The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-06-02
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Showing howlnn,OId Tar was not "Shnna.
hnied, bus the Land Shark was.
It,is well known that it was formerly
the habit of land sharks, as they are
termed, when sailors ,werer scarce. to
shanghaiqsail6rs and 1anulsmen, when
sailors were not to be had, and when
they were drugged to send them On board
of vessels'a as sailors. An old salt, in his
peculiar way, tells the story of Rocky
More, and his exploits with a. runner, as
follows :g-.T : - - .hR .'liiaV :.
Rocky More had just como home in
the ship Gertrude, Captain Baker, from
Bombay, and had been paid off, with six
months wages, and though at the time
men Were scarce and wages high, Rocky
wcrnt a:gom to sea till he'd "run the
rag down" and spent all mis- money. He,
boarded with a. chap called IHannel. in,
Franklln square, about as good man as
was a-goin' dn.that business, and Rocky.
OF course, gives him his inoneyifor to
keelrAthas is, the stanain' part of # f.
gifts himself n new ugant, andHyaes off
1or n time" He'd been ;Sonto n,ia
tune" probably three orr four days.
~loae Ioae h hs us.asaT sssofsa mp =H'ns- mill
IL "ete- Wlhter Time, and it were
mighty hard fog t6Ngit hsn for the LiJ-
erpool ships, and they was a-paym as
hlsh/asTS75 advance, and $1O blood
money Ezend the saaippin' masters was
outsi5s dfThs Ib6araia sbSSaes. T9oay cansy
then, don tsyou sat, ,rfheyodianit have no
'blood-money to pay, md could charge It
to the ship all the sn,naz and the way it
were, the slip were tpe& into the North
river, vel out, and then, ,as THE men
We're bruGgr Off, one by one, the mate
glv'a receipt for em, and this lerefre-
celpt were good for a due bill for S75
IRON the. -shippin, master, payable five
days arter the ship went to sea, If so be
as that pan went into her. TT 1T
The Black Ball packet, Cambridge,
were IN the river Iwaitin' for her crew at
the time Rocky More were n-driftin'
round, andas She had hard name, it
were worse to git n crew for her than for
other Liverpool ships, and, pobody y ever
was took aboard of her except. he were
too drunk for to know where lie & was
The advance being so big, of cour g it
were great temptation toS all boatmen,
old Junk chapsland sdockaawallopers gem
orally, for to be on the lockout for
chances, and if they catched chap who
nad bowseasu{z his ifbst6o t6Tit they'd
llst cnme ,0s5tthft r. With him, hlH presandih for
1 ofd acquaintance, andes would
ss:.d treat two, or thEse- tines=ggoiul.-on on
Town nearer to the Battsry all the time !;
crib, and a NaSshap &asI 3 N&ttin' his
liquor, slip some devilment into it that
aewpto ihs boas; aaa Ssd la never ai8sav know
mo more till maybe he q, woke npnhtside
'of Sandy Hook, without stitch of
'cll9thhes, anI le maybe -nsyefhayht hih
fS6tou1 8 shiPs deck afofes, al and feaSiin' fta Si'
maybe maybe business, and q wife and family
There many slehab; aif, ,taa hs been
TOOK oil in that way, and very many more
has Besn 'ta0kItham has ever eofhe back.
Aost OF EN- went with the "trianeiea. 1"
comm out of long spree, perhaps, and
not oeln. able to siit any liquor for to
:s;ss q @ f: sEs :,';1s - :;
'omswhile on deck, and then beat by the
sailor men when they kfwent below;
cause you See, no man likes for to do
another mans work. and these here
greenhorns bein' q aboard makesl qit
haruef Tor them as Is sailors, and, they
naturally takes it ont Of 'em when they
gifts EN- below, antl SO it mint wonderful
that good many of em, what with
beint dPwhheartedi iat 1ea4in' home, and
what with sea sickness, and what with
the "triangles from over drinkin', aud
then stoppin' too sudden, and what with
lll-1sagS iist Civ right up in despair and
walked overheard believin' that drownin'
were better, than iyin' such life. Then
there were others its Gods truth
actually beat ito death by the officers
cause they couldn't do Twork which
they'd never, yonD see, lar1ied for to do,
and men throw'd overheard and NO
questions ever asked. Of course the
crew would all run away as soon as the
ship struck the pier head, and so there
weren't none of them to complain, and
If there Were a passenger on board Inc
were goin' about his business. and did
not want to be detained as a witness and
so generally there weren't no inquiry
and if there were the Liverpool courts
couldn't do nothin', cause il were a
offense committed aboard OF n Amer;con
ship onto the high seas; and as TO the
American consul there was one or two
shippin' masters that had oil to say in