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Title: Log of the Kaalokai.
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, F.d Kaalokai (Schooner)
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Publisher: Honolulu, HI. : The Hawaiian Gazette Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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here about a year previous toour arrival. The balance of the crew of thatvessel reached Jaluit, Marshall Islands, in aboat, and returned to Honolulu by a vesselwhich called at Jaluit en route to the Ha-waiian Islands. This Jorgensen became a very objectionablecharacter, and wTe were not sorry at his de-parture, in company with the mate and a Chi-nese boy, in October following the wreck of theWandering Minstrel. They also reachedJaluit. About three months after the wreck six ofthe crew took the best boat we had, at night-time, and went to Green Island, and fromthence the following day started for the opensea. A heavy gale set in that night, and thereis no doubt all perished, as no tidings wereever heard of them. Our life was one continual hunt for food.Six men left for Green Island and lived thereand were never sick, though the water was adirty greenish color, owing to decayed vegeta-ns 1 jff.1 , iHiMr 1 *^a*icaiM P» i9B Sv • ^ *wHl • * ^bE MBf** 369B& f ^>P^ ■«?. ■■
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ble matter. Several of us on Sand Island,however, were ill with scurvy. Three died.We were, on the arrival of the schooner whichtook us away, in a deplorable condition. It was with unexpressible feelings we sawthe vessel enter the harbor, and after a delayof eleven days to enable the sick to recuperatesufficiently to get on board, we bid good-bye tothe scene of our fourten months captivity—onthe 29th day of March, 1889. The anchors and chains and iron tanks arestill to be seen at the bottom, and every nowand then relics are cast up on the beach,though at this writing (1909) it is twenty-oneyears since she was wrecked. Midway consists of two islets, one to theeastward being composed of coarse brokencoral, densely covered Avith scrub. We calledit Green Island. During the breeding seasonit is the home of millions of sea birds. FromNovember until April, the goonie predomi-nates; May till the middle of July, the tern;man of war hawk and tropic bird during thesummer until the middle of au

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