The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 6, 1900, Page 3

THE SUNDAY CALL 3 Island ed with h g the most 1 treacherous. Here 2 : u prince consort gave - es O rostly gifts on our ¢ Tonga Taboo of .slands was_the r che capital, sides—lonely took for his wife a woman against the will of his were they that he n dares palace for fear of assassination, he sits day after day and thinks he regrets—perhaps not He had a Prime Minister once, this na- tive King, a minister who was white and yan. He came to c staved to grow rich driven from the island been allowed to return new religion to suit him: The people of Tonga Taboo are haughty. for they are of an independent group. They look down upon a man wh - fortunate as fo be white. It Is an agreement between England and Ger many gives these lands to England in the event of their giv up their indepen- dence, but that day is not at hand, and before it there will be the fighting of many battles. The Fiji Islands brought a glimpse of the world again. Here in Suva, the capi- tal of Viti Levu, is a Governor, a Colonial Secretary and all that appertains to a crown colony. Many charming people nave come to Suva for trade or for health and have made homes for thems Here we saw ice—real. manufactured for the first time on our trip. A hurricane was obliging enough to = d ; g ™ o take place at this point, so that wa “ igh Vas QVer nm‘:r».‘n could observe the manner of cabling down re earing pris- houses and puttin a, ing up wooden_shutters // as’a protection. The Burricane was. fur- y ther obliging in not doing the damage ' // there that it threatened. e At Suva we saw the most beautiful /———/ woman of all our travels. She is a full- y blooded Fijian. and a royal blooded ome. o Her name Is Adi Cakombau. a name that 18 great upon the island, for she is a Prin- cess and her family is the greatest of Fijl. With the manner of well-bred wo- v spirit about her and went was missed . mankind the world over. she received s one of the us in her house and we all hs beauties. Its one great room. 5 by 30 feet in size. is divided in half by tappa portieres—tappa being the native cloth— splendid hangings that cannot be pro- cured by the tourist for love nor money. * Princess Adi's floor is covered with 10 beautifully woven mats, piled one above another, so soft that to step, there is like stepping in a feather bed. The leper settlement at Suva is a sorry sight.. Here live men and women sick and euffering, and they know no_hope. not even that of a quick death. The valley where the settlement lies is hot and the oing from head we made was the Paumotus means group 80 ne s _which wer French intervention s pearl fishing to be than one island at a ers have a chance te forbid: gathered by jves 3 . 1 flies torture and the place Is worse than h the employ of white 3 SRt Tl e e ar¢ under comtract to mer- ANp _On the way to Apla the little island of parts of the /0 Niufu, or Hope, Was a stapping place Here we came upon a sce struction, for Hope Island had been the center of the hurricane and 30 houses that had been were swept away and the people were grieving over the loss of a whole cocoanut crop. Apla of Samoa did not make a favor- + able impression upon us. It is a hot place infested by mosquitos, and as for its p litical_conditions it appeared to be a hot bed of intrigue which will be wisely h dled, 1 think. the German zed wiorld. E A such casy : el A that the stoc ; at | / 4 people > self-sup| Men, wo- th namely would be defeated ldren work the colony @aptain, Fithiap's ersonal Aceount They J st < himself with and. In the right he carries 11 with which to pry off oth from the rocks. ore_jumping he looks over his field of bottom by m of a telescope—a hdped nffair, with a gl n, by way of preparation. he ¢l s his lungs, making a peculiar whistling sound. Hear three or four th nd divers doing this at once and y v fa that hear the marmots of the Swiss Alps A rapid_run brought the Rover to Pa- There we found a charm- of 4000 inhabitants upplied eete. ng_ town with a small garrison, a man-o'-war and a good harbor- The vegetation here is as wonderful as in the uothouse of some wotanical garflen. At one time Papeete was prosperous and comfortable in thrift of many plantations, but a lazy pe ple have let rank weeds overgrow fertiie ands and they drone throurh a life which takes no thought for the morrow. Copra is the only export which they take the trouble to attend to; perhaps’ because it makes less trouble tuan anything else. It is simply the dried Kernel of the cocoanut which other people ar¢ willing to make into scap and oil if the lazy Papeetans will gend it to them. Here the Rover and the Albatross met and exchanged greetings. Then it was off and away again for other islands of the soclety group. Moorea ~of this group is the most beautiful spot that we found in all our long voyage. Out of a deep blue water the island rises in sharp steeps, covered to their very tops with living green. If Moorea could be transplanted to a more accessible spot it would be an ideal sum- mer or winter resort. Vanilla ptantations are being laid out here and they bid fair to_prosper. While the Rover was lving at anchor near this island a violent thunder-storm came in the night. The lightning was so vivid that one could read by it. And then the climate showed what it could do. For next morning not a cloud was in the sky and air and water were absolutely calm. | nor now entering upon his dutles. were _made to the place where and Monahan of the killed, and to Stevenson. A bad vovage in roush weather brought the plucky little Rover to Honolulg. Here we entered the first city and stopped at the first hotel since leaving California. At 5 o'clock on the afternoon of March 31 the Rover sailled from Honolulu. and thirteen days and seven hours later she entered the Golden Gate, having averaged about 165 miles per day. AN ot Lansdale Philadelphia were the home and tomb of 2 Eight Months Ip South Seas