A Ghost Story from the Pacific.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4513, 15 November 1884, Page 3

A Ghost Story from the Pacific.

AooßßßOTONflßOTin'Canton sends -the fol-• •'-■■ lowing story' for the Spiritualists from the 7!' Marshall Islands j—,',',The end of last year, ij or the.beginningof this; an American ship,/!»S the KaniOr,';was Wrecked'on these '•■ ifelahdp,. s© and about twenty meti""found^ refuge."on .4 the^.t But their nUniber being1 too' _fatf* - - fortheir supply.! broyisiona, it was agreed that the party shouldseparate. The captain '! caused a small twenty-ton schobnor to be 8 built of the remains of the wreck, and tak- ' ing teniof the oreW ahda share of the visions-sailed away _6r".andther iilahd ot"I*1 ''* the group, about, three hundred miles off,*' " The restoff the crew were, left in (I "' the.first, mate^ason-in-law of:;:thie :r-captaii:, .-':--' £ The second mate was sentoffto make' his wj way to Saigon andappeal for aid; This he did, finally reacßing HongKcng, when the v ■*: 9?,7,*!. lEssex was despatched to the # rescue,' Carrying the second "mate" as' o' '■' guide; MeanwM^ the king !of;thc iiUtd - on which the shipwrecked men were, Who " was kind and friendly" to tbem, .was full of ■ forebodings as to the:fate of thfe. _iptiuh .? -' party and the'sdeond .mate; said - they*' - would never' see therd' again, and so onjj '■'■ ■ •But oneday he <jame With different tidiiSgr, ' It seems he' was in the habit of holding . spiritual'comkuhion 'with W dead wifp, "'v "" by name glivia,". In one of' these seapc.B he had, I suppose, asked her if sh^ could give him. any tidings, . any "hopes' for his ! shipwrecked friends. She said that on a ' Sunday a sail would,bo seen, and they ''' would be rescued. The King brought t_i_ newswith greatjoy to the refugees, and Wish ' some curiosity they awaited .the res'ul', ; This must have- beeti. Some' four : montl s !" after they were wrecked. Sure enough om the following Sunday a sail was seen, but "' in spite of their efforts to attract attention. ; the ship passed - on.. her. course. But tb_ Sunday after that the' rescuing ship, the ' BBB6X, appeared in 'flight, and''eventually - . took them all off. This t story'was rela. d: I by_ an officer of the' Essex to . _ friend of ' mine, who at 6nce came ahd» told it rce, I will add, that for the benefit'of any ardor, ts $ or .newspaper who may desire'to go at once to the "Mar- '>' • shall ,8-ands in searphof revelations from savage mediums, or to interview the, Kir g,'.-'.. that,these islands are in the North Paciuc Ocean, to the S; W; of the Sandwich Isles, and there is very little communication wit h ' them."