The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-11

the other ship, and as my crew were pre-
pared, these fifteen were down and gagged
almost before they could realize that any.
thing was out of the way. They were un
prepared, and nearly all of them were
unarmed. ...e
Ship ahoyp cried, through my trum.
pet, speaking as grumly as possible, to
initiate the voice of the fellow l had
knocked down.
Halo! came in reply.
"Send another boat. We can't bring
half. Send quickly, for the old thing 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 in
the gangway we fell upon them-not
wildly, but with regular system-and in
short time they were secure.
My course was now simple. / first saw
every man so firmly bound that he could
not move, and then l called twenty-four
men into the two boats, still alongside,
leaving only six men on board of my ship.
We pulled for the Dorset as
smartly as possible. When we came to
her 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 suspicion.
Beckett was the first on her deck, and l
followed next.
Got the money! asked coarse fel-
low.
'NIost of it is in the boats now, 1 re-
piled. Rig a whip, and We'll have it
aboard
The villain had not noticed my weap-
ons. recognized in him at once the boat
swain of the ship, man who had been
hired at Liverpool, and whose character
was not among the best. As he turned to
order the whip rugged, and | saw that my
men We're all on board, and drawing my
weapon, sprang upon him and cut him
down. At the first onset Oh board, my
own ship, I had been careful not to kill
any one, for fear that l might be mis-
taken; but | was not doubtful now, for
some of the prisoners had confessed the
crime. There were seventeen men aft on
board the ship for me to capture, and we
captured them without losing one of our
own men, and only killing four of them.
As soon as our prisoners were made safe
l made way to the cabin, and in one of
of the quarter galleries | found Capt.
Bumstead
In the hold of the Dorset we found ff-
teen of the crew in irons. Bumstead ex-
planned to me, in few words, what had
happened. Only five days before, the
boatswain, who had shown much insubor-
nation during the voyage, headed nine
teen of the crew who had joined him, and
having set the convicts free, they fell up
on the rest of the crew at night, and
made an easy victory. The first and Sec
ond mates they had killed, and the boat
swain would have killed all hands, but
the rest of the mutineers refused to have
it done. So it had been arranged that
the captain and his friends should be con-
fined, and set on shore at the first out-of-
the way island they could find.
1t was soon arranged that Bumstead
should proceed to Sidney with his fifteen
faithful men, feeling sure that the con-
victs could be so confined as to be safe.
So l saw his prisoners faithfully ironed
and then took the mutineers on board my
own ship, intending to carry them to Cal
cutta. There were fifteen in number, four
only having been killed in the conflict.
That night the Dorset tackled and stood
away for Australia, while we kept on up
the ocean. We arrived safely at Calcutta,
and before l left Capt. Bumstead arrived,
and the mutineers soon after paid for
their crime with their lives.