Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-12-20
1sw ~ old Tar Cams Near Bsing Cooked
s5 FOR Dinner. BY III & SiT|

what her name Indicated We Lett this
port for Melbourne, weathered Cape Hort
as stfe from Dayy Jones locker a;
mountain o mile inland, and I'll was
smooth goin until we were a week 3 sail
into tho 5outi Pacific. Then a storm
struck us that sent us scuddin along un-
der bare poles like q Mother Carey s chick
en- afprc 4 cyclone. 81.
"I'yu run aiore many & gale, mates,
but that hurricane could give points to
sany OF EN-. Ono minute the jolly Rover
woulG pltiago out Of sight into;s big wave,
and tho ne2t she Wnul.! seem to be rerchad
like the ark on q Mount Arar;st Of water.
The gale b!aw nearly all night Without a
moments fausc All we could io was to
let her run. Suddenly she struck with Il
shock that made every timber creak.
was below, but rushed on deck, expect
In the ship @woull so down. An instant
later abig ,v:ye cano over the rail, washed
ME overlooked and swept mo on and on. !
kept my hesd above water i,artnftho time,
every InolncnG expectin to be dashed agin
the rocks Tony joy, was washed up
on u sandy beach. Luckily had strength
enough left to set up ard run inland 4 few
feet before thS next wave caught mo.
DAY was just breakin, and rs looked
around I saw Captain Stout, Second Mate
Bill Fry and Jim English crawlin out Of
q big wave and helped EN- up the beach.
'Lookl' yells Fry, shakin the water
from his eyes. There she goes!'
"As we glanced in the direction Of the
Jolly Rover she staggered like some gtgan-
tic anlmal with mortal wound and sank
beneath the waves. We watched the beach
for an hour, but not another man came
ashore. Every Jack Tar of 'em was
drowned Then We started inland to ex-
plore thu place. We didn't feel at all at
ease, mates, because Captain Stout figured
as how we must be on one of the smallest
Of the Solomon islands, which we knew
was inhabited by the toughest lot of can
nibals and head hunters III the Pacific.
"We realized that we were dead men IT
we were captured, and we kept a sharp
lookout for tine cannibals while we were
takin in the lay Of the land. We saw
many cocoanut and breadfruit trees, but
the island was apparently uninhabited. I
say apparently because about half an hour
after we landed dozen ugly, tattooed
savages leaped upon us from the bushes.
I knocked one Of 'om of Els legs before q
big warolub brought me to the grass, and
Stout, Fry and English had no better
luck. The savages were armed with clubs,
bows and arrows and bone pointed spears,
and their hair was thick and bushy and
was stuck full Of sticks for hairpins.
" We were all bound hand and foot, and
then the savages carried us to village
near by, where we were thrown into q hut
and guarded by two big black fellows
armed with clubs.
& Mates, says English, did you notice
what was hangin up agin the hut next to
us9' We all said, NO We'll, says he,
1T was the flesh of human bein's, and, as
Captain Stout feared, these fellers with
clubs Is cannjbals.'
. If they are our goose Is cooked, and
land SO are we,' the captain says with
hollow sort of laugh. Blast my eyes,
he says, If tomorrow amt Christmas day
tool Perhaps these blacks are goin to
have us help 'em make their turkey din
ner success We all shuddered, and Jack
Brown for one thought he had seen New
York for the last time. We lay In the hut
all day and the followin night. The saw
ages fed us very we'll, and while we en-
joyd the mess we couldn't help thinkin
that the black vi1ains were givin 1t to us
to make us more fat and eatable Next
mornin we heard great yellin and pound
in Of tamtams, and Fry, who could look
through a crack in the hut, said that big
party Of blacks had just returned from
somewhere In largo war canoes and had
with 'em dozen native prisoners.
1T looks says Fry, sas II our captors
have been maxim war on another tribe that
lives In this village. The prisoners they
have with 'eln evidently got away when
The village was attacked, but were chased
Inland and captured
"Fry's guess proved correct, and we soon
found that our oaptors did not live on the
island, but on another large one about five
miles away. Just after sunrise Christmas
day We were loaded Into big, Handsomely
,afved war canoes along with the dozen