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Midpacific Volume40 Issue1.Pdf VOL. XL. No. 1 Price 25 Cents July, 1930 -- W - - `r 7 FMrri111 i — ' '-•Tht - FallaireiltifrdYaXiirVellYW - /M I 1 3 ' 0.4r. ffito.parttir maga3tur .,. • CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD • r•-- Volume XL Number 1 1_, CONTENTS JULY, 1930 i ■ "Bully" Hayes - - - 3 i . E By Gordon Green IX F1 The Wonderful Wanganui River 9 .1I! By George Porter E Cigarettes in China - - 15 g Es 13 The First Lady of Hawaii Tells of Official Life - 19 ei By Lorraine Kuck • it Western Australia's First Century 95 IA By Hon. J. W. Kirwan, M. L. C. el V IA • Rock Tells Story - 31 By Phil R. Brogan i • ---41 Up in Alaska - - - - - 35 • By Robert Forthingham • ■p c • ■1 America's Future as Viewed from Japan - 47 ! • By Kiichi Kanzaki • •-, - - 53 • In Memory of Sun Yat-Sen . By George E. Sokolsky (Pan-Pacific Club, Shanghai) • R • Canada's Mission in Japan - 59 By Herbert M. Marler • (Pan-Pacific Club, Osaka) i'. i' The Beauty of Mayon 67 By Robert Singg ! 4 .1 The Island of Guam and Its People's Tragic History - 73 a By H. G. Hornbostel •IE F. g Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union, New Series No. 125 • 011e filtb-Varifir J' agazitw .. T. H 4,1 ■• Published monthly by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Alexander Young Hotel Building. Honolulu, I Yearly subscription in the United States and possessions, $3.00 in advance. Canada and Single Copies, 25c. tol t • Mexico, $3.23. For all foreign countries, $3.50. I Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. • 0 Permission is given to reprint any article from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. • it n • xity 11t ax,._pmegivomp • • • inkmontmvsstmnt,mtkvMmallor orA Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. THE MID-PACIFIC He knew t he natives from one THE MID-PACIFIC • • • • ft "Bully" Hayes By GORDON GREEN Staff, Rabaul Times These tales were told to me by old mate was Harry Skillins, whose half- Sam Hartmann of Truk, a half-caste caste son, Fred, is now living at Kusai, German and Fijian, who was a friend of and the second mate's name was Bill the late lamented "Bully" Hayes, and Axe." whose father was one of those traders I might here mention that Skillins from whom Hayes was accustomed to afterwards became mate of the Morning draw his profits. Star mission schooner. "I first met Bully Hayes," he said, "at The usual method employed by Kusai, in the Marshalls, in 1878, when Hayes in transacting his business was I was but a lad. Bully, who came of an that of enticing the European or native aristocratic English family, was a big traders on board, getting them drunk man, well over six feet in height, with a and stealing their oil. long, flowing beard, flaming hair and a The usual run of the Leonora was tremendous fog-horn of a voice. His Sydney, Gilberts, Marshalls, Carolines, entire clothing might have been bor- Ladrones and Hong Kong, and she was rowed from Kipling's `Gungha Din.' engaged in the business of buying coco- "At the time I came in contact with nut oil and selling trade goods. him he was in command of the Leonora, It would not seem possible that this known by the kanakas as Langa Langa, performance could have been repeated a brigantine of about 40 tons. Besides twice in the same district, but the buc- himself, his mate and two supercargoes caneer's plausibility and cunning en- (one of whom afterwards had a book abled him to re-approach a trader and, on his experiences published) were Eng- by paying handsomely the second time, lish; the second mate was a Fijian half- re-establish good relations. caste and the crew was then composed In any case, fear always preceded him of Gilbert and Nauru Islanders. The in his travels, enabling him to gain 4 THE MID-PACIFIC From the Solomons and Neat• Guinea on the north, to Samoa and Tahiti to the south, Bully Hayes roved and ,was feared by v:hites, Polynesians and Micronesians alike. THE MID- PACIFIC 5 practically a monopoly in the areas he Kusai, and was unfortunate enough to frequented, and to ride rough-shod over be wrecked on the south side of the those with whom he had business deal- isi-ind. He built good houses of bread- ings. fruit trees, thatched with pandanus for His gig's crew consisted of twelve his officers and crew, and a dwelling for young girls amongst whom he distribu- himself of timbers taken from the ill- ted his favours impartially. fated Leonora. Whatever his faults, Hayes' person- Here he lived in royal state, on the ality commanded considerable respect best of terms with the natives, and his from the natives, and he was often called own obedient, well-managed little com- upon by the natives themselves to re- munity, whilst waiting for some ship to store law and order and to settle inter- come along and take him off. island disputes. One day, after he had been there The following story illustrates the about six months, three men-o'-war ar- decisive manner in which he adminis- rived in search of him ; one English, one tered his "justice," and the thoroughness German, and one American. The Eng- with which he carried out an agreement lish captain, on seeing Hayes, told him with the native chiefs who engaged him. that he was under arrest and would be He went to the island of Lossup in taken aboard the warship. Hayes went the Carolines fishing for beche-de-mer, on board with him and after a couple of taking with him on this trip 40 Yap hours, when night was beginning to ap- natives as a crew. proach, he asked the captain if he could On arriving at Lossup the chief asked go ashore to adjust what business mat- him to help them to fight the natives ters he could amongst his own people of an island named Namuk, situated and also to get his gear, promising to about eight miles away, in return for return the following morning. The cap- which the Lossup Islanders would assist tain acceded to his request, imagining him in his beche-de-mer fishing, and that escape was impossible, but when would also give him all the single girls Hayes reached the shore, with charac- of the island as payment for himself and teristic speed and daring, he provisioned his crew. the gig, put his compass and sextant on Hayes agreed to this, so he armed all board and, taking Skillins, the mate, and his Yap boys and sent them along to one of the supercargoes with him, clear- Namuk with instructions to shoot every ed out, eventually reaching 'Frisco. human being on the island, trusting to The other European and Bill Axe es- overcome their superior numbers and caped into the bush, where they man- native weapons with his modern arms aged to evade detection until the war- and equipment. ships had gone. The pirate chief's instructions were The men-o'-war remained in the vicin- carried out almost to the letter, the only ity for two weeks, scouring the neigh- survivors among the unfortunate Namuk borhood in a futile endeavor to trace the people being some few strong swimmers fugitives. who swam well out to sea and remained Three months later Hayes returned there until the raiders had left. to Kusai. When the writer himself visited Na- To all questions as to how the bucca- muk, bullet marks on some of the old neer reached 'Frisco, whether the jour- coconut palms were pointed out to him ney was completed in the cutter or as being vivid reminders of the mas- whether he was picked up, Hayes re- sacre. fused to answer, with the result that the facts about this remarkable journey re- Hayes shortly afterwards sailed for main a mystery to this day. 6 THE MID-PACIFIC At times Bully Hayes, if it paid, could play the part of an honest supercargo. A British schooner put into Kusai two brigantine with the proceeds. This was months after Hayes' return there, and in 1880. he and his companions took passage on With this boat he returned again to her to Guam. the islands, where his operations proved Whilst at Guam an American bucca- so profitable that he went back to Hong neer named O'Toole put in there for a Kong and paid the trusting merchants carousal, and whilst O'Toole's orgy was for the rice. at its height, Bully commandeered his schooner and set sail for Hong Kong. One of the first trips Bully made in Once again he was wrecked, this time his new brigantine was from Hong on one of the islands near his destina- Kong to Sydney, with a shipload of Chinese. tion, but he persuaded some Chinese to take him to Hong Kong in their junks He had been commissioned by a num- ber of Chinese in Hong Kong to smug- and there he once more set about re- gle them into Sydney, for which pro- trieving his fortunes. posed service he was handsomely paid. Some of the leading Chinese mer- How this task of surreptitiously land- chants of the city were interviewed by ing these unwanted immigrants, un- him, with the result that he purchased known to the port authorities, was to be from them on credit large quantities of accomplished, was not at all clear to rice for his (mythical) plantations in the him ; but the journey down gave him South Sea Islands.
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