A FORECASTLE SIEGE.

FROM AN OLD SHIPMASTER'S LOG

BOOK

BT SYLVAN US COBB, JR.

In tbe month of December, of the year 1868, I found myself at Cape Town. South Africa, in a predicament any thing but pleasant. I was iv com mand of the American barque None such, hailing from New York, and bound for Calcutta, with a promis cuously assorted cargo, and very valuable. The most of the value was in pianofortes and reed, organs, But never mind the cargo. The vessel was one of the best of the class afloat, and carried one of the dryest of decks in heavy weather. Moreover, my officers were kind and indulgent to the crew. My first officer, John Mason, was as good to the men under him as a man could be, and at the same time main tain discipline. As for myself,_ I never struck a man manger; I im posed no penalties that could jar upon one's self-.espect, and I used no pro-

faulty.

And yet nearly tlie whole of my crew ran away-from me—deserted the barque —leaving me with two mates, tuy boat swain and carpenter, and two seamen —seven souls of us, all told--and I had had a crew of sixteen men before the mast, not counting the boatswain and the carpenter. My cook had run away, my third mate had gone with Idm, and fourteen before-the-mast men had kept them company. And what had done it . I will tcU yon. It was the very next year after the discovery of diamonds on the Orange River, up in G-riqua Land—five hundred miles away. There could be little use in attempting to get then back. I went on shore and conferred with the consul, and hia advice was that I should ship new men. He said the numbers pouring up into the dia mond country were enormous. Hun dreds were going every day; and should I chance to overhaul my run aways, I would be unable to bring them back.

It was all very well, his advising me to ship a new crew. I must have twelve men, at least; and I ought to have fourteen. My vessel was heavily sparred, and carried heavy canvas There was a limit bey.nd which the most willing of men would not be worked. < However, complaining could do no good. My two mates, Jack Mason and Charles Andrews, aud my self, went on shore and went at the work. We visited the places where sea men most did congregate ; we visited the places where they boarded; and wo spent a whole day in securing one man —an Irishman named Patrick Welch, •who had been left in tho hospital -three months previously, sick with small-p' v. He had been discharged as cured two or three weeks, and had been engaged at the hospital since as nurse, for they had been troubled there by their nurses running away to the diamond mines.

However, Welch wanted to go to sea again, so I got him, and a treasure he proved. He said he would go on board my barque, and if he liked her, and likod the looks of things generally, he thought he would be able to find more good mon for me, but I might have to give thorn advances enough to clear them of their boarding places.

Early on the next morning—the very next morning after the securing of Pat Welch—l was somewhat sur prised by the appearance of five stout, rugged men, more than half naked, who wished to ship. 1 looked them over critically. They were certainly sailors. The avouchment for that they carried in their very faces. The oldest —and he was the spokesman — was not more than 40, and the young est was at least 25. Thero was not a whole shirt in the party, nor a whole pair of trousers, yet each man had a good, substantial pea jacket, and had it on. It might be truthfully said,but for those jackets, they would have been nearer naked than clothed. The spokesman, who gave his name as Ben Brace, and he was a magnificent looking fellow—tall, well-formed, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, and muscular—he told me their story. Said he:

'~< Jap'n, I wo.n't try to deceive you. _ j foil tbe truth, anyhow.' Aud then he went on to tell how the five of them had run away from an English ship, bound from Hong Kong to Liverpool. They had landed at CapeTown, and had there met a man who had just como. down from the diamond mines and was going right back again. His story of the wonders of the mines—the millions to be had just for the picking up—had be witched them, aud they had gone with him to the Griqua Land. But they had very soon got all they wanted of it. There were a thousand seekers to each and every diamond. They had stayed until they.were penniless and ragged, and likely to starve ; and then they had begged their way back to Cape Town, where they had arrived only the evening before ; and within half an hour after .their arrival they had heard of my want of men.

' About twenty miles away,' he said, in conclusion—' It was three nights ago— we came across a poor fellow with a heavy waggon loaded with clothing, and drawn by six mules. His waggon had been overturned in a gulch, and he was in a fix. We worked two hours at setting him right, and. in the end he gave us the pea jackets. If it hadn't been for that, we'd 'aye come into town about naked.'

It so happened that I had plenty of clothing in my stores ; so I would have no difficulty on that score. I asked them if I would furnish them with clothing, if they would remain on board, and not ask to go on shore before we sailed.

'That's just wbat we want,' said Brace, quickly. 'Egad! we've had

enough of South Africa to last us a lifetime. We don't want to sco the colour of the dirt again.' After a little further conversation— a few questions, which were answered promptly and frankly-I agreed to. take them. I took them down into my cabin and let them sign tbe shipping articles; and I have their name., to-day, as follows : Ben Brace, Tom Deacon. Dan Sandy, Charles Parson, and Tim Fielding That waa the way they signed. And then, after that, l"gave' them into the care of my boatswain, Robert Grey, who had charge of the stores, and directed him to furnish them with what they needed. Grey went to his store-room, taking tho new men with him, and there' lat thorn select to suit themselves. That done, they were sera down into the forecastle to dress themselves respect ably ; and in leys than half-an-hour they'returned to tho deck, five as splendid looking men as a master could wish to see under his command.

The man calling himself Dan Sandy said he could cook as well as the best; nnd he would willingly serve in that capacity until I could find one. So I gave him the key ot he bread-room, which I gen ...ally locked in port; and the boatswain got up a breaker of water for ins use. When 1 had seen the breakfast for the crew made ready, my officers and I went down into the cabin to our own table.

I had done eating, and was just get ting up, and was speaking to my mates about going on shore for more men, taking Welch with us, when I heard the hail of—' Boat ahoy !' and a moment later Rob. Grey came rushing down in a state of wondrous excite ment. ' Cap'n ! those men — the five just shipped — have gone down into the forec's'le, and have carried the breaker of water and a bag of bread ; and the boat that's alongside 's got throe or four officers—land-officers—in her !" I hurried on deck just in time to meet the sheriff of Cape Town coming over the side, and threo of his deputies followed him ; and at the same time Pat Welch came aft, and came at once to my side, his eyes, wide open and wild. His story was told in fow words. Ho had been in the forecastle whon tbe five new men camo dowu, bringing tho bag of bread and the breaker of water, and ho had seen them go to tho berths which they had appropriated and take from their pea-jackets each man taking two — heavy navy revolvers ; and one that he had a chance to look closely at had six copper cartridges in its chain hor.

Tae sheriff had hoard Put's state ment, and when it had been concluded he asked mo who the men were of whom he'—Pat— had told. I ex plained—told him all about tho five new men—how they had come off that morning, tho account they had given of themselves, how I had shipped and clothed them, and given one of them the key of the bread-room ; and then he opened my eyes. 'Captain,' Said he, you've got in your forecastle at thia moment Jive of the most bloodthirsty villains that re main unhung!' Ami then, while I sat down to take breath, and while my officers and men gathered around to listen, he explained.

The men in question woro the ring leaders —the chief and his officers—the originators of a gang of pirates that had scourged the waters from Good Hope up through the Mozambique Channel for several years. Three months previously their vessel, a heavy lugger, carrying six guns in broad side, and a long swivel amidships, had boen captured by tlio English sloop-of-war .Bristol. Three-and-twenty of the crew had beon sentenced to transportation —some for a term of years; but the majority of them for lifo. The live leaders—my men they wero now! — had been convicted of murder on the high seas and ship-burning, and had been sentenced to death. Tbe date fixed for their execution, by hanging, was just one week from that day—the day on which they had come to me.

' This morning,' said the sheriff, 'we found them gone. They bad been confined in three of the strongest cells in our prison. They must have been secretly at work for several days—per haps weeks—for we found that they had dug down into the sewer 'and out that way. They left some time after midnight last past; and on their way to the'landing they broke into a cloth ing store and stole a lot of poa-jackots, and then into a gunsmith's shop, where they carried off a dozen of the best and highest-cost American re volvers the smith had in stock. Then, probably, they found a boatman, who. brought them hither and promised not to tell. But he did tell; told his wife, and she told her brother, who is one of my deputies.' Thero was the situation! Not a pleasant ono, was it . The sheriff and his three deputies would make little show against these desperadoes in the forecastle. With Pat Welch, we were now eight men belonging to the vessel —twelve of us all told. But what could that number do against the force at bay .

I went forward with the shoriff; and at the forecastle companion - way I called Ben Brace by name —Craddock, the sheriff said, was the name given in court. He answered me, but did not show his face. Said he :

' Captain, I don't want to harm you, nor ono of your crew, nor your barque. Tell the sheriff, if he shows his face to one of us, he's a dead man on the next instant. We can stand 'a siege here till you put to sea, and when you're outside o' the capes we'll come up and go to work. But mark me : We are not to be taken alive ! For the present — while there's a land-shark aboard the vessel —we'll shoot the first man that puts a foot on that ladder to come down. And one thing moro,' he

added, after a little pause: 'Should you let officers enough on board to tumble in on us regardless of our shoot ing, we'll set the barque afire. We've got plenty of stuff stowed away against the bulkhead to set her aflame in a few seconds.' And lie told me, after that, that I'd better get to sea as quickly as I could.

I made the fellow no reply. He was the pirate of the Mozambique Channel, of whom every seaman of the day had heard, and whom all who had occasion to cross those waters had dreaded. We went aft, and considered. What could we do . Ouly one man at a time could go down the forecastle ladder. The pirates could hold them selves against a thousand men as easily as against one. Probably they had plenty of ammunition. But the charges they had now iv their revolvers would be sufficient to dispose of the forco we could at present bring against them. i had made up my mind that they— the officers—had better let me go to sea with the, rascals—for I could see no way of capturing them with safety to my vessel —when up spoke Pat Welch. He asked me if there was a. trap in the forecastle bulkhead. I told him, yes. There were two —one three feet square, ami the other about fift.en inches. The larger one was near the top : and th_ smaller one directly below it. They were for letting light and air into the extreme forward part of the hold. Then Pat asked mo if we could get at the smaller hole—the lower one. I told him, yos. There were pianofortes and organs against that bulkhead, in strong cases; and they had been stowed on purpose to leave a passage down to those openings. In case of fire I always wanted to be able to reach the hold by that way.

Pat's next question opened my eyes. Had 1 not any brimstone on board . 1 happened to have a dozen cases of it. And it needed not Pat's further suggestion to direct me how to put it to use. In my younger days I had helped kill honey-bees with the fumes of burning brimstone; and you who have ever taken a good fair sniff of it will remember its power. I opened my plan to the sheriff and his deputies; and thoy said thoy would remain on board until night; or he would. During the day he sent two of his mates on shore for more help ; and for five sets of double irons. And during the day I told the pirate chief that the sheriff was still on board, but had sent on shore for more help. 'He says he'll find a way to capture you to-morrow,' I said, in con clusion.

' It'll be a sorry job for them that tries it,' was all that he said in reply.

At sundown the boat camo off with six extra mon, and the irons. At _ o'clock Pat had learned, by listening un observed, that the pirates were going to keep two of their number on watch through the night, taking their stations near tho foot of the ladder. They had no suspicions of the bulkhead.

A-fc -ton- o'clock a good breezo was blowing, and I quietly took off tho foro-hatoh, aud lot down a wind-sail, with its lowor end in tho hold, and turned forward. The force of the wind through it was strong; and you will readily sco, that, when the trap should be opened in the bulkhead, tho air-current would set directly into tho forecastle.

At eleven o'clock I had prepared a largo iron frying-pan with a handle five or six foot long, and littlo moro than half filled it with live hickory cools, fresh from tho galley range. With this, and with two or three pounds of brimstone pounded in a mortar, Pat and I made our way to the bulkhead, over the lading, four of my best men following close behind, with a lantern, and good pistols. At the same time, the sheriff and his crew were on deck, at l.he companion-way.

Everything worked to a charm. I slid the smaller trap aside without noise ; and on the next instant Pat had spread a layer of pulverised brimstone ovar tbe living, blazing coals, and pushed the pan far into the forecastle, the current from tho wind-sail prevent ing an atom of the deadly fumes from coming back upon us.

My soul! What a gasping, and choking, and strangling, and scratching around there was in that place 1 Two of the pirates—thoso on watch— scrambled blindly up the ladder, and were captured easily. Then the sheriff and four of his men tied wet napkins over their mouth and nostrils, and they had the wretches in irons before they took a breath. Thoy came to the trap, whei c I was, for fresh air.

I will only add—The three pirates who had been ironed in the forecastle I thought for a little time would die of congestion of the lungs ; but they came out all right, and, I suppose, were hanged.

But I was not obliged to wait and see. Pat Welch obtained for me the men I wanted; and good men they wero. If the rascal—Pat—had per suaded them to desert from an English frigate that lay in the harbour,lassure you I did not know it at the time; and I was very glad I did not.

Remember This.

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By order of the Exe cutory MILLINEKY.-On and after Mond^.' next, ; pril 25, the Millinery Department al tho late Thomas Short's Drapery Establish ment will be under the supervision of Mr* Dutr, rieeMissNodder. Morning, Wedding and Millinery orders executed most promptly. j



- RETURNEI»2ROSPERITY.'. J ta TUTTP Q gOXJ TT on the 7th of April, intimated to the _ £_KS ta__-b---_ Offered through ill-health,l should for t A* Pour Weeks hold a Gem..-.. Clearance Sale. My part I carried out by maktag large reduction, iv every department, and have now to thank the public for responding to my advertisement in so full a manner, also to state thathavingsold and sent out a much larger quantity of goods than I expected _ yet I still have a large stock on hand. Encouraged by the past month, I purpose making FURTHER REDUCTIONS FOR A FINAL CLEARANCE, I also solicit through this advertisement an offer for my Lease, which is one of the most liberal in Auckland. FOLLOWING LINES AMONGST THE MANY CHEAP AND GOOD BARGAINS _ FOR WHICH PLEASE COME EARLY. My make of Dyes and Black Goods Flowers ... , ... 3 for Id beincr well known, it will be Ladies' Underclothing, Infants Robes, enough to state I have reduced Cloaks, __c, &c, at Auction Prices. from° • Is 3£d to Is o£d In Men's and Boy's Clothing I still have My raven 'or blue black Cashmere a large stock Men's Suits, 13s 6d, coloured do. from 10fd. 18s 6d, 21s 6d, 25s 6cl, 80s and 42s Real good Home Spans ... 6|d xMens Auckland or local-made Moleskin . Black Velveteens from ... ... Is Od Trousers ... 4s lldand 6s lid _ Crewdson's Calicoes 3|d Mens Overcoats .. Jjsbd White Sheetings 6|d AsplendidlmeofScotchTweedls 9dyd. Blankets from° 2s 6d each Men's Shirts > Is 3d Corsets ... Is 3d Socks ... ... _.- 3d pair NOTE THE ADDRESS— JAMES SCTJTT, ; LONDON HOUSE, VICTORIA AND NELSON STREETS, AUCKLAND. . N.B.—STABLING PROVIDED FOR HORSES, TRAPS, &c, OF : . COUNTRY CUSTOMERS. . < LADIES OF AUCKLAND AND SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD, tar BEFORE YOU BUY HOSIERY SEE TEH J. GILMODR'S BARGAINS: Ladies' Coloured Cashmere of abeautiful quality and finished for Is 4d per pair, original price 2s 9d. Same Quality, Children's No. 1, 2, & 3, value Is. fld. -__-_ for Is. Maids' 4, 5, &6, value 2s. 6d. Is. 2d. J. G. wishes you to see the value in Gloves of all kinds, too numerous to mention —Swede, Kid, Silk, Cloth, &c, &c; Gent's fur-lined Kid : also, bargains in eveningcoloursin Kid. Ladies' Cloth fur-tops, &.C., at 6d per pair ; also Boys' strong cloth fur-lined, &c., 6d per pair. A Large Stock of Ladies' and Children's Felt and Straw Hats at 3d., 4d., Gd., Is. and Is. 10d., much less than half original price. J. GILMOUR, DRAPER AND GLOVER Upper Symonds Street, and KARANGAHAPE ROAD. WE ARE THE CHEAPEST. KAFANGAHAPE RMD CORjNTER OF EAST-ST. |gs TIT H. SHA KE SPEAR & CO. jf|f§|li 111*, Wool & Silk Merchants, Queen St., Auckland. •^^ —e^-t-a Sole Agents for MADAME WEJGEL'S CUT PAPER PATTERNS Madame Weizel begs to inform her numerous patrons that from March Ww$MS £ 22nd. ISB7. sho has appointed Messrs. Shakespeab & Co. as Sole Agents.n W§§M I Auckland for her Cut Paper Patterns, who have n.ow on hand a complete __$e^-splk » Stock of Patterns and Fashion Books, which th&j will sell at prices as >^-_fli>sil%_ printed on each pattern, and will also attend country orders on receipt of i— jfg-C"^^ price and extra stamps for postage. Catalogue of Fashions, showin_■ all --.„_._., , styles up to March, price 3d; by post, Id. Journal of Fashions, published on the first of each month, 7d; by post-Bd. TANGYES, LIMITED, 119, BATHURST-ST., SYDNEY, KEEP THE LARGEST STOCK IN AUSTRALIA OF ALL KINDS OF ENGINES, BOILERS, PUMPS, AND LIFTING MACHINERY, And respectfully request intending Buyers to forward particulars of their requirements before ordering, TANG. YES, LIMITED I 119, BATH&KST-ST., SYDiNBY. '



*asnrauce m 31 PANT(B-i MßA ggggg C |R.t Capital ~7~- ' ,J* t Paid-up a_id ResferVbfe^!:"^!-.. R ULwJ., (1 £-|q- jv_. |fr;- -'I.OTECTION FROM FIREor *._ _, '- 11 ILAIMSMET WlTHHlc«bmo^ 1 LIBERALITY '^isjH JAMES BUTTLE lw P r HE sta^^^^- OF NEWjffi ALAIa) lo'i FIRE, MARINE, AND G Va^ I Capital .. :~~~~ a ,,.*. E With Unlimited LiabiUty; £si ;^|.::j| lEAD OFFICE: -^INCES-Sz^p- 1 FIRE and MARINE INS.R V \c. - **'R at lowest current rates. •r FIDELITY ot persons in SituaHn,-,' R_: guaranteed. Prompt Settlements made. E )ffice: COLONIAL-MUTUAL nimS B QUEEN-ST-tEET. .^B FREDERICK NUt.Ft. B ©rapery, clothis~£^B GRAND "^ISPLa{| ENGLISH J PARISIAN 1 millism! L E SUE TJ li1 S, I r 'tr st 'ope k;|| VARIETY AND STYLE UNEQUAL^ PRICES UOTRECEI-E_.TE_, Ladies will do well to take'adv__ta|f|| rare opportunity. ' ''■:':■ - GET YOUR DRESSES MADEATTE B 0 _. .31 ARC HE FOR 12s 6d, and ensure the best fit "and _* procurable inthe Co_oNiis. AN ENDLESS VARIETY of the UTR) S TOVELTIES in Dress -Fabrics -t6'se#S which lor value cannot be surpassed. . ASK FOR THE ■■' LOUIS VELYEfH Stamped on every half-yard, for Is lljd i_j 2s lid per yard, greatly under wholesalefoi, A Stock of ready-made Costomesfrot-lltSI and upward. PATTERNS POST FEEE. - QUEEN ST.REET, ;AUCJLAND, Three doors from Wellesley Street East" STOCK Goods in Men-/'Yottt__-.6--' ~ rjLOTHING!'. g^T|l M HOSIERY 1 SHIRTS '•jf|i 4^%?Mii&y Re_pe£tfullyiD-[d '{J^ Which can only be sec-red byj| making, an j >gm EARLY VISIT.j|j Business; -Votic^^^ TQUTTERICK'S CUT P_fo PATTERNS Op All the Latest London -E*^1" Ladies,' Misses, Bora. ■*»» hmtS ''CniLDREJ. Can-.obtainedfrom KIDD & WILDMAN .- - -: -Sho^ W. P. OGILVIE .. -..— .y 01" J. &W. WILLIAMS- ...... -:^ MUNRO & CO. '.. - tife&i MISS FISHER '.: •• - r ,; Fashioa Sheets and Jo^Sf?: above Patterns may bebadfromW Stationer or Bookseller.. ADAM KEIR MURRAY, j IMPORTER AND PDfflf® S3, Queen-street, Auckl-nc_-.. , JLI Proprietors of , _ - THE EDENDALE MANUFA-TUBI^ Manufacturers of Woollen Hosiery^__ Underclothing. Importers and Commission Age* 21, ELLIOTT-STREET, ■*■ COMPANY. ' .KARANGAHAPE 'SOO THE ABOVE -OMPA** Hare taken Premises in DR-PDRCHAS'sSPLE^^f Earangahapeßoaa,^ .^ Where they have openodj^^-, andarenowprepaieaw _ rice s.-- , meats at the follow.^ BaBJ)J , Tea, small cup, Id. large do, * d , Co (fee „ ,- W, -» 2d*fA £._^ad.lJa ( i ple-bo& . ??» jd^ Ginger Beer, Ud » ;Bro fIX GinlerAle.l.d .. Ham* Soda Water, Ud .< , n ci U » Hop Beer, Ud » Milk, Id per glass Open daily fromhajf^asts^^^^ ~J. H. Dalton, T*ilor..