Milford chronicle., 1896-03-27
MILFORD. DEL, FRIDAY, MARCH u, 1896
eoLo VS. UsgLgss 10 HIM.
Remarkable Experience of an Amateu
Pirate on the Coast Of China.

Remarkable Experience of an Amateur
Pirate on the Coast of China.
The Londan Standard has been publish
ing q series of articles on "Tho Curiositio.
of Impeounlosity. These have moved
correspondents of that Taper 20 send it an
experience Of his own, which he thinks Is
"a curiosity Of opulenco." Flo writes:
st has surely fallen TO the lot of few
men to come near starving to daath in a
land u plenty, with ovJr 5000 in gold in
their pockea may, b. reason Of that very
fact had shipped at l.ansoon on board
a steamer bound for Shanghai When l
Signed, sho was flying .larline's Cog at the
main, but believe she carried the ensign
OF every nation and Luil tho house flags Of
the world in Ter signal locker. Anopium
smuggler vas prepared to Gnd her, but
| that her chief business on tho waters was
/ piracy OF the vilast sort, and, unredeemed
I by CLINT Of romance came upon me GER
/ tainly as revelation.
'Wo attacked no ships, so far as 1 know,
but, handled with marvellous skill and
knowledge of tho intricate coast naviga-
ton, she would run in after nightfall
among rocks and banks where one would
expect a sampan to take the bottom, while
shrieks flames, tho report of firearms and
clash of steel would testify TO tho descent
Of nay dclectabl0 ghipmages upon one or
another Of tho numerous fishing villages
which fringe the shores Of the China seas.
After four months duress l struck a
blow for liberty. My little hoard OF NOR
phia- jealousy guarded toward this even
tueltty -dgepcned tho narcutism in which
tho whole crow lay stepped after CHASTITY
dohauch as wa rOce ut anchor, and fOrsak
ing all my GOODS and ohattels, and soizing
IN lieu SUCH moneys as l could find,
dropped into the dinghy and pulled off,
shoeless, haless, arraycd only in shirt,
trousers ana belt containing the above
mentioned sum (Close OH s2O0), hoping to
reach q German gunboat which had been
sighted in the ofiing earlier in the day.
- But t4lc night WAS thick, and In less
than an hour ! found myself close in
shore Tho question OF what TO do was
speedily settled by tho boat oapsizing
among tho breakers, leaving me no alter /
native but to land. Day was breaking, /
and l lay till next morning in tomb cut I
above tho road in tho hillside and for the /
next three weeks 1 nearly persisted for lack I
of nOurishment not daring to exhibit /
goldpiece, for had no weapon and would .
certainly have been robbed and murdered. |
NhEAA new EAToAf tAtbNh away eAA
but enc piece, but there was no single .
small coin in tho sum total, and the result
would have been tho Same. Though q
good wakes ut that aga q had made a rec
ord for 20 miles not long before and could
cover 300 week without blister), &C
no moro than 200 miles in %
days, travelling only by night and hiding
in tombs or bitches all day, often rushing
back to my last deserted lair in terror of
the advancing sun when no suitable place
Of o0ncealment hove in view,
with paddy and plantains snatohed
prccari0usly hero and there 1 managed to
lxisu during those awful weeks Chan
Chan is not regarded as terrestrial para
ise hy those Europeans whom fate malign
has compelled to sujourn there, bat Wal
laila was never hailed with greater ecstasy
~ the world worn pilgrim than was that
celestial sink by myself. Toward the
day the smell Of meat cooking
absolutely overCaIne me one morning, and
1t the peril Of my life emerged into the
light Of day and laid ielonious hands and
ceth on what believe was pnrb Of a baked
aJ in tho temporary absence of the legiti-
nate landlord thereof"