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ously blockaded by the French fleet. Messrs. Godeffroy, with 

 all their business knowledge and amateur statesmanship, 

 severely felt the effects of the war and the blockade from 

 which not even the patronage of the man of blood and iron 

 could extricate them. By giving his powerful support to the 

 well-conceived plan of a South Sea Island Company with an 

 Imperial guarantee, Bismarck did his utmost for the firm, but 

 by a majority of sixteen the Berlin Eeichstag refused to set 

 Humpty Dumpty up again. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 



THE CAREER OF 'BULLY HAYES.' 



ONE of the most respected of the inhabitants of Apia is Mrs. 

 Hayes, the widow of the notorious ' Bully Hayes,' perhaps the 

 last of the pirates of the Pacific. No sketch of Coral Lands 

 would approach completeness if it did not give some account 

 of this man's exploits, as for more than twenty years he was 

 the terror of all honest men in that wide region. His first 

 appearance at the islands of Hawaii was in 1858, when he and 

 his first officer were put ashore from the ship Orestes. Hayes 

 was at that time accompanied by his wife. In all his travels he 

 used to be accompanied by a female companion of some kind 

 or other, whom he picked up and dropped as the fancy took 

 him. He left Honolulu in the early part of 1859 for San 

 Francisco, and some two months afterwards he appeared at 

 Kahului, on Maui, in command of a brig, bound to New 

 Caledonia, and while negotiating for a load of cattle, he was 

 taken in charge by the late Mr. Treadway, then sheriff of 

 Maui, for violating the revenue laws in entering a closed port. 

 The captain was highly indignant with his first officer for 

 telling him that it was not necessary' to enter at the Lahaina 



