The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08

CHAPTER XI.
after the meal was concluded, the
captain said to the chief:
Now. Hass22. we want to know
how it was that you arrived at the
nick of time to save my officers lives"
Il had been watching for some days"
the chief said quietly. When L heard
that many chiefs had joined Sehi Pan
dash, l said, L must go and help my
white brothers, but I dared not take
many men away from here, and as
had to hide, the fewer there were with
me the better; so l came down into
the forest near Sehi's town, and found
the wood full of mer. We had come
down in sampans, so that l could send
off messengers as required. One of
these l sent down to you, to warn you
to be prepared for an attack. Other
messengers l had sent before from
here; but they must have been caught
and killed. for I had been watched
closely when they found that 1 would
not join against you.
When nv last messenger returned,
I was glad: I knew that you would be
on your guard. and would not be
caught treacherously. Two of my men
were in the town when they began to
fire on the ship. and 1 saw the town
DESTROYED. and followed Sehi to the
place where the six prahus We're lying,
and crossed the creek and lay down
in the woods near the village on the
other side: for 7 thought that some
thing might happen. One of my men
went down in the night and brought
me news that the ship was gone. AS
my messenger had told me that you
questioned him as to the other en-
trance TO the creek. l felt sure that
you had gone there; so 1 was not
surprised when. Just before daybreak,
two guns were fired. We saw the
fight the sinking of two Of their yes
sells, and the attack by the water pi
rates and by the men of the rajah
and the chiefs with him, and feared
greatly that my friends would be over
powered.
L sent one of my men down to the
mouth of the creek TO tell you how
much aid was wanted, but he saw the
ship steaming I'D as he went and so
came back to me. Then we heard the
ships great guns begin to fire, and
soon all was quiet where the fight had
been going on. Then l saw the other
four boats start. One of them sank
before she was out of sight and
soon heard that your ship had sunk
another, and that two had gone away.
It was not for another TWO days that
I learned where they were, and then
I heard that they had gone into
creek 20 miles away: there one had
sunk ana the OLner .nau DSeii JOlHtO ny
two prahus that had been far UP the
river: and 1 also learned that one of
Sehi's men had gone into the village
and let himself be captured, so that
he might guide the ships boats TO the
place where. as they thought, they
would find but one prahu, While three
would be waiting for them. 1 was not
sure where the exact place was for
there are many creeks. but, with one
Of my men. l rowed in a sampan all
night in hopes to arrive in time to
warn the boats: but it was not till
/ heard the firing that / knew exactly
where they were.
when I got there, the fighting was
over, and but one prahu had escaped,
and 1 learned from the men who had
swan ashore from those that had been
sunk that one of the English boats had
been destroyed and many men killed,
but that two boats had gone down the
creek again. 1t was also said that the
white officers and sailors had boarded
the boat that had escaped, and had
been all killed. l thought it best to
follow the prahu, so that L could send