Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-12
A MILD ORIENTAL.

Lothringen steamer SaarbucE was coal ing at Alden and the weather was very hot indeed, Nurkeed, the big fat ZanZi- bar stoker who fed the second right furnace 30 feet down i'll the hold, got leave to go ashore. He departed q ''Seedee boy" as they call the stokers. He returned the full blooded sultan of Zanzibar-his royal highness Sayyid Bur 1gash-with q bottle in each hand. Then he sat on the fore hatch grating eating salt fish and onions and singing the songs of q far country. The food be- longed to Pmnbe, the serang, or head man of the laScar sailors. He had just cooked it for himself, turned to borrow some salt. and when he came back Nur- keed's dirty fingers were spading into the rice. \ seTang is a person of i'm portance, far above q stoker, though the stoker draws better pay. He sets the chorus of "Hya, hulla! Heeah, heh, " when the captains gig is pulled up to the davits. He hcaves the lead, too, and sometimes, when all the ship Is lazy, he puts OH his whitest muslin and q big red sash and plays with the passen- gers children on the quarter deck. - and he saves 1t for an orgie at Bombay, Calcutta or Pulu Penang.
 'Ho, you fat, black barrel, you re eating my f0O,lr' said Pambe ill the other linC,.a franca which begins where the L,v;;Ist tongue stops and runs from Port Sand eastward tili east is west and the s,aI'. :; ! rigs of the Kurile islands gossip with Hakodate janks
 son of EbliS. monkey face, dried shark'S liver, pig man, am the Sultan SayyiG Eur-ash and the commander of all this slip! Take away your garbage, " and NuTkccd thrust the empty pewter rice plate into Pambc's hand. Pambe beat it into basin over Nurkeed' s woolly head. Nurkced drew his sheath knife and stabbed Pambe i'll the leg. Pambe drew his sheath knife, but Nur- keed dropped down into the darkness of the hold and spat through the grating at Pambe, who was staining the fore deck with his blood.
 Only the big white moon saw these things, for the officers were looking after the coaling and the passengers were tossing i'll their close cabins. All right, said Pambe, and went forward to tie up his leg. we will settle the account later" He was q Malay, born ill India, married once ill Burma, where his wife had a cigar shop ou the Shwe Dagon road; once ill Singapore to q Chinese girl and once ir Madras to q Mehammedan woman who sold fowls. The English sailor cannot, owing to postal and telegraph facilities, marry hn tn 1n hn tive sailors can, being uninfiuenced by the barbarous inventions of the western savage. Pambe was d good husband when he happened to remember the ex- istence of wife. but he was also a very good Malay, and it Is not wise to offend q Malay, because he does not forget any thing Moreover, i'll Pambe's case blood had been drawn and food spoiled. Next morning Nurkeed rose with q blank mind. He was no longer sultan of Zan- zibar, but a very hot stokcr. So he went on deck and opened his jacket to the morning breeze till q sheath knife came like a flying fish and stuck into the woodwork of the cooks galley, half an inch from his right armpit. He ran down elbow before his time, trying to remem- Der what he could have said to the owner of the weapon. At noon, when all the ships lascars were feeding, Nur. keed advanced into their midst, and be- ing placid man with large regard for his own skin he opened negotiations, saying: Men of the ship, last night know that 1 behaved unseemly to some one or another of you. Who was that man, that I may meet him face to face and say that was drunk. '
 Pambe measured the distance tC Nurkeed's naked breast If he sprang at him, he might be ripped up, and [ blind blow at the chest sometimes only means gash on the breast bone. Rib: are difficult to thrust between unlcS. the subject is asleep. So he said nOth ing, nor did the other lRscars. Their faces immediately dropped all expres sion, as Is the custom of the oriental: when there is killing on the carpet ol any chance of trouble. Nurkeed looked long at the white eyeballs. He Wa. only an African and could not reaC characters. A big sigh, almost groan broke from him, and he went back tC the furnaces The lascars took up tn, conversation where he had interrupted it. They talked of the best methods oi cooking rice.
 Nurkeed suffered considerably during the run to Bombay from lack of fresf air. He only came on deck to breathe when all the world was about, and ever then a heavy block once dropped from derrick within q foot of his head and al apparently dashed grating on which h' set his foot began to turn with the inten tion of dropping him on the cased carg, 15 feet below, and one insupportabl, night the sheathknife dropped from tht foes le, and this time it drew blood So Nurkeed made complaint, and wher Eae Saarbruck reached Bombay fled anC buried himself among 800, 900 people and did not sign articles till the shil had been a month gone from the port Pambe waited, too, but his Bomba. wife grew clamorous, and he was forcet to sign in the Spicheren to Hongkong because he realized that all play and n
 work gives Jack a ragged shirt. In tn | foggy China sens he thought q grea deal of Nurkeed, and when Elsass-LO thringen steamers lay in port with tn Spicheren inquired after him and foun' he had gone to England via the cap on the GravelOtte. Pambe went to Eng land on the Worth. The Spicheren me her by the Nore Light Nurkeed wa going out with her to the Calicut coast
 
 Want to find a friend, my tra
 mouthed coal scuttle?" said a gentle man in the mercantile service. Moth
 ing easier. Wait at the Nyanza dock till he comes Every one comes to tn
 Nyanza docks. Wait, you poor heath
 en. .'' The gentleman spoke the truth | There are three great doors in the worl
 whereat, if you stand long enough, yo,
 shall meet any one you wish. The heal