the frightened brute. The escaping animai saw him coming, and put forth all his energies, but he might as well have tried to outswim a shark. The native was alongside before he had gone three cables' length, and at a bound leaped upon his back. Then he struck the terrified, bellowing beast on the side of the head with his open palm, turned him round, and made him swim back to the boat, where he was tied more securely, and taken to the ship and loaded with. the others.

With all the cargo on board, we weighed anchor, sailed out of the harbor, and steered for Maui, whence we bore away to Honolulu.

CHAPTER XIX

HOLIDAYS AT HONOLULU

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HONOLULU was very greatly excited at the time of our return, over two important events. preliminary examination of the alleged conspirators, Underwood and Sheridan, alias Morrow, and the second the capture of three opium-smugglers. From the testimony presented it seemed that there was a clear case made out against the conspirators. Underwood, the leader, called at the office of Paul Newman, a former royalist, about the 1st of December, and made some inquiry about acquiring the Hazeldon property on the island of Lanai, a small uninhabited .island of the group, for a colonization scheme. Underwood and Sheridan were often seen together. They both went to Mr. Newman and informed him that they wanted to buy the island of Lanai for a syndicate of sporting men, who if they could make arrangements wanted to establish a lottery on the island, and make it the Monte Carlo of the Pacific. They said they required some concessions from the exqueen for that purpose, for they knew it was no use. to present the matter to the "Missionary Govern

ment." They went on further to assure Mr. Newman that if the queen would make certain promises, the syndicate of sporting men would furnish the money to restore her to power. In other words, it was the old lottery crowd, like the snake "scotched, not killed," which proposed to restore the queen, providing she would be willing to let them control her. Their plan was to purchase Lanai, make it a base of supplies and concentrating point, take the Government by surprise, restore monarchy, and turn the Sandwich Islands over to his satanic majesty. But these chaps reckoned without their host. Mr. Paul Newman was loyal to the republic as he had been to the monarchy, and the first attempt of the lottery agents landed them in jail.

The opium smuggler was the schooner Henrietta, which had been captured off Waianae, the day before our arrival. The schooner was seen beating about in a mysterious way, which roused the suspicions of the sheriff of that district. Its conduct was telephoned to Honolulu and officers sent down to investigate the mysterious craft. A man came off from the schooner, was captured, and made admissions which led to the sending of a vessel from Honolulu filled with armed men to capture the smuggler. They brought her in with all her opium, amounting to several thousand dollars' worth, on board. Neither the conspirators nor the opium

smugglers were brought to a final trial during my stay on the islands.

Christmas in June, or in June-like weather-can the reader of the frosty North grasp the thought? A Christmas without snow, sleighs, and bells, and without Santa Claus and reindeers; yet the children in Honolulu enjoy the occasion as much as children in St. Louis, Chicago, and New York. The day before Christmas all the stores and shops of Honolulu put on their holiday attire. Toys, books, and presents of almost every kind that are usually seen in shop windows in our cities, except sleds and skates, were on display.

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As the evening drew on, the small boy with his tin horn appeared on the street and made the hour hidOn Fort Street, one could scarce make his way for the throng, and the scene almost reminded one of Fourteenth or Twenty-third Street in New York during the same period. Big fat Kanakas and roundfaced wahines in summer attire, with almond-eyed Celestials and South Sea Islanders, mingled with Americans, Portuguese, Spaniards, Englishmen, Germans, and Hottentots in a most democratic, cosmopolitan manner. Boys bought fire-crackers and tin horns, just as they do in the United States, and girls bought dolls, and all were happy and good-natured.

Christmas dawned bright and clear in lower Hono