Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1897-02-04
TAURMONT, Frederick County, Maryland Thursday February T. 1897

feeling assured that 1t prefaced a re-
quest Of some sort.
"Well, by your kind leave, we want
share Of the provisions, as we shall
get tired of fruit after awhile. We also
want two or three old sails for tents,
an AK or two matches and some cook
ing utensils. Well have to have boat
to set the things and our wounded men
ashore, but We'll return her."
The captain was so glad to have them
out of the ship, even if they were to re-
main in sight on land, that he readily
granted the request. -Four Of them were
permitted to lower one of tho quarter
boats, and for the next three hours she
was used to convey the rascals and their
dunnage across the strip of water. They
were allowed to help themselves with
liberal hand, but it WAS stuff which was
of no account to US without our prison
ers.
It.was after O'Clock in the afternoon
before the last man departed, and then
the boat was given push from the
beach and sent back to US. Among the
gang were eight wounded men, their
injuries having been inflicted when the
women fired through the lcopholes
Perhaps they had extracted some of the
left to cause them to curse and groan rs
they limped about the decks. The bur-
ricade was almost disposed Of in loading
tho boat, and half an hour after the
last trip we had clear deck, and the
women and children were out for al
airing. The passengers were for having
the captain trip the anchor and sail at
once, but he gathered them around him
and said:
"Hero are but three sailors of us. Not
one Of you men can go aloft or take q
trick at the wheel. don't say that we
might not navigate the bark down to
Adelaide; but, with the season just
changing and bad weather coming Oh,
we'd be taking strong risks. The Eng
lishman who spoke us thoroughly un-
derstood our peril and can be depended
on to report US. If we hang right here
for a fortnight, Well see man of-war
in tho of1ing. Wo can't recapture the
convicts, but we can remain here as
guard and help hunt 'em down later on.
Besides, ii we were to sail away, who
can tell but that some craft may be
driven here by stress Of weather or
come in answer to a signal, and she'd
certainly fall into tho hands of tho
gang? We have clear ship now and
can afford to wait"
The women murmured somewhat,
but the men cheerfully acquicsced i'll
the conclusion, and when things were
once more shipshape aboard no one
could have suspected what we had pass
ed through Not one Of the mutinecrs
had addressed word to Us or given
anybody black look during the trans
fer, and as fast as they landed on the
beach they disappeared into the thick
forest, presumably to look for site Oh
which 10 make camp. The passengers
thought we had done with them for
good, but the rest of us had different
feeling. As night was coming on Cap
tain Clark came to me on the bows OF
the bark, where was overhauling things
a bit, and said:
"Ralph, | don't like the way John.
son talked, nor don't like the soft,
silky way the mutineers acted as they
went ashore. The change was too great
and too sudden not to have some trick
back of it. What do you think"'
"Well, sir, agree with you as to
there being something back of it. Those
fellows have not given up the fight yet.
You don't hear them shouting and
laughing ashore, and if one of us was
to creep through the woods I'm think