A YANKEE NOAH'S ARK.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 41, 24 September 1892, Page 5

A YANKEE NOAH'S ARK.

Several citizens oif Portland a dozen t)r so years ago (says the " Orezonian") joined in(-a'trading voyage to the Sandwich Islands on the baique Edwaid James.. They loaded her, or "lrm," With a general eatgo, consisting of ittmber, live stock, silt, salmon, hoop poles, dried apples, hard cider, and some five bears One of the parties had heard that cats were in great demand tit the islands, and determined to make « small venture in felines.. He offeied the boys'2sc. each for all the cats they might bring, Portland boys were the flame then as now, only more so, if possible, and the city was raided and cats captured till there were over 100 brought aboard. They were dumped «Jowti the hatchway into the hold with the balls and bears, and they caterwauled, and the maidens and madams who have been robb«' of their favoorr tabbies wept and waile 1 as the good ship sailed from the shorea of America. When out on the raging deep a dreadful storm arose, and naturally the shit) •was tossed about in a fearful manner. The bears on the lower deck broke loose, and, amid horrible howlings, proceeded to devour" the bulls, who roared like lions, and there was pandemonium broken loose in the bowels of the ship. Captain O'Brien, welUknowu here,, Went down into the lower regions to shoot the bears to save the cattle.' The place was dark, but in all i directions gleamed the glaring' greenish eyes of scared and enraged | cats. .To make a long story shors, a i bear was killed, a lot of eats thrown < overboard, and the vessel was 57 days in reaching Honolulu, which place ehe should have made in 17 days.