The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-11-24
PIRAcr ON EAsTERN skAs.
Freebooters san Operating Extensively In
OrieutsI Waters.


Freebooter. san Operating Extensively In
Orientsi Waters.
from Chdwb,,F, Joprnd'
Probably every schoolboy who was ever
worth his salt. at some early period in his
teens. has sighed because the decadence ut
piracy as regular profession necessitated
selecting some more prosaic career In life.
Without in any way wishing to Encourage his
youthful aspirations TO emulate Blackboard or
Capt Kidd. or the other worthless OF the Span
ish Main: and, on the other hand. without
desiring to arouse the fears OF those Of his
elders who contem plate running over to
Calais, or up TO scarborough or even across
out that piracy Is still more or less regularly
pursued hs n business 10y thousands Of people
IL no longer decorated with dangling gibbets.
IL true. and the successor OF Tangler's terri
Ss nGS ss: On but bs SaS az.
genus flourish as It does in lar Eastern waters.
les MARTINEZ and other China. bound great
lines, oil expressly stipulate. In their charters
ssgeers. that they shall not be held resbon-
siele fer i9ss caused used, BY - frs. billage: or
sell speeding at elgltoCn or twenty knots an
hour. along familiar courses, Through waters
policed by the ,navles Of score OF ciyillzed
nationsl Yet the condition Ia not superfluous,
even in these end-of-the-century days For
instance. q very serious case OF PIRACY occur
Novem Der. 1870 when crowd OF Chinese pas
sengers shot the Capta In and another European
vessel. escaping in iunKs, which sailed up
when the victorious signal was hoisted. But
SUs4.s sm hs ss ana G Ss s sHp ss sS
headed Tor Hong kSns before dawn. III,
seelng, number of the piratical gang made
head shorter, The scene, with IT'S b9ckeropnd
distance. and an evil. ling beach. lined
With nincteen dis ,} ted haggard, unkenpt
snS o .s ssna wss des Se an
I'll half a dozen amateur photographers had
obtained a satisfactory focus the scene, re-
wretehe;s in particular, made an qnBlGssant
Of the attack on the Naoma. and as he was
brought to the village OF Aceldama. trussed
6s on IL ne pSeSa
English and Chinese alternately. II shall
come back In eighteen months and haunt you
ALL" he threatened. The allotted time is now
long past. but Max Aloi has not yet revisited
the pale glimpses OF the moon.
ing ground. Snd nowhere does he flourish
more. strange 10 say. than In the neighhor-
| such as Canton. Annoy, and Foochow: and this:
too, Notwithstanding tho existence OF fleet OF
small but swift gunboats specially detailed to
patrol the rivers. In order to suppress FREQ
hooters and smugglers.. !Comparatively the
other day a steam launch belonging to Q resi-
was seized by dozen Of these desperadoes un;
der the very nose Of the authorities. IA broad
Of the myriad craft which navigate the West
River. being ultimately LETT derelict. Even In
HHons kSng within sight Of
q regular colony. They refer TO their excur:
slons euphemlsticaly as going East" and
could be given II space permitted.
Although the Japanese are to great extent
Sy sn rarely E ounS 70
this method q livelihood. Bnt on the other
Although British gunDoats have DESTROYED
hundreds Of their Iunks. burnt scores OF vii
Hong Kong harbor time after time with pi-
rate dangling from every yard-arm. within
Notwithstanding this. and the Intermittent
Efforts at repress lon made by both the Chi:
Tonquin and AMMAN are still a terror to navi.
gators. owing to the hordes OF well armed and
desperate natives whose cnnoes are hiding in
rich carRoes. or kidnap wel-to.do merchants
far from myth. The corsairs OF the Malay
what novel is COM plete Without its chapter on
the beealmed brig. nssailed by feet OF praus
the crew previous to carving off the hero and
romance alone that the Malay pirate exists
to-day Is that OF a Chinaman whose arms have
been cut OIL above the elbow and who lives on
ago ago O the Hone-R"ng. or cargo DO boat. Of
whose crew ne was member. was At
tackled lust outside SSingap3pre barber as
he tried to save himself from drowning by
clutching the ruddcr. tho merciless marauders
Fortunately for him an English Tilot was
cruising about not very lar away n launch.
After picking up the men who were In the
water he arrested the six Malay pirates. and a
wseh he eHy
with special seat among the spectators in
II is hardly within the province OF an article
on piracy to refer TO the seizure OF vessels in
haE6or. such as that II tho Hok Canton at
latltudes mention must he made Of British
pirate, once he terror 81 na'ieators In Eastern
old age He had been a man OF hercuiesa
matism when the writer know him. One OF
sHi Says sarS IN fe for aradton ataute e
to- him exploits over half century ago to
son could really do justice. but no one knows
the detatls. lilo was not unhaturally retteent
ng ' on Sis Violent temper va" and drSwinE him
by artfully worded references to some alleged
outrage. mat anything could be got out Of him;
never hanged y woman in Siam!" and then he
would launch out intOR narrative OF what he
had done-how he had been a captive of the
Cochin China auth critics. carried about naked
In a BAN boo cage for nine months; how he had
been twice sentenced In Singapore TO imprls-
Onment Tor life, and released through the in
lusnes OF his brother. an officer high In the
East India Company's service. and-this with
q bOastful air. at which, nevertheless one
scarcely cared to smils-he had never been
anything but pirate!
only quite recently paragraph went the
round OF the papers. announcing terrible
tale Of piracy, Ii was reported from Penang
| that the Dutch vessel Haiah kOnEsee AtJeek
had been taken possession Of between Penang
and Achsen In July OF this year by her
Aeheenese passengers. who murdered the
Captain IAN EnglishInanL two lnglish mates.
AMI twenty-five membersOt the crew. The
chief mate WAS native OF A. erdeen. The
cargo was left intact ~ the pirates. whose
leader was the Acheenese supercargo, ssysn
OF his accom- lices went aboart at one OF the
ports OF call after tho customs officers nal
examined and left the steamer. III his irLeSu-
lArlty probably led to the disaster, when re-
suited In the pirates securing ,toO gullders
as booty Obtaining this. however they also
killed twenty-four Passengers ana wounded
twelve while eighteen others who escaped IN
d boat were dr0wned ny ia" oat capslLlng
owing to OyercroWding. Nineteen passengers
and thirty-twO Of the crew were unarmed.
The man AT the wheel was llT-t cut down WIN
q sword. then the chief mate was kllled ana