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pent-up feeling found utterance in the almost simultaneous 

 exclamation, '^ They are saved!'" which was heard from stem 

 to stern along the side of our ship. Some persons near me 

 wept, others seemed ready to faint under emotions of sjnnpathy 

 and joy. 



Our boat was soon alongside, and, swollen, bruised, and 

 bleeding, the men were helped over the ship's side into the 

 cabin. Not wishing to add to the pressing crowd, I remained 

 on deck. A few moments afterwards I heard the captain call, 

 " Mr. Ellis ! here is a Sandwich islander. Come and speak 

 to him." I went into the cabin, where the two men were 

 sitting on the deck. The white man was the captain of a 

 ship which had been upset in the violent gale two days 

 before, when everyone on board, twenty-two in number, ex- 

 cept the two just rescued, had perished. The islander, a 

 young man, was one of the crew; and, having made no 

 answer to the questions addressed to him by om' humane cap- 

 tain, I had been called down. 



The man was sitting on the deck, his head bent do^vn, and 

 his long, black, and dripping hau- hanging over his eyes and 

 down his face. Looking at him, I said, "Aroha ehoaino, 

 aroha: Salutation, dear friend — affection." The man lifted 

 up his head, swept wath his hand his long, black hair to one 

 side of his forehead, and looking eai'nestly at me, like one to 

 whom consciousness was but just retm-ning, and startled by 

 the sound of his native language, retm-ned my salutation. 

 In answer to a few inquiries, he told me he was a native of 

 Oahu, the island on which I had at one time resided. He 

 said he was vip aloft furling sail, when the ship suddenly 

 went over, and all in an instant were plunged into the deej) ; 

 that there were other islanders on board, but they soon sank. 

 The doctor of our ship then gave the men a little suitable 

 refreshment, and they were wrapped in flannels, and put to 

 bed. Captain Dundas took the raft, a very fragile affau-, and 



