The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-10-30
MANIroWoC. WIS, OCTOBER 80, 1879.

The Dorset hove to and lowered boat,
| which was soon alongside, full OF men.
The villains soon began to come over the
| side.
"Havn't settled much yet one OF
| them remarked, as he noticed how We
stood.
"We've kept the pumps going well, )"
! said.
"Where's your gold? Let's have that
first"
This way said / moving to the poop.
When half way there l motioned foi
the men to stop pumping. Z E
| "Down!'' / uttered, and as [ spoke, l
| gave the man nearest me a blow across
| the head that knocked him down. Only
fifteen men had come from the other
ship, and as my crew were prepared,
these fifteen were down and gagged,
almost before they could realize that
anything was out of the way. They
were unprepared, and nearly all of them
unarmed.
"Ship ahoy r. I cried through my
trumpet, speaking as grumly as possible,
to initiate the voice of the fellow 1 had
knocked down.
"Hallo - came in reply.
''Send another boat. We cart bring
half. Send quickly. for the old boat is
sinking"
The Dorset soon lowered one of her
quarter boats, and came alongside with
ten men in it. They came hurrying over
the side, and as soon as they were all III
the gangway we fell upon them-noi
wildly, but with regular system-and in
a short time they were secure.
My course was now simple. 1 first
saw every man SO firmly bound that he
could not move, and then called TWEEN
| ty-four men into the two boats, still
alongside, leaving only six men on board
my ship. We pulled for the Dorset as
smartly as possible. When we came to
the gangway saw several heads peeping
over the rail, but we had taken the pre-
caution to put on the Scotch caps of the
convicts, and they had no suspicious.
Beckett was the first on her deck, and
followed next.
SCOT the money!" asked coarse fell
low.
"Most of it is in the boats now," re.
piled 1. "Rig whip and We'll have il
aboard"
The villain had noticed my weapons.
I recognized in him the boatswain of the
ship, a man who had been hired at Liv.
erpool, and whose character was not ol
the best. AS he turned to order the
ship rigged, and I saw that my men
| were all on board, drawing my weapon,
l sprang upon him and cut him down.
At the first onset on board my own ship,
| I had been careful not to kill anyone, tor
| fear [ should make mistake; but I was
not doubtful, now, for some of the pris'
oners had confessed the crime. There
were seventeen men aft on board the
ship for me to capture, and we captured
them without losing one man, and only
killing four of them. AS soon as our
prisoners were safe, I made my way to
the cabin, and in one of the quarter.
galleries, found Capt. Bumstead.
| In the hold of the Dorset, we found
fifteen men in irons. Bumstead explain
to me in few words, what had happen.
ed. Only five days before, the boat.
swain, who had shown considerable
insubordination during the voyage
headed nineteen of the crew who had
joined him. and, having set the convicts
free, they fell upon the rest of the crew
at night, and made an easy victory. The
first and second mates they had killed,
and the boatswain would have killed al
hands, but the rest of the mutineers
would 1ot have it done. So it had beer
arranged that the captain and his friends
should be confined, and set on shore or
the first out of the way island they could
find.
1t was soon arranged that Bumstead
should proceed to Sidney with his fifteer
faithful men, feeling sure that the con
victs could be so confined as to be safe
So saw his prisoners faithfully ironed,
and then took the mutineers safely on
board my own ship, intending to carr,
them to Calcutta. There were fifteen il
number, four only having been killed il
the conflict.
That night the Dorset tackled ant
stood away for Australia, while we KEEP
on up the ocean. We arrived safely a
Calcutta, and before left, Capt. Bum
stead arrived, and the mutineers sool
after paid for their crime with thei
lives.
AN IRON WAR SHIRT. An iron shir
was recently left at the Office of the Alex
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