Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1901-01-25


SCI soa1ect fagots; large quantity Of
dry wood was soon got together, and be-
fore night they were ready for the second
attack
The white dresses OF the Ternates were
laid aside; with nothing on them but their
belts, and scimeters, and creeses, and blue
Yndsrdrawers, they silently crept up to
the palisades there deposited their fagots,
and then returned again to perform the
same journey. As the breastwork OF
fagots increased, so did they more boldly
walk up, until tho pile was completed;
they then. with loud shout, fired 1t In
several places. The flames mounted, the
cannon Of the fort roared, and many fell
under the discharges Of grape and hand
grenadss. But stiHed by the smoke,
which poured In volumes upon them the
people in the fort were soon compelled to
quit the rAmparts to avoid suffocation.
The palisades wero on IRE, and the flames
mounting In the air, swept over and be-
gan to attack the factory and houses. No
resistance was now offered; and the Ter
mates tore down the burning palisades,
and forced their way into the intrench-
mont, and with their soimeters and creeses
put to death all who had been so unfor-
tunate as not to take refuge in the citadel.
These were chiefly native servants, whom
the attack had surprised. and for whose
lives the Portuguese seemed to care but
little, for they paid no attention to their
cries to lower the drawbridge, and admit
them into tho fort.
The factory, built of stone, and all the
other houses were on fire, and the island
was lighted up for miles. The smoke had
cleared away, and the defenses of the fort
we're now plainly visible in the broad
glare of the flames. "If we had scaling
ladders" cried Philip, "the fort would be
ours; there is not soul 90 the ramparts, !"
"True, true, (" replied Krantz, s,but even
A. 1t is, the factory walls will prove an
advantageous post for US after the fire is
sftinsuishsd; II we occupy 1T. we can pre-
vent them showing themselves while the
ladders are constructing Tomorrow
night We may have them ready, and hay
pg first smoked tho fort with few more
fsgots, we may atterward mount the
walls and carry the place"
"That will do replied Philip as he
walked away. He then Joined the native
chiefs, who were collected together outside
Of the intrenohment, and communicated
% them his plans. When he had made
known his views, and the chiefs had as
sented to them, Schriftsn, who had come
with the expedition unknown to Philip
mode his appearance.
That won't do; you'll never take that
fort, Philip vanderdeoken. he, he!'
DRIED Schriftsn.
Hardly had he said the words, whom q
tremendous explosion took place, and the
air was filed With large stones ,h few
and fell in every direction, killing and
manning hundreds. 1t was the factory
which had blown up, for in its vaults
there was large quantity of gunpowder,
to which the fire had communicated
So ends that scheme, Mynheer Wander
decksn. BE, hel' screamed Schriften;
you'll never take that fort"
The loss Of life and the confusion caused
by this unexpected result oooasioned a
panic, and all the Ternate people fed down
to the beach where their peroquas were
lying.
It was in vain that Philip and their
chiefs attempted to rally them. Unaocus-
toned to the terrible effects Of gunpowder
in Any large quantities, they believed that