The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-08

pied, from Macao to the northwest coast
OF America and back, for the purchase of
1urs; a voyage which was undertaken Jan.
80 1873, and made the more remarkable by
the fact that it was achieved in a CUTTER
sloop of fifty tons, with a crew of the
worst description. without any printed
chart of the coast, and in the teeth of the
monsoon. His crew consisted of twenty
hve men, two Americans, the rest Irish.
swedish, French and English, the last
mostly deserters from men-of-war and
Botony bay ships, line of as ACCOMPLISH
ed villains as ever dsgraced a country.
the work was so hard that the crew mu-
tinted In preparation for this Cleveland
mad stored all the provisions near the
cabin, and he coolly informed the sailors
that they could not eat until they worked
and to carry out this threat he mounted
guard over the eatables for twenty-four
hours-with the assistance of two or
three men, including the black cook 1t
then occurred to him, that as the natives
were hostile, if he offered to set the crew
on shore they soon would have enough of
it. They caught at the proposal, however,
put when landed the Chinese would not
keep or feed them, and Cleveland would
not take them on board Finally. in re-
Spouse to their signals of distress, he went
to the shore in an armed boat and offered
to take them back on board one by one.
Several came eagerly, but when it turned
out that the boatswain and one other ring
leader We're not to be taken back on any
terms, these two desperadoes presented
their knives at he breasts of the others,
and swore that they should not stir. Some
yielded, others were sulenly indifferent,
and one lay intoxicated on the beach.
It was like one of the rnutineering scenes
in SteVenson's Treasure Island" At lest
all but six were brought on board, and
thenceforth behaved we'll They kept en-
their voyage, grazing rocks, caught in
the whirlpools, snort of food and threat
ened by pirates. The diminished crew
proved an advantage, as those on board
had to be put on III allowance. In thirey
days they sighted the north end of For
mosa, and had-performed that part of the
trip deemed by experienced seamen Inn
practicable. Then they crossed the North
Pacific amid constant storms and anchored
in Norfolk sound on March 3d. 1893 after
a voyage of two months, and in advance
of almost all competing vessels. Putting
up a screen of hides around the deck, and
never letting more than one native on
board at once, Cleveland concealed the
smallness of his crew and eluded attack,
though the Indian canoes We're often lar
ger than his little vessel. On one occa-
sion his cutter ran on rock and lay for
two hours at such an angle that no one
could stand on the deck. The Indians, for
tunately, did not discover his plight. AT
last the vessel fioated with the returning
tide, and Cleveland set sail, and after a
two months voyage he reached China,
Sept. 49, by way of the Sandwich Islands,
laden with a cargo worth $50, 900; the sea
otter skins, that had been bought at the
rate of eighty for a musket from the ma
tives, selling for $50 apiece. His desert
ers six in number reached Wampra be-
fore him, and all Cleveland's friends be-
leved their assertion that he was dead.