108 THE GREAT TIDAL WAVE, MAY, 1877 ‘ 
the _axpewe rise being about 10 feet. The ios was left quite 
exposed at times, and as the water receded it left millions of fish 
behind it on the rocks. ‘The effects were very extraordinary. 
The natives do are. recollect anything like it, aa ey are ina 
great rage—accus * pho” of bringi HP wave. 
Tonga the wave lifted the eee ketch “ Peal” right off the 
reef, and left her in deep water, saving a lot of trouble and 
expense... 
Wave——On the passage of the Union Company’s 
steamer “ Taranaki’ across Cook’s Straits on the 25th May (the 
Otago Daily Times reports) a huge tidal or blind wave struck her 
_ — , poured in volumes over bridge and feo E filled the 
ee. rail on the port sol "The main ving of the sea 
pact over the poop, ane with it the after skylight, the brass 
ead of the capstan, the wheel and everything appertaining to 
it, excepting the bare iron stearing gear; all the taffrail and _ 
starboard quarter-rail, with the netting of course, and as the 
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openings thus formed the Ra ‘dis pre itself, and the steamer 
was once more free and pene ett It is a remarkable thing that 
not one life was lost over i 
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sang Tidal Wave at Sandwich Island.—At various places on the 
t of the Sandwich Island great disturbances of the tide 
(which was felt on the distant coast on 11th May last) were 
acid but at Hilo the disturbance appears to have reached its 
The tidal wave struck the group of islands on the 10th May, 
between 4 and 5a.m. The sea suddenly receded, and returned 
with eet violence in a wave 16 fect high, which entered the 
front part of the 
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