Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-04-08

ace. This left only two men to watcl
the tree remaining sides of the build
ing. So far as any risks of attack wer,
eond rned, the, precipices at the bacl
and HfIes of the Palace were sufficien
aefe5<e for il, if good watch wa
kept&a the weak side. But what th'
Pirae Captain. dreaded was the chanc'
of c.. escaping; and he would not trus
the Mccipices to keep us, knowing w
had rAilors IN our company ,and suspect
ing at they might hit on some substi
tute| VI ropes, and lower themselves anC
theil fellow prisoners down from ths
bac or the sides of the Palace, in tbs
darE Accordingly, the Pirate Captain
settEd 1t that two men out of each com
PAM should do double duty after night
fab The choice of them to be decided
by eating dice. This gave four men
to rsltrol round the sides and the back
of tie building, a sufficient number to
kee& bright lookout. The Pirates
injured little at the prospect OF
dorE |esduty;but, therewas noremedy for
it. lie Indians, having superstitious
hor2 Z Of remaining in the ruined city
aft dark, had bargained to be allow
ed Ego back to their village, every af-
terhoon. And, as for the Sambos, the
PiEAte Captain knew them better than
had known them at Silver
Stdfe, and would have nothing to do
wiA them in any matter of impor-
tsrsce. & s. ~ @
Tkesetting of the watch was com
plefea without much delay. Ii any OF
us bad felt the slightest hope ofescapins
up ~ this time, the position of our pris-
on md the number Of sentinels APP
po1Sted to guard it, would have been
mo than enough to extinguish that
hope for ever
In hour before sunset, the Indians
whose only business at the Palace was
us with food from the village,
and to prepare the food tor eating
msde their last batch of Tortillas, and
theh left the, ruins in a body, at the
us{Al trot of those savages when they
are travelling in hurry.
When the sun had set, the darkness
came down upon us, / might almost
say, with rush. Bats whizzed about,
and the low warning hum of Mosquitoes
sounded close to our ears. Flying beet
les, with lights in their heads, each light
Off dozen glow worms, sparkled through
the darkness, in wonderful manner,
long. When one of them set
tied on the walls, he lighted up the hid
eoas sculptures for a yard all around
him, at the very leas-. Outside, in the
forest the dreadful stiffness seemed to
be drawing its breath, from time to
time, when the night-wind swept light
ly through the million-million leaves
the surge of monkeys trav-
cling through the boughs, burst out with
a sound like waves on sandy shore;
the noise Of falling branches
and trunks rang out suddenly with a
crash, as if the great ruins about us
" ere splitting into pieces; sometimes,
when the silence was at its deepest
when even the tread of the watch out
side had ceased-the quick rustic of a
snake, sounded treacherously close at
our ears. 1t was long before the chill
dren in the women's room were all quiet
ed and hushed to sleep-longer still be-
fore we, their elders, could compose our
spirits for the night After all sounds
died away among us, and when | thought
that was the only one still awake, i
heard Miss Maryon's voice saying, soft
ly, "God help and deliver usl" A man
+; ur room, moving on his bed ofleaves
the words after her; and the
ships boy, Robert, .half-asleep, half
awake, whispered to himself sleepily,
"Amen.' After that, the silence re-
turned upon us, and was broken no
more. SO the night passed-the first
night in our Prison in the Woods.
With the morning, came the discov-
cry of new project of the Pirate
Captains, for which none of US had
been prepared.
Soon after sunrise, the Pirate Cap
tain looked into our room, and ordered
all the men in it out into the large hall
where he lived with his big soul and his
little body. After cycling us narrowly,
he directed three OF the sailors, myself,
and two of my comrades, to step apart
from the rest. When we had obeyed,
the bundle of axes which bad troubled
my mind so much, was brought into
the hall; and four men of the guard,
then on duty, armed with muskets and
pistols, were marched in afterwards
Six of the axes were chosen and put
into our hands, the Pirate Captain
pointing warningly, as we took them,
to the men with firearms in the front
of us. He and his mate, both armed
to the teeth, then led the way out to the
steps; we followed; the other four Pi
rates came after us. We were formed
down the steps, in single file; the Pi
rate Captain at the head; L myself next
to him; Pirate next to me; and so on
to the end in such order as to keep q
man with loaded musket betweeneach
one or two of us prisoners. L Hooked
behind me as we started, and saw two
of the Sambos-that Christian George
King was one of them-following us
We marched round the back of the. Pal
ace, and over the ruins beyond it, til
we came to track through the forest
the first had seen. After a quarter o.
an hours walking, | saw the sunlight
bright beyond the trees in front OF us
In another minute or two, We stood un-
der the clear sky, and beheld at our feet
a broad river, running with swift 81
lent current, and overshadowed by the
forest, rising as thick as ever on the
bank that was opposite to us.
On the bank where we stood, the
trees were young; some great tempest
of past years having made havoc in thi: