https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/f8464b8835273ff81dad7adced524e60.pdf 49ebe8192a91a44594b71bd928b7938b PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND. 89 nONOLULIT, DECFiNBKR 6, New Series, Vol. 11, \». XII. Old Series VOL. X. 1853. « A glancing review at our columns during; standing, and reckon others among our patthe period now referred to, will show that rons, who cheer us by their donations, when89 great and important changes have taken place ever they visit the Islands. Relying still End of volume X, 80 The Steamer Akamai, in the political, moral and religious world. In upon the aid with which the public has hith90,91,92 Letters about the Arctic, Nos. 9, 10, 11, 12, no part of the world have the changes been erto favored our humble efforts to furnish a 92 Feejee Islands, No. 3, greater than in the Pacific. Ten yeas ago monthly sheet, devoted to " temperance, 93 Uncle Tom's Literature, seamen and general intelligence," we have ..----93 Oregon was looming into the political horiPoetry, California was a terra incognita ex- made arrangements for commencing volume Notices, -------93 zon. I 94, 95 cept to hide-drogging traders, Catholic pa- 11th. Life on Board a Man-01-War, 9ti Rum in the Arctic, dres, and the Danas " two years before the 9t> The Steamer Akamai. Marine News, Ace, etc., mast." About that time the French displayThe good steamer "Akamai," late the S. ed their flag at the Marquesas and Tahiti, Wheeler, has now become naturalized, B. while the English Flag, provisionally, floated a and has made two successful trial trips, one over Hawaiian shores. During the past ten to Lahaina and the other to Kauai. It was HONOLULU, DECEMBER G, 1853 years the changes in the political affairs of our privilege to take passage to and from LaEurope have been very great. The King of haina; and having been an old voyager on End of volume X. the French ran away from his throne, and board the mosquito craft about the islands, This number concludes the 10th volume other European monarchs got ready to run we hail with unfeigned delight this new mode its of The Friend, and the lltli year since from theirs, but they still remain ! Brother of The vessel has shown that conveyance. been discommencement, the paper having Jonathan has added several acres to his doshe possesses good sailing qualities, and in 1851. decade A continued during the year main from the territory of Mexico. The weather be perfectly safe, —a ordinary will no portion of years, is really inconsiderable long established (hrone of the Emperors of hundred times more so than many of the misWe feel it to acknowldue, of human life. China, is tottering, and Japan seems to be little erable schooners which have been plyedge that kind providence, which has permit- opening, while the most marvellousofnationIslands. No who has among the ing person ted us, year afteryear, to pursue the even ten- al and political events is this, that our little not been to the subjected fatigue, anxiety, or ofpur way. Ten years of experience, as Kingdom of Hawaii, remains in statu quo! of a native annoyance trouble, and danger an editor, has enabled us to become acquain-, Ye political, filibustering, and would-be-wise can the steamer. appreciate schooner, fully ted with men, study their principles and es- sages, for once, confess your error in judg- Such a person would say the new name timate their worth. Our readers may have, ment. Any man in 1843, who should have have been as well as AkaMaikai," should oftentimes, had occasion to complain of our predicted that His Majesty, Kamehameha both mai. We and natives hope foreigners want of skill, tact and ability in defending 111, would now have been at the head of this will, so far as possible, afford encouragement adthe principles which we have professedly Kingdom, would have been deemed a to this enterprise. We regard the presence vocated, still we have never been a-hamed mad man. So it is, God is wiser than man. steamer as marking a new era in the of this Touchof, or abandoned those principles. By me kings reign," sailh God by Solomon. prosperity of the Islands. Once, twice, thrice ing the temperance question, or total absti- Would that man might learn that, " God is we say, " Success to the good steamer Akanence principle, we stand in 1853, where we the judge : he puttcth down one, and sctteth mai." We must not omit to say a word in stood in 1843. As regards the moral im- up another." regard to the officers and men attached to provement of seamen, the subject of mis-ions, Our political sages still assert that the the vessel. They appear in all respects as sabbath observances and kindred topics, we( signs of the times arc portentous, that war, worthy the confidence and esteem of the pubhave aimed to utter our sentiments distinctly steam, gold and commerce will effect even lic, and as just the right sort of men to start and scripturally. Our regrets are that we greater charges. Be it so, we shall not this enterprise, and if it does not succeed uncould not have been more successful in urg- murmur or repine, for we read in that bless- der their management, no others need make in" upon our readers the importance of living ed volume which infidels despise, and christ- the attempt. in accordance, with the established laws of ians prize, " I will overturn, overturn, overtheir physical, social, moral anJ religious turn." Abetter lime, we hope, is coining. In this No., we conclude, the valuable natures. Relying, however, upon the truth We are hopeful for the future. A being of series of Letters about the Arctic."— of these principles, and the happiness which infinite power and wisdom is at the helm of We are utterly at a loss, to whom lo attribute their authorship. May other shiptheir observance confers upon mankind, we the woild and universe. masters be encouraged to take up the pen forward and desire to out express are most firmly resolved to press In conclusion, we and try their hand nl authorship, as well as all those we have do the to with most grateful acknowledgments, anything to so long as to wielding the harpoon, and lance. If any press, our readers, shall have, " precept up- persons, who have directly or indirectly con- of our seafaring acquaintance know the on precept ; line upon line ; here a little tributed for the support of The Friend: We writer of these letters, we should be glad to there a little." are gl.id to have subscribers of ten years' have him make it known. on ten is OF THE FRIEND, DECEMBER 6, 1853. - ---------- -- -- -- - - - --------- . TUE FufQl« " 1 1 " " �THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 90 1853. Letters about the Arctic No 9. |Had this been the case, at the end of six is when the logs are thick, and the wind high. lives of the Arctic Historical sketch ofr thousand years, it appears to me, the entin There could not have been less (linn three surface of the ocean would have been liter- thousand polar whales killed Inst season, yet whaling covered with whales. the average of oil is only hall'as great as it At Sea, Dec. 22, 1852. ally After the Southern Ocean whales were was two years ago. This fact speaks for itTo resume my descriptions of the natives well cut up, the ships penetrated the Indian self, and shows (lint it will not long be prothe Arctic. The last season I was near 1 ond South Pacific Oceans, St. Pauls, Cro- lilnble to send ships lo the Arctic. Il the land only a few times, and in consequence zettes, Desolation, New Holland, New Zea- ships were withdrawn for len years, you r but little of the natives. They came on land, and Chili. I believe it is not more might again have good whaling. Would it board off St. Lawrencn bay and at the Dio- than twenty years since whaling began in not be the wisest course to pursue ? Would mede Islands. At both places their chief de- either of Ihese localities—but where now are it not be belter to draw oft' most of the fleet sire seemed to be for rum, which they de- ihe whales, at first found in great numbers } from the old whaling grounds, and to turn its manded by various signs and gestures. Not- I ihink that most whalemen will join in de- energies upon new ones, if they can be withstanding all their gesticulations and gri- ciding that the better half have been killed, jfound ? 1 rannot help thinking that there maces but cold water from i — tbey got nothing and cut up in horse pieces years ago. A must be an immense number of whales in the the butt. Their great telegraphic feat was part of the remainder have fled further south. jAntarctic region, which have never been to feign to be exceedingly " set up"—that A few yet remain, and most of them know a troubled by our hardy whalers. Some search being a sign which they acted admirably— whale boat by sight or by sound. This com- |has been made, bui nothing has been done their excellent mimicry showing that they pletes the southern circumference of the worthy of tlie itnpoitance of lhe enterprise. had had some experience. I cannot say how Globe. An expedition filled ont expressly for explolong it is since rum has been introduced to Then came great stories of large whales ration of those seas would 1 think "pay" in this people, but probably the Russians use it in large numbers in the North The the long run. It must however be a compePacific. barter for in furs. I was not visited in the first voyages by their success created great tent and thorough one—one thnt wiil decide season of 1851 by any natives from the west excitement—the fleet there increased and the existence of whales in that quarter for coast of the straits, but I believe those on was fitted out with This is something in which all extra care and skill, and all time. the east coast did not ask for rum. I hope in a few years our ships swept entirely ship-owners should take an interest. An our whalemen will do nothing to foster this across the broad Pacific, and along the Knin- express expedition would not cost much, and This are appetite. people already wretched schatka shores. They moved round if the expense was divided among our ow neru enough. A schooner was there in 1851 and into that sea and there whalesJapan, were it wrould be found individually to be very from Hong Kong, trading for Walrus teeth found more numerous than ever. The levi- light. The question is one which it is very and furs, with a plenty of rum on board, athans are driven from the bosom of that sea, important should he settled. If whales arc which they gave in trade to the natives. This their few scattered remnants running in ter- found in that southern region, the interest caused a good deal of trouble on board the ror whenever their enemy is near. rendered for the small outlay would be imwhalers. A painful difficulty occurred beThen the great combined fleet moved mense. The expedition should, in my opintween the natives and the crew of the ship northward towards the pole, and there the ion, consist of four staunch ice ships, built in Behring's straits at the time of hei ships of almost all the whaling ports in the expressly for the purpose, upon the latest loss, which ended in the death of eight na- world are and have been for several seasons and most improved models for speed and lives and one English sailor. Several boats' | lending their united efforts to the destruction strength—without stem or keel projecting crews were on board from other ships, one of the whale—capturing even the young. the rudder of unusual strength, so construcor two from English whalers, with a good These polar whales were most easily cap- ted that it can be unshipped, and triced up many natives. Rum was the cause of the (tured, at first, but already it has become across the stern in a very short time. The do trouble. I not know upon whom the ( difficult to do so, for they are fast becoming bows should be from eight to ten feet, of blame must rest, but I do earnestly entreat shy. But the ofArctic whal- solid timber—the sides from two to three feet general subject my fellow whalemen by every consideration jing is too extensive to be this thick, in thnt proportion throughout and in discussed of morality, and of selfinterest not to furnish i and I will resume it in my next. bolted in every direction. This will add to letter, these poor people with intoxicating drinks. ths combined strength of the hull, and renare much No. 10. in the power of the naLETTER very They der it capable of standing heavy pressure tives of these regions in case of shipwreck, At Sea Dec. 22, 1852. through the field ice in the case ofemergency. and it is only prudent to keep them as simWhales becoming shy Antarctic whaling. This would enable the ship to pass through ple in their habits as possible. the fields of ice, to explore Perhaps a few suggestions will not be out I spoke in my last of the fact, that while seas. This alone can renderthethedistant open search for of place here relative to the future fortunes iat first, the polar whale was most easily cap- whales a thorough one. Very much would of Arctic whaling. In this an immense Itured, his nature had been entirely changed depend should be snug upon the rig. amount of capital is invested. It is therefore by constant and untiring pusuit. He is no and staunch and of the This impoved plans of vital importance that everything possible longer the slow and sluggish beast we at first for easy woiking. Themost speed of the ship is should be done to sustain it—for without the found him. Particularly at the latter part of an important point. She must be able to most watchful vigilance it must ultimately the season, they are very shy. I have often work off, and keep clear of the ice, when an fail. noticed, after one or two whales were struck sailer would be caught by the mysIn the commencement of right whaling the in Ihe morning, after the fog cleared, thai ordinary terious movement of the ice. These ships, Brazil Banks was the only place of note to the entire body of whales would be stirred even if the enterprise failed, would be very which ships were sent. Then came Tristan, up, so that it would be almost impossible to useful for Arctic If there should East Cape, Falkland Islands, and Patago- strike one during the whole day. Within a be any difficulty inwhaling. manning lliem for nia. These places encompassed the entire space of from ten to twelve miles there would I should recommend a system of "lays" moderate South Atlantic. Full cargoes were some- be from fifteen to thirty ships, all doing their wages and good lays, such as would induce times obtained in an incredibly short space best, but the greutest number were to be seen the most enterprising arid hardy officers and of time—whales were often seen where they without any smoke. On the 4th of Septem- men to enlist in the service. I think such had been gambolling unmolested for hun- ber I counted 58 ships, and only twelve of ships could be built and fitted for two and a dreds ofyears. The harpoon and lance soon them were boiling, and I have seen a much half or three years for sixty or seventy thoumade awful havoc with many of them, and smaller proportion in smaller fleets. 1 know- sand dollars each. In cruising, tt might be scattered the remainder over the ocean, and that the whales have diminished since I was best to make four divisions of the circumfermany I believe retreated further south—a here two years ago, and that they are more ence of the globe, and to give one to each few remain, as wild as the hunted deer. Can difficult to strike. How can it be otherwise ? ship from latitude 60 3 as far south as possiany one believe that there will ever again Look at the immense fleet, front ble. In three years, or three seasons, I be stietchin»r exist the same number of whales ? or that Cspe Thaddeus, to the Straits ! By day lievs the ocean to the nouth ofCO ° would be they multiply as fast as they are destroyed ? and by night the whale is chased and har- thoroughly explored. Blank charts should I have seen in print the statement of some rassed—the fleet perpetually driving them, be forwarded for each captain, upon which to wise person who did not believe that it was until they reach the highest navigable lati- note his track, the posipossible for the fleet to diminish the number. tudes ofIhe Arctic. The only rest they have tion of thediscoveries, ship's ice, &c. At the end of each sea • , , , , , ,■ , — i i i i �THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, ' 91 1853. anotherrequisite. It should son • ach ship should make a dltierent port. upon my Pacific charts forty six that I have gre.at strength is made an always object lor the harpoon exist, been informed do which are on the be t of Good not Hope One should touch at the ape select the very best quality one at New Zealand, one at New Holland, 371h edition of Norrie's Charts of the North manufacturer to pay the greatest attention to and one on the east or west coast of South |and South Pacific, and have passed very near ol iron, and is nothing more provoking America. Thence their reports might be| several islands that are laid down without!!forging. Thoie lose a whale by the breaking of a of land. While on than to anything my pasships despatched seeing other home, and lorwarded dollars are to take the next seu>on, if either of ihe ships sage from New Zealand northward, in 1851, harpoon. Three or four thousand iron. Every har-oinposing the expedition had seen whales I touched at Onooklon and found that island often lost by a defective be sure to hold on. 1 merely throw out these hints—ihey seem to be fourteen miles further north than laid poon should word about Temple's harpoons. The little island of New Nantucket A Whether down. single io me to he. of vital importance. at all, it being in latitude When 1 sailed Irotn New Bedford July Ist, readers or is not laid down the of your meet views Uiey will 175 °49 W. In 1852 1850, 1 had thirty-five togle-harpoons of his iot, I do not know, but 1 am certain it the 40 ° 30 N and Long north steered for Cornwal- make. With these I have struck 23 polar I be on my passage kept up, lusiness of right whaling is to latitude observation whales, 1 sperm and 8 right whales, and not Island, at meridian either lis done, kind must be this mnething of latitude of the centre of the one of them broke or drew, with one excep29, the 14 or some other by ° iy a joint stock company, island, but no land could be seen. These tion where the whale rolled upon the bottom, neans. islands I found to be full fifteen miles further and bent the head so much that both ends LETTER No. 11. north and twelve further east than laid down, wero within three inches of each other.— There has been but a single instance in which At Sea, Dec. 25, 1853. I make them in latitude 14 ° 44 N. long. IW 32 east. A Dutch ship was wrecked they have not entered and then I believe the Importance of an Exploring Expedition. there, and the captain declared that the in- line was broken before. They had heavy six hundred The sperm whale is a great wanderer, and correct latitude given was the reason strains on them, with five or line and held on. Out of 7 out, disaster. are so much liithoms of If they of the of time is now seldom found for any length the South in what some of them be whales struck with them in right latitude must in great numbers in any locality. Still I be- out in had the scars of other harpoons The attention of the commerAtlantic five ? longitude the Pacific that of lieve there are portions world should he called to these facts. If on ihem. have been overlooked by whalers, where 1 cial would build six clipper schooners, The whaling gun I believe will yet be used government found—portions be might whales think many them for three years, with to great advantage. I would recommend and equip man islands and reefs and are filled with men each, give each ten Capt. Swain's plan—that is a much shorter sixty from to fifty which have never been thoroughly explored of latitude thoroughly to survey, 1 head to the toggle-iron for smallsperm whales these iff degrees localities charts dangerous On many be well accomplished for very often they are approached near work could believe the down, laid renwaters are very incorrectly Besides this a place enough to strike them in the small, the blubtime indicated. dering their navigation difficult. Shipmas- in the found for a Naval Depot, cen- ber being very thin, the flue or head, the would be the responsibility to take ters are unwilling continents, more likely they are, to fasten. This would the two situated between trally of carrying their ships into unknown regions safe harbor for whalers and mer- be of great advantage among the cow and in the search for whales. We need un ex- and good at which to recruit and repair. It calves. chantmen the whole Papedition to survey thoroughly to me that Americans shoi Id have a LETTER No. 12. cific and to give us better and more reliable appears small or settlement on some island of colony undertaken, and and this can be only charts, At Sea, Jan 1, 1853. the Rudoe chain or not far from there. If a should be undertaken by the government. obtained have doubt a I be no Rights of whalemen on the whaling ground After whalers have explored the whole locality could be colony established, could soon flourishing Barrier, Islands to the govArctic from Pal time employed in cruising for whales. ernment sends a fleet to explore and survey carrying on a trade in cocoa nut oil, shells, with oil from The custom of allowing ships to interfere those regions. ,1 believe that there is hardly pearls Ike.—enough indeed, for the U. to load four each other, in taking whales, without ships annually whalers, with there but what has a dangerous point or spot would be much more regard to the rights of those ships which been already discovered and noted. This States. Such a port than the Sandwich Islands—and " raised" them, cannot be to severely reprehas been accomplished not by tho aid of convenient materially would facilitate home shipments of hended, or too soon abolished. 1 have often charts, which are very inaccurate. Whalers for out recruits from the felt it injustice and so have hundreds of olhsending oil, and the and through fog felt their way have fairly states. believe a 1 if company of adventur- ■ ers. 1 have even known captains to be so however have its will darkness. The survey would set on foot mean as to drive off a whale that they could ers with sufficient capital advantages if thoroughly performed. The would hardly fail not capture rather than permit the ship which such an that it enterprise be the latitude and getting in difficulty will would he of immense advan- first raised, to take him. Where the boats success, of and longitude in thick fogs and rainy weather. I the ways various to fleet. of two ships are in pursuit of a single whale, think however lhat a thorough survey of the tage in aci.r a shoal, 1 think one half are "gallied" or lliis could be me to the subIf will change permit If you Pacific is more needed. driven off, and neither ship is the better off i whalemen's complished, in connection with Lieut. Mau- ject I will say a word about the In this way sperm whales ry's chart enterprise, the advantages would weapon, harpoon. The selection of this has for the pursuit. all day without being taken, pursued be may would now American no he a matter of much ships importance, long- got to be immense. of the boats had allowed the whereas one if so scarce and shy. that whales are getting er sail by foreign charts but by their own go on alone, very probably both other to fain think would be of of masters believe are I I majority which The a circumstance would have got a whale. I think that great honor and credit to the nation. The vor of the togle harpoon, and this kind is fast ships which first discovers a whale is enship the charts of this ocean should be on a scale as taking the place of all others. They were in titled to the exclusive right of pursuing linn, a a two inches to at Honolulu this season. and half or considerable demand large—say one as the master desires, unmolested by as long had used the long degree—at least in that portion extending 1 spoke with several who or boats. Where a shoal is from Long 1»0 W, across the ocean to Lat., aac lined harpoon and spoke well of them. any other ship ship them should the discovered of Lewis " raising" sheet to' the Will I prefer togle-harpoon 30 N, and S. of the equator—each them without moto right have the pursue embrace fifteen degrees of latitude and lon- Temple's forging, and I ask for no better, until one boat has struck—then oililestation man to our charts is and it is to that present only justice worthy The scale of gitude. er ships' boats being at liberty to follow.— altogether too small. With proper charts, say so. They go in easy, and they hold on The main point is to strike a whale before hundreds of sperm whales might be discover- alter they are in. The iron must be selectis frightened, for if they are frightthe shoal other between with care. have and and passages forged They deep ed, ed in narrow not hurt they generally all escape, and ened and narrow islands where it is now unsafe to enter. Nor good points about them. The and oftener the whales are would the whaling fleet be benefitted alone small head must enter almost as easily as a but the quicker fast to the first whale when struck after getting advanhold fast lance, share the and would limes in many All our commerce would they are. For that the more confused tages. Merchantmen could steer much more one or two flued irons would merely hook on. boats the better, direct courses, and thereby shorten voyages Ifyou open the spread, and place the length reason I believe the more with each othnot do interfere they it provided made, now laid down of the head the that it cavity across materially. Many dangers arc is made. I is after the first strike upon charts that do not exist. I have mark- seems like an impossibility to pull it out. Its er—that ' 'which — • , i — i �92 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, .• 1553. J—3B6 in all, or three months and ten daysila tall chief, whom I recognized to be Fersome ship when others are near. The whaless shorter voyage, clearly showing the advan- ance, one of the converts. Not many years might be in a position where the other shipstage of a fast ship over an ordinary sailer.— ago he had assisted in the murder of the crew of a French vessel, in memory of would not see them had this ship passed on, A*. B. Shipping List. but as soon as she makes any move the othwhich he bore this name, a corruption of Feejee Islands—No. III. er ships immediately keep for her, and very Francoise. In the stern were two women probably their boats will reach.there in time Intelligence of comparatively late date clothad in white. They were the wives of to have an equal chance. A whale comesi has been received from Feejee Islands. jMessrs. Lyth and Calvert, two of the misup at about an equal distance from the boats While the Missionaries have continued un-i sionaries at Viwa. They had heard the sound of the drums, and knew hut too well of two different ships. They both want the whale—both spring to their oars with allj molested in their work, it is still most melan- Iwhat it portended. Their husbands were their might—the whale hears this rushing cholly to record the fact, that the most'[absent upon a distant island ; but these two noise—he makes a bolt and disappears, andI frightful scenes of cannihulism are still to devoted women hesitated not to risk their thus alarms the whole shoal and off they move be witnessed. On the Bth of December last; own lives in the uttempt to save some, at least, of the doomed victims. with both eyes and ears open, and will not 1 less than one year since, writes a Wesley-I! No sooner had the allow a boat to approach them. Onward the boat touched the shore In presence of than they took their way straight to the boats move until the crew are exhausted, andI an Missionary, from Bau. the chase is given up without a drop of oilI a Missionary, in defiance of British and dwelling of Tanoa, To enter his private obtained. Thousands of barrels of oil have'. American Sloops of War, in spite of our den was as much as their lives wore worth for it was tabooed to been lost in this way.—und I think it no promises to enrich I hurried on them, if they would re- in advance, entered women. better than robbing and plundering, and I before them, and took believe it is a foolish custom which might be gard our feelings, five of the most intelli- .my station beside a pillar. My indecision abolished, by the joint co-operation of mas- gent and ludy-like women were strangled in was gone. I hud determined what to do. I ters and owners. I am confident that every honor of the old cannibal Tanoa ! This covered the old cannibal with my eye, my hand grasping the revolver in my bosom. one interested will think this of sufficient im- has fearfully revived the horrid custom." ■ Scarcely had I assumed portance to think upon at least. If our readers desire to see a likeness of the two women entered, my station when preceded by FerIt may be satisfactory to some to know what portion of the time during a whaling old Tnnoa, we refer them to the September ence, each bearing in her hand an ornaiiieii-* voyage is employed in cruising for whales, Number of Harper's Magazine. That No. ted whale's tooth us a present. Tanoa and what portion in making passages. A by the way, contains a most excellent arti- seemed almost stupefied with amazement statement of this will illustrate the advantages cle upon the Feejee Islands:. It gives the and ahger as he demanded, with lowering brow, what all this meant. Ferance was as of a fast sailing ship. During my late voybest and most graphic sketch of Feejee true as steel ; and replied firmly, that the age I have been twelve months cruising for whales, about twenty in making passages, manners, life, government and politics, Christian women had come to beg the lives and seventy-one days in port for provisions, which we have ever seen. We copy the of the victims who had not been dispatched. Tanoa was too much astounded to reply having anchored six different times for thisi following paragraphs relating to the bloodyat once. I awaited his answer with breathat purpose—once Monganui, New Zealand, practice of Cannibalism less anxiety. I anticipated nothing hut a twice at Big Bamer Island New Zealand, At early dawn on the last Sabbath morn- signal for the women to be put to death and once at Port William, Falkland Islands, ing of July, 1849, the sound of the huge on lali I touched at the Western Islands, East Cape or native drum, was heard booming over the the spot. The old scoundrel never stood so near death's door as at that moment, and New Zealand, Onock Foil Islands and Ro- lagoon. I hastened to the and saw never will, until the very instant before shore, have crossed the North the rotonga, and South the canoe of Navindee come dashing || breath leaves his body. I had him covered* Pacific Oceans four times, been as far as 70 j through the smooth waters. It had hardly!, degrees north latitude and 58 degrees south, touched the shore, when from its depths | jwith my eye, and my nerval were firm n |iron. At the first signal I would have sent have passed round the globe by way of Good were dragged forth the corpses of three Hope, and round Cape Horn homeward, and victims who hud been slain. Then followed a bullet through his brain. At length he said have crossed the equator six times, months fourteen living prisoners, all women, who elapsing between each time. I have care- had been waylaid as they were gathering "Ask Navindee if it be good."fully reckoned up the distance sailed during shell-fish upon the reef near their village, The messenger departed. Hours seemed compressed into the few minutes that elapthe voyage, by shaping my numerous courses These were nailed up to the uloo, just as sed before his return. sailed on in making my passages during animals with us are dragged to the slaughter j " Viiiakee—it is good"—was the answer twenty months, and estimating the extra dis- house. (sent back by Navindee. tance in varying from the ttue course caused I followed to the great square, and beheld by head and heavy winds, and deviation to the horrid preparations. Deep holes had ij Tanoa was for a moment undecided. At keep clear of land and dangers. 'Ihe dis- been dug in tho earth, filled in with heated length he snuflied out ; l "The dead are dead, and shall be eaten ; tance sailed in making these passages added stones, and lined with green leaves, by the |the living shall live." to the distance sailed during the cruising for side of which the victims were forced to sit, Ten hud already been put to death, and whales, estimated as near as possible amounttrussed together hand and foot. 1 saw (ithe funics from their roasting bodies :tied, ed to eighty-six thousand six hundred and) the filled executioners sharpening their bamboo ( thirty-five miles—a little more than tour)[knives, and making ready to begin the,'[the air. One had been saved by the wife of Thokoinbau, who had taken fancy to her times the circumference of the globe at its' slaughter, as coolly and methodically til,appearance. These devoted women saved centre. I cruised about five months exclu- butchers in the shambles. I could no long-l)the lives of but three ; and conducted them sive of Arctic cruising—that is on my passa- er endure the sight. For an in- to sickening t their canoe, amidst the clapping of ges and between the Arctic seasons—taking stant indeed, I clutched my pistols, | during that lime 200 bbls of sperm and 350 solved to avenge ifI could not prevent laV,hands of the inhabitants of Mbau, while the more savage tributaries looked on in mute ol whale oil, wilh 200 bbls additional ofsperm outrage. But n moment's thought convinpicked up on my passages. This is an ave-' ced me that I should sacrifice my own life wonderrage during the five months of 70 bbls of.uselessly, and probably furnish more bodies In a few days, our brig made its appearance, and I left the Feejee Islands forever. whale and 40 bbls of sperm per month. Now'.for the unnatural feast. I stopped my cars if I had only had a ship thut would sail one and rushed out of the square ; but through sixteenth faster than uiyown, or twelve miles my brain rang the Fire at Hilo shrieks of the victims, 1 per hour, I should have saved three mouths whose slaughter had now commenced. We regret to learn that the house occuand ten days time in making passages, and Unconsciously, and half stupefied, I had pied by the scholars, under the Rev. Mr. do not see wny I should not have averaged as taken the way in the direction of the neigh- iLyman's care was recently destroyed by fire. these three months as in the five boring island of Viwa, the principal station ised. This would have amounted''ofthe missionaries. I saw a slight canoe |We do hope this loss will not result in and 233 bbls of whale!purged through the waters. In the bow stood..the breaking up of the school, which has sspertn 0,1, , i ,' . " ,' ,> ' :— ' ' ',, ,, .,. I ,, Kn 1 ; « �THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 93 1853. Ron tki riniD, |press the sentiments of gratitude which he been instrumental in accomplishing so much [The following lines were written, descriptive of the sentihave assisted him. good. All the good school teachers on Ha- Iment* expressed by the wife of Cant. Jiin.es E. Bennet to her ifeels towards all who S. SHERMAN, PHILIP waii, were educated there. It has sent forth husband, just before her happy departure, on the morning ol late Master of the "Marcus." .November 2d, 1853.] some of the most enterprising men of the naIn thoHe mansions, high and holy, A Card. tion. We hope the trustees of the school, Ever iriL'ht and ever lair ; Mr. Lewis, who left in the steamsr for his health peace glory, the realms of and In will make a strong appeal to the churches and expects to reside a few weeks on Kauai, requestMy bi'loved, meet me there (ed that we should gratefully acknowledge the sum ! and the people, for aid. We helieve many I must le^ve/thee,—»wift!y vannh of $81, contributed by shipmasters, officers and (others, for his benefit. All the joy s that earth can give ; foreigners Avould extend a helping hand. The Yet I have the blent assurance, Honolulu, Dec. 4, 1853. trustees of the school or the Minister of Jesua died that I might live. Public Instruction, should come out with Information Wanted. Jesuscall* my runsomed spirit, Morgan County, July 17th 1853. some statement upon the subject. Let the Now I (eel his [tower to nave ; Dear Sik :—Please do me a favor and make an Bin and death have lout their terror a man public know the nature of the school Its inquiry lor by the name of John H. Orubcn, All is bright beyond the grave. my brother, on your Island. He went from Californumber of scholars ! The probable cost of Yet, my longing soul would linger nia to the Sandwich Islands about two years ago, new buildings &c. &c. The requisite funds Fondly near the pillow, where and we, since that time, have not heard from him. Sweetly these our loved ones Klumber, If you can make inquiry of his fate, please send me we believe would be forthcoming. a few hues, you will oblige very much a sorrowful Consciousnot of earthly care. brother, old father, mother and sisters. Tom Literature. , * ! Uncle . See bow sound, how sweet they slumber! Full of innocence and love ; Whilst their happy little faces Speak of fairer world* above. But with them 1 rnnnot tarry liife, how doep, how st ranee thou art! Who can know a mother's sorrow ■ Who can sound a mother's heart ? " Uncle Tom, Uncle Tom," is now the watchword. We have beard oftlie Byronic school, and various other classes of literary imitators, but who imagined that Uncle Tom would become a literary character, followed by a galloping troop of authors? Among the late importations of" books, we notice those having such titles as the following: "Auitf Pbillis'Cabin," " Uncle Tom's Cabin as it is," " Cabin and Parlor," &c, besides "the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin." We teok hold of that key and began to turn, and opened the door just so as to take a peep into the cabin. We saw enough to increase tenfold our hatred of the abominable system of slavery. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery thou art a bitter draught!" No American can turn that key without feeling the blush of shame. We hope Americans at home will be made to feel as every American abroad must feel, that slavery is our country's great sin and burning shame, and should be abolished. The books here referred to, will be found for sale at the Polynesian office, together with many others, of the latest publications of the day. We would particularly call the attention of our sea-faring friends to tho importance of purchasing a good supply of leading matter, before going to sea. ' Yours very respectfully C. //. GKUBEN. Rev. E. Bond. Sandwich Islands. Free Will Offerings, For the Seamen's Chapel, (scats free) supported by gratuitous contributions; and the Friend, one thousand copies of which are distributed gratuitously among seamen in the Pacific Ocean. Tmin them up for CJodand //eaven. Names. Chapel. Friend. When my eye hat closed in death ; Mr. Kokitk, Tell them Unit a mother's pra\er $3 00 Capt. Kingman, Shooting Star, 6 00 $5 00 11lest them with her dying breath. Ship S. H. Waterman, 6 00 May the love efjMU ever Isaac HickF, 5 00 6 00 Find a place within their heart; 0. bark Prentis, W. Prudeut, 5 00 2 60 And may from their pathway never (ieo. liushnell, 2 60 2 60 Peace and happiness depart. II Gnbcl, 1 00i 1 00 J. a Sailor, Kidington, let Now farewell! oh, no sorrow 60 60 J. W. Fisher, 50i Xt st und linger on thy brow ! 60 Colored Sailor, 75 76 Jesus calls me homo to glory,— liurch, Mr. 25 25 1 1 All is ralni and peaceful now. Capt. Smith, ship Fabius, 3 00 3 00 Hut in mtiiitiimis high ami holy, Mr. L. B. King, 3 00 Ever bright and ever fair; Ship Empire, 6 00 In (lie realms of peace and glory, 6 00 Capt. Brewster, ship Contest, 6 00 My beloved, meet me there ! H St. 5 00 6 00 A Friend, 6 00 Capt. Potter, ship Antelope, 3 00 The Editor has been particularly requested Swedish Sailor, , 5 00i A Friend, Capt. to insert the following card, in "big, Ship Antelope, 6 00 6 00 capital letters," for the reason that Captain Consul Angell, sale some By balance, tram of whaleSherman would honor those who have so bone, Mr. ltogcrs, 4 60 " « " " " generously contributed lor his benefit.— $67 60 Among the merchants at Lnhaina and P. S.—ln the Friend of Nov. 16, the ship Florida should have been credited $24 50 instead of $24 00 Honolulu, and his brother shipmasters, many for the Chapel. have been found with enlarged souls and gen- N. I).—ln our last number it was stated that it erous purses. We must decline complying would be necessary to raise about $231, to meet the current expenses of " The Friend " for this year.— with the good natured request, not because Deducting the amount now acknowledged, leaves the we would not honor the generous friends of sum of $163 dO, still minus. Capt. S. but the card if inserted as requested Gr-10. JL. K. D. We notice that our California neighbors would not appear "ship shape" but as HONOLULU, H. I. observed their annual thanksgiving, much out of place, as if Capt. Sherman, Office at the Drug Store near the market, residence during last month, but where is our thanks- should order his mainsail to be rigged for a comer of Fort and Beretania streets, above the Catholic Church. giving ? Have we not occasion for thanks- flying jib ! Ships supplied with medicines at much lower giving ? Is the day to be omitted during 1853 ? prices than ever before furnished in this city. CARD.—The desires subscriber to tenA \ Or do some people think an observance of der public and most grateful acknowledgments |LANGHERNE, DRUGGIST, the day savors a little too much of America, to ail those persons, who have so generously Opjiosite the Market, next door to Capt. Spencer's and they feel bound to avoid appearances ? and promptly come forward and rendered him Ship Chandlery. It is well to shun all appearance of et-ti, but service during the period of distress. At HAWAIIAN not of good. The observance of a day of Lahaina, merchants and shipmasters were >«»■• -f/Jjj litferal ; at Honolulu the same spirit has Public Thanksgiving, has the appearance of been manifest among the same class of per- <JjystL Steam Navigation This Company's pioneer steamer, AKAMAI, good. Some think so. sons. Several shipmasters have most cour- ]having arrived from the coast, will commence" teously offered him a free passage to the ]her regular trips in a fow days, of which due notice Our Honolulu Subscribers.—You have now enjoyed United States. At the time the "Marcus" iwill be given. Her route will embrace all the principal ports of the reading of the Friend a full year since you was lost the master of the "Bartholomew Gosthe Group, from Kauai to Hawaii, and her trips will with a bill. Such of as are disand were you nold," "Tuscany" "Mary," were presented be made promptly as advertised. For freight or passage, apply on board, or to posed to forward the amount of your annual subscrip- prompt to visit, him, when the signal of distress was hoisted. Language fails to ex2».tf R.ILBOWLIN.Ag-t LJITHROF, - ' ' '' J . t'o.sslsMafiali �THE FRTEND, DECEMBER, 1853. 94 one accord to cry down the abuse. A small between our men and the " Huskies" as vessel of war to attend the li-heiy during a they called them in which the latter frequentfew months in the year would do wonders in lit came off second best, the slakes were No. 3. mitigating the evil I have alluded to. (generally, bows and arrows against un equi Esquimaux is essentially a trader, the Tho Esquimaux did not give us the plea- valent in " baccy." , ature of the clime and country in sure of enjoying their sweet company for! Toward the end of the season we bad se\ c lives, make him so, he is moreover many days but started very shortly after our eral capital days shooting, Jitiniga and hares iharp one; the Flemings are famed as arrival to fish in the upper waters, so that al- weie (he game bagged, IS brace and but g nation and time out of mind, Jews though we made our debut in Esquimaux soguns and no dogs. The place we killed sen considered sharp bargainers ; to ciety under the most favorable circumstance'Jtwo our birds in was a valley (hut skirled (lie h of England 100, there lives a canny being most hospitably entertained by those iMuck-i-cliaiiiee a somewhat extraordinary long whom it is a notorious fact that kind creatures always having the softest peak on the north shore, it is an object of sharp fellow though he be, is tumble skins and choicest collops of blubber at our 'some reverence to the untutored Esquimaux L ; not inferior to any of these is a disposal, still our pleasure was shortlived/|who imagine an evil spirit to dwell therein tnd intelligent race of traders a coin- our acquaintance being so short. From be that as it may, it did not trouble us, the ifall on t'other side of the fish pond, what we saw of them the Esquimaux appear- valleys near it were delightfully sheltered okee, Scotchman, Israelite or Klein- ed a cheerful good natured race and lond of] and the dwarf willows that grew there were i Esquimaux at a bargain would beat amusement of all kinds, in their villages!{actually higher than a man's head, the grass I clean off (he Arid, there is always a large hut or hall reserved'|too in the open parts waved quite luxuriant•ican vessels that frequent these seas expressly for dancing, the only insti uinent of ly, here the young birds basked and Carrollmrsuit of the whale, have constant music that I saw among them was the tamjed in ihe sun, helping themselves to Ihe deluse with the natives and have already bouiinc. I also saw two violins capital imi- ■ ica(e shoots of the willow and washing th'cin iced a sort of desultory trade the con- tations of one they had seen on board the 'down with the most delicious of waters, rare ies of which to the poor Esquimaux Plover. The happy possessors of these two!'connoisseurs arc they in this respect. None entablo in the extreme for he, poor instruments, labored under the painful delu-j but the purest mountain streamlets tempting far civilized to know the is so as sion that they were discoursing sweet music, (heir fastidious palates. itive qualities of alchobolic liquors and were eternally scraping them. On one.| Of the animals of those cold regions, I am fers them in baiter to all else ; the occasion being on shore I heard the most up-! sorry to say that we saw little or nothing, of the vessels anxious to obtain their roarious laughter proceeding from a crowd'[reindeer, hares, wolves and foxes being all id not over scrupulous regarding the at one end of the village, on joining them lj(that we saw, there are, however, a great vathem sufficient to in quantities found them playing at a game something like riety and are all more or less remarkable supply intoxication with its attendant evils dog in the blanket," around a large walrus! for the beauty of (heir furry coats. The Es" [ wide. While in Port Clarence, hide were collected about thirty or forty ofjquimaux kills all that he can come across, of which told the village fair each holding on by a loop, in [taking their skins for clothing and their r arrived tbe captain flesh a few days previously lie had landed the centre of it was a vomit; girl about 15 oil for food. The flesh of the reindeer is the the Asiatic shore and on was age 10 and every now and again by the united;imost nutritious and savoury meat I ever 1 at discovering the whole village in efforts of the fair creatures, the fur clad sy- partook of, in appearance much like beef hi and (he unfortunate villagers reelren of the catu was sent flying through the with the flavor of hare. 1 know of nothing iit in various stages of intoxication, air about 20 feet, then down she came again to equal it. The hares were of an I women all were drunk, even little her woolf's tail* swooping through the air size not unfrequently weighing 14 enormous *>r 15 lbs. were reeling and rioting in a most and her bracelets and beads ringing again as Fox.es there were in great numbers and of such scene as he then iful state, a she planted herself again firmly on her feet several varieties, they are hardly worth id he trusted, he said, he might never in the centre of the skin, again and again mentioning there is one however that I must again, t'was a Pandemonium that ldid she go flying through the air until they, not omit this is the black or silver fox, id all description. Men were lying succeeded in throwing her from footing,! aristocrat of foxes is clothed in a coat ofthis jet 9 insensate as logs, furies there were when these pitiless fair ones sent her flying of the darkest hue ; as foxes are considered women, of the maniac the nape shout, about in a most inelegant manner, (hen came the most cunning of animals he may bo confiendish yell, the piercing shriek, and laugh a laugh that would have made a cynic cheer- sidered a very Ulysses among foxes indeed of idiocy, the threatening aspect of the infuri- ful. Being anxiously pressed by the young' he is the very acme of cunning, the long taate savage with the wild gleaming of his to join them, as no one would go lj pering muzzle, sharp ears and clear yellow eyes and bright flashing of his upraised |took off my shoes and jumped into the skin,! eyesull denote a remarkable degree of penblade as it glances aud glittered in the sun, 'with a shout and a yell awa- I went spin-! etration and distrust, but despite the low and all made such a horrible impression on his; ning into the air, then down I came, 1 truly! debasing nature of cunning, this animal beers mind that night after he would start in hor- hoped upon my legs, but no such lick a truly noble impress that nothing might be his at the of ror from those tended my maiden effort sleep thought i came downj wanting lo complete his beauty his jet black dreadful orgies. And yet the authors of this sprawling in a most unsentimental manner,' muzzle is garnished on either side with snow mischief are doubtless good and respectab'e with a shout they again sent me sprawling while haiis and on the srfles and loins, silmen in their way are fathers of families per- into the air, and it was not until mirth pro- very hairs display to the greatest haps and fair christians as the world goes. duced disorder in the fair ranks and they all the dark lustre of his silky coat, advantage four eboi When in port they subscribe to charities and pulled at different times that I was enabled legs and a noble brush complete the array go to church doubtless from the same lauda- to regain my legs. Then, a young lady and render the skin of this beautiful animal us ble motives that prompt the devil to quote with a dirty, good natured face handsome as it is valuable and rare. jumped scripture. American Citizens ! you who so in and showed me the secret, which was Our stay at Port Clarence was shorf, the lavishly expend your money in sending ships nothing more than keeping the legs straight. object of our coining to the Arctic was to to the uttermost corners of the world to up- I managed it pretty well afterwards and communicate with the Plover, one of the dishold the honor of your flag ; is it enough, threw a somerset and from the yell that fol- covery ships that had wintered at Pt. Bar (think you) that ships should be manned and lowed, I should say that they had never seen row, for this purpose we were offC. Listurne men should be armed ? these indeed force a such a thing before but even this was not on the 19th of July, here we found the ice semblence of respect but to gain a lasting such fun as before so they sent me sprawlinir closely packed and were in consequence derevenue for your well loved banner that shall again. This was the only piece of Esqui- tained for some time, it was any thine bu endure while there is a breeze in heaven to maux fun that I had pleasure of joining pleasant cruising, the weather was invariathe unfold its glory to the world, something but they are exceedingly fond of sport of all bly-bad ; with anything like southing in the more is required ; to achieve this happy re- kinds. Wrestling they are very partial to, wind it was cold, wet, miserable and foggy sult rests with yourselves and yourselves struggling with all the skill and dexterity of North and northwesterly although much ; integrity and fair dealing should be a west country man, I saw several matches colder winds brought us fine weather—this ._j characteristics of that flag wherever it was the more strange as on our trips the � They all wear wolves or foxes tails which are waves, and if such nefarious practises exist, fastened on behind, much in the same place that year before the weather was by no means it behooves you to raise your voices and with animals carry theirs. disagreeable on that occasion we travelled a S For th« Friend. Life on Board a , J I I I iladies , ; Sly Man-of-War. - at-1 �95 THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1853. distance of nearly 509 miles without a ripple! blance that some of the words bore to the s.-iv. and may tears never be thy portion, on the water, our courses hanging becalmed Latin. laugh on, it is thy moet befitting charm. our lofty sails alone were full, so that the Tupar (a wolf), asnammee, (a breast) and Than a group of these dark laughing beaugood ship moved onward ns if by magic, ignik (fire), of the Esquimaux bear a very ties, I know no more pleasing sight for when heeling gently over and rushing through the strong resemblance to lupus, mamma and they laugh, their own bright skies are not so water otherwise as smooth ns oil. The nights, ignis of the Latin tongue, doubtless a more bright as their merry faces, nor is the soft if the twilight of an hour or so may be termed intimate knowledge of the language would murmuring of their streams so meh dious as such, were very delightful. The slightest 'have discovered other similarities. This co- the music of their mirth. Let not this turn perceptible shade darkened thrf face of the incidence will perhaps prove a matter of in- your brain my dusky charmers, but pull waters and a stillness unbroken by uught teresting speculation to the curious in those away, pull us, and let us get back to your sunny isles. save the occasional spouting of a whale and The 6lh of September, the day of our deThe reader if he has accompanied me thus the rippling under the bows reigned around; a shrieking bird, too, would now and then parture at length arrived, the anchor was lar will 1 think agree with me that it is time glides dismally past as if to remind us that| whisked up to the hows and with a light breeze to clew. The islands are a topic of themthese regions were not altogether devoid of we stood from these dreary shores, we were selves and one too, that if I once get on, life, otherwise the silence was profound and( scarcely clear of the land when it fell there is no knowing to what lengths I might the ship moved majestically onward. Far jCalin and we were doomed to 5 or b' hours of"!gn, or how tiresome I might become, so amigos. different was it this time, boisterous breezes the doldrums, not however, according to Mr. and rough seas were our portion and the| jdieever's definition of the term, "doltime was sad and dreary in the extreme. At drums," says this gifted author with a deREV. C. M. BLAKE'S SELECT length on the lOlh of August, we fell in with!|gree of inaccuracy and want of precision BOARDIM. SCHOOL FOR BOYS, the Plover off' Icy Cape and returned in| quite inexcusable in a writer, "doldrums is AT BENICIA, CALIFORNIA. company to Port Clarence, her doings have ihe seaman's name for those parts of the this school thorough education in the English In that world under the where there are no touching equator no place here, suffice it to say, Ancient and Modern languages, and mathematics, is the fate of the missing squadron her winter- trades but calms and baffling winds," but be afforded to a limited number of pupils, under the ing at Pt. Barrow lia9 not benefitted the it known to Mr Cheever and the mutinied I care of experienced Teachers world the least jot. The Esquimaux among that these bugbears of seamen nre but too The course of study is calculated to fit the scholar for active business pursuits, and also to prepare such whom they wintered were by no means the!|frequent in all parts of the globe ; a ship is SS (loin- to enter college. said deal; in that we had to to be the doldrums when without wind same peaceable people The location at Bcnicia, has born chosen as rewith, on the contrary they were a most un- she is exposed to a nasty swell to the detri- markably healthful mid accessible ; and the arrangefamily are such, that pupils will find the compromising set of rascals, robbing when- iiietit of herself and the discomfort of those ments of thehome. ever they could, the Plovers stood in no little on board of her. This is but too likely to nesstettof Mumc is taught by an experienced master. danger of their lives. On one occasion they ] happen in every clime. Dolurums are as 1 The Academic year begins with August Ist, and is the met oft' Hatteras and to attack nor with ship, frequently Cape (divided into four quarters of eleven weeks each. came down in a body did the valiant Huskies run, until they heard: are just its likely to occur in the boisterous ! Terms per quarter including all charges, $150, the thun er of the Plover's carronade desist jBaltic as in the zephyr stirred Pacific* A payable in advance. hei-eh TO from the attempt. About this time, (Aug.j; friendly breeze soon came to our aid, and Gov. J. Biglcr, California. some, our good ship bounded forward on her way Hon. L Severance, for continual having after light Kith) Elisha 11. Allen, Esq. Col. J.C. Fremont, " ;; semblance of the Sandwich nor did she slacken night Islands, a weeks, we again got Ito Rev. T. D. Hunt, San Fran Capt. John Patv, S. 11. Willey, it was with no little pleasure we hailed her her speed until we had ran above 1200 miles. Rev, Daniel Dole, Rev. A. llarnes, Phila. return. The light of the Polar day is ever Now when or ship is rattling along at the rate U.v. S C. Damon, Rev. S. L. l'omeroy, Bos. E. llond, gloomy and and as for the sun, pshaw ! call of 10 or 11 knots an hoar and homeward Rev. Benicia, January 1,18.53.—tf-7. you that pale, sickly looking thing a sun ? it bound Bill looks aloft and says to Harry with History of the Sandwich Islands. hears about as much resemblance to its glo- a cheerful countenance, they've got hold rious prototype of the south as the faint glim- of the rope," they, referring to some Poll or A FEW COPIES of Jarves" History of the mer of a candle to the bright radiance of the Sal who have some tender regard for Bill or A. Sandwich Islands for sale at tho Chaplain's tfCtueen of night. Then hurrah for night ! Harry and the rope being a mystic connec- Study. Hurrah, I say for the dark beauty of the tion between the keel and the hearts of the south, with her brilliant stars and glorious kind ones. Myth or no myth, from Ihe rate we moon. A balmy breeze and our good ship were travelling, I began to think, there stealing onward like some spirit of the deep,] were some kind ones in those isles who were while old ocean loosing all her roughness, tugging us along, but go it good old ship, laves and kisses her as she passes toying, you cannot go too fast for me. curling and rippling around her a flood of Hurrah for the sunny islands of Hawaii liquid'splendor. Is not this better than the land of bright eyes and warm hearts. Hurrah Was for the laughter loving kanakas. longest day that ever dawned ? t'-iere ever a serious one ? Pshaw, to paint Adapor tun aui ao in nocletn, nee Candidarursus BIBLES! BIBLES! "Luna negat; S|ilendat Iremulo sun lumjne pontus." I a stoic laughing would be about as correct a ■m IST RECEIVED and for sale at trie Chaplain's |representation ef a cynic as a serious kanaka of various siz.es and styles ol Thus sung the Mantuan songster some [would be of our Hawaiian. Hurrah, for the tf Study, BIBLES These bookß arc imported by the Hawaiian hundreds of years ago, one might think from jmerry dark eyed girls, 1 never think of them binding. Bible Society, and sold at the American Bible Socithe beauty and conciseness or his language but those beautiful lines of Moore's occur oty prices in New York, with the additional charge expenses. that he had* been an old middle watcher in to me : y» Bibles in various languages for sale and grathe Pacific, who had roved among the isles While her laugh full of mirth without any control ns distribution. of the shining waters. I wish from my heart " But the sweet one of gracefulness rang from her soul, (XT- Special notice is givon to Spanish and Portuhe had for none but such a bard, could do And where it must sparkled no glance could diacover guese seamen that they will be supplied with Bibles tf. justice to the exquisite loveliness of nature | In 1i,,, cheek, or eye, for she brightened all over, in those languages. Like any fair lake, that tilebreeze is upon in those favored spots. ~ * When it breaks into dimples and laughs in the sun." J.WORTH The 15th of August saw us again in Port | ■_■ A VINO established himselfin business at 11Clarence, but the Esquimaux had all disap-j Laugh on, my merry hearts, laugh on I LjL 10, Hawaii, is prepared to furnish ships with Bills peared and were fishing in the Kyack, has mode evon a grosser blunder recruits on favorable terms, for cash, gooJs, tJ I'nittid States. * Mr.this.Cheever or chasing deer upon the Tiddle-waynck than (Island world p. 268), " Seamen do on the hills. I have said nothing as yet, of the not put their helms ilotcn to wear ship, neither is it The Friend, Honsd. to miss stays in that evolution. Now there Esquimaux language, the reason is ob- possible be some excuse for there Bound volumos of the Friend for 1. 2, S, 4, o, 6. 7 nonsense, may but talking vious I know nothing about it, but according can be none fur writing it. Ifun author adopts im- and 8 years at the Chaplain's Study. A reducti m to my general custom I made a small vocab- agery or uses metaphor let him at least be correct, from the subscription price wiU be made to Seamen ulary, we had however a very good one on otherwise what is written is rendered nonsense and Und purchasers who desire more than a single volboard, I was much struck with the resem- I the writer of it becomes ridiculous. ~ : " Btual �THE FRIEND, DECEMBER, 96 1853. Wh(toh Chap. Cam.ll, Chapel, New London. James Loper, Whippy, California coast. Wh hk Robert Monisun, Norton, lor New Bedford. It is leaking out in lit— \Vh sh Rajah, Fisher, cruise und litime. John ('••jrgt-xtl.all, Norton, California coast. that many of our whale ships lake more or Trident, T.iber, cruise and home. slyled good old jollcy souls. **11 Newark, IMckens, cruUe on the tine. less rum with them on their Arctic voyages Masters and mates when mnde joyous with 41 Catherine, Hull,cruise and hutne. do Scotland, Smith, do We refer our readers to Letters from the ruin will commence a row with sailor jack •' Sh Harriet I l..\ie, Mmm'annjr, N. London, carpo oil 21—Wli nh (tolronda, Dougherty, cruise off .New Zealand "Arctic No. 9," and also to Life on board for less things than the value of astrnw. The Ph Shunting star. Kinsman, New I don. nil, Hript Host. hi, Tapley, tor San Fianciscu. a Man of War, No. 3," published in the least mistep of jacks, down goes his house Sh Cutest, Brewoter, tor Tahiti, to luad oil. and he is logged as a mutinous scoundrel, Wh sh China, How en, cruise present number. The writer of the hitter und reported lo every one as a sea lawyer or Tuscany, Halsey, cruise and home. '* Cherokee, article, an officer on board one of Her B. M. a mischief making rascal. Jack's object is Smith, New Zen Iand. John and Kdward, Cathcart, cruise. Alice, White, cruise and home. 22— Ships, makes a pretty strong appeal to Amer- accomplished if one word will do for ihe wise. Roman, Tripp, New Mcd lord. ** Pemo.vao.uoit. ican traders and shipmasters. Tiiis is otaheite, Weiting, cruise. Wh hk Stiniiii, Ha»bagen, do. Empire, Henry, cruise on the line. sh 21—Wli well, just what we like, but we think, he A l.—Tlit- uiulersitrned late niasicr of the wh ilcsliip cruiseoff N. W. coast, " " Isaac Hicks. Skinner, of .New llcdfiiril, leels ii 11 duty In- owes alike to would not have passed over the subjects of the I'ilizt-n, Florida, West, cruise and home. 24— living anil the dead, tn make kniiwntlM' I'ollowing rircillnTriton9d, Maynard, fur New Bedford slaiu es. Queen Victoria, if he had been aware of the,jon thetoui ofSiptcmhcr, ]*. >2, in the Arctic Ocean, in lat. Nov. 25, Am wh hk Fanny, IV\e, Och, 15up, 18iki w, Hi.ooo b, Fr Mil Ville dc Rennes, Belh.t, Or, 5o w, woo b. 7s c 111 initl \. Ihe sliip riii/.en was wrecked, and live men business in which a c rlain British schooner lust; I'ie IX, Lecrosnier, Och. 1400 w, 1 0,0011 b, himself and the hulance nf the crew reached Ills sllllfs 26, Chile, Anderson, Och, 7wo wh, 7000 hone. Am hk the "Koh-i-noor," is engaged. We do not without aa\ thlag but Use cluth.s tliey etood in. It was rsrj Repuhhk, sh Austin, Och, fto ap, 2t*oo w, UkVotM b. Br roll], ami they kept alive hv hunting casks til nil tint Boated Abwlaad. o, 811 «, 1700 w, 2oo»m» b. 29, Endeavor, Am hk the wreck. That they lived near the wreck mint allude to this point, to apologise for those ashore frs-it m sh vurguret tfeott, Eldndge, Och, 200 sp, 900 wh, .**), I,alUci. sd, w lii n the whsleeklp Citi/.en, of .Vaiiinrkei, Capt. hone. 10,000 ley, Imve in siiflii. I'liey iniincdialelv hoisted a IMS upon a Americans, who are engaged in selling rum |Hile :ei feet high, and made every signal they could of distress, Clearances. to the Indians for their ivory, or furs. No, that llie ship al first stood in as thouiih she saw litem, then Nov. 24, Am wh sh John /fowlaud, rruise and home. hauled up and shivered in the wind, and aftet wards Sited sway 96, Hover, Bahcock,coa-<t of California. no, they should, be exposed. It is a base and left them. She was mcloee al inn nine thai tlu.se mi M bk Harmony, Ropers, for cruise. shore could see her davits. Tht feelings with which tliey saw 11 sh John Bertram, Landholm, Manila. Am and infamous tiafTic. It is bad enough to the vessel leave ihein are Indescribable, as no hops was led 28, '• wli hk \. S. Perkins. Allen, cruise. them bill to endure the rigors nl a winter's residence in this sh Marquesas. Nile, Conklin, sell ardent spirits in civilized lands, but to cold, bleak and desolate region, it tliey could escape (lie tout* -Am sh Nestoriitn, Blish, Callau. hawks ii! thesava:.-!'. Thar their signals were seen hy Capt. ■* (*. Adams, sh Thus. Nse, wh cruise and home. overstep the bounds of civilization and go Bailey, then* can he no doubt, aa Capt. 11. reported seeing Ins Itr sch Royali-t, Harris, Auckland. signals last tall. The mate of Cipt. Bailey's vessel reported Am wh ah Alice Frazier, Taber, Caroline la. among the poor weak and simple Indians, to lo Cant I', thai he could see sailors on the shore, and requestM lini. Gosnold, Heuatis, cruise andhome. ed n boat to go lo their relief, v Rich Capt. 11. icfused. 30 M*len Augusta, Fales, Newport. traffic in rum, is murder in the second degree, riiriniKli tlie inhumanity of Cipt. Bailey, we were (ompelleil M Corimhmn, Stuart, cruise and home. months this remain nine barren region, destitute ofclotliin *'M M Mary, Bavin-s, cruise on Cal. coast. at least. Think of it, you rum trafficking lo ing nnd lood, other than the natives could supply us from their GUdiator, Turner, cruise and home. scanty stores of hhihlier and furs. During tins lime two of the Ay. Heineken, Geerken, rruise on line. Rr traders, whether you claim to he either crew perished with cold, ami leii their bonea tv bleach among Neva, Chase, New London Am the snows of the tmrtli as a inumimpllt ul " Man's inhumanity Columbus. Hams, New I^ondon. Americans or English You are a disgrace to man." ■" Globe, Hamly, cruise and home 'I he natives were hum me, kind and hospitable tons, though to your country, your flag and the human',|wretchedly puur. cruise aud home. India, .Miller, THUS. //. NORTON. ** Hoc. 1, Maria Theresa, Carver, cruise and home. race, just so far as you carry forward this ah Mechanics' Own, Seahury, New Bedford. PASSENGERS. §3- In port, Dec y, M whiileships, 11 merchantmen, 1 steamkilling, desolating, degrading and demorali- Bv Bos ton, for San Francisco, —Wm, C. Drown, er, I sloop-of-war. 8 coaaters.—Total 87. RumA tihne rctic. tars were called "drunkards." 11 He might 11 certain authentic ways, have added that captains and their officers when upon a drunken spree, at sea, were " " " " " "" "" "" " " " I all| \l' Ul " r "" " - i i ! r < i ' .- \V. K. Phillips, B. Henley, P. C. Hogen, F. Brown, Dickenson, (.-apt. Miller, Mrs. Little, Mr. Clark, and 16 in the steerage. , "" "" " "" "" " "" " " " " "" " "" " " " "" """ " "" "" " " " zing business. I PORT OF LAHAINA. If all reports are true, rum has been thel Okknky Arrived. Hong Kong,—John Maxcy. occasion of more than one poor voyage !— By ;Nov .I—Bk Newton, Shermnn, N. 8., Arc, 7"o wh, Ilnnob. liy Chii.o, from Boston,—J. W. Marryatt. We heard a shrewd and observing Arctic By John Bbbtu*JL from San Francisco, —J. Love. 4—Sh Almira, Jenks, Edg., Arc, 500 wh, 5000 bone. 7—Sh 1..C. Richmond, Cochran, N. 8., Arc, 7oow, llono By the Royalist, for Auckland. —Mrs. Cleghorn 7—Bk Covington, .Newman, W«r., Arc, 425 wh. whaleman remark, "rum lost this year, and daughter, Miss Woolly, Messrs. Porter, Brooks, 7—Bk Venice, //arris, N. L., Arc, 800 wh, 10,000 bone. more than 10,000 barrels of oil." Wiseman and Simla. 7—llk Anteb.pe, Potter, Npt., Och, 1500 wh, 25000 bone 9—Sh Caravan, Bragg F. 11., Arc, 500 wh, 8000 Imiic. Newport.—Mrs. the Helen for By Augusta Bishop, We have received an anonymous com- Mis. Ives and four children, Miss Mary Parker, and it—Sh Hellespont,Manwaring, Mys., Och, It>oow,2sooob 10— Sh Aruolda, Harding. N. U., Och, 1000 wh, I.Wo b. munication, from which we make tho follow- IMr. C. J. Lyons. S.II. Waterman, /fall, St..n., Och, IUo w, 3oooob " Bk Bk Italy, Rowley, Gpt., Och, 2o ap, Moo wh, 9,000 b By the Bartholomew Goenold, for New Bedford.— ing extract : " brighton, Weaver, N. 8.. Och,Boo wh,sooobone Sh H. M. Lyman and J. M. Alexander. Walter Scott, Collins, Edg., 600 wh (1000 bone. "" Sh Nov. 28, Am bk Vernon, Little, 9000 wh, 14,000 lame; 9oowh, " Strike a light, Old Tom's coming. —How i,uiii. Im.in las! season, deb. I DIED. often ? O ! how often do we hear roared out! Fortune, Davis, 5o up, 2,000 wh, 23,000 bone; In flbftolula, Nov. IT, Oso. It. Lawbsvcc, need 85, tare front "1490 wh,*' 13,000 bone last season. Och. in a boatswain like voice, "Strike a light,;Sin Piancleco, The deccaeed wa« ■ native ofGrutou, Hum., sh 1700 wh, .10,000 bone. Canton, lii* friend* fciiw reefde. //<■ came paeeeafi r truin Cali** " Ct.liimlius,Wing, Old Tom's coming" or " did you ever see a When ( rowell,2boo wli, ;io,ooohone, ICoo fornia in lli« K J. FftML " 000 bone last season. 28, wh. 95, Mr. Ai.kkut !,>:■>> ,rii, 3d officer fit" nigger like me" during a cruise to the Arctic.' At si*;i, rthonl NOV. l'liu-iiix, nl New l>< dfnrd. IK' boJuM|«d In Tall River, Cleared. I will give you Pat's answer to it. "Too'lllip NlM WOOff Ills wife linw resides, much of one thing is just enough.'' So it is! i .\i City MoapitaJ. Honolulu, Nov. ■->:*. John N. Fiuskr, cid'd, : .Nov. 2ii, Am sh Ocmnliree, Coitlo, cruise and home. of aid. wnaleahip Napoleon. 99, hk S. //. Waterman, //all, em -c. Heiij. sh cronp, ;ti), of hoped that the time will soon come, I would IReward noliilu, Nov, Tucker, Sands, cruise. '2.1 of Jomm *'*., mil* child WilIn H< M Sea, Soiile, Tahiti. an.I Sarah Studley,aged 9 year* nut 7 MlOUtllt. that it was already begun, when our christ- jliam Washington. tinEdmuito Bon. Tahiti. Roanaa, 1st t»t December II. of In Honolulu, nil "" Fr Angelina, Vanqi elm,Kihv;in!u, ian masters would leave their little fifteen iconmimptiaBi aged 1? year*. Mr. It. hud been connected with ivuise and home. d.;te aiiwlou over bot>i Labainaluua vessels last y**r», pnrt ei a printer, let hi in $$T J1 the "Jo and eighteen gallon kegs of brandy where |land at Honolulu, mid i\ as esteemed for hi- Intear ty am! ebrbv genethey do their Sundays, behind them in the Itlinn character by In- bretbren oi tin- niiaelua andandfriend*aeverel i<>< UU dlaeaee lias been ■ Ungerinfl one, gulf stream. Neither allow their temper-!rally. years past, Jiis decline has been apparent ItU -M',i are Hie dead prbu die in the Lord**1 ance advocating officers to bring on board j " with them a small 30 gallon barrel full of1 A Monthly Journal devoted to Temperance, New England ruin, old cognac, or good old j Seamen, Marine and General Intelligence. H Hand Gin. Then our seamen before the J PUULISHED AND EDITED BY mast would seldom be included in the wes, SAMUEL C. DAMON, Seaman's Chaplain when a bad voyaye is made. Where there PORT OF HONOLULU. is no rum there is success und then our CapArrivals. TERMS. tain answers, "I made a good voyage." Jack St,v. 17—Am wh sh Sarah, Swift, Matt ,Ocli, SflfQ w, llooo b -.-..- $2,00 annum copy per is always blamed in the first, not recognized fcwow One Itirhnrds, Wiln.x. Ml. O.h. li.l -, '21— " "" S.Chariot, m «* Brown. Ocfa, Sue w b, 7<mmi bm c. 3,00 •«....... copies" Two in the last case. Well did Punch observe the da Fran. sli John Bertram, Leadholm, in In Ban " ■«_-.--.Cliiln. 154 Daebon, 6,00 I'm Huston. *' cargo ah d* As»'d copies" about drunkards rank. Firs in high sayings Kings " "" wh bk Concordia,French, BaT,Ocbt 7oow.tlooeb M— Fkiind, for 1, 2, 3, 4, when drunk were said to be "elated." Lords 2:1— ** wh rth (IroaJntbe Juhnsun, Orb. SI tp, Bono wh. W Botind volumes of the Ve,rnon, .\y. ,Och, Uwa, BuoW, rauoo j5, li. !), anil 8 years, at the Chaplain's Study. A reand Dukes were "merryhearted." Wealthy " «" ■<•« Mi. 'Jinn wh,BBooo b. (duction from the subscription price will be made to //iImtiiih, JorTriM, 2i— merchants and tradesmen were said to be Nov. 18—Wh sh North America, Mumuii," orul«*« utl'i\./< aland ( Seamen, and purchasers who desire more than a sindj do « Herald, SIocliiii, "intoxicated." But the poor und the juck11 Sell"Sea Serpent, Kllis, for San Fran isco. <gle volume. , ' ' , . . . 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