Show seven lepers near death at sea thrilling adventure overtakes fishing party honolulu hagwall from the leper settlement at Ia ICa laupapa island of molokai Mol okal comes a tale of heroism involving seven men in peril at sea the desperate rescue ot of one who tell fell overboard and the scaling of a precipitous cliff 2000 feet high by one of their number in search of aid after the boat had bad beached in an almost inaccessible spot on the rocky shore of molokai Mol okal this was going on while air and surface vessels of the united states navy and ships and planes of the steam navigation company and airways were searching for the missing men five men left Ka laupapa to go fishing in an IS 18 foot sloop temporarily rigged and without a keel after they had been missing a few hours apprehension was felt at the settlement and two other men set out in a 14 foot rowboat equipped with a 12 11 2 horse power outboard motor to search for them sloop unmanageable the sloop proved unmanageable when ben it encountered an unexpected strong east wind william kalaina was washed overboard by a heavy sea and was rescued by henry kawewehi who leaped into the sea from the drifting boat and placed a line around kalama the sloop began to leak badly they made no headway toward Ka laupapa kalama at the helm finally steered for the beach tit at Kamanawa nu and by combined luck and skill struck an inlet li rough the reef about 20 feet wide through which the boat was beached beache in in a heavy surf the five alve men one of whom could not swim were stranded between the he raging sea and tile the precipitous cliff which had never been scaled william kailika and kanekoa aunee in the outboard motor boat arrived about sunset and anchored about SO 50 yards olt off shore fearing to come closer in the pounding surf rescue boat sinks Ka ilima realizing that one of the stranded party parly cou could ad not swim ran ashore himself through lie he surf carrying a small line intending to fasten it to driftwood to help the party aboard on this lifeline the entire party reached the rescue boat and kai lima with all aboard attempted to return to Ka laupapa the overloaded boat filled with water and began to sink aunce also was unable to swim ne ile clung to the sinking boat while paul Kacul ail ali and kailika helped kilia kiha the other to shore Kaili roa then administered artificial respiration to mba while the others returned to rescue runee the party remained all night on the beach without food or water in the morning volun volunteered volunteer tee red to climb the cliff and attempt to reach the settlement overland to bring aid after a desperate attempt lie he reached the top and made tits his way to the settlement to report to the authorities tile the fishing sampan fuji maru iaru capt K fujimoto passed within three miles of 0 the stranded party and saw their st signals kailika swam out to the sampan and a member of the crew accompanied him back to the beach with lines in their teeth they built a raft to convey tile the non swimmers and the six men reached Ka Na laupapa by the sampan |