Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-27
IMPRISONED IN CUBA.
P.RTI.
rHE MYSTERIOUS PACKAGE.


There is not class of men in the world
who possess such horror of police and
prisons, and regard with such veneration and
respect the law and its oftcntines mys-
FERROUS workings as those who GO down TO
the sea in ships and although they often
find themselves ''fouledr in its meshes, it is
generally due To accident, or the machina-
tions NJ some land shark or perhaps, in
dealing with unprincipled people along
Shore the sailor rnsy b. unwittingiy caught
in the net spread TO cyisnare him
Although tire mariner may be verirable
Giant when upon the broad, tFarsiess OCEAN,
he is a mere child il placed among men who
have received their training upon terra
Gr,na: and the simplicity of the sailor is
often the cause Of his being arraigned before
the bar Of justice.
II Is very s-id0m that one will find sen
man deliberately committing n deed which
will Law hiFnself liable TO arrest. and wh"l
such ease il met with il will almost invari
ably be found that the act was done TO assist
a friend or shield a comrade from the coDse-
opieuc> Of -oale MI decd
i few years ago shortly after the capture
Of Capt Frye and crew OF the American
steamer Firginius, and.the sHfssequent execu
ton Of part Of the same by the Cuban
authorities, | be+.snic entaI%led with the
Spanish soldiers Of the beautiful tropic isle
OF Cuba. aud my acquaintance with them
came very near putting an end to my voyage
Of iifc
was master Of trim little bark sailing
from Boston and engaged in the West India
trade.
One evening while the vessel was lying at
a wharf in the latter port, whore she was re-
ceiving cargo for Matanzas, | was sitting
upon the quarter rail enjoying an after sup
per smoke when / Observed young man OF
perhaps - years of age coming down the
dock very leis,lrely.
As ne got abreast of where was seated be
stopped and with very affable smile bade
me good evening" and then inquired il we
were not bound to the West Indies. Assur-
INK him that we were, he stepped aboard re-
marking that be belonged in Cuba and was
looking for n vessel in which to take passage.
rather liked the appearance of the
stranger, and seeing n chance TO make few
dollars for my owners by taking passenger,
as we had plenty of room in the cabin, l
offered TO take him and we soon agreed upon
terms, the stranger promising to give me
fifty dollars in the morning for his passage
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quite early.
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utmost politeness bid me very Good morn
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with us | invited him below and showed him
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