Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — The Rock of Refuge. [ARTICLE]

The Rock of Refuge.

In Hawaii, one of the Sandwich islands, there is a spot called the Rock of Refuge, If a criminal reaches this rock before capture he is safe, so long as he remains there. Usually his family supply him with food until he is able to mi.ke his escape, but he is never allowed to return to his own tribe.