The Shasta courier., 1869-05-08
this cold climate for half the city of New

'aiiousiy called, possesses a marvellous
memory, and careful inquiry into his his
.ory shows that about thirty-fve years ago
tnere lived IN Rochester tough little chap,
VINO was the youngest son in an American
family OF four boys and four girls. Born
IN small village in that vicinity, he made
MS home, upon the death of his parents,
with an elder sister, who resided ir that
city. This excellent young woman sent
HIM to school, and switched him so faith
fully when he played truant, as he often
dld, that he ran away at the tender age OF
q me years, and succeeded in making his
way across York State to Mystic, ON Long
Island Sound. Here, in his zeal to see the
strange sights of a seaport town, he boarded
ship which was just on the point of sail
ing for Havre, and was carried off before
he could regain the shore He made him.
self as useful as he could, and OF arriving
In the French port Immediately ran away
again, lest the Captain, who had learned
his story, should send him back to Roches-
ter. Getting on Seine steamer, he made
two or three trips between Havre and
Rouen; but one day, in emptying the hot
water out of a Z" dog basket" he unluckily
pitched lot OF plates aud spoons over
board, whereupon the wrathy steward kick
ed the poor little fellow SO solndly with
his wooden shoes that he was glad to
scamper ashore. Then the mate of a
Scotch schooner took pity on him, aud he
tried to repay the mates kindness by help
ing to hoist the schooners anchor out of
the way of the tide, which rushes UP the
Seine furiously. BY some mishap it slipped,
and It's whole weight dragged a rope
through his ha&ds S" swiftly as to actually
rasp the flesh from the bones The Cap
tain was highly vexed, and drove him on
shore AGAIN; but the mate and crew sided
with the little chap who had held to the
rope 50 pluckily-left the schooner in
body, and the Captain had no small trouble
in getting them back again In the mean
time the young adventurer got his hurts
dressed, fell into the hands Of good
naturcd old Frenchman, who took excellent
cafe Of him, and at last shipped on Swet-
lsh ship for a cruise in the Baltic Seal
Near Dautzic he ran away again bccau sc
the mate threatened to beat him for deal
ing out too much coffee to the men. For
two days he lived on green wheat and tried
to catch storks. The second night he crcpt
cautious y on board, aud was Just slipping
into his berth when the Captain called him
into the cabin, perched him up on tho
'transom lockers with nothing on but his
shirt. lectured him roundly Oh the folly of
running away, and finally shut him UP in
the empty hold till noon the next day.-
After visiting CronSta,it and other ports,
he sailed iu Il Russian brig to the North of
England
Thence he went in swift-saiine
I" fruiter' upon Il Mediterranean cruise,
then back to England again; from there
to St Johns and New York In New York
he shipped as steetage boy on the whaler
Shepherdess for the Sandwich Islands,
From Honolulu he went in another whalcr
to the Sea of Okhotsk, thence to Kodiak
and New Zealand, aud then to the Mar
quesas Islands. Here. he found the man
Butcher, with whom he soon became in
limate, and from that time, for many years,
his life was mainly spent with the savages
of the Marquesas, Society, Friendly and
Navigator Islands, among whom he gained
an ascendancy that fairly entities him to
the highsounding appelation Of the "King
of the Cannibal Islands"
Two years ago his longing to revisit his
native land became SO intense that he ship
ped in the only craft he could find,
Hor,n,,, br;,r f,r H,mhurer roaobad tbara
a year ago last Christmas, went thence to
Liverpool, lost all his money, sailed for
San Francisco to fill his pockets and escape
the uncomfortable cold, aud in July last
shipped to New York as common sailor
on board the Volunteer. The Captain was
mean and tyranpical, and when the Volun-
teer landed at Mazatlan to take in her cargo
of logwood he drove the mate ashore, took
in hundred days provisions of the most
miserable character, and started on a six
months voyage. His three principal Of
fcers were mere straplings, ignorant of
navigation. The boatswain in particular
was highly supercilious youth, and one
day the Captain ordered " Cannibal Jack"
to do some little duty that this boatswain
nau SnlTkeu- OdCh ulu 0OJ u0ucrStd0L
at first, and the order was angrily repeated,
when he instauly obeyed. "Look out,
jack" whispered one of his mates, :. the
Captain will be afoul of you directly"
" He'd better be afoul of some of these
gentlemen that are too proud to do their
duty" responded Jack. For this inde-
pendent remark, the Captain ordered him
in irons Jack demurred, the irate Cap
tain began to beat him with Eis fists. Jack
resisted, the carpenter (the stoutest man
in the ship flew to the Captains aid
Jack drew his knife, the mate, with re-
volver in hand, appeared on the scene
and Jack consented to be ironed with
double handouts. This was in February
and for over FIVE weeks he was confined in
place about three feet high, with nothing
but the bare wet deck to sleep on, and
ropes-end or piece of sail for pillow
Only once was he allowed to come on deck.
and on the arrival of the Volunteer at New
York lie was taken on shore, brought be-
fore a United States Commissioner the next
day on charge Of mutiny, and released