The San Francisco call., 1898-05-08
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 enee which @ resulted in a sa 6eg to the bay desfss ESsIsh tsa old bark punasrea into this baya rpping sheet of water bordered on all forest of palm laurel and about hadTay the araG entrance s5G G eh se T ne o she
 sa hdd se se dW %h oG h ha the work done and she being sacked upright. Just in time
 to b5 aPe d and out anchor astern with the cable over pa fhG With he on s6 S ans n the Seaeh masihead 4FG taees ad would have been next in order but they proceeded o and armed them on the side of the bark made certain other preparationsand
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 and a tan out har b hes ad anq looSed the to ready to drop 1t at the
 lieutenant, overseeing this latter paeed the R1 ae eae ahe e anchorl, and occasionally turned his glass on the Seems me, MT Shack he said the deck
 Horn the M who take & nsr ought T it to a be Yes sir think so too answered that buntgasket the royal yard, he added in
 with 9rant by n1ajesty's rolled forward then aft
 Very large crew~Very large he said, "very curious
 hail from the @ na the snfh Bunce waved deprecatory hand the first lieutenant waist and the boaswa ascended the forecaste steps the anchor The first noT M had charge crew Captain Bunce busied himself with his
 sal Sds and head sheets ta trimmed med hosted foreyar the anchor tripped and foreyards swung, steadied down for the
 said the captain Rere n fully d9 forty @ nd tfad m @ cans anG ali T dancing iound like madmen Look! handed the glass the first lieutenant, who
 said the officer after short nog scrutiny ny: outside It looks though they were all drunk ,,. cord reached them and they could see with the Quarters, sr?s. inquired Shall we
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 They waited had sailed almost abreast of the dminution the uproar when flag the t6 6wF hs PfF s ha s te
 'nSa sa8h 2=3R Ss 9ssS BS and shqf corning with the the thunder of the o M ag e e a and erossbone and no4ed ing in rdey panted letters the single word Sarh
 Thunder and lightning" roared Captain Bunce.
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 youngster of the had sprung below and imme- h orons but he had begun clearing and manning flying b royal clew-neS Others stations anticipating all that the sharp voice of the first could order Around came the brig the other tack and ging and answering with her starboard guns Then for time the din deafening. The brig backed her main yards broadsde after broadside into the hull of Captain noticed through the smoke that pirates firing The smudge from the burning canvas port coverings had deluded him. He ordered a cessation Fully forty solid had torn through that old hull near the water-lne and not could now be deck. -
 "Out with the boats Duncan he said: they re drunk crazy, but they're the men want Capture them"
 Suppose they sr-suppose they take to their boats get the woods, shall follow?
 past the beach-not into an ambush
 boatloads of which put off from the brig nothing but deserted deck on the sinking bark empty boats hauled the beach The pirate were the woods-undoubtedy. having kept the bark The two lieutenants conferred few moments while the blue jackets around the bows of their boats and watched nervousy lire of the forest the beach, from which bullets might at time. and had put back, when rattlng chorus or pistol the depths of the woods It died crashing of bush and branch and sands fgure--a long swferd figure clerical their midst sped with mighty bounds and sinking down lifted glad face to the heavens with the grooming utterance: 70. God, thank thee. Protect gentlemen-protect me from those wicked men ,,, ,- ,> ,,. , Q Q Q 9 60 . Q Q 6 Q Q