The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-04-11

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ly by the hair, determined to shake what
little wit he might have, into sensible
state. ys.e
Don't hurt him." said Seymour, de-
precatingly, thinking my roughness was
little too severe on person in his stu
alton.
As he spoke, the red locks, in the
shape of a wig, came off in my hands,
showing closely clipped black hair under
meath None can paint our astonishment
at seeing the features of our Yankee de-
velop into the countenance of Captain
Darnsford, late owner and master of the
Belle Blonde. .....
The rascal seeing he was discover
cred, said sneeringly, MY little game is
checkmated but had l succeeded in
spiking your guns, think there would
have been another side to my plot, for l
would have remained my whole life with
these natives could | have made a trade
with them, and had the pleasure of seeing
you killed and eaten. blinded you by
having my death published, but III baulk
you yet"
{" You baulk us, will your if you can
make it convenient to do so before sunrise
you will save us the trouble of making a
hangman's knot, for you'll swing at the
yard-arm at daybreak," Iretorted.
"You dare not hang me |" he roared,
pale with rage and excitement.
Don't be uneasy; the morning will
show you whether the little affair comes
off or not" said I; and ordering no con-
versation with him, directed the mate to
gag him. .....
Having seated ourselves in the cabin,
we formed a council of war, discussing
for some time the probabilities of an i'm
mediate attack, but arriving at no def
mite conclusion. We finally decided to
await for daylight to solve the problem,
but when daylight did appear we had no
time to devote to the detected villain. N1
Our suspicious of an attack were fully
verified in the morning, for, instead of
being surrounded at aybreak by crowd
of natives, clamorous for trade, we were
let severely alone, not canoe being visi-
BILE. AS there was little breeze, we
raised our anchor at once, and setting sail,
squared the yards and filled away imme-
diately, and as we slowly famed off shore,
we began to congratulate ourselves on es-
Gaping fight. ..u JT
Not so with Seymour. He shook his
head ominously, and said, the end is not
yet" .,.'.,
As our sails began to draw, and we got
an ofing, we heard loud yell ashore,
and looking back, saw seventeen large ca
noes leave bay and head for US. They
appeared to be sailed carelessly, for only
one was well trimmed, and that one over
hauled us hand over hand, and was soon
within hailing distance. ,.....
dts the chiefs canoe and he is in il"
said Seymour, as he hailed it, and enter
ed into an exciting conversation. For
some minutes this was kept up, and then
Seymour said, {" the chief is angry at our
breaking faith with him, and says if we
do not return and finish our stipulated
trading, he will take our vessel away, and
eat US all" ...a r..sI g.I.l
Mr.. Dickson" said l to the mate,
fire a carronade about five yards in front
of his dugout, and you, Mr.. Seymour,
tell him we send an answer" r.... se
AS the report died away and the savages
received my message, the chief arose
and fred musket at us,the bullet whis.
Ting loudly as it passed over our heads,
and demoniac howl of rage arose from
all, followed by the canoes in the dis
tance heading at once for us showing con-
clusively the ball was opened.
Seeing that none were hurt by the
badly-aimed musket, turned my atten-
tion to the rapidly approaching canoes
Our crew were all at their stations, and
commenced firing and loading with the
precision of veterans, the second dis
charge showing diminuition of one of
the canoes. Hastily coming about on the
other tack, we gave them our port bat
terry; but before we could reload, the saw
ages were upon US, spears, arrows and
musket balls flying over us in wild profu-
sion. "'''l '7"
Every man was ON deck at once, and
soon the villainous blockheads appeared
at the boarding-netting. And now des-
perate work began; we were all armed
with revolvers, and as their bodies show
ed above the rail we shot them down like
birds. | 'asod ao -llr ia. f11
The odds were against us, however, and
it only remained for the natives to con-
tinue it to bring it to successful con-
clusion, when our cook, assisted by the
steward and cabin boy, rushed to the
scene with dippers of boiling water
AS the steaming liquid fell on the natives