The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-07-09

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800 y ou. SIZE, Dnt could sail three
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asn crais c9nhne themselves to the
.as.s uaae, ana seldom make long
$500 $500 We Could not see why this
Ist u, sno0id Pc ~ far rpm me coast
uI'ess On our tra1i, and we soon felt
4,'s1.ea tnat ms business was with us.
u snoreened san e keep about mile
.cth y ~ ana nung right there all
No. - sssaS~ ~
HIS plan Is to creep up to us and Jay
~ ABOARD at night, sail he captain,
- We TALKED the matter over. While
cant make out over four or five men
onsnis decks am satisfied that he has
We should have been prepared IA
well ~ could when night came, but
late In the afternoon gale came up
from tho northwest driving MS out 70
sea, and we Knew he'd have all he
could do to Amapage his craft, even il
he dared keep up the pursuit. That hos
Edared awas soon settled Indeed, HI his.
Eefsft WIS 6saseawoftlfy srs ours, but the
natives of those islands are not looked
upon as efficient navigators We were
Idfiven away into thes darkness, the
seas pitching us like arcork, and when
we lost sight Of him astern we sheltered
our lights, broke point off the course
we were heading and felicitated our
selves that he would not be in sight
when morning came. What was our
establishment and disgust to find him
holding his old position as daylight
came. 1t did not seem as if he had
changed~by ten feet How he could
have kept twas 4 marvel To- MS, as the
night was SO thick from the time it
shut in that our night glass could mot
locate hi. The gale still held, and we
still drifted away into the Indian ocean,
and II ne meant Us harm we had
plenty q time to prepare TOR him
The second night came on bright and
clear, and we couid not have eyaded
INN by any trick at midnight, The
gale had blown itself out, and an hour
later we had sail on the schooner and
were heading up to the northwest under
a change of wind The dhow followed
our example as promptly as if signaled
Ito, but as there was Still heavy sea
running, we had no fearof her for sew
Veraf hours TO come When morning
came she was sticking like burr in
the same old spot, and her grim per-
sistency began 10 unnerye us. Some of
the men insisted that she was spirit
ship sailed by dead men, and that her
hanging IN our wake was an omen Of
disaster and death.
+. It was real felief txssssee her. about
mine o'clock in the forenoon, forge ahead
Ito windward of us. This move was
doubtless made to enable them to in
lspect us, We'could make out four or
i've men aboard of her, but no more,
| and She did not sit how enough in the
water to prove the presence of much.
cargo in her hold IA glass or two was
no doubt Ievelled in our direction, and
anxious to. make big showing of
strength. we kept the men lodging
about as briskly as possible. The
stranger must have concluded that we
had from fifteen to twenty men to de-
.fend our decks, and after running
parallel course of two or three hours he
dropped back into our wake and hung
there like a wolf in chase. So wore the
day away, and SO came the night, The
possibility that the dhdw was a peace
| ful trader like ourselves was no longer
an excaaes with us. We could not say,
on the other hand that She was a
pirate, bent on our capture, but that
was q reasonable view of it, and one
which took b. firm ailold of everybody's
mind. Had she come along up and
laid us aboard and had done with it,
each man would have felt relieved and
given her the best he could. 1t was
the waiting-4the mystery the specula-
ton az to her Intentions that took the
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