https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/d32fe62dd9cdf6a0a85c5eafa73fe449.pdf ab083b2aeedeed7deee8db1cbc7511f4 PDF Text Text FTHE RIEND HONOLULU, DECEMBER 1, 1873. 3Jcto Strits, M. 22. }h.Vl.\ Thanksgiving. COXTBRTS Far Dereaabee. 1813. raiis °9 Thanksgiving Captain Cook Literary Curisaily " as 100 1»S Editor's Table Week of Prayer, 1874 Letter from Rev. T. L. Gulick Marine Journal TheFirst Americana! Hawaiian Islands ■** 102 '°* V.M.C.A THE -FRIEND. DECEMBER 1. 1813. End of Another Year and Another Volume OF thb Fuienu.—With this number closes the XXXth volume of the Friend. Our subscribers having enjoyed the reading of the paper for another twelve months, will favor us by paying their bills on presentation. No one is called upon until tbe year has closed. Bound Volumes of the Friend.—We can furnish complete files of the Frienh for 22 years, or all the numbers including the new series, on the most reasonable terms. They will be bound nratly in two volumes, eleven each, or a less number of volumes. Apply to the editor. 500 Copies of the Friend Distributed Gratuitously.—The actual cost of these papers, is at least $250. To defray this expense for the year 1873, we have received the following donations : Rev. J. S. Green, --- -- - - - Capt. Nye, Capt. Gerken, Kale, Capt. Long, Josephine, Capt. Owens, Officer of U. S. Navy Mr. Bridges, 5 00 200 Agreeable to the invitation contained in the proclamation of President Grant, divine services were held on Thursday morning, Nov. 27th, at 11 a. m., at Fort street Church, when the Rev. W. Frear delivered a most appropriate discourse from the words recorded in Ezekiel xvi:l4. "And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty; for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God." In the introduction, the Reverend Preacher very naturally spoke of the propriety of a national thanksgiving, and expressed the hope that the time might come when the Christian rulers of all lands would unite in proclaiming such an Annual Day. He furthermore expressed the thought that there would be a peculiar propriety in the King of these islanes,. issuing his proclamation for a Day of Annual Thanksgiving. We would here remark that for many years under the reign of Kamehameha 111., and the early part of the reign of Kamehameha IV., this was the practice, and we sincerely regret that the practice was ever discontinued. As the public will soon be favored with the reading of the discoure, we refrain from further comment, but we cannot but express our decided approbation of the sentiments advanced. There were several very apt and pointed allusions to passing events in this kingdom. 97 {<Dli Strits, Acknowledgements.—From an extra N. Y. Trilnme, 9m\ SO G. D. Gilman containing 32 pages, reporting, in full, the meetings and speeches of the great Evangelicnl Alliance, lately held in New York. —From S. G. Gale copies of Minneapolis Tribune, containing full reports of the meetings of the American Board. —From Mrs. Taylor, in London, copies of Spurgeon's " Sword and Trowel," and a most beautifully illustrated Temperance Tale, in verse. " The Trial of Sir Jasper " by S. C. Hall, editor of the Art Journal. —From Dr. Nathan Allen. Lowell, Massachusetts, packages of pamphlets and reports. —From office of American Board, Boston, two volumes entitled, " Oriental Churches," by Rev. K. Anderson, D. D. —From Lieut. Maynard, of the U. S. S. tfaranac, a copy of the Census of the United States. It is a publication which we would earnestly commend to the reading of every American citizen. A Sailor Artist.—In the book store window can be seen a picture of the whaleship James Allen, drawn by an untaught Esquimaux sailor on board the above vessel. It is as perfectly done, as if it had been copied from nature by photography. While in Hakadadi, Japan, this artist showed his skill in drawing a picture of a British war steamer then in port, which the officers declared was perfectly marvelous. Had he the advantages offered in Eastern cities., he might beA Thanksgiving service was also come a noted marine painter. His talent in celebrated at St. Andrew's Cathedral by the this line ought to be cultivated.— Gazette. 2 50 5 00 5 00 Rev. Wm. Calder. The Psalms appropriate 25 00 to the occasion were read and a sermon 100 preached from I Thess. v:18. "In every 500 thing give thanks for this is the will of God Capt. Willis,.... 100 00 in Christ Jesus concerning you." The serSailors U. S. S. Portsmouth, mon was an eloquent and forcible exposition 4150 00 the example of St. Paul, of the reasons by Any person disposed to assist in the grawe should cultivate a spirit of thankwhy of tuitous distribution the Friend will please forward their donations to the editor or Mr. fulness towards God under all circumstances, Dunscombe, at the office, at Sailors' Home. for every blessing individual and national. Good Templar's Fair.—Come to the Fair, and we doubt not you will be amplyrewarded for all investments. If you do not make purchases, take the good advice of Good Templars and abstain from all intoxi- cating liquors. Letters. —Frank Farrow and Joseph S will find letters at our office. �IHE FRIEND. 98 DECEMBER, Did Captain Cook Knowingly Allow Himself we desire our readers fully to understand, that we utterly disclaim in any wise to detract to be Worshipped as Lono? from the just merits of Cook as a navigator "Caitajn Cook and Hid Dmsuctoih. Ths and explorer. His fame in this respect has awßtaa waiafctaw lately been agitated between the been increasing ever since his death. SubFsnwD respecting OapUln Cook's VWAoa and the part lo the cwmonlal of which be waa tbe object at sequent explorers have followed in the wake Kealakama* Bay seems to us to lie in a very small but that he greatly erred in alcompass. Did the Captain understand that in call- of his ships, the him natives adoration lowing • Lono,' regarded him at an aning " to be paid to him, we cient hero, who had long before received hia apoth- are fully" convinced. " 7b our mind it is eosis, again returning to the abodes of men, and so purposely keep up an imposture, or did he not? Our clear as daylight that the great Navigator judgment of his conduct most be guided by the an- did at the time cotitprehend the nature of swer we give to this question. If it be true that fully understanding himself to be regarded as a more the ceremonial to which he submitted." than mortal character he purposely and consciously We think our readers will agree with us kept up the delusion and practiced upon tbe superstitions of the people, we would say (pace JVuhou) after reading the following extracts : that ths FaiEKD takes the view of every Christian The following is an extract from a letter and honorable man, that by auoh a proceeding his fair fame was tarnished. Bat our answer to the al- of W. Cowper to the Rev. J. Newton: — legation of the Friend that this was the case is' not i'ROvsn.' There is a wide difference between being treated in a partioular way, and allowing yourself to be so treated. To October 'Jth, 1784. our own mind it is as clear as daylight that the great Navigator did not at the time comprehend the nature of the ceremonial to which he submitted, and much less had any desire to keep up a delusion. Unless other data can be produced, the journal of Captain King, who was present, seems to us to settle the question. After giving an account of tbe oeremonial he writes : meaning of the va' The rious ceremonies, with which we had been received, can only be the object of conjectures, and those uncertain and partial ; they were, however, without expressive of high respect on tbe part of the natives ; and as far as related to the person of Captain Cook, .'hey teemed approaching to adoration.' The words ' we have italicised contain tho strongest sentiment that an eye-witness ventures to put forward in regard to the extravagant homage paid to his com- mander. And yet those circumstances of reverence, which eye-witnesses were at a loss to explain, have furnished subsequent writers with tbe only basis of their accusation that Cook consciously allowed the natives to receive and worship him as a god." We copy the above paragraph from the November number of the Hawaiian Church Monthly Mettsenyer. The editor appears to have drawn an inference exactly the opposite from that deduced by almost every writer or historian, who has read the narrative of Capt. King as recorded in Cook's voyages. No writers have been so severe upon Cook's character and conduct as Englishmen. The following remarks of the Poet Cowper written when the narrative of Cook was first published in 1784, are fully endorsed by Manley Hopkins, Esq., in the last edition of his Hawaii," published in 1866. During this "interval of eighty years, this subject has been frequently discussed, and reviewed and we cannot recall one writer who has ventured to say with the editor of the Hawaiian Church Monthly Messenyer, that the fact is " not proven," that Capt. Cook allowed himself to be " adored " as Lono. We should suppose any candid person must be convinced of this fact, who will glance- at the scene sketched by the pencil of the artist who was present. That sketch was engraved for the original edition of Cook's voyages and has been re-engraved many times since. The native testimony we consider as most definite and explicit upon the point under consideation. In the republication of the following mfHh ' Last night 1 had a letter from Lord Dartmouth. It " was to apprise me of the safe arrival of Cook's last I »7 S. preparing to sacrifice to tbem the garland ox, cried out with terror,«We are men !' and prevented the intended rite ; but in the history of Cook's behavior at Hawaii we do not find that he deprecated tbe religious ceremonies of wbioh he was frequently tbe object or disclaimed the character of god which the heathen people assigned to him. multitudes who were attracted to the bay " Tbe very great for a sparse population, Ledyard were computed the number of persons at upwards of 15,-000, and he states that 8,000 canoes were counted afloat at one time. The latter faot appears more remarkable than the number of human beings whom curiosity drew to the shore. Cook landed, and conspicuous honors awaited him. Tbe King, Kalaniopuu, was still absent, engaged with his conquest in Maui ; but the tabu was broken, and Cook was treated with more than regal deference,—a demonstration ofrespect which would have been ludicrous had it not been painful. Heralds announced his approach, and opened a way for him through the crowds that thronged him. Those among the people who were more fearful, peeped at him from the houses, from behind stone walls, and from the tops of trees. As he moved, the assemblage covered their faces, and those nearest to him prostrated themselves on the earth in the deepest humility. As soon as Lono had passed, the people sprang up erect, and uncovered their faces ; and some among them not being rapid in their movements got troden down by the advancing crowd. The evolution of prostration and erection was found at last so inconvenient, and to require so unwonted an agility, that the practicalminded people found that they could beat meet the case by going permanently on their hands and feet ; and so, at lust, the procession changed a good deal in character and appearance, and 10,000 men and women, having little else on them than their nudity, were seen pursuing, or flying from, Captain Cook on all fours One feels ushamed at Ihe ovation ; ashamed at the degradation of one section of humanity bowin" down in such servile sort to their fellow men"; ashamed at one's own countryman in his triumph, and for his enduring the profane apotheosis which followed. He was led to the chief heiau, or temple, and was presented in great form to the idols was taken to the most sacred part of the enclosure, and then, being placed an a scaffold, ten men, bearing a large hog and some bundles ofred cloth, entered and prostrated themselves before him ; he was encircled in the cloth, and the hog was offered to him in sacficc, two priests the while chanting an antipbonal hymn in honor of Lono. By them he was led to the chief idol, which, following their example, he kissed. Indeed, in that mad hour, Cook's own degradation seems to have been equal to that of his ignorant worshippers. He wss supported by the chief priest and by Captain King, and placed between two wooden images ; then his face, hands, and arms were anointed with chewed cocoanut; he drank awa a drink prepared in a manner most disgusting to our notions —and finally he ate pork, whioh had been previously masticated for him by an old man. The natives assert that Cook went through all these heathen ceremonies without the slightest opposition." voyage, which he was so kind as to lend me, in St. James' Square. Tbe reading of those volumes afforded me much amusement and I hope some instruction. No observation however forced itself upon me with more violence than one, that I could not help making on the death of Captain Cook. God is a jealous God, and at Owyhee the poor man was content to be worshipped. From that moment, the remarkable interposition of Providence in his favor, was converted into an opposition that thwarted all his purposes. He left tbe scene of his deification, but was driven back to it by a most violent storm, in which he suffered more than in any that had preceeded it. When he departed he left his worshippers still infatuated with an idea of his godship, consequently well disposed to serve him. At his return he found them sullen, distrustful, and mysterious. A trilling theft was committed, which, by a blunder of his own in pursuing the thief after the property had been restored, was magnified to an affair of the lost impor-, tance. One of their favorite chiefs was killed by a blunder. Nothing, in short, but blunder and mistake attended him, till he fell breathless into the water, and then all was smooth again. The world indeed will not take notice, or see, that the dispensation bore evident marks of Divine displeasure ; but a mind I think in any degree spiritual oan not overlook them. We know from truth itself, that the death of Herod was for a similar offence. But Herod was in no sense a believer of God, nor had enjoyed half the opportunities with which our poor countryman had been favored. It may be urged perhaps that he was in jest, that be meant nothing but his own amusement, and that of his companions. I doubt it. He knows little of the heart, who does not know that even in a sensible man it is flattered by every species of exaltation. But be it so, that he was in sport—it was not humane, to say no worse of it, to sport with the ignorance of bis friends, to mock their simplicity, The following is the native testimony to humor and acquiesce in their blind credulity. Besides, though a stock or stone may be worshipped Owing to their conviction that Lono was a god blameless, a baptized man may not. He knews what they generally paid him 'V-rine honors. They offered he docs, and by suffering such honors to be paid him hogs, food, kapa, (native cloth) and other artibim, incurs the guilt of sacrilege. cles, as they were accustomed to bestow them on W. C." their deities, not expecting any thing in exchange The following is from Manley Hopkin's Tbe priests approached l.iin with prostrations, and Hawaii:" cast their red kapa over his shoulders, then receding a little, they presented hogs, and a variety of other "Though silence reigned on sea and on shore when the Discovery and Resolution cast anchor in the offerings, with long addresses rapidly enunciated, which were a repetition of their prayers and religious bay, it is a proof that their commander had quite acquired the reputation of thereturned Lono that the homage. If on any occasion he went inland the mass tabu was taken off in consequence of bis approach. of the people fled through fear, while all who remainGreat numbers of people then went on board, accom- ed fell down and worshipped him. He was led inti by a high ohief, Palea. With the Hawaiians, the bouses and temples of the gods and worshipped lokualn was the god of canoe-makers, and when the their also ; and all this adoration was received natives saw some of the seamen caulking the vessels, out remonstrance, as In the case of Herod ; wherefore they pronounoed them to be Mokualii'sclan. Several some perhaps may think for this cause and for anof the ship's company were smoking cigars, and other already mentioned be was smitten of God and these received tbe name of Lono-voloano. Many died."— Hawaiian Spectator. women, as before, visited the vessels, and numerous If any additional testimony is needed to persons of both sexes flocked round Cook and paid settle this question, it could probably be obbim divine honors. An old priest, who had onoe tained by referring to the original journal of been a famous warrior, approached the Captain with the utmost veneration, threw over his shoulders a John Ledyard, now deposited in the British piece ofred oloth, and offered a pig, pronouncing at Museum. The volume published by Ledthe time a long oration. Tbe Apostles at I.ystra. yard at Hartford, in 1783, was principally when the priests under similar circumstances were drawn from memory. " • ; " " : " Sanied with- �I a 71. 9 THE FRIEND,. DECEMBER, is one more expression in the let"ofThere your Holiness, which I cannot pass A Curious Literary Production. ter The following is one of the most curious compositions ever written. It evinces an ingenuity peculiarly its own. The initial letters spell—" My boast is in the glorious Cross of Christ." The words in italic, when read on the left-hand side from top to bottom and on the right-hand side from hottom to top, form the Lord's Prayer. over without contradiction, although it is information but upon the belief of your Holiness, namely, the expression that every one that has received baptism belongs to the Pope. The Evangelical creed which, as must be known to your Holiness, namely, 1 like my ancestors and the majority of my subjects profess, does not permit us to accept in our relations to God any other mediator than our Lord Jesus Christ. Difference of belief does not prevent me from living in peace with those who do not share mine, and offering your holinesss the expressions of my personal devotion and esteem. William." not based upon previous ; tabulated relating to the leading religious denominations from which it appears that the Methodist Denomination takes the lead, in regard to numbers. At some fature time we may publish statistics relating to education, newspaper;, etc., but our limits will now only allow us to insert the following table : Churehtt in the United Ktate»— lB7o. I J Makeknown tbe Gospel truth, our Father, King Denomination*. Yield up thy grace, dear Father, from above ; ■a Bless us with hearts which feelingly can sing O love." God of ever, Our life Thou art for All Denominations... 72,469 193,082 21,»68,062 Assuage our griefin love for Christ we pray, 14,447 12,867 3,997,110 30,229,221 Baptist, (regultr) died, of Heaven and Glory Sinoe the Prince 1.366 1,106 8*3,019 2^78,977 2 Baptist, (other) 3,678 2,622 Christian, 1 Took all sins, and hallowed the display. Editor's Table. 2,887 2,716 1,11', 4 Congregational Infinite JJr-ing, first Man, and then was cruoified, 2,601 5 Episcopal (Proi'uni) ami U. S. Census. Urvam's Iliad 815 Ml Evangelical and make known 6 Assocla'n pi.wer Stupendous God Thy grace 692 662 7 Friends table, are on our These two books lying 78,266 In Jesus' name let all the world rejoice, 8 Jewish 18* 162 Lutheran 3,033 2,776 977,832 and no two books could be more unlike. Now labor in Thy heavenly Kingdom own— Methodist 26,278 21,337 6,628,209 6,936 17 MUcellaneoua 27 That blessed Kingdom, for Thy saints the choice. There have been grave doubts expressed 11 26,700 67 12 Moravian (V. F.).... 72 How vile to come to Thee, trail our cry 87,838 Mormon 18* 171 when the former was written, and whether 13 New 18,766 Jerusalem 90 61 14 Enemies to TAy-self and all that's thine. even Homer was its author, but no doubts 16 Presbyterian (regular) 6,683 2,198,900 47, Graoeless our will, we live f:r vanity, 16 Presbyterian (other).. 1,388 499,344 appertain to the latter. The former is all 17 Reformed Church In l.oatbing»lhe very Ac-ing, evil in design. 227,228 America (late D. R.) 471 468 poetry, and the latter most prosaic,—both Reformed Church in 0 God ! Thy will be donefrom earth to heaven ; U. State* (late C.R.) 1,258 1-H5 431,700 Reclining on the Gospel, let ti« live fiyvratife, but in altogether a different 1,900,6141 Roman Catholic 4,127 Second Advent In earth from sin deliver-ed, and forgiven. 18 style. Says Homer, as translated by BryShaker Spiritualist 96 Oh ! us Thyself, but teaoh us to forgive ; ant: Unitarian 331 m 166,471 Unless its power temptation doth destroy, Like the race olleaves United Brethren In " Christ 1,446 9371 266,026 Is that of mankind. Upon the frounil Sure is our fall into the depths of woe. 210,884 Universalis 719 The winds strew one year's leaves Ihe sprouting grove 11,926 Unknown(I.. Missions) Carnal in mind, we have not a glimpse of joy 26 shootand grow Puts forth another that brood, 161,202 (Union) Unknown 409 Raised against heaven ; on us nohope we know. In the spring season. So it ia with man ; Oh ! give us grace, and lead us on the way, One generation grows while one decays." Shine on us with Thy love, and give us peace. Daring Conduct of a Paymaster's Clerk. Such moralizing ns this is worthy of SoloSelf and this sin that rise against us, slay. mon, have been a the corvette Wachusett was lying at may cotempowho When perhaps cense. Oh ! grant each day our trespats-es may raryof Homer. With whateagerness weshotild anchor in the harbor of Gibraltar, on August Forgive our evil deeds, that oft we do, Convince us daily of (Ae»i lo our shame ; peruse a volume upon the census of Greece, 27th, a sailor, while assisting in hoisting a James H. Young, a Help us with heavenly bread,for'give us too. drawn up with the care characterizing this boat, felltheoverboard. who was busily Department, in adore name clerk Pay ; Thy lusts and we-'ll Recurrent volume on the census of the United Stales, in taking invoices of stock, heard employed In Thy forgive-ueea we a« saints can die, for 1870, compared with the census as taken the cry, Man overboard!" He at once, Since for us, and our trespasses so high, at each decade of years, since 1790. Un- without disrobing himself, leaped into the died on Calvary. Tby Son. our Savior, like as are these two books yet we are read- water and swam to the rescue of the drownFrom the Presbyterian Weekly. " . ! , I 1 I — iS ■. » ' -, i . ; — " After swimming some distance the tide, which was running very fast through the straits, had carried the man far astern) he grappled the poor helpless fellow, Late papers contain a somewhat spicy corand swam to the ship, where the gallant resrespondence between these distinguished percuer and rescued were hoisted aboard. After sonages. The Pope calls the German Emon examination by the surgeon, it was found ; peror to account, and in his letter of August that the man would possibly survive, though 7th, 1873. employs this remarkable lanthe fellow will never forget the sensation of an hour's rolling on a barrel. There were guage : many young sharks swimming around at order to one of docI speak in fulfill my " the time, as Gibraltar is famous for these trines, which consists in telling the truth to monsters, and all aboard were surprised to all, even to those who are not Catholics, for that Mr. Young had successfully resisted find who has been baptized belongs— every one them, as I believe lie received a few slight in some way or other, which to define more bites on the left leg, and at this present writprecisely would be here out of place—being has entirely recovered. Mr. Young is a cherish the conlongs. I say, to the Pope. 1 Washingtonian, and has frequently displayed viction that your Majesty will receive my i great daring in attempts to save human fife, with usual and your goodness, observations as witnessed by his decorations, received will adopt such measures as are necessary in jreligion. The volume before us is worthy from the Emperor of Morocco and Khedive the present case. While offering to your of attentive perusal. We may thereby ac- of Egypt in rescuing subjects of thosv most gracious Majesty an expression of my trace curately X. the rapid growth of the great countries. devotion and esteem, I pray Godthat he may enfold your Majesty and myself in one and Republic in all those elements of national Papers for gratuitous distribution wealth, education, agriculture, commerce, Pics." the same bond of mercy. which aie have received from Hon. H. A. Peine, been To this assumption, that all baptized per- mechanical trades, and religion, Foster, Mrs. Chamberlain and Daniel other," Mr. some or to now a way great the aiding to build up and perpetuate sons belong " in of Waimea, Kauai. replies carefully Mjjpiowell and nation. Statistics are Emperor powerful Pope, the The German Emperor and the Pope. ing both with much interest. In 1870,there was a population in the United States of thirty-eight millions, five hundred and fiftyeight thousand, three hundred and seventyone (38,558,371.) It is a matter of honest pride to every intelligent and educated American that from among this thirty-eight ] millions there was one man—one poet found who could execute a translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, which should vie with or equal that of Pope or Derby, and surpass that of any other English translator. True poets are as rare now as in the days of nnjcient weece. If there are but few poels, there are many who can collect statistics reto population, trade, commerce and lating i ' : ing man. (as �1 II X 100 THE FRIEND. DECEMBER I. 1813. Week of Prayer.—An invitation has been issued by the Evangelical Alliance, requesting all Christians so disposed, throughout tbe world, to unite in observing a week ofprayer on the opening of tbe new year. The following programme accompanies the invitation. This will of course be modified to suit local churches and associations : : Sunday, January 4.—Sermons Tbe unity of Tlic real oneness of all true believers. Hindrances and motives to union. Jobn ivi:2l, 22,23. Monday, January s.—Tuanksuivinc For national, domestic, and personal mercies, both spiritual and temporal. Confession Unwortbidsss and guilt of our people and ourselves. Dan. ii:7. Tuesday, January 6.—Prayer for tbe Christian Church ; for tho increase of faith and holiness, love, and power ; and lor the more abundant grace of tbe Holy Spirit. Col. i:9, 10, 11. Wednesday, January!. Prayer for Families: Heme and parental influence. Schools, private and public. Sons and daughters absent from borne. Children in sickness and affliction. The 'Tring and disobedient. Ps. cxv:l2, 13, 14, cxliv:l2. Thursday, January 8.— Prayer For nations ; for public virtue and righteousness ; for the banishment of intemperance, infidelity, superstition, and error, nnd for the diffusion of Christian literature, lsa. Ix:17, 18. Friday, January 9, —Prayer For the evangelization of European countries ; for the conversion of Israel; for the spread of the (iospel in Mohammedan and heathen lands for persecuted and suffering Christians. Ps. Ixviii:3l ; cxxii:G ; lleb. xiii:3. Saturday, January 10.—Prayer In review of the events of 1873. Recognition of the providence of God. Happy issue of the Divine dispensations. Isa. xxvi:B, 0. Saturday, January 11.—Sermons Subject, kingdom universal and everlasting. Ps. xcvii:l,2. tbe Christian Church. : : : — : : : : : Oberlin Students. —There seem to be signs, says the Congreyationalist, of a special awakening of interest in the foreign missionary work, among Oberlin students. Rev. K. W. Logan, a graduate of the class of 1872, with his wife, and Mr. J. B. Blakely, of the class of 1873, offered themselves at Minneapolis for the Micronesian field, and were accepted ; both are noble and true men. “Rev. F. Buel.—Last Monday, October 27th, at 1 o'clock, p. si., passed away the Rev. Frederick Buel, lately Agent of the American Bible Society for San Francisco, aged 60 years." We copy the above notice of the death of the Rev. Mr. Buel from the Pacific He will be remembered by some of the missionaries and families in Honolulu who formed acquaintance when a sailor, nearly Jkirty «ago. £ m FRIEND, DECEMBER, 1878. Arrival ok thk Italian Kkigatk.—His Italian Letter from Rev. Thos. L. Gulick. Majesty's frigate the Garibaldi, arrived at The Rev. P. J. Gulick has kindly allowed j tbls port oosteam Wednesday last, Irom Japan, eu route us to copy the following extract from a let-' for San Francisco, for which port she sailed again ter, written by his son Thomas, and dated ! on Thursday evening. She is a screw steamer of 450 horsc-powor, ot 3350 tonsmeasurement, includSantander, Spain, Sept. 5, 1873: "My wife and 1 have been in Spain just ing engine apace, and built of wood. She was 186). Her two months to-day, and are already beginning built at Castollainare. near Naples, in to feel quite at home in Santander. We are complement consists ot 400 men. Her armament guns .Kill pounders) enjoying the study of the Spanish very; consists oT eight heavy rifled smaller pieces. His Royal Highness the much. It certainly is the easiest and most ! and eightGenoa, nephew of the King ol Italy, is a musical language I ever tried to learn. Be-1 Duke ot on board the Gurulxtldi. During the midshipman the Latin, there ing derived so«entirely from is scarcely a root with which we are not al- present cruise, this tine ship has visited Gibraltar, of tiooil Hope. Sydney, ready more or less familiar. We are now Rio dc Janeiro, tbe Cape Town, the Kijis. and ports of Hobarl Melbourne, able to understand nearly every word of the Chapel services, though of course we are Japan. From San l'rancisco she will proceed to South America and thence able to talk but little, and that in very brok- ports ol Western and through the Straits ol Magellan lor home. Tbe folen fashion. "We are much pleased and encouraged lowing is a list of her officers : Capt. and Commander—Andrea del Santo by the evident interest in the Gospel mesSecond Captain—S. Liguori. sage, which some of the regular attendants Senior Lieutenants—Carlo Galleam,Francesco Monies,.. Second Lieutenants—Camillo Candiaui, Giacinto Mlllelire, of the Chapel manifest. Last Sabbath broth- Kaltaele Volpe, Domenlco Parodi, Alberto Persico. er William read and expounded, verse by Sub Lieutenants—Marro. Cantelli, Gaetano Cassanella, Nlcolo Penco. verse, a portion of the Sermon on the Mount, Midshipmen—ll. It. 11. Thomas, Duke of Genoa, Pletro a copy of Matthew having been previously Scry, Cesare .Martini, Eduardo Gagliardi, Cesare Marcacri, l.ulgi Faravelli, GerolamoBonaccorgi, Marcello Amen,,Ludoplaced in the hands of nearly every person vico Incisa, Alberto Manfred., Thomaso llixlo, FajUito RoArturo Bonaini, GailioCocn. present. Though the congregation is made melll, Paymaster—Giuseppe Peirano. Surrjcon— Filippo Fioram up of poor people, the majority are able to First Surgeon —G. 11. Albamonti. read, and followed each passage as it was Second Chief Engineer —Mario Zanaboni- read. A more attractive congregation will not often be seen. We hope the Word of Life is finding lodgment in some hearts. A poor old man, who has to wear spectacles to read, always brings his large-type Bible and diligently looks up the texts that arc referred to in the sermon. Last Sabbath after services he said to brother's wife, his face beaming with smiles, " Your coming has been a goqd thing for me, now I live in Christ and shall die in Christ." And speaking to brother he said that meditating much upon the Scriptures God had opened his eyes and his' chief delight was now in them. We have every reason to believe that he is entirely sincere in what he says. " Spain is in a condition of turmoil and change; in many respects the most favorable time for planting the good seed. Bilbao, the first city to the east of us, distant about fifty miles, is besieged by the Carlists, and to-day the papers tell us that the Carlist Junta intrusted with the political organization of the party have decided by a majority of six votes upou the re-establishment of the Inquisition! At the same time the Republican Government is promising entire separation of Church and State which would be a great and most decisive step for Spain. If the priests and bishops could no longer look to the government for their salaries the Roman Church would crumble rapidly. If the separation is once completed any subsequent government will find it up hill work to reestablish the old order of things. Spain to- chaplnin — tXc.w. Giuseppe .Meozio —Advertlt, r, .Nov. :19th. "Blooh Tells."—The greatest sale of cattle ever known was held at New York Mills, near Utica, New York, last Tuesday. The proceeds of the sale amounted to $381,- The prices obtained were extraordinaOne cow, known as Bth Duchess of Thomdale, sold for $40,600 ; another, 10th Duchess of Geneva, $35,000 ; another, Ist Duchess of Oneida, $30,600. All of these were bought by Englishmen for exportation. Nine others brought prices varying from ten thousand to twenty-seven thousand dollars, and many more from one thousand to ten thousand each. The cattle were Shorthorns, owned and bred by Hon. Samuel Campbell, a member of the New York senate. The Shorthorn, as is well known, was originally imported from England, but of late years several herds in America have had a reputation not inferior to that of any in the old country. It is said to be impossible in England to procure any throughbred Shorthorns, not because there are none in the country, but because the owners will not part with them. A cotemporary, which is good Authority on such matters, says there has not been a public sale of Shorthorns in England for twenty years and there is not likely to be any for a hundred years to come. The sale of Mr. Campbell's stock has therefore been u topic ofinterest in England as well as in this country, and has been discussed in the agricultural journals -585. ry. there.—Massarhusctts Spy, s>/>t. 15. day has little to fear from the Inquisition though the spirit which kindled its fires still Erratum. On page 102 of this issue remains. The religious bigotry of the Car- for 1778 read 1788. lists will defeat itself. The nineteenth cenInformation Wanted. tury cannot be turned back into the sixteenth even in Spain. Concerning Layton Ryder, who came oat to t/ic Pacinc, officer of the whakehip Tkoma* Dicketon, about the enjoyed very much a visit first year 1850. Haa not been heard of since then ; bat it In sup" WeMr.navo from Fiiednor who spent a week with poaed he died in Honolulu. Any tidings of him will be thankreceived by Lewis H. Larcom, whaleahip Hautilui, us. He is expecting to start for America fully Honolulu harbor, or by theeditor of theFriend. the middle of this month to attend the meetRespecting I, R. rTillimmt, who ia reported at workupon on the Sandwich Islands. Any information ing of the Evangelical Alliance in New some plantation be thankfully received by the editor, or hi* sisfr. Mis. A. will York." �— RtrosT or Bohoobbk Koiia Packbt, Kiko, Master Bulled from Petropaulaki Sept 27th, and had light wind, from 30th, when we met a severe SB gale. Oct Ist NNW until thewind veered to NW, and continued to blow from that quarter till the Oct 9th then had light and baffling winds we encountered a perfect hurricane, the S. I. to the 14th, when PORT wind blowing from S, NNW, and all round the compass. Split all our aails and stove two boats. From the 22d to tbe ARRIVALS. 27th had a gale from EBE, then light winda from theBand BW. In lat 44° N, long 142° 20' W, spoke the British ship Irwcll, of London, from Newcastle bound to Ban Francisco. No. 1-Am wh bk Acora Barnes, Allen, from *-«<'<:•'*•"» bone, 440 ivory. I got my position from her, aa my chronometer was out of or36 .pin, 210 wh, 170 walrus, 4,000 day.from Petroder ; on the 31st had light trades. Sighted Molokai the same 1-H«w schr Kona Packet, King, 35 day, distance fifteen miles, and came into port during theaf110 Arctic, wiih ternoon—Bs days passage. bk Active, Campbell, from -2— Ivorywh,240 walrus, 4,500 bone, Report or Bark Active, T. U. Campbell, Master.— fin Arctic, with 6-Atn whbk Northern Light, Smith,2,000 Left Honolulu 27th Nov, 1872, and cruised off New Ireland ivory. bone, 4,500 400 walrus, 360 wh, and Boruka thebetween seasons. Saw whales twice, and took u- Am achr Fanny, Young, 23 days from Navigator sis, making 110 barrels. Recruited ship at Ascension Island Islands, via Makcna. and Yokohama. Cruised nearly a month In the Japan Sea, cleMit>-Brit wh bk Faraway, Norton, Irom Arctic, with 150 and saw two right whales. On the 21st May, 1873, in a dense Arctic, from 2d, Fisher, bk Java b-Am wh fog, struck on Oki-Siri Island, but got off in a ahort time, done to the wb, 8,000 bone. 1,1.0 wind being light and water smooth ; no damage of the pos|. with Arctic, Long, tin Josephine, whbk 0-Am ship. The Island was made twenty miles south 20th through Retiring Passed Straits wh, 14,000 bone. .MrKeiuic, tion on the charts. from Arctic, with June and Point Barrow 26th July, in company with twenty of 7—Am wh ship Europa. point, but 800 wh, 8.000 bone. were a few whales off Ihe the other vessels. There V- Am wh bk Triton, lleppijfsioue, fin Arctic, via KaCruised off the point till 9th Aug, lSJiunipriack, 100 walrus. nothing like fcrmer years. waihae, with 190 spin, then went lo Herald Island; found a few whales, but veryu- *.m wh bk James Allen, sWOty. from Arctic, with shy bad weather and snow squalls every day. Thishas been 1,000 wh, 0,000 bone, 360 Ivory. a very open season were In lat 73° 06' N, and could have whbk Nautilus, Smith, from Arctic, with 430 gono further. The natives report a very mild winter last year. wh, 120walrus, 7,000 bone. Took three whales during the season Kept off Bth Oct, and li-Brll wh bk Adventurer, Ilercndecn, from Arctic, passed Cape East on the 10th and Fox Islands 17th. In lat with 00 sperm. N had a brisk southerly gale. Took the easterly winds 15—Haw brig Onward, BaUiaticr, 75 days from Sydney. 60° in lat 34° N andhad them brisk to 24° •, from thence to port 16—Amship Byren, Benson, 143 days from Boston. light, arriving in HonoluluSunday, Nov 2d. 10—Am wh bk Onward, Hayes, from Arctic, with 4«0 Report of Bark Southern Liuht, G. L. Smith, Maswh, 360 walrus, 7,000 bone. u»0 m,—Had a very windy and foggy season in llic Arctic, but 10—Am wh bk Arnolds, Bauldry, from Arctic, wuli the sea very clear of ice. Saw but few whales and generally wh, 200 walrus, 0,000 bone. Oct loth, four 17—Am bk Camden, Robinson, ii da>» from 1 ort very wild took the first one Aug 15th. the last 360 bbla, live hundred walrus making 400 bbls. Gamble. , »0O in all, making nearly all ihe way winda light wits sea had 12tli,and Irom Arctic LaA the Oct Illinois, Fraser, bk is—Am wh to this port, arriving Wednesday. Nov 6lh. Oct 2d, on board, wh, 100 walrus, 12,000none. i'j—Arswh bk Joe Maxwell, llickmott, from Arctic, Kealehaniu. a Hawaiian seaman, died of consumption. wilh 750 wb, 340 walrus, 14,000 bone. Report of Schooner Fanny, Yoinu, Master.—Left 22— Am bktn Jane A Falainhurg, J A Brown, 21 days Honolulu 17th July, and called at Hlupalakua | was 17 days fromAstoria. from there to Tutuila. Hadline weather the whole passage. It—JUI bk Comet, Pcrrimaii, l<i; .lays Irom ran Itiui- Left Navigator Islands Oct 13th. Had fine weather all the cisco. Arrived in Honolulu Wednesday, Nov 6th. .'ii— His Italian Majesty's steam frigate Guribalili, An- way up. Report or Bark Faraway, Thos. 11. Norton, Ma.ter. drea del Santo, 26days from Yokohama. —Left Honolulu July 13th,had fine passage to lal 42= ; passed through the straits on the 13th Aug, mado the ice on Ihe DEPARTIRE'. 21st, lat 71° 10', long 103° 40. Up to Hept 18th saw very few whales | on that date saw quite a show of whales, apparIslands. C Ward.Rickman, fur Guano M schr I—Am ently still, but bad weather, a gale from WSW, very rugged I—Haw schr Dauntless, Berrill, for Auckland. could not lower the boats ; on the 19ih saw whales and and 7—Brit wh bk Ocean Steed, II Pease, Jr, f'.r San lowered for them i missed one •, seeing no more lor 4 or 6 Francisco. days, kept off for Herald Island on the 26th took a gale from 13—Am schr Fanny, Young, for SanFrancisco. KSE, which lasted till the 20th, when we foundourselves away 14—Am ship Corlnga. Ropes, lor Hamburg, Breiiu u to the westward of the Big River Oct Ist, thick weather, 15—Brit brig Robert Cowan, Revely, for Sydney. wind strong from thenorth ; on the 2d passed out thestraits 18—Am wb bk Acori Barnes, Allen, to cruise. in company with another ship, unknown ; on Ihe 6th made St JO—Am wh bk Bartholomew Gosnold, Willis, to cruiie. Malhew's Island and saw quite a show of right whales ; gale .j—Am bk Camden,Robinson, for Port Towns-inl. of wind and very rugged at the time lowered, but could not get to the whales ; on the Bth, missed one staid there 4 or .7-An wh bk Active, Campbell, to cruise. 27—Haw wh bk Arctic, B Whitney, lo cruis:. 5 days wailing for good weather but found none *, kept off for ." llis Italian Majesty's steam frigate Garibaldi. Anthe 72 passage, finding it was no use stopping any longer. On drea del Santo, forBan Francisco. a heavy gale from tlicl3th. In lat 66°, long 171° 36', took to Heppingstone, bk cruise Triton, .'.—Am wh the south it blew a hurricane with a heavy sea on, abip unreefed malntopsail -, a sea struck the ship and took ! dcr close i the starboard bow boat with everything attached ; the starMEMORANDA. ; board boatsaving went also, Ihe davits breaking down,but we sucthe boat in a shattered state Ihe ahlp laborin Repobt of Bark Bartholomew Gobnold, J. M. WtUla, ceeded midnight loat fore topmast staysail, fore and hard at ing ; and touched Ebon 1872, at Master. Left Honolulu Dec 4th, staysail damaged several other sails the heaviest main and and Strong's Island. Cruised off Bouka Island and took 140 of the gale lasted about 9 hours, the barometer; down to 27 bblß sperm. April 22d, 1873, left Yokohama arrived up to and l-10ib | on Ihe 15th took another gale from the N W in the ice May 21st, having experienced head winds all thepas- lat 54° 26', long 172 s in which wo lost two more boats, sage t June Bth entered the Arctic. First part season had started up about 30 feet of themain rail and took off three strongwinds and cold weather, but good in Julyand Aug all davits on the larboard side,and carried away the crane of the ■strong I Sept blowing, but warm lor the latitude. Bcpt 26th had main topsail yard. On Ihe 18th tookanother gale from BE In gales until Oct 2d, and were blown off the ground. sight ol Beguam, which lasted 20 hours on the 21st passed Prince Shaped our course for the straits, pasßing Cape of out Beguam under double reefed topsails with a strong by Wales Oct 4th, through Fox Islands Oct 10th ; hare had waa one of Ihe hardest passages and the nodcrate winds since leaving Fox Islands. This season in ENE wind. ThU weather 1 ever experienced. From thence to port, fine the Arctic has been very free fromice, and whalesvery scarce. worst winds NW most the of the passage-, took the trades in lat lowered for eight times whales. Arrived 26 Oar boats have been 14 days from Beguam in sight of Honolulu. The ° ; waa in Honolulu Tuesday, Oct 28th. of thehardest I believe that was ever season has been one Repobt or Babe Ocean Bteed, 11. Pease, Jr., Master. known. Arrived in Honolulu Wednesday, Nov 6th. —Left Honolulu-aslane 14ih ; had light pleasant weather to Retort of Bark James Allen, Kelley, Master.— We Fox Islands. PbTB through the 170 passage July 4th with- have had the most discouraging season I ever experienced in out seeing Ihe lano**weather thick and foggy until the 18th, scarce when we made Cape Llsburn, the ilrst land sighted since tbe Arctic Ocean for our business ; whales were very and wild, the sea very clear of ice, but that did not help us the Sandwich Islands. On tbe 26th anchored leaving off roint Belcher; during twenty-four hoars a fresh gale sprung any. The weather was very bad most of the season, espein September, just as the whalesmade their appearance, up from WBW, which parted both our cables ; lost both an- cially chors with 00 fathoms chain. Passed to the eastward of Point where we could get at them. We bad about seven days In during which we could work, which we Improved to October, company twenty ships. on tbe 27th with Found in Barrow a space of clear water between the shore and main pack of an the best of our ability, and left on the 10th Dot. went into average width of seven miles. A number of the ships worked Plover Bay to boil in company with Progress, Onward, NauAlaska, Illinois, Arnolds, Jos Maxwell,and Mt Wollasas far east as the meridianof 150 °, but saw nothing In way tilus, of whaling that would encourage them to take the risk and go ton. Arrived In Honolulu Thursday, Nov 13th. farther. (Have every reason to believe that the ships could Repobt or Bark Aoventurer, Heeendeen, M asteb.— have advanced as nut as MackenzieRiver, but to have return- Left Sydney April 17th. Saw sperm whales once on Ihe pased tbe same season doubtful.) But very lew whales were seen, sage North, about 300 miles BE of Pleasant Island ; took five, and those going quick. About half the number of ship, suc- making 80 barrels. Passed through the Straits 17th July. each. Aug 81b a bad Cruised around Point Barrow and aa far to westward as 166 ceeded in capturing from one to two spell of weather came on, and while working back to Point All ol August and September saw but very lew scattering Barrow to get a Bale position, we lost our Jib-boom, Jibs,and whales, and they wen very wild and ahy. Found theArctic all gear attached. On the20th left for Herald Island. Cruls- very free from ice. Since Sept 26th have had a successionof jd; from there to 166° ; had bad weather with much now. heavy galea. Came oat of the Arcticon the night of Oct Bth. Saw very fewwhales, and only lor one rising. Sept 36th ex- About the Fox Islands, both to the N and 8 of 172 passage, perienced a strong gale from NE. which lasted until Oct 2d. bad very bad weather, gales commencing at BE and veering to Passed through Bearing Btrails Oct 4th ; on the Bth saw a BW, with much rain. Came through Fox Islands Oct 17th, schooner underway close in the southaids of St George Island. end arrived at Honolulu Not 16th. During tbe entire season Passed through the 170 passage of Fox Islands on the 10th. have lowered the boats but seven times, and have not been Prom thence to lat 30° N had strong 8 and BW wind., with near enough to s whale to dart an iron. Came to this port on naehrein-, took the trade In lat24° N. Righted Diamond account of Ihe ship being badly strained by the very severe llrad al 6 r » Oct 30th, arriving in Honolulu nest morning. weather encountered In the Arcticand on thepassage down. MARINE JOURNAL. ; OF HONOLULU, AnTwh JpmTinS 1,300> .. _ . . , ,„, |li-\m ; -, .. . ; „„_ -, : — ' , -, -, -, -, ; ; , -, ° 1871. 10 DECEMBER, THE FRIEND, RtroßTor Balk Arnolds, G P. Baii.dry, Ma.terLeft Honolulu December, 1872, and cruised on the line between seasons ; saw no whales. Touched at Ocean Island, where ihe natives were in a starving condition. Took on* 24 and carried them to Sarong's Island ; Ihen proceeded North. Went into the Arctic Ocean middle of June ( saw but only tew whsles until Oct Ist, when we took our first one. From that time to tbe 10th took 8 whales, stowing down 330 bolt anil and 6,000 lbs bone. Came out of Ihe Arctic Ocean Oct 18th. proceeded to Plover Bay. Left Plover Bay Oct »«th, arriving at Honolulu after a passage of S3 days. Total calch, 200 walrus, 330 whale, 6,000 lbs bone. R«roBT or Babk Job. Maxwell, Stephen Hickmott, Master.—Left San Francisco Jan 16th ; went down on to the line in long 96° worked to Ihe westward, and touched at Marquesas and Gilbertgroups from there to Yokohama, arriving there May 10th; from thence to Arctic, passing through the Straits June80lh. Saw no whales, but quantities of walrus j took, up to July 81st, 340 bbls walrus oil. Experienced pleasant weather, and an open sea. Arrived oft Point Barrow Aug 10th ; saw a lew whales,and caught oar first one Sept Ist | caught 6 off Point Barrow. From there proceeded west, where we captured 6 whales, making in all 11 whales. Left Herald Island Oct 12th,and arrived at Dover Bay Oct 18th. Left there Oct 27th, and arrived at Honolulu Nov 10th, after a passage of 23 days. Hail 340 walrus, 760 whale, and 14,000 lbs bone. . ; PASSENGERS. Fob Guano Islands—Per C. M. SVsrd, Nov. Ist—W II Foye, and 20 native laborers. From Navioatob Island"—Per Fanny, Nov. 6th—Col A B Bteinberger, Edwin Moody. Fob San Fbancibco—Per Funny, Nor. 13th—Col A D Bteinberger, Ed Moody. Fbom Pobt Gamble—Per t'niiiden, NaT. 17llt—Mrs N Hinds And child, Wm Btone. Fbom Pobtland—Per Jane A. Falkinlmrg.Nov. 22d—Paul Grisbcr, Wm Westlako, Tom Yee, Alt Tuck, Ah King. From Ban Fbancibco—Per Comet, Nov. 26th—Mrs McKenrie, Mrs Taylor and child, Mrs Wilder, Mrs Flint, Mr. Holland 2 children, P Oppcrgel, Jas M Monsnrrat, Mr Slackpole, Mr Wooley and wife, Mr Richards, T P Clarey, Mr Partridge, B Burghan, II W Merrill and wife, Patrick llanfor.l, Miss Boardman, Mrs Bingham and child, Mrs Davids, Miss Coffin, Capt E Wood, I. M Cobb, HAP Carter, R Bonheur and wife, Mr Hoffman, Mr Lambert and wife, Mr Garth, Mr Manser, R Daly, J t Allen, Harry Rldgley, and 8 Chinamen. MARRIED. Yates— Paty—In San Francisco, October 8lh, by the Rev. Ari'liilraron Mason, Lieutenant Isaac J. Yates (U. B. N.) to .Miss Emma Theodoba Patv, of this city. J_7" No cards. Blundix—Bbowx—In this city, at St. Andrew's Calhcdrnl, October 29lh, by the Right Kcv. the Bishop of Honolulu, Rev. Thomas Blindlm to Emily Eliza, fifth daughter of the late James Drown, Esq., of Csnlerbury, England. Lice—Gabkell—In this city, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, November 1st, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Honolulu. William Seaborn, eldest son of Geo. n. I.uce, of Honolulu, to Mart E. (Pollib), eldest daughter of w. J. Uaakcll, Esq.. of Cardiff, England. J y No cards. Moanaili—Puaa—In thia city, November 8th, by the Rev. G. W. Pilipo, Hon. John Moanai li to Moiiole Pi aa. Frames—Robinson—In this city, November 18lh. by Rev. 8. C. Damon, Captain Davin R. Feasee, ol the whaling bark Illinois, to Miss Kate Robinson, of Wintcrport, Maine. .... DIED. Towbsend—On board whaling bark Triton, at sea, off Biliring Straits, June 10th, 1873, Stephen Reynolds Towssen n, eldest son of Mrs. Harriett II. Townscnd, of tbia city, ageil 19 years. Lewis—At Sandy Springs, near Pendleton, South Carolina, on the 20th September last, Captain Aaron Benson Lewis. in the 53d year of his age. He was engaged during the whole ol the war of the Union in the Confederate aervice. He waa present at thebattle of Bull Run In the Fourth 8. C. Regiment ; and look a part in every action of the Army of Northern Virginia, until the surrender at Appomattox. He was a noble, simple hearted character, who sacrificed all lis had to his sense of duty, lie was a brother-in-law ol Mr. Waller M. Gibson of Lanai. Lew HON—Ai aea, October 3d, on board of ship Syren, ol consumption, James E. Lewihon. an ordinary seaman, lie was a native of Sweden. Kaauwai—In this city, at the reaidence of lib Ex. C. R. Bishop, November 4th, Mrs. Mary Ann Kiliwehi Kaai wai, aged 83 years. I'batt—In Boston, Mass., November Oih. Mr. Jnscm Pratt, in the 82d year of hla age ; father of Frank 8. Pratt, Esq.,of this city. Oboeoe—In thia city, at the 11. 8. Hospital, 14th November, Geoboe, a native of Ascension Island. He waa a seaman - on board whaleahip Europa. KILE—In this cily, November 14th, Mr. B. J. Kile, a naof Canterbury, England, aged 47 years. 87 Brooklyn V.) papers please copy. tive (N. . Bciieievee—At Waolani, Nuuanu Valley,November 20th, HenbvBchbieveb, aged 19 yeara and 6 months, having been ill with paralysis for over two yean. Woolsev—In this city, November 83d, Jane, younges daughter of W. O. and Bliss WooUey, aged 1 year and 10 months. I.v all—In this cily, November 24th, of Injuries received by an accident, William Lv» i i a native of Montrose, Fcoilanoi, ar«d 38 years. �102 IRE FRIEND, DECEMBER, The First American Visitor to the Hawaiian detachment of stores, which was to be sent to Yakutz for the use of Mr. Billings, an Islands. Englishman, who was entrusted with the Ledyard, a distinguished traveler, schemes of northern discovery, in which the i a native of Qrotlon in Connecticut. His Empress was then engaged. From Yakutz, her died, while ho was yet a child, and he which is situated in Siberia, six thousand s left under the care of a relative in Hart- miles east of Petersburgh, he proceeded to ford. Hero he enjoyed the advantages of a Oczakow or Ochotsk, on the Kamschatka grammar-school. After the death of his pat- Sea ; but as the navigator was completely ron, when he whs eighteen years of age, he obstructed by the ice, he returned to Yakutz, was left to follow his own inclinations. With intending to wait for the conclusion of llie a view to the study of divinity he now pass- winter. Here in consequence of some unaced a short time m Darmouth college in New countable suspicion he was seized in the Hampshire, where he had an opportunity of name of the Empress by two Russian sollearning the manners of the Indians, as there diers, who conveyed him, in the depth of was a number of Indian pupils in the semi- winter, through the north of Tartary to the nary. His acquaintance witli the savage frontier of the Polish dominions; assuring character, gained in this place, was of no lit- him at their departure, that if he returned to tle advantage to him in the future periods of Russia, he should certainly be hanged, but his life. His poverty obliging him to with- if he chose to return to England, they wished draw from the college before ho had comple- him u pleasant journey. Poor, forlorn, and ted his education, and not having a shilling friendless, covered with rugs, and exhausted in his pocket to defray the expense of a jour- by fatigue, diseusc,and misery, he proceeded ney to Hartford, he built him a canoe, fifty to Koningsberg, where tho interest of Sir feet in length'and three in breadth, and being Joseph Banks enabled him to procure the generously supplied with some drieil vension sum of five guineas, by means of which he for his sea stores he embarked upon the arrived in England. Connecticut,, and going down that river, He immediately waited on Sir Joseph, which is in many places rapid, and with who recommended him to an adventure as which he was totally unacquainted, he ar- perilous ns that, from which he bad just rerived safely nt Hartford at the distance of turned. He now was informed of the views unc hundred anil forty miles. He soon went of the association, which had been lately to New York, and sailed for London in 1771 formed for promoting the discovery of the as u common sailor. When Captain Cook interior parts of Africa, which were then litsailed on his third voyage of discovery, Led- tle known. Sparnnan, Paterson and Vailyard, who felt an irrcsistable desire to ex- lant had traveled into Caffraria, and Norden plore those regions of the globe, which were and Bruce had enlarged the acquaintance of yet undiscovered, or imperfectly known, ac- Europeans with Egypt, Nubia and Abyscepted the humble station of corporal of sinia. In regard to other parts of this quarmarines, rather than forego an opportunity ter of the globe, its geography, excepting in 80 inviting to bis inquisitive and adventur- relation to its coasts, was involved in darkous spirit. He was a favorite of the illus- ness. Ledyard engaged with enthusiasm in trious navigator, and was one of the wit- an enterprise, which he had already projected nesses of his tragical end in 1778. He sur- for himself; and receiving from Sir Joseph prised his friends in America, who had heard a letter of introduction to one of the members nothing of him for ten years, by a visit in | of the committee appointed to direct the 1781. Having offered his services to several business and promote the object of the assomerchants to conduct a trading voyage to ciation, lie went to him without delay. Tho the north west coast, and meeting with no description, which that gentleman has given encouragement, he again embarked for Eng- of his first interview, strongly marks the land in 1782. He now resolved to traverse character of this hardy traveler. Before I the continent of America from the north had learned," says he, from the" note the west coast, which Cook had partly explored, name and business of "my visitor, I was to the eastern coast, with which he was al- struck with the manliness of his person, the ready perfectly familiar. Disappointed in breadth of his chest, the openness of his 'his intention of sailing on a voyage of com- countenance, and the inquietude of his eye. mercial adventure to Nootka Sound, he I spread the map ol Africa before him, and crossed the British Channel to Ostend with tracing a line from Cairo to Sennaar, and only ten guineas in his purse; determined from thence westward in the latitude and to travel overland to Kamschatkn, whence supposed direction of the Niger, I told him the passage is short to the western coast of that was the route, by which 1 was anxious, Americu. When he came to the Gulf of that Africa might, if possible, be explored. Bothnia, lie attempted to cross the ice, that He said, he should think himself singularly he might reach Kamschatkn the shortest fortunate to be entrusted with the adventure. way ; but finding that the water was not I asked him when lie would set out ? Tofrozen in the middle, he returned to Stock- morrow morning wns his answer.'' holm. He then traveled northward into the From such zeal, decision, and intrepidity Arctic circle, and passing round the head of the society naturally formed the most san■the gulf, descended on its eastern side to guine expectations. He sailed from London Petersburgh. There his ordinary appear- June 30, 1778, and in thirty-six days, seven ance attracted general notice. Without of which were spent in Paris, and two at stockings or shoes, and too poor to provide Marseilles, arrived in the city of Alexandria; himself with either, he was invited to dine and having there assumed the dress of an with the Portuguese Ambassador, who sup- Egyptian traveler proceeded to Cairo, which plied him with twenty guineas on the credit he reached on the 19th of August. He travof Sir Joseph Banks. Through his interest eled with peculiar advantages. Endowed •he also obtained permission to accompany a with an original and comprehensive genius Eloi N I* . $ he beheld with interest, and described with eaergy tho scenes and objects around him ; and by comparing them with what he had seen in other regions of the globe he was en abled to give his narrative all the varied effect of contrast and resemblance. His remarks on lower Egypt, had that country been less generally known might have rank- ed with the most valuable of geographicnl records. They greatly heightened the opinion, which his employers already entertained of his singular qualifications for the task, which he had undertaken. Nor was his residence at Cairo altogether useless to the association. By visiting the slave markets, nnd by conversing with the Jelabs, or trava cling merchants of the caravans, he obtained withoutany expense a betteridea of the people of Africa, of «rts trade, of the position ol places, the nature of the country, and the manner of traveling, than he could by any other means have acquired ; and the communications on these subjects, which he transmitted to England, interesting and instructive as they were, afforded the society the most gratifying proofs of the ardent spirit of inquiry, the unwearied attention, the persevering research, and the laborious, indefatigable, anxious zeal, with which their author pursued the object of his mission. He had announced to his employers, that he had received letters ol earnest recommendation from the Aga ; that the day of his departure was appointed ; that his next despatch would be dated from Scnnaar; and the committee expected with impatience the result of his journey. But thnt journey was never to be performed. The vexation occasioned by repeated delays in the departure ol the caravan, brought on a billious complaint, which, being increased at first by incautious treatment, baffled the skill of tho most approved physicians of Cairo, and terminated his earthly existancc January 17, 1789. The society heard with deep concern the death of a man, whose high sense of honor, magnanimous contempt of danger and earnest zenl for the extension of knowledge had been so conspicuously displayed in their service ; whose ardor, tempered by calm deliberation, whose daring spirit, seconded by the most prudent caution and whose impatience of control, united with the power of supporting any fatigue, seemed to have qualified him above all other men for the very arduous task of traversing the widest and most flangeorous part of the continent of Africa. Despising the accidental distinctions o( the society, he seemed to regard no man superior : but his manners, though uiTpolished, were not disagreeable. His uncultivated geniuwas peculiar and capacious. The hardships, to which he submitted in the prosecution ot his enterprises nnd in the indulgence of his curiosity, are almost incredible. He was sometimes glad to receive food as in charity to u madman, for that character he had been obliged to assumo in order to avoid a heavier calamity. His judgment of the female character is very honorable to the sex. "1 have always remarked," said he, " that women in all countries are civil and obliging, tender and humane ; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest; that they do not hesitate, like men, to perform a generous action. Not haughty, not arrogant, not supercillious, they �full of courtesy, and fond of society; more liable in general to err than the man, but in general also more virtuous, and performing more good actions, than he. To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency and iriendship, without receiving a decent and Iriendly answer. With man it has often ticcn otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide spread regions of the wander-or ing Tartar; if hungry, dry, cold, wet, sick, the women have ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so. And to add to this virtue, so worthy the appellation of benevoVncc, their actions have been performed in "o free and kind a manner, that if I was dry, 1 drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I eat the coarsest morsel with a doubleWelith."—. Wen* Biographical Dictionary. tire ADVERTISCYEEVTS. II OKh'M .1 N .N' ■4I < . at. I> Physician and Surgeon, . g« il ilk. \i i; u ft DILLINQHAM & CO. \OS. 93 AND 97 KINO HUM.lilt, . R KEROSENE LAMPS AND CHANDELIERS, KEROSENE LAMPS and CHANDELIERS, to Burn without Chimneys, AMI WARRRANTKI) TO fIIVK SATINFACTION. PANCY MO T 1 • ( MMiafiIJbbrbb Sir. 1 SM I I II IVT en. to 1» om Wayon and t'amaij' Builder, > .....I 70 Kind Street, Honolulu. i Island orders jnoinptly executr.l at low. i.l rules «. ft Is la Bsi ( CASTLE & OOOKE . niI'OUIKKS AMI lIKAI.KKS |g REUI'I.AR PORTLAND LINE OK Packets, New Knglanil Mutual l.lfa Insurmice Company, The I'ulon Marine Insurance Company, San Kram-ise... The Kohala Hti|(ar Company, Tho Haiku Sugar Company. The Hawaiian Sugar Mill, W. 11. Bailey, The HamakuA Sugar Company. Tho Waiaiua Sugar Plantation, The Wheeler Wilson Sewlnn Machine Company, tf Dr. .layne A Sons Celebrated Family Medicine*. TMIE II I I. I. 1 N B W lIKTII, Kawaihae, Hawaii, Flrrwaail aa llnn.l aw. •: (buss Balis chants, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Island*. Ajrratß PailOa Kail Works, BlilldN Kunili LaMM, Asa Perry Davis' Palis Klllrr. liilormHtiun Wanted. »•MrO R E W . M.D .. Late Surgeon Y. S. Army, consulted at lilt residence on Hotel street, between Alakea and fort streets. A P. EVERETT. « Carriage Making and Trimming ! I ft co.. to C. 1. Hlchards at Co.) riEßcc 'Ship ChaiulUeTamd General Commission Mer WOULD KESI'KCI'KULLY INFORM YOU THAT I now employ the beat Mechanics in the Hoe of (hrriagi Mnkimj, t'tirrhtije and (ifiaiul Hlttcksniilhiiui. I'aiidimi, llepairimj, cf'C, On Ihe Hawaiian tlroup; and it ia k well established faot that oar Carriage Trimming, by Mr. It. Whitman, la aa well exeoated aa any in New York City or elaewhere. I therefore feel warranted in saying that we can manufacture aa good a olaaa of work in Honolulu as oin be found in any part of the world. I will also atate here that we fully intend to work at the loweat possible rates. G. WEST. YHE HAWAIIAN HOTEL! I THO*. U. TIIUI'M'S I \7> CIRCULATING Ns. 11l Mrrrhnist Slrrrl, --- DEPOT, l.lltlt l/.'l'. llutiolal u. lAAIKAUKS OF HEADING MATTKR-Ur I's|kts and Magaslnrt, hack numbers—pill up lo order si reduced rates fur pnrtles going t'i sea. l.v GEORGE WILLIAMS, LICENSED SHIPPING AGENT. THE UI'NI.VESS OX lIISIILI' Plan of srttlliiK with Onlccrsand featucn Immediately ea their Shipping at his Office. Having no connection, either direct or Indirect, Willi any outfitting establishment, and allow he hopes to give a, in« no debts to be collected at his office, «™kl satisfaction In the future as he has In theps»t. J_r Office on J«s. Robinson k t'o.'s Wharf, near the I P. C'nosulste. **• P" CONTINUES ">«* XfRABBR J. O. MBRRILI.. J. t MERRILL &. Co., Commission Merchants and Auctioneers 204 and 206 California Street, fa* n n Francisco. ALSO, AIIKNTM Of TIIK San Francisco and Honolulu Packets. i.rtloular.ttentlongivento the sale and psrsbaie ol in business, supplling whaleships, negotlatln, NEW HOTEL, IS NOW OPEN :liandise, ships' for thereception of guests. The Proprietorwill spare exchange, Ac. freight arriving at Baa Francisco, by or to the 11. All no pains to make this Elegant Hotel FIRST CLASS IT la every particular. He Intends to make the charge* oolulu Llae of Packets, will bs forwarded rasa or commissi. ■> orrooms and board especially reasonable. IT Kxohangs on Honolulu bought and sold. XX ALUM HIRBBAT, Proprietor. MTIIE —SBrBBBBCBB— Usssrs. U. L. Richards A Co 11. Uaokfsld k Co 405 FRONT STREET, CORNER CLAY, C. Brewer* Co Bishop A Co SAN PRANCISCO. WILL FURNISH BOUND VOLUMIB of the Frit Bat at on* dollar per annum (subscription Dr. R. W. Wood ■articular attention paid to Cnnilrnßsnts ol Island Produce. price $2), for any number of years from ISM to tbe praaeat linn. R 11. Allen oil ly dl mhle Use. E7 Adding the cost of binding Forwarding k Commission Merchant • - Attention, : 1 STATIONERY AND NEWS AtIF.NTS OF Will continue thelleneral Merchandise anil t?hi|i|mis business at theabove port, where they ure prepared IB luriirsh the justly celebrated Kawaihae Potatoes,ami such otherreerulta as are required by whaleship,, at the shortest notice, anil on Ihe most reasonable terras. ir (.'artful and Prompt GENERAL MERCHANDISE! \V EST. khe DHY, OUR GOODS WILL BE SOLD TO SUIT THE TIMES AND TEEMS. I Islitiiil Orders will Keceioi * lii II V AMI aw, tWNS, PISTOLS, t.\liTi;ilH,i:s, CAPS AND POWDJUt, X3yf\ albi 'sh Card l.c fi.unl ut Ins r.i.mis i.vi i Y. H.iviriK fajBBjBjBRJ i>rsi:lk.\ cm mum Hlrehr. Co.'s Diutt lion, M I'mi .vi.l Mi.li'l sis. * Oil, Hubbuck's Best Lead Zinc and Oil, Manila and New Zealand Cordage, /,•//•/. Dentist, |"1 IN l>A INTH, ADAMS. I'roof Mal*,ll ■•Maaaß'a . Tens \xi> nrc/i/rrs, SEINE AND WRAPPING TWINE, FISH HOOKS AND LINES, CO., Auctio?i and Commission Merchant, I .re ■I P. s mV, HiHIfITTI 1111 ifIIEITS, HOLLOW WARE, aALVANIZRD IRON, WOODEN Honolulu, llahu. 11. 1. I STREET, HAVE ON HAND AND FOR SALE A FULL ASSORTMENT OF Commission awl Shipping Merchimts, a* l$7S. KEROSENE STOVES, DOWNER'S & DEVOE'S KEROSENE OIL, Merchant anil Kimliumsnii Strei In. mar Hi- Post Mat VrniT , 103 THE FRIEND, DECEHI R E R Bound Volumes at Reduced Price ! WB " Honolulu " " 1> _ �YMoeunnH A'sgCochiartf onolulu. (he world. 104 Pure reliyion and undrftlcd before God, the Father, is this: To visit thefatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspottedfrom Edited by a Committee of the V, M, C, A, going on in their own country or of the great on the various newsdealers to see if they happening in the world at large. A j could not oe induced to give up the sale of country with a more or less muzzled press such. What success that committee had I the of for taking subject In up newspapers is not a free country in its true sense—yet 1 do not know; but I trust that the influence your consideration to-night, I hardly know j question whether the unbounded license ex- of every member will be exerted against the in what light to view them, but believe a j ercised in the United States is adapted to circulation of such papers in our midst. Our brief history of their beginning and gradual promote the best interest of the feople, create desire is to do good, let us then, in providing increase will not come amiss at first, and the most hearty sentiment or educate to the as we do here in this room a large number standard. This however may be a of newspayers for the accommodation ot then the power which they exert and what | highest matter for discussion, and for honest differ-1 members and visitors, see to it, that such paour Associations numbering so many may ence of opinion. pers be of the highest tone and adapted not do to promote the good ond destroy the evil States, the and the same may only to interest cfxid instruct, but also to United In arising from them. be said of Great Britain and of these islands, Christianize. Topic Com. for November. It is said that mankind is indebted to the newspaper is in almost every household In the great meeting of the Evangelical Queen Elizabeth and Burleigh, for the first and in many it is about all the reading matcase, ter of the and such family, Askance in New York City, in the early printed newspaper; it was published in 1558 by authority, and called the " English Mer- how important it is that the papers thus part of October, we have a delighted assurcuric," nnd an early copy, that of July 23d I taken and read should be of a character and ance of the growth of liberal ideas in the of that year, is still preserved in the British tone to elevate the mind and educate for Christian world; —of the substitution, Museum. This first newspaper somewhat good. The newspajiers of to-day may be resembled those of the present day, its col- divided into daily and weekly, religious and which is fast taking piece, of an enlarged umns open to the advertisements of books; secular, and the secular may be still further Catholicism for bigotry and sectarianism. the main object of the paper however seems divided again into moral and sensational and This is the sixth conference of the Alliance, to have been the communication of such in- immoral. These various classes of papers but is the first time it has been held in the telligence as her majesty desired to put be- are to-dty cxc ting a tremendous power for United States. The first General Conferfore her people, and to counteract the rumors good or evil in the world, and especially so ence was held in London in 1846 ; the secis this case in the United States where the ond in Paris in 1855; the third in Berlin in circulated against her by her enemies. During the civil wars newspapers increas- 1 circulation is so immense. In view of this 1857; the fourth in Geneva in 1860; and ed in numbers, though not issued regularly,! we cannot but view with anxiety the rapid the fifth in Amsterdam in 1867. In the but periodically, in the interests of both par- increase of late years of newspapers of de- columns of the American papers will be lies, and were edited by men of great ability. cidedly sensational, and in fact we may say found full reports of the addresses of a brilliThe first newspaper printed on the West- of a really immoral character, and these are. ant array of distinguished divines and layern Continent was the Boston Newt Letter, to be found in all the large cities and from men representing the most advanced Chrispublished in 1704, and followed in 1719 by thence scattered broadcast throughout the tianity of both continents, and the variouthe Boston Gazette. The first daily paper country to be read alike by old and young. interesting proceedings of the conference. was started in Philadelphia, in 1794, and To the adult reader the danger may not be The object of this great combination of Protwas called the Philadelphia Packet, and very great, the character being already form- estantism is not an amalgamation of the diffrom these small beginnings which I have ed, but to the young and innocent we can ferent Christian bodies, but the promotion of mentioned, there is to-day in the State of hardly conceive the injury that may be done Christian concord and unity, and the supNew York alone about 500 newspapers, and by their constant or even occasional perusal. pression of the great evils of our age which the number now of daily and weekly issued | \Ve notice also with much concern the grow- are crushing humanity into the mire of iging tendency of a large portion of the pub- norance and crime, and obstructing the throughout the world must be enormous. lishers of the daily paper to fill them with spread of Christianity. We see with regret In nearly all countries where newspapers have been printed and circulated, there has highly colored details of the crimes commit- that some of the speakers so far forgot the been a censorship exercised more or less se- ted, not only in their own district or country, spirit of the occasion, as to endeavor to revere for a longer or shorter period and in but search the world throughout for every vive by vituperations igainst Romanism, the many it has been continued up to the pres- species of crime and spread it before their olditime spirit of bitterness which prevailed ent day. Publishers of newspapers have readers with apparently real relish. Scan- against that branch of the Christian church. had to be very careful what went into their dal of all kinds is largely dealt in and it We hope to live to see the time when Ropapers, and those heedless and careless of would seem as if the prosperity and success manism shall become so imbued with nineconsequences have in many cases suffered of the paper depended upon the quantity of teenth century ideas, that it will wash itself fines, imprisonment, and even death itself. such matter put in. This state of things can clean and pure from the mud of the dark One of the first papers published in Boston only tend to the demoralizing of a people. ages, and meet and labor in harmony with was edited by Benjamin Franklin, but on acI am glad to see however that there has the World's Christian Allianfe. tount of the hostility of the articles to the been of late a gradual awakening among reThe November meeting of the Honolulu clergy and the severe criticisms it contained ligious men and women to a consideration from time to time, Franklin was arrested of this subject, and efforts are being put forth Young Men's Christian Association was unand imprisoned, and forbidden to publish his in many cities to stop the circulation of usually full. An essay on newspapers, paper unless willing to have it subjected to newspapers of an immoral tendency, and also —which we publish herewith—was read, and censorship. In China articles written for something is being said against the style and the official journal must first receive the production of many of the daily papers and was followed by an interesting discussion on approval of the Emperor and any such ap- may it not come within the province of the the propriety of classing newspapers under pearing, not having his written consent Young Men's Christian Associations of the the heads of " religious " and " secular." subjects the publisher to instant death. world to put forth all their efforts against One party maintaining that such distinction The United States has the freest press these evils and if united action could be ef- was impracticable, and that the only true of the world and Great Britain next, near- fected much could be done in a comparative- classification was into enticed or didactic ly all other countries as I have said be- ly short space of time to correct such a bad and news-papers. Some of the standing fore still exercise a more or less strict censor- state of affairs. If I mistake not this Asso- committees had reports to offer, the commitship, and where this is the case there cannot ciation has had before it for consideration tee on Entertainments reporting that efforts be that free change of thought and feeling the subject of the circulation of newspapers were being made to provide a series of lectthat there should be and the common people of an immoral tendency in this city and ures, but that the prospects of immediate are more or less ignorant of what is actually country and a committee appointed to wait success were not brilliant. events — , � 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/. 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