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VOYAGE OF THE SCHOONER
"TETAUTUA"
(Prepared and read before the Hawaiian Historical Society at its
Annual Meeting in Honolulu, December 2nd, 1904)
Early in the year 1898 the clipper schooner Tetautua was
lost to its bearings about a week out of Papeete, Tahiti, and
eighty-two days from the beginning of the voyage arrived at
the port of Hookena, Hawaii, this group. The story of the
trip, in several particulars, is one, or makes one of the most
remarkable accounts of unusual navigation in the Pacific
Ocean. As news editor of the Daily Advertiser newspaper
of this city the writer published in that journal on May 27,
1898, the following:
"The little schooner Tetautua (in Hawaiian, Kekaukua)
from Tahiti, arrived in port early yesterday morning in command
of Deputy Sheriff Lazaro of Hookena, who was detailed
by Sheriff Andrews to bring her to this port for the purpose
of having matters arranged with the Consul here in order to
admit of the schooner returning to Tahiti, the home of the peo
ple now aboard. The schooner arrived off this port at 9:30
o'clock Wednesday night, but it was not deemed proper to bring
her in at that time. Deputy Sheriff Lazaro called in at this
office last evening ,and gave a most interesting account of his
experiences with Captain Tanau (in Hawaiian, Kanau) and
the people on the vessel, all of whom, the half-caste Frenchman
(son of the owner) excepted, are pure Tahitians. Said Lazaro:
"The Tetautua arrived in Hookena on May 21st. There
was an abundance of food, such as flour and rice, aboard, but
no firewood with which to cook it. As to water, it happened
that three days before sighting Hawaii they were blessed with
a shower which gave them about three gallons. Previous to
this they had suffered for many days from thirst. When the
schooner arrived at Hookena the people aboard were in a pitiable
state

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