Connecticut western news., 1880-06-02

and transferring from the brig to the ship all the big guns, and whatever else they required They were strong handed, and by sunrise had made all the necessary changes.
 With morning, the wind sprang up, and we saw our fine old ship Atlantic put to sea, bound for the Portuguese trading station of Quilimane, on the river of that name, which is one of the branches by which the Zambezi reaches Mozambique Channel, and was therefore not far from us.
 In the meantime, we had kept the dis abled brig from sinking, by continually working at the pumps; ndpowr>as the oil was all on deck, we tumD.ed it over board and warped it ashore. Then we hauled the brig also aground and aban- doned her, taking up our quarters on the land. ea
 We knew that the whale-ship, which I have spoken of as having lost her top masts, was in the mouth. of the Quili- mane, repairing damages; andtherefore, ] leaving a strong force to protect the oil against the native Africans-who might else knock in the heads of the casks for the value of the iron hoops-the captain and his boats crew, of whom Twas one, made sail in the only whale-boat which the pirates had left us, to look up this Yankee neighbor.
 The station of Quilimane is twelve miles up the river; and there the slave trade is carried on openly, under the sanction of the Portuguese authorities.
 But we found the ship much low down, and in couple of days returned in her to the ZambeI. She was called the Lion.
 But 8 short time was occupied in talk ing on board our oil, and the Lion car ried all hands down to Port Natal.
 One of the first sights which attracted our attention in the harbor of this En- glish settlement was the bright flag at the spanker-peak of the United States sloop- of-war St. Mary's, which was just ready to sail for home.
 Our oil was put on board merchant brig, bound for Salem, and we embarked in the St. Mary's, the captain of which intended to make only one port-that of Rio Janeiro-on his passage to Boston.
 We hadsa remarkable good run down to the Cape of Good Hope, and up the Atlantic side of it, got into the southeast trade-wind, and stood for the coast of Brazil, with all our light kites doing full duty.
 Not far from Rio Janeiro, we raised 8 ship right a-beam, having nearly passed her unawares As in this latitude the vessels of war were always looking for slavers bound to Brazil, the St. Mary's altered her course and gave chase The course of the stranger was also changed, and hence we felt positive as to hes char acter. ...
 She sailed we'll, but the sloop-of-war gained upon her. The Brazilian coast was near, and it seemed at first as if she would reach it before we could come up with her, and thus find protection in some neutral bay. .-a, .-
 But hope grew brighter, as weesaw how the St. Mary's went dashing along, and how the chase showed plainer and plainer.
 At first we saw only her topgallant sails, then her topsails, nexther courses, and finally her hull.
 Still, the difference in the sailing of the two vessels was not very great We had sighted the chase before sunrise if teen miles off, and, as nearly, as wecould judge, she made about thirteen knots an hour, while we made fourteen. It would therefore take fifteen hours from the start to overhaul her. As it was five in the morning when the chase began, it would probably end about eight in the evening.
 One of our advantages lay in the fact that the supposed slayer could not make directly toward the coast without giving us chance partially to head her off by an oblique course.
 Therefore, her captain from the first adopted the wiser plan of giving us a stern-chase, heading exactly away from us, though by this means he neared the land more slowly.
 At last Captain Wilder, looking through his glass, turned suddenly toward the rest of us, and in great excitement ex- claimed:
 "That's the Atlantic p
 We came up with her at eight o'clock, and fired gun which brought her to. She had on board three hundred and seventy negroes, and had made rapid passage from Quilimane.
 The poor blacks were brought to the United States and afterward sent to Lii beria. The "borrowed ship was re. turned to it's owners, and in due time the hands of the old Atlantic received the meagre pittance due to each of them for the small amount of oil taken on hel brief cruise.
 HE FIRST WoMAN.-Highland Mining