The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-04-07
The Last of the Pirates. London Daily Newe.

A vessel which arrived from Homo lulu few days ago brought news of the death of man who Is described as having been "the deuce of fellow. wicked and big, with voice like thunder" Twenty five years ago, we are told, he was pirate. For come years before his death he had been a hermit.
 In the days of his wickedness and power he commanded & vessel called the s'Red Cloud" staunch, unusually fast and furnished with powerful guns. Periodically this carmine- red craft disappeared from the seas, and in her place would come another, all in somber black, and called the "BlacG Cloud" This piece of theatrical ef- feet, which cost nothing more than a 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 some- thing 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 British 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 he 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 remem- hers now, and he was supposed to belong 10 that nationality, although he spoke Spanish, English, French and German all with equal fluency.
 At last young English nobleman, loving adventure, and desirous of the reward, undertook to capture him. After cruising around in the Pacific for some time, he came late in the afternoon directly upon the "Red Cloud" The buccaneer spoke to the Englishman, 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 better give himself up at once. h an instant bright lights appeared all over the "Red Cloud" and her captain an- swered in good English; "I will sec you in - first" " Then cannon ball whistled through the air, but 1t was aimed too high, and passed above the vessel. "I will see you there," shouted back the Englishman, and n broadside from his guns, aimed low, sent the "Red Cloud" to the bottom of the sea. But the buccaneer escaped, and not long afterward he and two of his crew appeared in row-boat on the barren island of Molokini, which Is near the East Mani Islands of the Hawaiian group.
 It is a small, barren, rocky 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 Mor- rotinnee, the native name for the island. A sailor, who has been going to and fro from the Sandwich Islands for ten or twelve years, learned all he could about Morrotinnee, and says that he was much liked and feared by the natives. They carried to him all the delicacies to be found in the king dom, and enabled him to live life of ease and luxury. They said he was 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 sub- side. They would not allow white men to go near the island If they could help 1t, probably because they had been so commanded by him, and when he died they buried him near the place where he had lived, with much mourning over his departure.