Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-06-23

spirits oil the passengers lOr several days,
and though Savage refrained from most Of
his profanity, yet, | could see that not on
y he but Others looked upon Walter Le-
grand as q coward. The youngman him
self seemed to notice it, for he was taciturn
sll sedate, and | often noticed that his eve
dropped before the gaze Of others, and
that his lip trembled.
Early one morning land was reportrd
on the larboard bow. / knew it to be the
Bourbon Island. The wind was very
light, the ship not making more than three
knots with her royal studding Sails
About the middle of the forenoon we saw
large quaic built boat or rather vessel,
come out from one Of the coves of the is
land. / leveled my glass at the aft and
found it to be full of mep. Thore were
seventy-five at least.
Captain, what is she?' asked Captain
Savage, approaching the spot where was
standing
think there is not much dangerin set
ting her down as a pirate, said. Il have
heard there was nest ofpiratcs on Bour-
bon Island, and l think We are likely to
find it true
'Piratesr uttered Savage turning pale.
They will be likely to be ugly custo-
mcrs, won't they.
'Of course they will. They certainly
outnumber us three TO one. and in all prob
ability all of them stout, reckless, daring
fellows
But you don't think they will follow
the cruel rule of putting all their prisoners
to death, do you?'
You can judge ofthat as well as can
WASH reply, and then ! turned to the men.
| could see that Savage was much fright
encd and in fact nearly all were startled
by the appearance of the suspicious look
ing boat. The presence ola pirate is moi
a pleasant theme for any one, and espe-
cially these land pirates, for they mos
generally make it a practice to put THEN
prisoner to death, so that their hauntS may
not be exposed.
We had nocvrriage gun, but there wert
cutlasses and pistols enough onboard fo
the crew, and lost no time in arlning my
men. All told we numbered forty on,
men. The ships crew, including myself
made twenty-nine, and there were twelv,
of the passenger, though know not wheth
er to count upon Walter Legrand or not
However, he could fire pistol and tha
was something. By the time | had mad
these arrangements, the quaic was within
two cables length of us, and we could Sc
that there were nearly eighty men Oh boar
Of her--not so great odds as we had at the
first supposed, but still two to on" agains
us. We could see, too, that they were al
of them powerful looking fellows, and 0
all shades and complcxions-some Of then
white, red, brown and black.
arranged the men close to the buIwall
with what muskets we could muster, an
then turned to see if Legrrand was upol
the deck. He stood by the cabin compan
ion way, with sword in his hand, an
with two superbIy mounted pistols stucl
in his belt. The sword | had not seen be
fore, and of course ] Judge that it must hav
been his own. 1t was proud and heavy, 0
the most eXquisit polish, and mounted il
a hilt of gold and precious stones. wa
for moment chained to the spot. Th
youth looked most strangely. His fac
was yet calm and pale, but this expression
was changed-wondertully changed. TIL
fire of eye was deep and intcn C, the us
ual sedate, melancholy expression had Civ
en- place to sort of cyultant, smiling sat
isfaction. | saw that he stood over tn
place where his mother had found refuge
BY this time the quaic was near] y along
side. waited until the moment for ps
tol shooting came, and then gave the or
der to fire. There was a long yell from tn
boat, and the next 1nomcnt she struck on
side, and the pirates began to Chamber u
our rigging. Our shot had not done muc
execution, for nearly all who had set in tn
quaic had leaped for the ship. We bca
them back as we'll as we could, but the
began to gain upon us, and at length m
men gave away. | urged them all could
but the bloody pirates came on in sue
wild fury that to stay them seemed impos
siblc.
Savage fell back to the poop, and hi
companions followed him. The pirate
struck down three Of my men, and the res
fell back to the opposite side of the decl
By hasty count made out that ther
, were about seventy of the enemy, and W
had thirty-eight left. For few moment
there was a mutual suspension of h h,stil
ties. The pirates had had all gained tll
!, deck--all that were alive-and their chic
tian stepped out in front of them. lIewa
a Spaniard, but spoke English well.
| DO you surrender your ship?' he ask
, ed.
'Of course we surrender, spoke savage
seeing that | hesitated. 1--WE may receiv
quarter if we surrender quietly
'NeverH spoke calm, clear vote,
and on turning we beheld Walter Legrant
Never! he repeated, while his dark ey
flashed proudly. Are we Englistmen"
saw that those words produced wor
'derful effect upon my crew, and so the
did upon the other passengers, and / mus
confess that they went to my heart with
nerving power. Only on Captain Savag
they seemed to grate harshly.
At this moment Mrs. Legrand came mp
on deck. She had heard her sons voice
and perhaps she thought that he was il
danger.
Santa Maria that's my prize, exclaim