The sun., 1897-10-10
4 MALAY,S DEADLY CREEsE.
EIvo Nen KILLED ana Two BADLY Hurt In Ten
MInutes when Me Ran AmncL.

"In four voyages to the East Indies. two of
them to Malay ports. have seen but one in
stance Of that native performance called running
anuck. Fortunately saw II from position of
perfect safety, but the sight enough to
make mo steer clear of all Malays afterward,
and any vessel that has them on board" said
ErdiN Dcerng. who as boy and man sailed many
seas in dcep-water ships. ut was in 1868.
when l was boy. on my first voyage, on the
ship Harry Warren. which sailed from Boston
to India with cargo of ice. We were
lying at anchor in tho roads off Mad
ras, unloading our middle.deck cargo into
lighters and hundred vessels OF all nations
were anchored about us, discharging or taking
on board their cargoes. The ship nearest us.
about two cable lengths away, was the British
ship Mahratta, which had como from Singapore
in ballast with n crew OF Malay Lascars. 1t was
one day at noon that. as our crew lay round un-
der the awning in the forecastle waiting for the
order to turn to- ono OF the sailors sitting on the
capstnn sung out:
"'Hi, mates Just look over to the lime.
juicer! They're having some kind Of rumpus
there! See EN- going! believe it's one Of those
Malays running amuck!'
I'VE all jumped to our feet and looked at the
Mahratta. and some Of us ran up into the rig
Gine to get a better view. From the topsail
yard could see all that was going on on the
deck of the British ship. Amidships Lascar,
naked to the waist, was slashing and stabbing
at q 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 quarterback the Captain
was hurrying two ladies down the com.
panionway into the cabin, supporting in
his arms one OF them who had tainted.
As the officer fel lifeless to the deck the Malay
hnpn n1alT af i'm foil fhran hp
poop. As he ran he swung before him q long.
| out like the writings Of n snake. lie overlook
| the rcarmost man on the poop and cut and
he h e shs second
| loaped overheard. preferring to take his chances
with the sharks and water serpcnts to remain
| ing on board. and the third man ran across the
quarter deck and up into the mizzen rigging like
a cat. The man i'll the water swan for our ship
and some natives in lighter picked him up
The h MALAY left the ,H man he had killed and
self was the only living person in view on the
| decks. He ran fore and aft searching, but found
no one and he he tried led the cabin in door, but il was
had taken refuge there. When the Malay had
! after took to the topgallant foroand aft stay
and began to go down 1t, hand over hand. to
the topgallant cross-trees and began to follow
| the man down the stay.
There was something frightful in the relent.
| lessness OF his pursuit. He had got about ten
! feet down the stay when the Captain appeared
/ on 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 the foot when, at tho fourth
! shot. the arm that held the crceso fell helpless
| by his side. though his hand still clutched the
! weapon. He Cung to the stay by one hand and
| his feet and kept on down II almost as fast rs
| before. A fifth and sixth shot: and at the last
the Malay stopped still, then fell like lump
q. putty to the deck. fun forty feet below
| Whether he was dead when he struck the deck
/ ] DO not know, but the mate, who must have
| been watching from his room. ran out from the
cabin to where the Malay was with a handspike
and made sure work of the fellow before he
| could rise Then the Lascars came running
! from the forecastle and down the rigging. and
with capstan bars. Delaying pins. and kniyes
! had had dozen lives in him they would have
been hammered out OF his body before the Off
GERS could restrain the excited sailors.
| "Our Captain got the full story Of the affair
! from the Captain Of the Mahratta tho next day
/ The Malay had been brooding and suller
grievance was. On this day as tho men were
| piped to din er he had gone into the forecastle
got the creese from some place where he had II
conccaled, and had furiously attacked hi,
mates without q word. They raised the cry
Amuck Amuckr and scattered, but moi
! until three of them ha1 been killed or mortally
wounded. and two more OF them seriously cut
| by the creesc. Running forward. he had en-
! countered tho second mate and the rest Of thu
affair ] saw. Five men dead and two badl,
! hurt by the Malay, and himself killed at thu
end. was the record OF ten minutes business II
cumming amuck. Malays in mine after this
No, thank you"