The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-21
DEATH OF A PIRATE KING.
He Was the Deuce of a Fellow, Wicked and
Big, With "A Voice Like Thunder.

SAN FRANCISCO, February IA vessel
just in from. Honolulu brings news, of
the death of man whose his
tory is as thrilling as that of any
pirate king of yellow-covered literature.
Twenty-Five years ago he was pirate king as
brave and as wicked as pirate kings always
are. Since then he has been hermit.
In the days of his wickedness and power he
commanded vessel called the Red Cloud,
staunch, unusually fast, and furnished with
craft disappeared from the sea, and III her
place would come another, all in sombre black
and named the Black Cloud. This piece of
theatrical OBJECT, which cost nothing more than
little paint, had its expected influence upon
the superstitious minds of the sailors who
were sometimes sent in pursuit of the vessel
Most OF them fully believed that there was
something uncanny about the craft, and that
her captain had supernatural help. In those
days he was the terror of the
South Pacific seas, and the Brit.
ish government set big price upon
his head. Hundreds of attempts were made
to capture him by fair fight and by traps, and
by every means that could be devised. But
he eluded all the traps, came out victorious in
all the fights, and in every case sailed away
with the traditional, scornful laugh of the
pirate king. He had a Spanish name which
nobody remembers now, ana he was supposed
to belong to that nationality, although he
spoke Spanish, English, French and German
all with equal tiuency. AT last a young Eng
lish nobleman, loving adventure and DESTROYS
of the reward, undertook TO capture him.
After cruising around in the Pacific for some
time he came, late one afternoon, di-
rectly upon the Red Cloud. The buc-
cancer spoke the Englslman, asking
where she was bound and what
she had on board The reply was that they
were looking for the pirate, that they knew
they were talking to him, and that he had bet
ter give himself up at once. In an instant
bright lights appeared all over the Red Cloud,
and her captain answered in good English, 81
will see you in HI first!" Then a cannon
ball whiZzed through the air, but it was aimed
too high, and passed above the vessel. 81 will
see you there" shouted back the Englishman,
and broadside from his guns, aimed low,
sent the Red Cloud to the bottom of the sea.
but the buccaneer escaped, and not long af-
terward he and two of his crew appeared in
rowboat on the barren island of Molokini
which is near the Fat Maui islands of the
Hawaiian group. 1t is a small, barren, Yocl1y
place. uninhabited. There his two compan-
ions even left him. and there he lived alone for
twenty-five years Since his landing there he
was called only Morrotinnee, the native name
for the island. A sailor, who has been going to
and fro from the Sandwich Islandssfor ten or
twelve years, learned all he could about Nor
rotnnee, and says that he was much liked and
feared by the natives. They carried to him
all the delicaces to be found in the kingdom,
and enabled him to live life of ease and lux
ury. They said he was Il tall man, big and
commanding with voice like thunder-so
powerful that they firmly believed he could
cause the wind to rise or the waters to subside.
They would not allow white men to 90 near
the island if they could help it, probably be-
cause they had been so commanded by him,
and when he died they buried him near the
place where he had lived, with much mourn
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