? " not a thousand good arguments might be ad-, never be made, and if made, never allowed duoed for vigorously laboring in behalf of, to be carried into execution, thereby de- Loss of the Whale Ship Ship Cas ander,of seamen, yet there are some, whose minds priving 500 American citizens of the servi- Providence, by Fire, at Sea, and the suffer1 are so prejudiced that they will not acknowl-, ces of a gospel minister during a three year's ings of her Crew in the Boats.—The ship Cassander, Henry Winslow, master, sailed edge that it does any good whatever, to,cruise, around the world. In one other inProvidence on the 19th November, preach to} and distribute good books among stance, has an United States Frigate, cruis- from 1847, on a whaling cruise. Nothing occurseamen. May not the minds of such per-, ed in the Pacific, duringthe last seven years, red worthy of remark until the Ist of May, sons be favorably affected by this fact, that ihaving no chaplain on board, but for the 184S; between 4 and 5 A.M., it blowing a moderate gale of wind from the northwest at a Sweedish sailor, m being converted era-\ honor of the Navy, the " Ward-Room of,the time the alarming cry of " fire " was braces the earliest opportunity to restore that Frigate furnished those who regularly Iheard. All hands were instantly on deck. 1 > , ■ , ' ' • . '' > ,' :' . . ' . , ', ' �THE FRIEND, MARCH? 1849. - 23 and it was soon discovered the fire was in that we might get some sleep and rest to en- ■John J. Jackson, of the bark W. H. D. C. the lower hold, apparently near the fore- able us to bear the fatigue and hardship con- Wright, for the services they rendered, and mast, where four barrels of tar had been sequent on a renewal of our voyage. This the attention they paid me. stowed; it was also discovered that two of also he refused. He gave us some bread, P. S.—ln Rio, I was told Cora* the crew—negroes from the Coast of Afri- wine and water, and then passed a pencil mending Tilton, of the U. S7 brig Perry, ca—had jumped overboard; I hove a rope's and a piece of paper down to me to write that the Alercidita had arrived at Monteviend to one of them, but he refused to take the name of my ship that he might report deo and that Capt. Dormick reported to him it, and sunk out of sight. Orders were in- me. 1refused to write it unless he permit- having fallen in with, us; he said he offered stantly given, and every exertion made to ted me to come on board; and, against hisito take us on board and carry us with him extinguish the fire, and save the ship, but express wishes, jumping into themain chains to Montevideo, but that we refused, preferthe fire being in the lower hold, and the I went on board. He asked me if he could ring to remain in the boats. This I prosmoke so dense and the flames so rapid, that do any thing more for me. I told him noth- nounce to be utterly false. Whalemen's no one could enter the between decks; our ing but take us on board. This of course Shipping List, Sept. 5, 1848. efforts proved unavailing. he refused, and I left him. Thank God, man's inhumanity to Daniel Webster's Opinion of New MexAttempts were then made to procure such instances of bread and water, but the smoke in the steer- man," are rare, very rare, among seafaring ico.—New Mexico is secluded—isolated, age was so dense as to prevent us—this led men, and Capt. Dormick of the brig " Aler- a place by itself, —in the midst and at the us to believe the ship had been fired aft as cidita," will have the satisfaction of know- foot of vast mountains, five hundred miles well as forward. Three boats were lowered, ing he stands " alone in his glory." from the settled part of Texas, and as far with the customary boat kegs of water, a We again made sail and proceeded, with- from any where else! It does not belong small quantity of bread, seme raw meat, ta- out accident, until the night of the 6th, when anywhere! It has no bilongiugt about it! ken from the harness cask, my nautical in- it commenced blowing very heavy in squalls; At this moment it is absolutely more retired struments, and a few articles of clothing. hove the boats to until daylight, by making and shut out from communication with the As every exertion had been made to ar- a line fast to the oars and paying them out civilized world, than the Sandwich Islands rest the progress of the fire without avail, it ahead. At daylight again made sail, until or other Islands of the Pacific Sea. In sewas thought most prudent to leave the ship II o'clock, when it began to blow a heavy clusion and remoteness New Mexico may to her fate and make the best of our way to- gale from N. N. E., and we were compelled! press hard on the character and condition of wards land. to heave to. About 4 P. M. my boat was ■Typee. And its people are infinitely less Shortly after leaving the ship, the second swamped, and we were left to the mercy of.elevated, in morals and in condition, than the mate's boat picked ap one of the Africansi the sea. We supported ourselves by the people of the Sandwich Islands. We had who had jumped overboard when the alarmi capsized boat until the two remaining boats much better have Senators from Oahu. Far of fire was first given. He afterwards con- ■ came to our relief, when all, eight in num- less intelligent are they than the better class fessed that his companion had fired the ship, ber were saved. By this accident I lost my of our Indian neighbors. Commend me to and then, plunging a knife into his side, andI nautical instruments and all my water. the Cherokees, —to the Choctaws,—if you jumping overboard, said that he was his ac- The two remaining boats now contained please, speak ofthe Pawnees—of the Snakes complice, ne gave as their reason for acting; 22 persons, and their gunwales were not —the Flatfeet—of anything but the Diggin as they did, their fears that they would beI more than six or eight inches out of water. Indians, and I will be satisfied not to take sold as slaves at the first port we entered. In this situation we passed the night; noth- the people of New Mexico. Have they any I hope it is not necessary for me to say their■ ing was heard save the awful roaring of the notion of our institutions, —or of any free fears were without the shadow of a founda- tempest, and occasionally the voices of some institution"? Not the slightest! Not the of the officers and crew offering up prayer slightest on earth! When the question is tion. Being now daylight, it was found that allI to the Almighty Ruler of wind and wave for asked—what will be their Constitution—it the ship's company, except the African, were their safety. He heard our prayers. In is farcical to talk of such people making a in the three boats; in all twenty-three souls. the morning the wind moderated, and the Constitution tor themselves. They do not We found our supplies to be two boat-kegsi sea was beaten down by a heavy shower of know the meaning of the term—they do not and one teakettle, in all about ten gallons offrain. From this time we had fine weather, know its import. They know nothing at all water, about fifteen pounds of bread, andI and proceeded toward the land, where we about it; and I can tell you, Sir, that when some raw meat. According to the previous arrived at 5 P. M., 10th of May, on the they are made a State, such a Constitution day's reckoning, we were in lat. 34 deg. 38I beach near Conventas, in the province of as the Executive power of this government milesi St. Catharines, Brazil, nearly exhausted,,may think fit to send them, will be sent and mm. south, lon. 45 west—four hundred from the nearest land. No one who hasi having no water and very little food left. will be adopted. The Constitution of our never been in a similar situation can appreThe mate's boat was capsized in the surffellow citizen* ofNew Mexico, will be framed ciate the sufferings that succeeded. Con- ■ on landing, and Barney Reed a boat steerer,"in the city of Washington!— Speech in U. fined to one gill of water and a small portion was drowned, he being so weak as to be un- S. Senate March 23, 1848. of bread a day, in bad weather, and obliged able to extracate himself from the surf.— to pull against the wind, we soon became Near where we landed we discovered a Franklin's Wife.—When Dr. Frankexhausted, and had to trust to our sails, house, at which we were furnished with wa- lin's mother-in-law first discovered that the heading as nearly towards the land as we ter and provisions. young man had a hankering for her daughTwo after left I days Catharines, for St. could. the good old lady said, she did not know Nothing of importance occurred until the to give notice to, and ask assistance from'ter, so well about giving her daughter to a prinlon. the U. S. Consul 47,] sth, 32, when, the there. after [lat. Shortly I left, of morning ter. There were already two printing offiabout 10 A. M., we discovered a sail; all the negro either deserted or was stolen; in the United States, and she was not hands took to the oars, and after pulling and most probably he met the latter fate, his'ces certain the country support them. It would hours, distress for five we fears of which were of the cause of much so signals making was plain that young Franklin would decame up with her, and found her to be a suffering. pend for the support of his family on the Spanish brig, 100 days from Barcelona, I arrived at St. Catharines on the 19th— Iprofits of a third, and this was rather a made efevery He the Consul a with which procured vessel, to Montevideo. I Idoubtful bound chance. such an objection was If from the mate's boat went back and met the crew at a place callUs; fort to get away came up with her first, the captain would ed Loguna, forty-five miles from where I urged to a would-be-son-in-law, when there were but two printing offices in the United not let him come along side, but gave him a landed, and sixty from St. Catharines. some distance astern. shall I never be able to thank sufficiently States, how can a printer get a wnk now rope and towed him I then came alongside, and through an inter- the Americans in St. Catharines, particular- when the number is near two thousand?* preter stated my distressed circumstances, ly Captain J. R. Malcolm, R. S. Cathcart, and asked permission for me and my crew E. N. Jefferson, E. P. Mosher, and Mr. W. Nantucket Fishermen.—The Nantuckto come on board—he refused most positive- ■ Hammel, for their kindness and the assist- iet Inquirer states that the cod fishermen of ly. I then begged him to take us to Monte- ance they afforded me, both in St. Catha- ithat Island have thus far done grandly. The video or St. Catharine's or one or two day'sirines and to enable me to get down to Rio. ischooner Luraua has arrived with 30,600 sail towards lend. He refused. I asked I am also under great obligations to Messrs. fish, and the schr. Oneco is hourly expected him to let us come on board one night then, Maxwell, Wright &. Co., of Rio, and Capt. with 48,500 i ; — " — , .• . > . , > ■ - I ' 1 ' '' I ■- —-- —■ - - �24 THE AMEND, MARCH, 1849. Br shM'Abae. H. HowUad', Capt. Fisher, Dec. SO, '48, skjJ and Testaments. Hawaiian Bible Society. Morris, of Falmouth, 41 month, out, 2,200 sp*SM A fr*»xs supply IJCommodore hark per " Seraaspore.'' At the study*f the Sappkn, of New Bedford, 6 months out, 80 mil. 8, '4t, Mrs. eßebecca Johnstone, constituted a bbl. .perm-, Jan. 10, bark China, of New Bedford, SO month* Seamen* Chaplain a supply of Bibles and Testaments Life Member, by a friend; (the proceeds to oat, 1,900 hbls. tperm ; same date, ship Lion, of Providence, 40 Is constantly on hand and for sale. At present the asmonth, out, 2,000 bbls. Jaa. 19, ship Charles Phelps, sortment comprises those in the English, sperm; be devoted La the purchase of Portuguese of Stoninglon. 19 month, out, 1,500 bbls. sperm snd.whale; man, Spanish, Sweedish. Portuguese and Dutch lanFeb. 5, sblp Herald 2nd, or New Bedford, 15 month, out, 150 guages. Bibles, for seamen.). $10,00. sperm, 250 bbls. whale—bouad into port. Deadeinona, 26 March 1, 1848. tf Miss Mary Hubbard Turrill, a Life Mem- bbls. mos oat, 1800 sp; Virginia, 16 moa out, 400 sp; Golgonda, 17 The Friend sent Abroad. out, 550 ap; Mary, 15 moa out, 100 sp; Sparton, 15 moa ber, by relative in the U. States. $10,00. moa 200 ip; Autumn, S3 moa nut, 900 .p; inlander,So mos Any person, by paying the subscription price of ike Master Frederick Turrill, Life Member, out, out, 800 ap, Pellons. 450 sp snd wh; Canton, 29 moa out, 1800 Friend, ($1,60) in advance, can have the paper forwarded 400 sp; Malta, 16 mos out, 400 ap snd 100 wh. wh, by his parents. $10,00. Capt Hatting., Berampore, roporta Nov 24, he spoke whale to any part of England or the United States, by the eartf Miss Mary Alette Paris, Life Member, by ahip Cltisen, Lansing, off east end Btsten Land, bound name liest opportunity. Bibles ' Also, Dec 18, whale ship Ploughby, oil not stated. NOTICE. her father. $10,00. By Capt RichardLuce, Jr., master of ahip Margaret Scott, —Coast of Chile, Oct. 20, '48. ship Niger, Gray, 4mos. 80 a. o.; To Seamen and Stsanoebs.— The Seamen's Chapel. Miss Ann Matilda Paris, Life Member, by ahip Vineyard, Coon, 12 moa. 750 a. o. 200 w. o.; Not., ahip is open for Public Worship every Sabbath, at 11 o'clock, her father. $10,00. Fabiua, Smith, 2,600, home; beard from, in Not., ship Com- a. m and ~i, r. m. Scats nil. , Subscription. For the Seamen's Chapel. Mrs. Rice, Honolulu, Gummer, " •Mr." Sayer, " " "" Tibbey, Toplift, " Hatch, " " Capt. Fales, " Margaret," " Winters, " E. Freith," Mr. Cooper, " " Halsey, " " Thos. Douglass, a lump of gold, modore Morria, Jonea, S8 mos. 2,100 s. o.; barque Ruaael, Religious services will be held at the Vestry Room Morse, full, 2,400 a. o.; Not. 29, ship John Coggeahall, Luce, every Thursdsy evening. Usually, there will be a Lec150 s.o. 100 w. o.; Dec. 6. ahip Harbinger, Fisher, 6 moa. 60 ture delivered. a. o.; ahip lassc Hick., Rice, clean, Sandwich lalsnda direct; The Seamen's Concert forPrayer ia held at the Vestry Dec. 8, ship Emily Morgan, Ewer, nothing since leaving 8. lalsnda, bound lo Ihe coaat of Peru sperm whaling) Dee. 20, Room the third Monday evening each month. Seamen vessels all belonging (of nations) visiting to Ist. 20 8 84 38 W., Leonids., Swift, 8., $5,00 ahip Jon. of N. moa. a. 0., who reports off Csllao, ahip China,Flaher, 27 mos. this port are invited to call at the Chaplain's Study, 5,00 700 1.700 a. barque Smyrna, Hllmore, 38 mos. 1,200 a. 0., bad where they will be gratuitously supplied with copies of Inal his 2nd officer, Mr. Norton of Edgartown, whodied 36 Ihe Friend and other reading matter. It will be most 5,00 houra after hewsa taken; barque Peru, Flaher, 16moa. 400 a. convenient for Ihe Chaplain to receive call* from Seamen 8,00 o.; Highlander of Mystic, 40 mos. 1,000 s. «.; the above Is I between 2 and 4 o'clock, p. m. believe to be depended upon. 5,00 On the22nd on the Sabbath, of October, s man named James H. Blakey, of Public services at the Native Churches, 5,00 Edinburgh, Scotland, was killed Instantly by falling from the commence at 94, a. h., and 2} p. m. The Seamen's Reading Room is open at all hours of 2,50 fore-top-msst crosstres of the 'MargaretScott. o.; 5,00 1,37 2,00 15,50 Feb. 6—Hawaiian schr. Spy, Cortls, for California. Jan. 28.—Am. merchant ship Rhone, Hill, for Hongkong. Feb. B—Hawaiianschr. Juiian.'Moran, for China s—Peruvian brig Pacihcn, Swain, for China. —French wh. sh. Gustave, to cruise. 6—Bark Connecticut, Penhallow, for Valparaiso. 9—French achr. Sophia, lor San Francisco. 10.—Am. schr. Honolulu, Newell, for Chins. Feb. 13—Peruvianbrig Elisa, for San Francisco. —Am wh sh Margaret, Falea, to cruise. —Am wh sh Margaret Scott, Luce, lo cruise. 16.—Am mer bark Auckland, Jennings, for San Franciaco. For the Fritnd, Weusspaper Two Sailors, '* M. Scott,' An Officer, "Margaret," Sailor, Officer, " Isaac Hicks," the day. Strangers arriving and .having late foreign papers, are respectfully invited to aid in keeping said room supplied with useful reading matter. fiy Donations are respectfully solicited for the support of the Chaplaincy, and the publication of 'TheFriend. An annual report ol all donations is made to th* American Seamen's Friend Society, in New York. Any person contributing the sum of too is entitled to become a Life Director of the Society, and by #20 to become an Honorary Life Member. SAMUEL C. DAMON, Honolblu, April I.—tf. Seamen's Chaplain. Return Borrowed Booked The subscriber desires all persons having book* in their possession belonging to him, or the 'Seamen's Library to return them immediately. Some valuable books are Bailed. $1,00 1,00 50 1,00 PORT OF LAHAINA. DIED. missing. November 14th, 1848, on the const of Chile, Edward Morton iy Some weeks since, the subscriber loaned the 'MeArrived. Ml from the fore-top-Mi1-yard of ihe whip 'John CoggeshaU',of to some one in Honolulu, who New Bedford, and struck on deck which killed him Instantly. Feb. 4.— An.>. ah. Geo. Washington. Olbbi, of Warham, moirs of General M has neglected to return the volumes. He is requested to He belonged In or near Boston, and waa about 19 yean of 14 1-2 mo«. out, 260 ». o. 1,050 w. o. 13,000 lot bone. »o immediately. age. lie wai a amart and promising young man, ami much —Am. w. sh. Washington, Palmer, of New Bedford, 16 mos SAMUEL C. DAMON, esteemed by all handi on board the snip. J»n. 1,1849. out, 80 ip. 900 wh. 1,000 Ibi bone. Seamen's Chaplain. We copy the above from the last Polynesian, but we have, Feb. 6.—Am wh ah India, Swift, N. Bedford, 6 mos. out Lahnina Chaplaincy. since the publication ef that paper learned that Morton's true ! 100 •perm. name waa Edward Douglass, belonging to Atnherat, Mass.— 9.—Am wh ah Dover, Jcflery, New ;London, 7 moa. out, 20 Divine service will be held in the Seamen's Chapel, We obtained thia fact from a shipmate, Henry Metcalf, be- iap. 150wh. and 1,000 Iba. bone. every Sabbath, at 11 o'clock, a. m. Seamen, residents, longing to Northampton, Mass., who came out In the "War—Am wh ah Benj. Morgan, Chapel, New London, 6 moa. out, and viaiters, are kindly invited to attend. ren." I60 ap., 300 wh., 2,000 lba. bone. Killed, Oct, 24. 1848, James Blackle, Aberdeen,Scotland, by Feb. 17.—-Am. w. ship Tobacco Plant, Allen,New Bedford, The office af the Chaplain ia a short distance from ihe Chapel, on the same street towards, the aea. All persons falling from fore top-msjit-cross-trees, of Margaret Scott ! 29 months out, 320 bbls. sperm. Foremast mand 20.—Am w. ship Romulus, Hull, Mystic, 6 months out, 1 wishing to converse with him, procure the Holy ScripCapt. Nash, master of bark Prudent, reports that on his isperm whaleand 1 right whale. tures, or religious publications, books, etc., will be always passage one, while in north latitude 39 deg., west lon. 41, a —Am. w. ship Abm. H. Howland,Flaher, 6 1-2 months out, welcome, between the hours of 3 and 5 p. m. foremast hand, by the name of M. Josa, fell overboard In the i25 bbla. sperm. T. E. TAYLOR, Chaplain. . night, and nothing waa either aeen or heard from him. A boat Lahaina, July 39, 1848. waa lowered In Tain. New Bedford Oil Market. la Honolulu, Monday morning, 96th ult, Mr. Alexander The Friend, Bonnd. Siimi. He has resided fn Honolulu near 90 years, baring Sept 4,—Sperm, 93c, unbleachdd winter do., $1,10, hlearh'd The Fneud, bound, for one, two, or more years, can be come out In the brig which brought out the first missionaries tdo. $1,15. Whale, N. W., 34c to S6e. Whalebone, 24c cwt. obtained at the Chaplain's Study. JJ- A few entire sets to these Islands. He originally belonged to Marblehead, Maaa. At Makawao, Maui, January 21, 1849, Mary Cummings, iremain unsold. A deduction will he made from the subscription price to person* purchasing more than one adopted daughter of Wm. McLane Esq, and wife of Thomas Information for Whalemen. volume. Cummings, aged 1? years and 10 montha. Thia young wife and mother waa amiable, intelligent, faithful) and exemplary; The subscriber would respectfully give the following Seumen will never be charged more than the actual a blessing to her fkmily and friends during her brief life. She notice for the information of whaleships, cruising in the cost *»*of Ihe publication snd binding. died sustained by theconsolations and hopes of the gospel of iPacific. Recruit* can be obtained at Pilcairn's Island, Notice to Lahaina Subscribers. t'hrist, leaving to her afflicted friends the aweet solace of believlna thut abe baa gone to be with the Lord, In whom she for at leaat twenty-fife ships, at about the following The Rev. Ma. Taylor will now act as Agent for th* confided In life and In death. Blessed are the dead whodie prices;— 1 at Lahaina, and the irregularity which ha* atFriend," Com. iv the Lord." (2,00 itended the forwarding of Yams, per barrel, your papers, it is hoped, will no Sweet Potatoes 2,00 longer be experienced. Mr. T. will employ a carrier Irish 3 who will deliver the paper. Onions 3,00 History of the Hawaiian Islaad* : Limes 2,00 Lime Juice, per gal, Embracing their Antiquities, Mythology, Legends 33 PORT OF HONOLULU. Cocoa Nuts, per hundred, 2,00 1Discovery by Europeans in the sixteenth century, re-disOranges, l,0o covery by Cook, with their Civil, Religious and Political Fowls, per dor., 3,00 History from the earliest traditionory period to the presArrives. m In exchange, the inhabitants are ordinarily ready to ent time. By JAMES JACKSON JARVES. Third Jan. 17.—Peruvlsn brlf Psclllco, Hooper, 21 dsys from San itake white and blue drilling, at from 20 to 25 c per yard; edition. For sale at Chaplain* Study. Price, tl ,00. Francisco. and calicoes from 15 to 20c per yard. They are usually ft —Am. brigSabine, Goodwin,from Mooterey. Jaat received and for Sale, want of check oil, shirts, in soap, percussion powder, 10.—Ass. whale ship Margaret, Fsles, of Newport, 56 daya At the Chaplain's Study, a fresh supply of the publicacaps, old lead, carpenter's tools, fee. ilnaani Zealand; 7 months out, clean. tions of the American Tract Society. 81.—Am. merehaat ship Berainporr, Haatinfs, 154 dsys fin The best season for furnishing yams, is from August to January; Sweet Potatoes, throughout the year; Irish PoBoatoa, with mdse. Mesara Bvereti & Co. Feb. I.—Am. w. t. Margaret Scott, Luce, 14 mo.. 100s. o. Itatoes, from December to February, and July to Septem200 w. *.*S ber, 1 (two s.asons). JOHN BUFFETT. A Monthly Jonrnal devoted to Temperance, Feb. oadKm. schr. Honolulu, Newcll, fm. San Franciaco. Honolulu, Feb. 23, 1649. tl Seamen, Marine and General Intelligence. 7 BrtßK H. Bay Co.bark Columbia, fm. England. FekflM.—An. wh. sh. Isase Hicks, Rice, N. London. PUBLISHED APJD EDITED IT D'Aubigne's History of the —Am. wh. hark Elisabeth Frith, of Sag HarborReformation, SAMUEL C. DAMON, SEAMEN'S CHAPLAIN. 1 15—Asa. raer. bark Auckland, Jennings, 144 daya fromBoala 4 vol*. ton, with mdse. to S H Williams *. Co. few copies of this interesting work, elegantly bound TERMS. Feb. AS.—Am. w. sh. John Coggsaball,Laos, 15 months out, ■ A One copy per annum, in cloth, are for sale at the) Study of the Seamen's Chap11,50 4*o sperm. I*o whale. lain. Two 2,50 copies per annum, --..--. SPOKEN, This edition is with the prefaced following notice Five by copies per annum, Capt. Luce, (MMkore 5,00 By ship 'John Oofgaahsl),' on the Ten copies per annum. 800 Groans, Jan M, 1641, ship Roecoe, McClsavs, of New Bed- the author:— sperm have revised this translation line and line, I by word tj-Single conies and bound volumes for 1,3,3,4 tori, 1* months oat, with I,lo* bhl*. of oil; Jss. SOth, ship Bum, Bay, of Nantucket, a* months out, with 7M bhl* I|»y word. It is the only one which I have corrected. wds year. n»y obtained at tbe Study of the ChapJ J. H.MiauD>Aniiiu." 1 spsrm oil had aw take* a wham far Ive months. > "Signed, ' < — . .. • " < ., ■^———^^_—^^— " MARINE JOURNAL. ,'" " " " ',00 " " ' ' ' — . . THE FRIEND: -. ....... , '' SnSßßßssl " 1 £c -- sssssssssssssssssssssss^l........H.^l.............HK. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend (1849) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Friend - 1849.03.01 - Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1849.03.01