The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-10

side. Then Captain IlcComber or the
man-of-war came aboard in person. He
had met the merchant vessel at sea, and
ne was on his way TO Adelaide, but had
been obliged to make that port, and had
also been delayed by heavy weather n
full and circumstantial account OF the
mutiny had to be written out and at
tested by every passenger, survey held
TO ascertain damages TO ship and cargo,
and the legal proceedings were not i'm
ished for four and twenty hours.
Everything depended on Captain Nc
Comber's report TO the government au-
thorities and you can we'll believe that
at least Captain Clark and i were on
the ragged edge until he had finished
his business and was pleased 10 say that
we had done all that could be expected
under the circumstances Had the ships
doctor been living, he would certainly
have been held legally answerable for
the outbreak, but he was gone, and the
best thing to do was TO recapture such
prisoners as were alive and make our
way into port. Before making move
! against the mutineers we fixed up
/ wooden cages or partitions to hold the
/ convicts, and it was proposed TO give as
plenty of marines to guard them On cur
passage down the coast. Two men were
detailed from the Endeavor to act AZ
cooks ON board the Hindu, and after we
had got washed and scrubbed and had y
few regular meals it seemed like living
again. Captain McComber was so dlla"
tory about moving against the mutineers
that | spoke of it to Captain Clark, who
turned on me with wink and replied
"Never you mind, Ralph. II it be SO
that they build "a raft and all 80 or to-
gethcr and Get drowced, VIC chan'c
have no more bother with them, aud IL
will be good radiance to bad rubbi al
went aloft with the glass for the
first time III three days 10 take look as
them, but they were not raft baliaing.
There was plenty of timber ca the
island. and the sailors among them
could have made a stout raft without
trouble, bat to put TO sea- in such
weather on anything they could CON
struct meant disaster before they were
c clear of the land / saw "A few Of them
Iounging about the tents as cool and IN
{ concerned as if their necks were not en-
|
Q dered what would be the outcome OF the
affair.
a You would have thought that among
: so many men at least one OF them would
: have played the sneak on his compan
II ions and come down TO the shore and
J. made terms for himself by furnishing
II all the information he could. Not one
% of them appeared, however. If any one
J. was so minded, he was doubtless de-
n TERED by the threats of the others. They
y were watching one another, and hac
L any one attempted to slip away 1T
al would have Jared badly.
I'd think Captain McComber had al
is idea that the men would revolt agains
Johnson and bring him to US tied hano
Sc and foot thus throwing themselves OF
er the mercy of the court which would tr,
II them when we reached port, but moth
70 ing of the sort came to pass. They wer'
W sullen and defiant and it really seemed
N as if they might have some plan IN view
ID by which they hoped to escape the hunt
which they could reason out Tould b'
ia surely made for them.
j. l told you in one Of the opening chap
ar tiers that Mr.. Williams, Mary's father
ne was an old man. lie was over 60, AID
ed though hale and hearty at the beginning
III of the voyage and even up 20 the dat
ld of our FIRST trouble, the mental and phys
o. ical strain pulled him down very fast
as He held himself almost by will powe
I'd until the arrival of the man-of-war, an
I'd then there was Collapse. On the sec
us ond day we had the surgeon of the En-
he deavor aboard, but he had little encoul
'e- agement to offer. Just at night on tn
ne fourth day, without even his wife
'se daughter realizing how near his end
is was, he died in his bed, passing ava
SO quietly that they still thought h
slept.