Semi=weekly graphic., 1897-11-13
THE DEADLY GREESE.
IF WAS IN THE HAND OF THE MALAY
 SAILOR WHO RAN AMUcK.

4 Terrible Scene Described by Sailor
 Who Was an Eyewitness.
 ..In four voyages to the East Indies, two of them to Malay ports, I have seen but one instance of that native perform ance called running amuck. Fortunate Iy I saw it from a position of perfect safely, but the sight was enough to make me steer clear of all Malays after ward and any vessel that has them on board, , said Erdix Deering, who as boy and man sailed many seas ill deep water ships. 1t was in 1865, when ] was boy, on my first voyage, on the ship Harry Warren, which sailed from Boston to India with a cargo of ice. We wore lying at anchor ill the roads off Madras, unloading our middle deck cargo into lighters, and 100 vessels of all nations were anchored about us, dis charging or taking on board their car goes. The ship nearest us, about two cable lengths away, was tho British ship Mahratta, which had come from Singapore in ballast with 6 crew of Malay lascars It was one day at noon that, as our crew lay round under the awning i'll the forecastle waiting for the order to turn to, one of the sailors sit. ting on the capstan sung out:
 $ Hi, mates, just look over to the lime juicerl They're having some kind of q rumpus there See 'em going. be- lieve it's one of those Malays running amuck.
 We all jumped to our feet and looked at the Mahratta, and some of us ran up into the rigging to get better view. From the topsail yard 1 could sec all that was going oa on the deck of the British ship Amidships q lascar, naked to.the waist was slashing and stabbing at European officer who had tried to grapple with him, while everybody else in sight on the ship was running fore or aft or taking to the rigging. On the quarter deck tA6 captain was hurrying two ladies down the companionway into the cabin, supporting i'll his arms one of them who had fainted. As the officer fell Iifeless to the deck the Malay bounded past him, following three sail ors who had run aft along the port gangway upon the poop As he ran he swung before him long, slender knife, its crooked blade curving in and out like the writhings of q snake. He over took the rearmost man on tho poop and cut and stabbed him. as he had done with the officer, until tho man fell Meantime the second man leaped over i board, preferring to take his chances with the sharks and water serpents to l remaining on board, and the third man ran across the quarter deell and up into the mizZcn I; ring like q cat The man in the watcf sEam for our ship and some natiyes Hl lighter picked him up ahead of the sharks
 e Tho Malay leftthe man he had killed and looked around as if for fresh vic tims, but ho himself was the only Hv- ing person in view on tho decks He ran fore and aft, searching, but found no one, and he tried the cabin door, but it was closed fast. Then he went to the 1 lniZzen rigging and started mp tho rat lines after the man who had taken refuge there When the Malay had got us far as the mizzen top, the man he was after took to the tppgallant fore and aft stay and began to go down it hand over hand toward the mainmast. The Malay kept on up to the topgallant crosstrees and began to follow tho man down the stay.
 There was something frightful in the relentlessness of his pursuit. He had get about ten feet down the stay when the captain appeared OH the poop with a revolver and began firing at him. One, two, three shots he fired, and the Malay kept on down the stay. He was two. thirds of the way to tho foot when at tho fourth shot tho arm that held the creese fell helpless by his side, though his hand still clutched the weapon. He clung to the stay by one hand and his feet and kept on down it almost as fast as before. A fifth and sixth shot, and at the last the Malay stopped still, then fell like lump of putty to the deck, l full 40 feet below Whether he was dead when ho struck the deck do not | know, hut the mate, who must have been watching from his room, ran out from the cabin to where tho Malay was with handspiSe and made sure work l of the fellow before he conld rise. Then the lasears came running from the fore. castle and down the rigging, and with capstan bars, belaying pins and knives struck and thrust at the dead Malay un- l til if he had had a dozen lives in him they would have been hammered out of hls body before the officers could re. strain the excited sailors.
 Our captain got the full story of the affair from the captain of the Mahratta i the next day The Malay had been hfoodins and snllen for days before. though no one knew what his grievance was. On this day as the men were pip. ed to dinner he had gone into the fore. 1 castle, got the creese from some place i where he had it concealed and had fu- rlonsly attacked his mates without a word They raised tho cry 'Amuek, amuek and scattered but not until three of them had been killed or mor- tally wounded and two more of them seriously cut by the creese. Running 1 forward, he had encountered the second mate, and the rest of the affair I saw Five men dead and two badly hurt by the Malay and himself killed at the end was the record of ten minutes business in eunning amuck. Malays in mlno after this? No, thank you. New York Sun