The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-24
WITH A DEVILS CREW AFORE,
A CAPTAIN MOLD iBiFT; WITH
DEChS an WET WITH corr,
from the Fast There Came n Graft She
Rcars the Marks OF Fighting Tween
Sh,ni Eyed Cinnamon. who. Igly Gods
Inclting, Made Her a slaughter Pen

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Incliing, Made Her a slaughter Pen.
The steam bark lindustan, in the China
Il nnd Philippines trade, came here from the
4 Far East with n crew OF slant eyed, yellow
devils that feared nothing but their own
ugly gods These squat, square gods
vent to sleep when the iindustan put to
IN and ever since she has been a ship OF
4 Ntte murder and sudden death Her
4 O Scers have slept with revolvers strapped
10 hheir waists, not knowing what hour
they might Ia a Weakened from sleep by a
rush Of mutinous seamen. Twice they
stamped out mutiny and cOwod the nut l.
4 noers. n handful against City, beoause
i they were white men with cold nerve.
The Hindust an is lying at Pier IS. Brook
II lvn. in the Atlantic Basin, She came int o
4 port over ten days ago and twice since
that time the devil ridden ship has been
the bait e ground Of her Chinese sailors
II last Thursday and again on Sunday. there
n were sudden explosions OF trouble forward.
4 Three Cinnamon have been drag eed of
q the ship with fractured skulls. twenty have
Teen knitted and leaten, and seventeen
OF this blood hungry crew are under arrest
A IN the Hamilton avenue police station IN
Brooklyn
These things the newspapers have told
about. but the log Of the ship and the broad.
brown faced men VINO officer her tell tales OF
her hair raising voyage that ma Ike the head
crackings and the knlhng in the A tlantC
Basin scam tame and mild by comparison
Hamilton O short, thick man. broad as
door and strong M an OK. IL captain OF the
Hndttsfan His face Is coffee brown from
the sind and weather. His eyes are steel
blue and hi4 iaw Is the jaw Of a man who
4 never knows when he IL licked. Yesterday
h" w1s smoking pipe on the torecastle
while Chinese seauen with bloody bandages
on their sore heads were hoystoning and
swahhing away the marks of the asst fight
The ship looked as II she had fought of
pirate lunks. Her tunnels were SCARED
end hacked The planks Of her forward
deck we're clipped and scared where bullets
had ripped them. Here and there was n
marlin spike. n you looked At 1t closely
Won saw dried blood and hairs cinging.
Jagged holes in the deck and mast showed
whore knives that missed their mark had
stuck Altogether the Hndustan was net
pretty. and this was what scared the soul
OF the Capt1in,
Look at nv nice. new decks said that
scrply tried man Look at EN-. They
arc worse than the plankings OF a dirty
little Sunderland cattle boat Look at my
pretty tunnels they amt to be compared
To the stacks of bloody little tug for hand
someness And il all comes from 81 nasty
mess Of pigtailed idol worshippng, dope
smoking. cockeyed chinks rowing over
their blooming little gods aid rather make
my own steam reef my own sails. turn my
own wheel than ship another crew Of devil
ridden Cinnamon
The captain made other interesting re-
marks on the ancestry of seaRoing China
mon. but these unfortunately, cannot be
printed
The Hindustan left Yokohoma Sept 81
short handed She was worked TO ShanR
hal handiy enough with a part crew Of
Chinese from Canton. Al Shanghai an
other batch was taken The newcom
were men Of Pechih who held men Of
Canton to be dogs and swine and UNIT 10
A to- ttytth IA xftrua
uiuarly long queue went into the fore
castle and came upon a man OF canton
burning JOSS stick before little god with
crossed legs and folded arms.
In passing the PeChili man splt upon the
god There was scream Of rage Out
came knives, and in twinkle the fore
castle was mass Of writhlng, twisting
struggling Cinnamon stabbing TO kill,
swinging marlin spikes and gouging at
each others eyes The rest OF the crew
swarmed 10 the tight shriekng with rage
he white men officers ana three or TOUR
British seameu waded into that row ike
men who didn't care much for their lives.
They kicked ard cufTed and hammered
with anything that came handy. butts OF
pistols. boat hooks. spikes and the like,
but they didn't shoot They got IL stopped
somehow after the forecastle az bloody
as a slaughter house, and they managed
10 convey to the Cantonese and their pig
dog friends from Pechlli in such pigeon
English as could not be misunderstood
that another outbreak OF that kind would
mean somebody's making a quick trip
to the bosom Of Confucius
The Cinnamon were savage and sulen
not at all OF the type that one faces over
laundry counters, but cowed. The yellow
blood cooled when the white got hot. There
were black looks and once in while
sudden furious fight between man and
man but the officers held them down with
an iron heel and carried their reyovers
night and day.
Between Shanghai and Annoy he'll broke
loose as one Of the officers put II. The
crew was shifting cargo. Cantonese and
pechil men sweating side by side
Canton Chinaman Kissed out something
to man OF Pechili, few salty words rela-
tive to the women Of Pechih few more
about the gods uf Pechil being all swine
and dogs knife flashed within an inch
81 ~, Canton mans head and stuck in the
ships side. la ten seconds the crew was
streaming ont Of the hold tearing at each
other like tigers. striking with knives smash
INK heads with the first thing they grabbed.
The officers knocked some Of them down,
hut tho rest paid no attention save 10 turn
and snarl Capt Hamilton knew the sort
Of people he had to deal with. He knew
that an enraged Chinaman, fauatitally
mad, ia no more afraid Of a revolver shot
than % a puff Of air. He realized instantly
that an attempt 70 quel the hight with
his half dozen white men would simply
mean that they would he overwhelmed
and slaughtered. He fired several shots
over the heads Of he lighters and ordered
them back bat the battle went on
Then he took a piecS Of chalk. drew a
line across the deck between the Cinnamon
and himself and roared that the first China
man 10 put foot across Tint line would
be- dead before he got his other foot over.
lie and his officers STOOD behind the line
ready 10 fight for their own lives but the
Cinnamon kept back. That fight went on
for two hours. until every man was worn
out Two were killed and every man Of
the fifty had some hurt OF other The dead
were boxed Up by their mates and sent
hack home from Hong Kong where the
ship pat IN next Some Of the crew left
a. Hong Kong but the deviliry went on
just the same There were bloody fights
on the way to Manila tut these Hamilton
and his officers stamped out before they
cot serious.
The Hndustan has had troubles Of this
sort for years. Ten months ago on Sunder-
ANA the i.asCars and Cinnamon Of her
crew got into a fierce fight and several
were killed and injured. Two wears ago
near Singapore, the Chinese crew attacked
the officers Tho mate had his head ripped
with ir,u he pffears ,pare