The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-19

morning to night he was threatened and
insulted. and il was only Icons inter
ference and the well-grounded conviction
that they could never make the land with
out him, which saved him from their daily
menaces, They gave a zest to their cham
pagne carousals by brandishiug their
knives in his face. All the honest men
were subjected to the same treatment
Santoo and Watto came TO the Norwegian
carpenters milestone to sharpen their
knives explaining to him as they did so
that they would soon use them on his
throat. Watto, The handsome lad, declar-
ed that he had already killed sixteen men.
He wantonly stabbed the iuofft usive Chi
nese steward through the ieshy part of
the arm. Santos said to Candereau. the
Frenchman, In two or three days l shall
kin your
XIII me then!" cried Candereau with
spirit.
This knife" said the bully. will serve
you the same that it has the captain"
There seems to have been no attempt
upon the part of the niue honest men TO
combine against the eight rogucs. AS
they were all of different races and spoke
different languages, 1t is not surprising
that they were unable to make head
against the armed and unanimous mutt
neers.
And then there befell one of those Incl
dents which break the monotony of long
sea voyages. The topsails of a ship
showed above the horizon and soon they
rose her huk Her course would take her
across her bows, and the mate asked leave
to hail her, as he was doubtful as to his
latitude.
You may do So" said Leon But if
you say a word about us you are a dead
man."
The strange ship hauled her yard aback
when she saw that the other wished to
speak her. and the two lay rolling in the
Atlantic swell within a hundred yards of
each other.
I'VE are the Friend of Liverpool" cried
an officer, "Who are you?"
I'VE are the Louisa seven days out from
Dieppe for Valparaiso" answered the I'M
happy mate, repeating what the mutineers
whispered to him. The longitude was
asked and given, and the two vessels
parted company. With yearning eyes the
harassed man looked at the orderly docks
and the wen served officer of the Liver
pol ship, while he in turn noticed with
surprise those signs of careless handling
which would strike the ~ye of sailor in
the rig and management of the Flowery
Land Soon the vessel was huh down up
on The horizon and In an hour the guilty
ship was again alone In the vast ring of
the ocean.
This meeting was very nearly being a
fatal one for the mate for il took an
Leon influence to convince the other ig-
norant and suspicious seamen that they
had not been betrayed. But a more dan
gerous time still was before him II must
have been evident 10 him that when they
had made their landfall then was the
lime when he was no longer necessary
to the crew and when they were likely 10
silence him forever That which was
their goal was likely to prove his death
warrant Every day brought him nearer
to this inevitable crisis and then at last,
on the night of Oct. 2, the lookout man re-
ported land ahead. The ship was at once
put about, and in the morning the South
American coast was a dim haze upon the
western horizon. When the mate came
upon deck he found the mutineers in
earnest conclave about the forehaich, and
their looks and gestures told him that II
was his fate which was being debated.
Leon was again on the side of mercy. IF
you like to kill the carpenter and the
mate you can; L shall not do IT," said he.
There was a sharp difference of opinion
upon the matter, and the poor helpless
mate waited like a sheep near a knot of
butchers
he cried to Leon, but received no reply.
Are they going to kill me?" he asked
Marsolino.
Il am not. but Blanco is" was the dis
couraging reply.
However the thoughts of the mutineers
were happily diverted by other things.
First they clewed up the sails and dropped
the boats alongside. The mate having
been deposed from his command there was
no commander at all 50 that everything
was chaos. Some got into the boats and
some remained upon the decks Of the YES
sci. The mate found himself in one boat
which contained Watto, Paul the Sclav-
oman, Early the ships boy and the Chi
nese cook They rowed a hundred yards
away from the ship, but were recalled by
Blenco and Leon. 1t shows how abso-
iutey the honest men had lost their spirit,
that though they were four to one In this
particular boat they meekly returned when
they were recalled. The Chinese cook
was ordered on deck, and the others were
allowed to feat astern. The unfortunate
steward had descended into another boat,
but Duanno pushed him overheard. He
swan for long time, begging hard for his
life, but Leon and Duranno pelted him
with empty champagne bottles from the
deck, until one of them struck him on the
head and sent him TO the bottom. The
same men took Cassap the little Chinese
boy, in the cabin. Candereau, the French
sailor heard him cry out, Finish me
quickly them and they were the last
words that he even spoke.
In the meantime the carpenter had been
led into the hold by the other mutineers
and ordered to scuttle the ship. He bored
four holes forward and four aft, and the
water began to pour IN. The crew sprang
into the boats one small one and one large
one, the former in tow of the latter. SO
ignorant and thoughtless were they that
they were lying alongside as the ship set
tied down In the water and would in
fahibly have been swamped " the mate
had not imploTed them to push off. The
Chinese cook had been left on board, and
had clambered into the tops so that his
gesticulating figure was almost the last
that was seen of the ill-omened Flowery
Land as she settled down under the leaping
waves Then the boats, wen laden with
plumber, made slowly for the shore.
1t was in the afternoon upon the 4th
of October that they ran their boats upon
the South American beach II was des-
olate spot, so they tramped inland roll
ing along with the gait of seaman ashore,
their bundles upon their shoulders. Their