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Show SWAM EIGHT MILES. r Remarkable Feat of a Hawaiian Fisherman. Honolulu, hept 20. via Son Tranclsco, bept. 27 Three HouHt Hea Islanders went lu a small canoe from Maul oil the morning of August .'Slh lo fish Their tanoo was capsized by the wind Thes righted the canoe and two of them got Into II. but ns Ihe wotir had not nil been hailed out the tanoc sank low In the water with them, Tabikal, the third man, decided there was no room foi him In tho canoe, so bo struck tint and swam to shore u distance of eight miles This Is a remarkable font and wanequallel only In the old elass when the Hawaiian.! were famed for their prowess In the wnter. larurni, ono nf the men who remained Willi Iho ennui was drowned In tho lireikers while trying lo land on Molokal. |