The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-12-14

| the mercy Of the villains In the bush. But the
| minute we saw his boat out. the whole OF us,
save the Judge and the Planter, made a clean
| charge down upon thcm-the sohOOners men
joining us with the oars aud boat-stretchers (;
and IN another hlf.hour the whole gang, hav-
| ing lost heart we're taken and lasbed fast by
the wrists on tn beach, 20 single man.
On searching the watering place during the
! day, we found some enc had covered the mouth
| Of the tank with sticks and leaves, through
which Harry Foster had gone when he fell. The
! stuff had fallen In over him and the well being
| evidently made deep into the rock, TO hold wa
ter the longer, with the roots Of the trees grow
ing out into it, bis body never came up. Some
how or other no one liked to sound Il ia the bot
tom but the thing that Mortified all OF us the
most, was TO find Captain Finch himself lying
quite dead amongst ths brushwood near where
the passengers had pitched their quarters, with
cut through his skull enough - have killed
an OK. IL was supposed Foster had suddenly
Dome upon him, as he and his shipmaies looked
out for the hoard they thought the pirates had
IN the island, while Finch was on guard over
lalies. Whether the fellow took a new notion.
at the moment, or what it was, the whole gang
of them made their rush upon the second mate
and the cadets, the minute after the captain met
his death.
just conceive standing mp the hot Bay Of
Bengal with tagging south-westerly breezes,
h.r,rg at times Ia "a brisk south-caster, or a
quail a. we've done ourselves this week Tho
moon wasn't ut the full then, Of course. 80 we
only hal IL like rcapcrs sickle in the dog
watches. but it vas fine weather, and you may
imagine one sometimes contrive1 bctwixt
WcstwOod and myself 90 have Violet on tho
quarterback Of an evening without the J Idgo.
Tom would step forward suddenly to see a small
pull taken on sheet, aud Smelling knew pretty
well not to walk aft Of the capstan; 20 | could
lean over the taiirail near her aud look at the
schoOners wake glmmerlng and sparkling up
| In the bubbles astetn.
Then to save trouble, you need but picture to
| Yourselves some such sort Of a daybfcak as we
had this morning; n cool blue cloudless sky all
iloft, dappled to eastward with a mi shty arch
u il were, Of small white spots and flakes, as a
| perfect sea Of light flows up into !, before the
sun under tho horizon, and a ralc slanting shaft
pi it seems 10 hang gray in the yellow above
him." The zOdiacal light, seen ut sunrise aud
sunset. The sea heayes deep blue aud ,opcr-
blue under the schoo' or; the wide flock Of small
clouds burn from gold to fire; the i n,ing streak
| e light fades and vanishes and the sun comes
up like gush Of ilame-scnding n stream Of
differing radiance along The water 20 our star
board low, while it shows q long fiat line Of
| land far on the other beam. The Planter is smo-
| king hi first cherOot for that day at The stern
| yratin,s, when we make out three or four faint
points over the streak of land, shining like gold
in the dawn; while ut the sane time three hay
pillars, as IL wore, are seen standing IN b,twiNt
ga and sky, beyond the ripping, blue in tho
northeastern board lis the spires Of Juggcr.
laut plgoda on one sidr aud a. the hr-k morn
| ing breeze drives the water into short surgcs,
| lll the schooner ris's the ship upon the other
| III Ol u sudden she looms square anl white upon
Iur starboard bow. As the hull lifted higher
md higher under her canvass, there was less
| lOubt every few minutes Ol her being fri gate;
md 10y the time Violet AMI her father were
tauding together on the quarterback, tho glo-
| rious old llebe was signalling "a from her fore
royal'masthead, a she kept close ON wind to
| cross our course.
We spoke the pilot brig that evening, took
out the pilot, and stood up into the mouth Of tho
| lloogly with the night tide in the moonlight
| lropping the lIebe ~ Diamond HlrbOr ne Nt day,
while Lord Frederick and a Government gou-
| tlcman lie had with him from ST. Helena, went
| up to Calcutsa with Us in the schooner. The
| whole Uftho Iudamans late crew and officers
we're left in the frigltc till further notice, not
| Nithstanding which we were pretty well crowd
| ed on our way up; WestwoOl and ! were glad
| # couple Of hammoCks in the half deck. and
flct, saw little more OF Violet Hyde till they
vent ashore opposite FortWilliam.
In half an.hour we were living at anchor in
he midst OF the crowd Of Indimon, country
hips Arab craft, and all sorts Of craft be-
sides, stretching far up to the next reach;
he long front Of fiat-torpcd buildings with
heir green yenetians and balustTades, sh:-
Ming white over the row Of trees on the right
aux, likea string ot PALACES spreading back
| thr ugh the huge mass Of the city to the pale
not eastern sky-a tall cocoa nut tree or n sharp
! .pire breaking it here and there, while the pile
| ui Government House was to be seen dotted with
ldjutant-birds; and the opposite shore showed far
| oil in line Of green jungle, faced 10y few gay
| looking spots of bungalows. All the rest of the
| day Jones busted himself seeing all made regular
| and slipshapo below and alOft, in complete sea-
m1n-liko style, till began to think lie had Ia
ken u fancy to the schooner and meant to 20
With her and tho irgite to the China seas
Next morning, however, as soon n breakfast
vas over In tll, cabin, he came to me a1d said
t1at a. there was nothin more to be done at
present aboard, according to our agreement lac
would bid US goodbye. Nothing could say
vas oi the least use, ~ at last hal to give IL
up. Havin little money about me, however,
kept In bills and intending to 20 ashore my
self | told lin | should pay h.m his mates
wages al once at a bankers in tho town. by
thO time | came GU deck, Jones had hailed "A
dingy, and tho native boitmcn padded us to
he ghaut Glow the Slilo-'s Home together.
h Il shaken hands with him, AMI stool
watching HIM from the bank vcrJnllh, az his
manly figure, in the blue jacket, white duck
trousers, and straw hat, pissed away down Flag
street, stepping like a seJmln fresh roh blue
water through u ,trcIm Of HinloD5 10 white
muslin, Mu,suiman servants, tall capped Anne.
mans, Danes, Fronchmen, Chinlmen, Arabs,
md PLrscts. Three or four Coolies with paint
ID umbrellas were shouting aul scrambling in
his way, mentioning their names, salalmlng,
ana sab hing him to the mines; couple OF ma
ked black boys were trying to brush his shoes in
the dust, tray Of native sweetIneats seemed to
be showed every now and then under his nose;
and two or three children with heads ~ big as
pumpkins were stuck before him, their mothers
begging for "buckshish huck-hish!" Jones held
on like a man accustomed to every sort of for
eign scenes in the world and out Of curiosity to
sec where he would go, followed him for a lit.
tie toward the thick Of the noise and crowd, |
through Tank Square, where the wator-carriers
were sprinkling the ground from the shecp-skins
on their backs as they walked, serpent charners
and jugglers exhibiting and dirty Fakir roll
lng at the corner in seeming agony, with a
crowd Of liberty men in Sunday forgery all
round him. Jones looked up at the church steep
ing IN the white heat, and across the glare of
light to the city beyond, standing like mln
that didn't know what to do, or h Int seen
Calcutta before; then pass. carelcsly by the
half slued sailors, who IN led him as II he were
aship. At length he got TO tho turn Of street
running into the native town, where You caught
glimpse OF II swarming thi, way and that with
turhans in the close exchanging blZars. Some
uindoo procession or other was coming along
with tom-tCms, gongs, tImbouriues aud punk
abs, sweeping on through Babel of hclthcni,h
cries and songs; a knot of dancing girl, with
red flowers in their elk black hair, could he
seen in haCkery drawn by two hump backed
bull, cks; and a white lirIhmin bull was puking
ts head amongst the heaps of fruit at stall:
whilst YOU heard a whole ships crew hurrahinu