The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-25
GOOD STORIES OF THE PRESENT DAP.

Cleaning ont = Colony or Borneo Pirates.
From Singapore. situated at the extreme end
Of tho Malay peninsula. tho China Sea to the
north for four hundred miles 10 studded with
islands. They number great and small
good hundred. Some are not more than an
ecre in extent and some are fifteen miles long.
A portion OF these Islands are occupied By
Mnlays, and the remainder by Dyaks, The
frst come from the peninsula, and the second
from Borneo. There ls but little difference be-
tween the two races, but what there is favors
the Dyak. He is cleaner In his habits and has
moro mercy on his captive
In to tho year 1850 these islands In tho
China Sea were tho rendezvous Of pirates.
The follows made no secret OF their trade. but
practised It openly and boldly whenever oppor-
tunity offered. It was estimated by Lieut..
Cairn OF the English navy that they numbered
lhOoO able. bodied men. With the women and
ohildren and slaves the number could not have
been loss than 10000. once saw list Of the
sbips captured and destroyed by these pirates
between the years 1888 and 1850, ana the num-
her was over a hundred. AS O rule everybod
was put to death, but II exception was
made the captive was doomed to labor as
slave. In 1850 the English, with some assist
anco from other nations, opened a crusade on
the pirates and cleared the islands Those
who got away fed to the northern end OF ,Bor-
n0O anu 10 THO lSanuS On lu6 uOEtll' uuu iOE
seven or eight years remained very quiet.
Then. under the leadership Of Dyak called
Rker, they mude three or four captures In one
year. England had her hands pretty full at
tho time. and the single man-of-war sent out
TO break up the new colony accomplished moth
ing. There was at this time some internn-
tional dispute about the islands. and John Bull
fought shy OF complicatinG matters by opening
awar on people who even hoasted that they
were pirates
In this emergency the foreign traders on the
peninsula. assisted by others in Slam and
along tho China coast. bought the brig Campo
Of her Scotch owners and quietly fitted her out
as man .of-war. She was large. stout, and
handsome craft. and she was QUILTED at Pa
hang. She was armed with nine guns on q
side. with Long Tom on n swivel. and
when she left Pabang she had 1870 mon aboard.
This was crowdinG her somewhat. but us she
was clean new ship and well provisioned
there was no growing Her crew had been
picked up at half q dozen different points, and
we're all sailors and white men. l am quite
sure that the Captain and Lerten-
ant and fourteen English sailors ABOARD
were quietly drafted from H. NJ. s. Kill
dare, but the others were runaway sailors
from various American, French. German, and
Russian ships. When the brig went out OF Pa
hang she was match for anything OF her size
ever fioated and no crew were ever under bet
tor discipline. She carried three extra boats.
and as l had helped to stow her ammunition.
knew that she had q great plenty.
There we're men on the peninsula who were
in communication with tho pirates, and to be-
foG them we ran off UP the Gulf OF Siam until
we sighted Cape Campodia Then We headed
to the northeast. and Mt once began the work
OF Disgusting the brig. An old set OF sails
were bent on. the paint pots brought out, and
n VII " m N
barge or trader; It was no use to hunt
pirates with n-ot-war They we're alto
Rether too sharp to be caught under her guns.
We cruised up and down the China Sea Tor
got the tail end Of hurricane which we rode
along to the north with foretopmasts down and
sails torn and rent, 4 sailor locking at US
that We had pulled through BY the skin Of our
teeth. dead calm usually follows storm in
or Ss ss Island Of the
group We were not surprised to find ourselves
Shd WboS s x % Wsv Of the
OF affairs at sunrise on very sultry morning.
in forty feet Of water. The Dyaks not only had
as good marine glasses as any shin carried. but
trees. and could see as far out oyer the ocean
Knew q that they that
had no doubt We should soon be an object OF
scrutiny. For this reason all but dozen men
as ssors Fbsre Wa
man or two in the rigging, apparently engaged
coast. and at about high noon it was reported
that sampan was approaching. The craft is
this there s bit Vi He was
doubtless coming as scout to see how matters
mile OF us and then halted and took a long
survey Our ports we're up yards asksw; iot
not take him long to determine that we
were merchantmen In distress. To further
inviting him to come on board. iIo came no
nearer. although he stood up and waved his
shore and bring US help. Back he went pad
ding with oil his might. and then we felt quite
eTeS were Called tS omarte o sRo She'll and
grape passed up, and when cut!asses, and pis-
tolls had been served out We were ready
stern was toward the island We, 1nletiy tailed
on TO, tho spring which had been set and
manTuvrn might have aroused the suspicious
OF the D,aks had We not taken SC. much pains
argued that 1t was for the purpose OF assisting
us in our repairs. At any rate. At about
their fest coming r'' out The sea was smooth
and CLASSY: and We could SEQ SEQ th ne
Seo Tnsrs we're ss vs Of tho na afy craft ss
called prahns. These arc clumsy looking
and put sa naft n Of hast as
or sails. but were propelled by roWers Ench
had small iron cannon mounted on the
bows, and tho rowing and steering, was done
from behind screen or partition. which
crossed tho boat about third OF Its length
from the bow. As they came nearer we could
count about twenty men In front OF each
screen. some had musketS and all had the
sWord-ltko weapon called II kris.
While our guns were loaded ana the ports
ready TO be dropped tho most of our crew
wero out OF sight behind the bulwarks. The
prahns came on IN line until about half mile
away. and then they formed In line tho other
way. That Is. each was now bow ON to us.
with al interval of not more than ten feet be-
would play the hypocrite bit and try and got
aboard Of US without any fighting or loss OF
life but that isn't Dyak nature. They didn't
mean to spare soul Of us, and they probably
hoped for u Little shindy to make matters more
given signal each one OF their howitIers sent a
Yell. and the Ave ,prahns dashed forward
TO board US. We let them, come within
quarter OF mile before We dropped the ports
and run out nine guns loaded with short-fuss
shell and grape. Bang" bang" bang"