The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1889-10-31

port and sell brig end cargo and dividel
the money. This was hooted at by the
more intelligent. and gave rise to
further ill-feeli ng.
The brig ha d light or contrary winds
and made Sow progress, and at the
end OF two W eeks the situation on board
could not have been much worse.
There wer nine of us, including the
cook, black man, and each man of
them Seemed determined. to do as he
please /. All messed in the cabin, and
all b ad access to the liquor, and as a
cons ,equence fights frequently occurred,
an there were times when the brig
2 .ad close shaves from being made
( wreck. On one occasion the men
charged the mate with playing the
false, and with planning to de ,tvar
them up to justice, but he on,ahov,
satisfied them that he was. holding IN
the course originally .greed upon, and
he was honest IN what he said. After
a run OF some twenty-five days he an
nounceo tna6 we were approaching the
oolonioh l stands, and the men at once
nlaoe re Ady to carry out their further
plans.
me hundred miles southwest of San
ChristoVab which is the easternmost
island of the group, is smaller group
called the Little Solomons. 1t was this
group we were approaching, and at that
date no white man had set foot upon
them. They were inhabited by fierce
and blood-thirsty natives, who combined
piracy, wrecking and fishing, and the
mate was for making for the other
group. He was overruled in this, and
when the brig had hauled in until the
land could be seen from the deck the
long boat was got over and loaded.
The men intended to play the part OF
castawaFs, and had story all fixed
up. They erased the name of the boat,
and took nothing aboard which would
oetray the identity of the brig, which
they meant to scuttle. At noon, after
working all the morning, they had
} loaded the boat with whatever suited
| them, divided up the sum of 81, 250
found on board, and were ready to
bore holes in the briggs bottom.
For two days had been i'll of fever
} and confined to my bunk. knew from
the conversation around me what was
going on, and at noon, when one of the
men brought me cup of Cruel, he
} said we should soon be Off Half an
hour later the brig became so quiet
that l grew afraid, and with great ef-
fort crawled on deck. The long boat
| was mile away, with every man in
J it. About four miles to the west, com
ing up under light breeze, was a
J British man-of-war. All sail had been
taken off the brig, so that she was sim.
ply drifting. 1t was the sight of the
man-of-war which had hurried our
crew off SO suddenly. In about an
hour she came up and after crew had
} been put aboard both the vessels stood
in and came to anchor in bay and
then boats were sent out for the mutt
, neers. Not even sight of them was
ever obtained. Ten years later it was
: known that that they made landing
J on one of the small islands, were Sc
} creted by the natives until the ship
: sailed, and every one of them was then
knocked on the head for the sake Of
the plunder.
l was taken back to Sydney and later
on to England. and as was the only
survivor my story was told and retold
, in the courts and nress until the .vbola
world had the details-N. Y. Sun.