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Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 26, 13 April 1889, Page 2

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goeahore in so abort a. flat Jff » P Uaiih marl, a eigA£fspNP«dlD£ ground. My own in the put years soAama V veS&W have dropped their aciWre -fa the ground of the port that these anchor* in coming up have left hole* in the mar), and which hole* have been filled op by sand, so that there is *o little pari to hold the anchor from dragging, that now the Band ptepdtfrtofates ovei -the "mart' convinicsme of; thg 4b»ll> theory, is that in former };sS^.ijLJto|j| r y season from April to Nofimbjr, tho sand would'' 4*teetgtlffnfeat quantities in and on .tojJ n roiini Vaisijjano to Matautu Point, and form a. tyJlch eight or ten yards further bat |§an now, which would U> washed away

again in the rainy season.- In late {real's it has not been so, "Thesand >as kept ia the bottom, of the harbor in these anchor made boles. The ale of the loth ana 16th was not so heavy as has Been experienced here before. 1 have seen the oocoanut trees bead and their leaves broke off ahd carried by? the yards and yards .away. Y»tt. could not walk against-i£r.l ' ! nave %em jn Jth.Q China, bave felt]fche cyclones there* so jstrbhg that the wind beat the sea down as smooth as glass, and kept thi> Vfssel*' heeling over that the lower jrni-ds touched the water. Thenrwae only one hurricane that I have felt in Samoa anything lseyso,uat China seas, and that: was in 1654. 1 n the<yearHlß49pii the month of December the Juno, of her Majesty '« service, lay at anchor Just Outside of where the U. S>. S. Trenton laid, and four wlialei sinsi.de about where rj. L, M,S. Adler. to jH%tod the U. S. S. Nlpsic lay. <:Afcmight it :cn/&e pn suddenly.to blow, jdriving a heavy «*en before.-it. The Juno and tne whalers .at oueo dropped a third anchor and IrOfile out the gale without, a.iy ..acridojlt. This vale bwteditftf^ay"sand Jfe»'higtrts. The island of lin»t in this gale. The month of April, 1854, was the severest gale felt lieru for years before. This gale was preceded by two days* htfavy-swell, with a modi-rate westerly wind, but about (i hours before/ it broke.over Apia the swell was so heavy and great that it swept over, the beach at .Apia roiling away up, inland to where the Niue men live and the swampy River at the back of the French Mission Station.was a salt water lagoon for days, after. At Ma<autu point and on past Matafagatele the waves rolled up..to the

font of the bills. No waves broke od the outside reef thoid six hours Tbe waves brokft about where the Eber and Nipsic lay and right across the harbor. At Sagi where the German premise* are now,the waves ami sea were over three feet deep. In looking to the westward to Faleata Imy the trees seemed to -utaml in the water. After the gale not u foreigner's or Samoan's hoose was left standing. Every vessel' in the harbor was a wreck ; the anchors held but the cables broke. One English whaler, two Sydney, and one Culifornian ' trader, all went.

The tall cocoanut trees all broke in two., The cocoanut troea-nqw nt Matautu, round Apia, andon down the coast b*ve*U been pjaijfed since then.at least tbegreaterportof themWhat gales or hurricaass-since then have not been so severe or so dauiaging as that of J854. The gale of March 1888 -•**• for heavier in its puff than thai of last month. The gale struck Upolu at Luatuanuu and wehtover the (stand The FaasoleleAga. district of Savsii getting the' wowfof it beingjUoodci with the stortu wave, and provisions side (ltd b &&&) also sqo#s£ from the wind and sea. ' With respect tothe otherlfrbor* in Samoa Soluafata fa larger than a gale of wind, tfsgaloe It too deep

F hundred ship* but like the other f harbors in Upola » exposed to* the linwr www *»«!•. PagoPtgo ££•«&•* port fcym Uh, httvv ' ♦*»•», but on account of the high MUa sorounding the port the wind f tP*W| «d <Ja«e» alou« in treraeodou« puftfoan one side to the other side of the hills, Disking a vessel heel over. The water is also too deep except off the town of Pagtt Pago, ajterpaauhg'over a bar reach*