Show SIGHTS IN SAMOA Surprised Utah Boys Who Get Their First Man Kiss KING MALEATOA HAS RETURNED A Tall With a Lonely HerailtHIs Odd Home and Surronndines TLo Famine lov On SILCAAUMUA Upolu Samoa August 23 1889Special Correspondence of THE HBIUID On the 8th inst Messrs Dean Smoot Solomon and myself left Vntia Tutuila at 8 oclock a m in our small boat for Upolu We had a fair breeze all day and as evening came on the wind increased in speed and the waves in size until we made about nine knots an hour When across a-cross swell would STKIKE OUR PK VII BAltQUK it would nearly capsize us and to keep our seats was almost impossible entered the lagoon which surrounds the entire east end of Upolu at 030 p m Our boat was soon encircled by natives in their paopais native canoes chattering like so many magpies Our native friend Ifopo learned of our arrival and was soou out to greet us The Samoan greeting that of rubbing noses quito surprised our newlyarrived friends Smoot and Solomon from Utah and I almost laughed when I saw their heads drawing back from that of the natives with a excused ex-cused sort of an air They were not long however taking in the situation and their Cut Ira kiss was had On the following Monday August 12th we went to Apia a distance of about twentyfive miles down the coast We here learned that Maleatoa the king whom the Germans carried away a little over two years ago was brought back August 11th in the German man ofwar Wolf The natives here and most of the foreigners are very jubilant over his arrival ar-rival Ho was given a reception on the evening of his arrival in a foreigners house and nearly every resident attended He expressed himself as having been year KIXULT TREATED by those in whose charge he had been The Samoan Tlmct l says the king was first taken to Germany where with his native attendants he was kept from knowing any thing of what awaited them They were finally taken from Germany with as Maleatoa says the intention of going go-ing to their muchloved country Samoa but instead they lauded on an island in the Marshal group whero they have been ever since and where they despairingly thought their days would end and when the word first reached the banished king that he was to be restored to his own country coun-try ho was completely overcome yet he still entertained doubts for he said ho had once before been told the same thing The muchlookedfor vessel finally came and the king with his associates was taken on board and they were soon on their way to Samoa They had only been out a short time when Maleatoa lost hope and every hour ho believed less and less of the longlooked for pleasure and after a day or two had passed and Samoa was not in sight ho lost control of himself and attempted suicide by jumping over the side of the vessel into the sea Tho alarm was immediately given and bo was rescued and not allowed on deck again until he reached Samoa He dresses in American costume and at present is living with his chief magistrate Folan here at Apia We having runciiASEO A SMALL PIECE or LAX at Fagalii a villiage two miles up the coast from ApiaMessrs Dean and Solomon stayed stay-ed atFagalii to build a small housewhile Smoot and myself returned to the east end of the island our future field of labor Yesterday afternoon being tired of study and wanting a change from our native surroundings sur-roundings and having been previously invited in-vited ne got into our boat and rowed out to a small island about a halfmile from shore to visit an old German by the name of Peter Laban As we neared the island the only signs of life we could see were a few very ancient and almost featherless ducks swimming lazily around in the iagoon which surrounds this hermits world We anchored our boat and after hunting for sometime found an old path which led us to the old mans homo on the side of an almost perpendicular rock the house being be-ing very nearly hid by cocoanut and banana trees the breadfruit tho orange and lemon trees We found him in native costumo and exercising ex-ercising himself by pacing a wellworn path on his porch with an earthen floor He seemed pleased to see us and took us into the house It is a small lumber house of two rooms and has the appearance of having stood THE WINDS AND STOny OF MANY MOOXS The only furniture is and old trunk or two and a few Samoan mats He continued his march from one side of the room to the other during our stay His hair is white and ho has no hope of its youthful appearance appear-ance ever returning He was once a tall and powerful man but time and exposure have dono their work and left the old man with an extremely careworn and wrinkled face and the once stalwart frame is now in a leaning posture As ho walked tho floor he seemed delighted to reiterate his many experiences and narrow escapes from death in shipwrecks and among the different South Sea Islanders Ho had a memory like tho phonograph aud his tongue went as if turned by swam A brief account thehermits life would run something like this Ho was born in Germany away back in tho 20s went to school and then to sea while but a lad returned re-turned and after receiving a fair education educa-tion studied navigation and went to sea again In 1850 ho left his home and relatives rela-tives never to return ho omitted giving reasons was wrecked off the coast herein here-in Samoa in 1852 and was tho Robinson Cream of the crew Tho natives then he says were more hospitable than now He found A FEW MISSIONARIES HEltE but most of tho white men were ticketof leavo men from Australia Ho soon joined another sailing vessel and spent the next fifteen years living on different islands iu these south seas and consequently conse-quently became acquainted with nearly all the native languages He seemed a perfect encyclopedia of the South Pacific islands and concluded by telling us that where he was now ho had been for nearly twenty years and that ho had no desire to ever leave it Ho showed us many old curios and presented us each with one of the original native hatchets of rock He found them while digging at the back of his hut He showed us the place about three and a half or four feet under ground and in a formation which at a very early period had been tho floor of a native hut How long it would take nature with thick vegetation vege-tation constantly rotting to form a thickness thick-ness of earth three feet through is a problem prob-lem yet to bo solved Ho promised to tell us something about tho Samoan natives next timo wo came over QTho famine here on Samoa partly occa binned by tho war and partly by tho late hurricane will not be over for some time Where we arc tho natives are blessed with plenty of cocoanuts but in a great many villages the natives have eaten all tho cocoanuts and they say that the worst is to come Tho breadfruit halo and banana crop comes in tho latter part of October and fore part of November but from now until then the natives will have a severe famine and were it not for tho fact that we get some American food we would at times go very short Foreigners and natives are anxiously waiting for tbo new year in the fore part of which wo are told tho government affairs af-fairs will have reached a focus EJAT WOULD |