The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1875-09-01
HAWAIIAN GAZETTE
AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL,
TO HAWAIIAN PROGRESS.
An Old Sailors Yarn.
MutIny on the High seas-A Yarn of the Pacific
Ocean.

uluht udulc htlG Lewis hGIu III ~ luC
time, but chap of the name of Jack Adams, as
was shpmates with afterwards, into the bark Ia
roliHfd, Captain Carr, he spun me the yarn, and
he were into her, and she were bonnd from San
Francisco to Calcutta in the year 1851, She had
sixteen men afore the mast, and they was to have
$500 apiece by the run,' and no advance. This
here Jack Adams, what told me this, was hard
chap, and there were two or three more like him,
and they put the devil into the rest. If the Of
fcers had turned to and pitched in and whaled
Jack and one or two Others, which they might
easy have done, they would have bad no trouble
with the rest, but suppose Jack and the other
bad ones kind of felt of the mate on the first day
and found him little soft, and SO that encouraged
them to go on. You see, sir, | as a sailor man
purhaps, don't ought for to say anythin' agin EN-
as q class, but the truth is the TRUTH no matter
who speaks it, and sailor man has got for to be
governed, else he'll 60 wrong You see, sir, they
git used to it from their boyhood up, and they
can't git along without it. and officers of ships has
got to be saddled and brdled, or else booted and
spurred. They has either got to ride, or else
play the jackass and be ridden. Almost all mu-
TIMES aboard Of ships comes on by degrees and is
the fault of the officers bein' too easy and not
checkin' it at the first when it could be checked,
and it goes on till the men gifts the upper hand,
and then there's the devil to pay and no pitch
hot Nobody ever heard of no mutiny with
'Bully' Waterman, or Beersley or McCerren, or
SIGH men as these. OF sailors ben' pounded you
did hear and frequent, but never no mutiny.
Sailors generally begins on the first day out, that
is, the bad ones-there amt generally more than
one or two in ships cOmpany-and they spes
the rest, and one of them maybe will come up
onto the forecastle when they are gittiu' under
weigh, with his pipe in his mouth. WE'LL if the
mate jist fetches him wipe and knocks the pipe
halfway down his throat, that gineraIly settles the
matter, and this here man don't cut up rusty any
more but if this is passed over there will surely
be trouble aboard of that ship afore the v,yage is
out. This here chap will likely feel of the old
man next Probably he'll go aft on the weather
side to relieve the Wheel If the old man fetches
him one alongside of the head and knocks him
intothe lee scuppers, perlitely inquirn if he don't
knows as there's two sides TO that ship, it's likely
that'l put an end TO trouble, but if the old man
takes this, he'll have for to take more afore long
"Well, sir, aboard Of this here Russell Gloper
there we're this Jack Adams and two or three
more hard characters as had been to the mines,
and then had knocked about along shore In San
Francisco for n vear or mora oDd bod oot ,,o-,o
by that experience than they had ever been, and
they begin right away with the mate singin' at
him and in various ways feelin of him for to see
how far they could go, and as he seemed for to
take it easy they tells him next day when he
goes for to turn EN- to that they was shipped by
the run and that they wasn't goin' for to do
anythin' but work ship, steer ship, pump ship,
and heave the lead if required but as for putin
on chain gear, or doin' any general work, that
they wasn't goin' for to do. Well, here were
the chance; if the mate had a pitched in to them
it's likely they would have only had to whale one
or two and they would have giv'n in. But instead
of that he goes aft and reports to the old man,
and the old man he comes out and calls all hands
aft, and he tells EN- if they don't go to work he
won't pay EN- their money when they gifts across
and then some of the sea lawyers they tells him
they'd take the risk of that, that they'd only do
what they shipped to do by the run,' and he'd
have to pay'em. Well, sir, he lets 'em go forard,
and all that day and the next they done nOthin',
and of course the devil got full possession of EN-
Well, they talks over the matter by them
selves, aud some of 'em they begins to git skeary
about their $500 when the ship got in. and SO
they come to the conclusion as how they'd have
their money then and there, and SO they goes oft
n q body and tells the old man as how they
wanted their wages, and if he didn't Civ it to em
lot another stroke Of work would they do of any
Kind, neither to steer, nor pump, nor shorten SAIL
Tor nOthin, and they insinuates that if he don't
rive it to EN- peaceable they'll jist take it. Well
he old man by this time was jst frightened of |
EN-. He had the money aboard of the ship, and |
ome more for expenses in Calcutta, and he was |
Ifeard they'd take the whole and maybe kill him
IS well, so he tells 'em that be amt got money |
enough for to pay 'em the whole, but he will give
EN- half and due bill for the other half so they
inally agrees to that and he jist gives 'em $3.50
piece and a due bill for $3.50. payable when the
hip gets to Calcutta. AFTER this things went on
or a week, the men havin' pretty much charge of
he ship, sassin' the officers and doin' jist what
hey liked. Well, the ship had laid in San Fran
isco about six months, and then goin' down into
lot weather the riggin' got all stretched out, aud
eeded settin' up, and the mate he goes for'ard
nd tries for to git the men for to turn to and set
p the riggin' and they tells him they'll see him
- first, and bein' pretty lippy, at last he gifts
lad aud he does what he'd ought to have done
ing afore, he shows fight But you see, sir, he
ere too late and he had allowed the crew to git
he upper hand, and when once they do they can
enerally keepit Then this here mate ought for
} have been prepared for the fight and had his
scond mate ready to jump IN, and mayhap the
BOX and steward, and the old man handy with
is shooting-irons Instead of this, he went in
one, and, of course, the crew piled onto him and
sat him badly. Well, then, the old man comes
runnin' for'ard on top Of the house with his re-
Diver, and he fires the whole six shots over the
sads of the crew; he said afterwards he done it
purpose to Brighten EN- and he we're afeard he
ight hit the mate if he fred into the crowd, and :
he fired over their heads, and when they seen
s pistol were empty couple Of EN- jumped &