Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 115, 26 January 1891 — THE STEAMSHIP AKAMAI. [ARTICLE]

THE STEAMSHIP AKAMAI.

The ('ook that M.ister's tho Stenm?hip Akainai is eviuentJv plaving a rig uoon our presentj governaient. with the viewof bring-' ing in an#ther bogus elaim upo» | the Haw*iian Grveroment. o. /« holnKbon'ler. His * ; mind evidently <lwells on the good old days," I wh«n theBeoond vessel of the Iliiw-; aiian iieet, the~ Kalakana, was to ! f»Uew the Kaimiloa. the und#r c»inmand of tl»e Rear Ad- ; iwiial of the Green, while the latter : wap under that of the Vicf-Ad:niral | <vf Blue. And now the golden ; faneies of a CtK)k. seein to havej taken p«sseBBions of the M>i>h'r of i the Aiamai whoistryingh:ird tol«w | Jumself inlo soaie trumped np nn- j f iltilled oontract to ue legislated a* : a elaim t\>r Jor, jndging l>y j the physique of the possib]w < l;ū»n- j ant», aomething iike i i'here ig nothing like a."good bard j phyBique. j The Cap's allusions to our array i in uniform reminds us ōfthe possib!e stripped some one ran j t-h# risk of wearing as a memento j of his HttenVpt to iinitate a cousin, j lhr great circuninavig«r. when he j undertook to saU due west from here to find some port to the ea«t' of u«. i

Yes. how well we renu-mbtr, being invited in full regalia, to do hon©r to the hourly expecUd arrival of the flagship Kalakaua, under eommarid of the Admiral of the Green, vrho was expected to bowl her into the South Ssas for peona for general Ajid how well we rem»naber, the quick that she did not ninke to the South Seas, and the large complement of men, women and c,hildren whieh she did not briag for general uae for the Haw- , aiian Government, and for whieh a elaim' of nearly thirty thousand dollars was recentlv bowled ont for th» non arrivftl of^aidcontrabands. We, rememb«r too, that the aame owner that owned ihe fiag6hip of the green,, whieh fell to pieeei? somewhere in China waters, also owna the sister to the Kaimiloa, i »nd all app\Jrtenancea thereto be-i longiag, inckidmg the Chief Cook and 'Master. We alsSO recall a little craft who had a thāt got his vessel intb a u draft" that would have shot his headjat 125 1L p\e ; • | ,sure through a flue, if he w«ro-]i\ in the days when such kid-like ! ciipers, use to give tho owner practicing it an opportunity to hang like Mahbmets coffin in mid-air. i There ia no question that readj ing about Captain Kidd and hiē j pranks. in days gone by, bat ma le the Rear Admiral cautiouB, and is probably the reason why he d©es not aLllow the little leviathan to ! go beyond the entrance> to our tar- | bor, and even then not without j having a mud scow or two trailing behind her to eheek the stoamers I mad career of one knot an hour | at 1251bs pressure, and also to pre- | v«nt her from running away with j the eook and the uiaster up the flue. We heartily thank the Manter ? e invitat-i«n to eome aboard, and beg to decline, fearing to trust oarselves in companv with such a piratical looking master, engineer and eook, as b»ils water up to 1251b8 pressure in the c.ooking appāratus, anil who does not know the difference between a superheater and a eondenser, nor even knows liow to prevent being dragged ashore by mud-scow?, with 125f0s pressure on in still water. Not to l>e out done in pohteness, we would invite the Master of the Bteamship Akamai to let off a jiHlo ōf the vapor in his condenser, in ordcr lo bc relieved of the ima<rincry 125!bs ' presstire that is bearingdoAvn upon his ;v boiler. flues ai;d other inatters that lie is ig. norant of. 7 ' and give himself a free t6\v'occaBionally tO relieve his up■per machinerv frs»m such high pressure as 125fcs, whieh may heīp him to understand the differcnce betw*en a super-heater and a eondent>er.