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| hills behind Macao, and subsequently
receiving pardon on terms agreed upor
with the governor. They have now
! learned discretion, and rarely attack ar
| English vessel-for which reason oul
newspapers seldom tell of their exploits
But by the very latest mail we learn
H. NJ S. Tween and pirate launch on
! the West river.
! Piracy is one of the chief occupations
| of the Oman Muscat coast of the Per-
| sian gulf Not many months ago seven
| boats were attacked by Wakrah pirates
and robbed of many thousands OF ru-
pees' worth of pearls Shortly before a
number of Bahrein boats were similar
ly looted. At El-Katif the Ben HAIR
carried on their profession with an ex-
traordinary amount of daring. In one
instance twenty-five of them seized a
bungalow in open daylight, within sight
of the soldiery, and put off to sea In
search of plumber. The Turkish soldiers
went in pursuit, but the pirates showed
them clean pair of heels and got
away in time to seize and plumber a
boat belonging to merchant of Ell
Katif.
Another party of Ben Hair pirates
boarded Persian boat killed the tim
dial, wounded two of the crew apd car
ried off everything they had fancy for.
Near Wakrah a pearl boat was attacked
and looted, and ten men of the crew
killed and thirteen wounded. Another
boat was boarded near Dhaayen, two of
the crew killed and all the pearls car
ried off. AT the beginning of this year
there We're several raids on coasters
from Kurrachee-a port that does
large trade inward and outward with
the Persian gulf, but the rather press
ing attention of British gunboats have
spoiled this branch Of 1.-THE trade
The Riff pirates of the Morocco coast
have subsidized into private life for
space after their outbreak of a year or
two back But no doubt, they will
rise again. We had heard of them be-
fore; these piratical depredations of
theirs We're no new thing. We have be-
fore us parliamentary return issued in
1857 which shows that between forty
and, fifty years ago the Riffiin pirates
gave Europe trouble of the same kind
as at present. After long and persis-
tent worrying of small coasters they
began to bee more pressing than pleas
ant in their attentions to sea-going sail
ing ships which chance and the failure
of wind brought to their neighbour
hood. They footed the Ruth whose
crew managed to escape in their boats.
Theey captured the Violet, killed one of
her men, took the others captive, and
set the ship on fire in order to prevent
H. M. S. Janus from recovering her.
They boarded the Cuthbert Young, of
two hundred and ninety three tons, and
did damage and stole cargo to the value
of seventeen hundred pounds they
played havoc with the Lively, of two
hundred and sixty-four tons, whose
crew retired before their advances and,
to finish up, they got hold of the Hy-
men, of three hundred and forty-three
TONS captured all hands and wrecked
the vessel-of course, after appropria-
ting everything that was worth appro-
priating. When this last affair hap
pened it was felt that the time had
come for making Strenuous rerpresen-
tations to the emperor of Morocco on the
matter, and that monarch was COM
PEELED to make compensation to the ex-
tent of eS27S.
Two years ago the British steamer
Pegu was looted while going from Pc
nang to Olehieh by a number Of Achi-
nese (from Sumatra), who had come on
board under the guise of passengers,
and the captain and fourteen of the ma
tive crew were killed. Having gained
of the ship, the pirates plum
Tered the strong room, secured about
fifteen thousand dollars in coin and left
n the Pegu's boats, landing on their
1wn coast near Simpang OHM. The
Achines have kept fairly quiet during
recent years, but they have a long
chronicle Of piracies to their discredit,
more especially those associated with |
he Spanish brig Bilbaino, the British
;teaemer Queen, the British bark Gaze
ar the Danish bark Carl and the |
American ships White Cloud and Libra |
twenty years ago they were one of the |
greatest scourges of the eastern seas, |
weeping the waters with their small, |
wifi sailing proas, capturing mer- |
hantmen of all nations and customari- |
y butchering every soul on board
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