The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1899-05-08
BARTHoLEMY THE PIRATE,
with a Few Men He Captured G-e-i
Spanish Treasure ship.

| OF narrative sketches, Inc Lit
cancers of Our Coast, tells Il 81
Nicholas of the adventures of / =
tholemy, the famous pirate. III.
| tholemy, after his escape FROM s.
Francisco, in Campeachy, got ii .
his buccaneer friends small vcss !
and crew OF 20 men. Then he 81
out for revenge.
To do daring and astounding dee.
is part of the business of a pirate,
and, although it was an uncommon
ly bold enterprise that Bartholemy
contemplated, he secured his vessel
and his men, and away he sailed
After a voyage of about eight days
he came in sight of the little seaport
town, and, sailing slowly along the
coast, he waited until nighfall be-
fore entering the harbor.
Anchored at a considerable dis
tance from shore was the great
Spanish ship on which he had been
prisoner. The sight of the vessel
filed his soul with savage eager
ness to revenge himself.
AS the little vessel slowly ap-
preached the great ship the people
on board the latter thought it was a
trading vessel from shore and al
lowed it to come alongside, such
email craft seldom coming from the
sea. But the moment Bartholemy
reached the ship he scrambled up its
side almost as rapidly as he had
Jumped down from it with his two
wine Jars a few weeks before, and
every one of his crew, leaving their
own vessel to take care of itself,
scrambled up after him.
Nobody on board was prepared to
defend the ship. 1t was the same
old story. Resting quietly in
peaceful harbor, what danger had
they to expectg AS usual, the pi-
rates had everything their own way.
They were ready to fight, and the
others were not, and they were led
by man who was determined to
take that ship without giving even
a thought to the ordinary alterna
tive of dying in the attempt. The
resistance was not worth mention
ing, for there were people on board
who did not know what was taking
place until the vessel had been cap
tured.
AS soon as Bartholemy was mas
ter of the great vessel he gave or
ders to slip the cable and hoist the
sails, for he was anxious to get out
of that harbor as quickly as posi-
BILE. The fight had apparently at
tracted no attention in the town,
but there were ships in the port
whose company the bold buccaneer
did not desire.
Now indeed was Bartholemy tri-
umphant. The ship he had captur-
ed was finer one and richer one
than that other vessel which had
been taken from him. 1t was load
ed with valuable merchandise, and
we may hear remark that, for some
reason or other, all Spanish vessels
of that day which were taken by
pirates seemed to be richly laden.
If our bold pirate had sung wild
pirate songs with his crew in the
cabin of the Spanish vessel he had
first captured, he now sang wilder
songs. If Bartholemy could have
communicated his great, good for
tune to the other buccaneers in the
West Indies, there would have been
boom in piracy which would have
threatened great danger to the hon
esty and integrity of the seafaring
men of that region. But nobody,
not even a pirate, has any way of
finding out what is going to happen
next, and if Bartholemy had had an
idea of the fluctuations which were
about to occur in tho market in
which he had made his investments
he would have been in a great hurry
to sell all his stock very much be-
low par.
The fluctuations referred to occur
red on the ocean, near the island of
Pines, and came in the shape of
great storm waves, which blew the
! CDon;ch vaccal with oil ito rich