The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-09-01

do jist what they wanted him TO, they would heave
him overheard. The cook and the steward was
frightened half out of their wits, and jist obeyed
orders. Very luckily there weren't much grog
aboard, for if there had been there is no KNOWN
what these chaps might have done, but they
weren't only about gallon and that were gone in
no time, and were hardly enough to make the
crowd booty. While they had the rum in EN-,
however, they tormented the old man above bit.
He were bald-headed old chap, and they mixed
some slush with the SCOT out Of the cooks funnel,
and rubbed his head with that. tellin' him it
would make his hair grow and there was many
other indignities they put upon him, some Of EN-
like Pats dream, too bad to be told" The
other officers also come in for their share OF abuse,
and the mate were badly hurt with the poundin'
they had Civ him.
We amt made up our minds yet, says this
johnson to the old man, arter he'd had charge
about aday. we amt made up our minds wheth-
er we'll make you walk the plank or hang you at
the yard-arm; but one thing or the other you'll
have to do And that was his idea from the
first, to put the old man and mates out of the
way, and then go off to some of thelsands where
there weren't nothin' but natives, and spend the
rest of their lives there, destroyin' the ship. II
there had been rum enough on board this might
have been done, but what there was soon died out
Of 'em, and then some of 'em begin for to think
that mutiny were bad enough without addin' MUIR
der TO it. This here johnson were already be-
ginnin' to draw pretty taut rein over 'em, and
had turned ZEN all out Of the cabin, assertin' that
that part of the ship were for him and his mates,
and they thought as how he had found more
money and appropriated it to himself He hadn't
however, for the old man had sewed it into the
middle of his mattress, and they never thought to
look there
Things went on this way for about week,
the new skipper CROWN more domineerin' every
day and not hesitatin' TO use his fists Leither
when anybody didn't go exactly to suit him. and
finally he and his mate fell out aud had regular
rough-and-tumble fight, in which Jack Adams
him as spun me this yarn, got the worst of it.
That settled this Johnson's hash at once. Jack
said as how he'd been thinking for some
time of some way of getting out of the scrape
they was in, and SO the night arter he had this
row he goes forard and tells the old man that
if he will take solemn oath on the Holy Bible
not to prosecute the crew for what they had
done they'll put him back agin in command and
will obey bis orders to the end of the voyage.
Well, he were glad enough for to do this you
may be sure, and SO Jack then spoke to the rest
of the men and they was glad enough for to
agree to this, and they goes aft and overpowers
this here johnson as he was a sleepin' and they
puts him in irons and gives the old skipper full
charge agin. From this time out, Jack said,
things went along well enough. OF course the
crew did nothing, except jst what was necessary,
but they was civil, and there weren't no further
trouble. AFTER the pilot come on board In the
Hoogy, the skipper let this johnson out of irons,
on his promisin' to behave, and the crew left the
ship when she got to Calcutta, aud went ashore
jst as if nothin' had happened The old man
didn't care to have 1t knowed that he had been
prisoner in his own fOrecestle and had his head
anointed with slush and SCOT, and the men didn't
care for to peach, for fear of a prosecution for
mutiny. When they presented their due bills to
the consignee, payment was refused. Jack says
they went to a lawyer, and he, arter hearing
their story, advised them for to say nothing about
it and to thank God that they got off as well as
they did, They took his advice, and nobody
in Calcutta ever knowed anything about it !; and
it were not till years afterwards that Jack Adams
told it to me- SEA.