The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-02

until, in spite of crude processes and
cruder tools. they produced most ex-
cellent blades. The Sulu pirate readi-
ly cuts clear through an ordinary hu-
man BODY at one blows and he more
easily splits head and neck to the
shoulders.
The difficulty of tanning these wild
men VIII be understood when their re-
ligion IS considered. Their hatred of
Christians is cultivated from their
earliest youth. and the surest road to
their heaven is, in their belief, to die
While killing the hated unbelieVers-
Then, too, they are utterly without
mercy. A man has been very often
known to cut off a slaves head merely
10 try the quality of a new sword Our
wild Apac hes at their worst were but
children in comparison with the more
enlightened but devilish Sulu pirates.
AS already intimated, it was the
rapid-fire gun that first brought these
pirates under control Having these.
and such small steamers as those cap
tured by Dewey at CaVite in hand, the
Spaniards forbade the Sulus TO go
afioat without first obtaining a special
permit from a Spanish governor, and
10 get that it was necessary for the
Suius to go off with the Spanish flag
flying, without arms and in boats that
were not manned for a fight Every
Sulu boat found at sea was shot to
pieces unless it had a written permit
and complied with these regulations.
these could the pirates be held in
check.
Chinese Pirates.
The Malays, whether residents there
or coming from islands to the west, are
not the only pirates that have infested
the Philippine group. The Chinese,
until very recently, were capable and
daring sea rOVerS, who did not hesitate
to sweep through the Philippine group
in rob Of Al lone 90
an Englishman who was taken by
them and lived to tell his experiences
found that the pirates had no less than
500 different ships with guns ranging
up to eighteen pounders-some of them
had batteries as good as those of an
English frigate. The fleet was then
commanded by Using. After
ward a woman was the pirate comrno-
dore. These freebooterS swept NE whole
region, but one does not need to go
back so far as that to read Of the dep
relations of the Chinese. pirates who
| used the Philippine group as well as
| their own coast. In the sos the pirates
were as numerous in those open seas
| as bum-boatmen in the ports, as the
owners of the Boston ship Celestial
| learned.
But the Cinnamon. even when not
/ numerous, We're never dreaded as were
| our Malays of Sulu. For the China
man with his junks had something of
| luc SeHlDldIlCS u d war SquduiOh- his
| attacks We're like an open battle. Our
/ Malays were not so. In fiOtillaS of six
! or eight praus they lay in wait until
| they saw a ship that was becalmed,
when they swiftly padded to her.
| swarmed over her sides with their
| knives in their teeth, and then, with
| their faces distorted to add to the ter
ror of their assault, they relentlessly
cut the life out of every man they
| found. The Chinese were indeed hut
al fighters, but the Sulus of on
! possessions were and are fanatic
/ Sassins. We shall need to send
| governors who combine something
/ the herpetologiSt with the ability 10
| enforce an iron discipline.