Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-02-03
QUELLING A l[UTINY,

QUELLING A MUTINY
However some shippers gifts anywher
at all, " said the old sailor, lis mystery t,
me- for many of 'em don't know no NOR,
about navigation than does about preach
in, which amt much Talk about 'swee,
little cherubs a-sittin up aloft,' lookin on,
for SIGH as these, think they must have
full grown angels to act as supercargoes
and navigatin ones at that.
II know'd q skipper once az we werf
a-goin from New York to Califorpy. and A
chap what know'd him saws to him. .Why
you don't know how to navigate No,
says be, i don't, but guess iii larn afore
| gets there don't know now whether
ne did or not, but he got there anyway.
He'd been captain of coastin schooner run.
min down to the capes of Virginny, and put
him anywheres onto the coast of America
with a lead line into his hand, and he'd tell
you where he were fast enough, but as for
doin anythin with the sun, moon or stars,
his eddication in that respect had been neg.
lected.
He took out one of these here jint stock
affairs what went out to Californy in 1S4S
and 1S40 in the first of the gold fever. Ev-
erybody were crazy to 60, and lot of chaps,
hundred or SO, would club together, each
putin in SO much, and they would buy the
vessel out and put their own traps aboard
OF her and start. They generally Civ the
skipper share Of the consarn for his sery.
ices, and maybe the mate got the same.
Well, of course skipper that were good
for anythin In them days wouldn't go on nj
SIGH lay as that, and in consequence they
had to pick up anythin they could git. Gen.
orally, however, the shippers was smart
enough for to git possession Of the vessel
after arrival-leastwise this here one Pm
tellin on you did anyway.
III he didn't know anythin about nayi.
gatin, he were good sailorman, and that
these here greenhorns what had lived all
their lives ON shore found out, When tbey
got down into the neighborhood Of Rio, they
holds meetin and passes resolutions for to
go In there, and they appoints committed
for to present these resolutions to the skip.
per. He tells 'em that he wern't short Of
anythin, and that he wern't a-goin in. Then
they tells him as how he were only their
saryant, that they were the owners, and
that he must go in. Then he tells 'em that
they were only passengers, and that hid
were the CAPTAIN Of Chat there shin and
that II they were mutinous he'd nut 'em ia
irons.
Then they gifts out their shootin IRONS
they all carried revolvers in chem davs-
and they tells him for to try it on. Then
he turns and calls all hands, and takes tho
stunsails off of her, clews up and furls tho
royals and to'eallan sails. close reefs ton.
sails, furls the courses puts the helm !.
spoke or two down and sends ali handa l,e.
low, tellin 'em that the passanoers had
taken possession of the vessel bv force and
that hayin made her safe he had conclnd.
ed, as they outnumbered the crew so large.
" and were 30 well armed for In snrren
der rather than to have bloodshed
sWell. the sailors seen the iole rich.
away. They know'd that thew and the off,,
GERS could have whaled every one of thass
chaps II thew had a, wanted "a Int ther
know'd that this here plan Of the did MANI
would bring ,em TO. and thew likad that
better. Well. the old man tells these chr ~
that. havin mutinied onto the h;uh seas
and bein too strong for him with his forco
be had concluded for to surrender. and him
and his officers were nrisoners. and that
could take the shin into Rio or snvwbares
en-. !" 1''''
"As the only charta or ,natrprents ~,
board WAS IN the possession Of the s.nts; IN
anal a. there wasn't 4 sonl Of ,em ]. Ipow,1
where thew was. thew would have had n;os
time findin Rio or anvwherea slsa ''' : nav
"Well. thew tried flnster;n Of frat h,,.
the skinper and his mates had their rsvo ~.
ers snd thew inst told these chans ', thot
whils thew would NOT haoin The A1bt th n"s
were aaoin for to defend tb S us . .nx
as there hannenad ~ he ons ~ TO- ~ a.,.
among this lot thev told tbs rsst az So,s
n wonidn,t do. that notwi t mn. M.
hain owners thev ,,asn;t nothtn III. 49,
than nassenpers ana that Tho 10 ,va,,iS
consider them a. mntineers and n "
else n thev used any force "
$50. arfer q ho,ra tbev hold. .ro.h..
,neetin and nassaa come noss ., rsso,rt; I"
Now thew had DIV, mn tia idao ~ sci,, =,
Rio and orderin the asntsin Sor - n 49, ~
an an bis v,va0e and tbsy snncints% a ps"
for to let the cld m.n sro,s
tbis He tells the commit th I IL e, ,SiIi
"a charge aein only on conditions thss
they shall all sign . paper acknowledged