Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-03-10
THE ARTISTS STORY.


but | well know the stern antipathy
the Moslems cherish against having
their picture taken in any form How
ever | ran the risk of resentment and
surreptiously made the sketch you are
looking at 1t was Zuleilka, daughter
of Sheik Abdul, the chief of the horse
dealers.
Il had grown sleepy listening to the
third officers yarns, and in preference
to tossing away the night in a super
heated stateroom / brought my mat
tress up on the windward side of the
promenade deck, where found the soft
eastern breeze delightfully."- cooling. 1t
was pleasant to be out where, when
happened to be reused momentarily,
could see the stars shining overhead
and hear the soothing splash of the
water against the vessel. side, the So
porific, even pulsations of the engines,
and at intervals the bell on the bridge
giving the hour of the watch, repeated
by the lookout in the bows with an ac-
companying 'alls we'll
At midnight the chief officer went
below, and the second officer, Mr.. New
hall, took his place on the bridge. we
expected to make Linga shortly after
daybreak, and as we had already come
out of our course, Captain Sargent be-
grudged any unnecessary delay and
left orders to have everything put in
readiness for a quick discharge of the
Linga consignment. To get at the car.
go with steam windlass it was neces-
sary to remove the forward hatch. This
had been appropriated as a choice pc.
sition by the somewhat overbearing
Arab horse dealers, and it was covered
with their PROSTATE forms One of the
watch unceremoniously Weakened the
sleepers, and with an imshi (get out
of the way) ordered them Off They
resented being so rudely disturbed in
the middle of the night and refused to
move, glowering at the sailor with sui
len anger. Thereupon, the second officer
called Captain Sargent, who promptly
came forward and proceeded to clear
the hatch by force BY this time the
Arabs were thoroughly enraged. The
sheik excitedly directed a few words
to his companions, and Selling winch
lever advanced fiereely on the captain
before the latter could lay hold of any
thing to defend himself with. The
whole party rose en- masse, and brand
ishing their murderous-looking crooked
knives frantically in the air drove the
two officers before them into the sa-
loon and held them there in terror
of their lives.
81 was awakened by the uproar, and
without knowing just what the matter
was rushed below in quest of my revol-
yer. But | found the way to my state
room cut off by two sturdy guards.
Suddenly it occurred to me that the
second engineer had shown me an an
cient pistol taken from the French in
the Peninsular war. slipped down
the engine-room hatchway unseen and
found it was loaded and primed. With
it | mounted guard, leaving the senior
engineer free to watch the engines.
Meantime the third and fourth off,
GERS and one of the engineers had been
discovered and added to the list of the
captured in the saloon. The mutineers
having thus become masters of the
ship, a posse of them invaded the
furnace room and scared the stokers
away Next they set upon me with
knives and sticks. But this time they
net with repulse, for / discharged
the pistol in self-defense and shot one
of my assailants in the leg. This seemed
to check the ardor and quell the i'm
petuosity of the ruffians, and they with
drew, dragging their wounded comrade
with them, and remained quiet for an
interval
Meantime the third and fourth off,
lily kept up by the stokers and the man
at the wheel had stuck to his post
through thick and thin, so that the ves-
sci was still making some Roadway. At
length, however, the engines stopped,
the fires having run very low Forum
ately, the season being favorable, there
was little sea on, but as we drifted in
to the trough, the Arabs began to real
ize that they were powerless to keep
the machinery in motion or to navigate
their prize. The sheik poked his head
under the skylight and began to par
ley with the incarcerated Britons in
the saloon below. Through the ven
tilating funnel leading to the engine
room / could hear the soft voice of
Zuleika as she tried to pacify her
father
After protracted negotiations it was
arranged that some of the officers
should be liberated on condition that
that they take the ship into the Arab
port of Linga and there abandon her.
Though Captain Sargent made some
show OF protestation to this condition
he was secretly overjoyed to accept it.
as he we'll knew that Her Majesty's
gunboat Redbreast was ahead of him.
she having left Bushire for Linga
shortly before the arrival of the Kill
wa.
Steam therefore was soon COTTON I'D
and the course resumed Not long af-
tCt u6y VI cdhs dUOuL i've leagues OH
Linga, we sighted. the Redbreast, and
when We had nearly come up with her
Captain Sargent ran up the signal for
assistance. Commander Scott, r. NJ,
of the Redbreast, promptly manned
pinnace and boarded the Kilwa with
squad of marines, and the mutineers,
much to their horror and disappoint-
ment, found themselves prisoners on
board an English man-of-war The
injured man was taken care Of his
would not having been fatal after all,
and the rest of the party were deprived
Of their coffee and tobacco-the worst
punishment an Arab can conceive Of
you will naturally ask how it was
that handful OF these barbarians
managed not only to defy the whole
crew OF British merchant vessel, but
to drive the officers before them into
the saloon like sheep into pen. But
the attack was made in the dead OF
night without the slightest warning,