The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-02
Fo|LING PIRATES IN
THE RED SEA

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visible about the vessel that WASH
made in Scotland. she was herseii'
so was her name. and her captain
and officers are Scots. Clan Mac'aeh'
Ian in red letters on black nun an
nounces her christened Appreciation
on each side of The bows. Capt. Gray
commands her and when the third OF
icer James Robertson, put his heau
into the engine room hatch to can
The second assistant and yelled
Mac" four men answered Sir.
Steve McCosh, the extra fourth or
ticer, says the why of the attempt Vi
the boarding party in the Red sea y
that the old ship was hauled on the
London Calcutta route, where she mas
snored along for many years, anu
was sent off across the north auah'
tic in new lane. This is the story
of Mr.. McCosh incredible as IL seems
in these DAYS of twin screws and TIL
pie expansions,
Wed coaled up at Alden the day
before and the next mornin saw the
shin in the Bab-el-Mandeb straits, the
4 Gate O. Tears. as the young ladies IN
/ The peninsular and Oriental boats
| ike to call it. We had just got
abreast o Perrin and saw the loom
/ II over 70 starboard, when ahead
rs and on the port bow wee bit we
+ raised the tall mast O a native dho"'
Now. there's a power o Ihese
boats that trade along the coasts ana
/ across the Red sea, carryln dates
and figs and pal moil and hlled vi
Arabs like an ant heap. So we paia
no more heed to the craft till We over
hanled her and then when she lay
not half a mile to windward OF us she
hoisted a bucket at the masthead
Now the aud mans no siccan fool
as TO slow down his ship for boat
load o lazy blacks, but no sailor can
mass a thirsty crew, so what does
CAPTAIN Gray do but set the tele-
graph at dead slow and then IN an
other minute the dial read, stop
For the empty bucket at the mast
head could only mean that there was
no water aboard. and the next minute
small boat put off from the dhoW
and pulled over toward us. The men
at the oars looked 10 be weak lot
as If half dead with thirst, and the
heart of every man aboard went sot'
and opened up at the skinny arms OF
; the black folks in the boat
And SO, as they pulled closer ant
closer slowly and wi great pain, ever
the Calcutta Mohammedans on board
twistin their white cloths abou
them. looked sorry like for the poo
brutes below. They Fplashed WI IN
oar blades and tumbled over the seat
like they was more than hall deat
and the chief officer had just halle
:, EN- when Cap'n Gray let out bi
!, boot and skipped over the port slu'
u IAN the rest of us stood huddle
= under the bridge deck lookln al
L lookln' over at the Twin skulls Delo
and most of us didn't hear the aul
man sing out till we saw him skltte
in up the pilot house ladder an
/. heard the jingle in the engine room
% Then we looked tother way, an
!, the ewes O. me never saw the Xix
% For there was the great dhow conn
= for us like a turbine man o war II
- der the enormous hoist of her late'
- sail. and every black GRIMM, soul
: her full Is o. the lyin' sons o NJ
y, BANNED. armed wi a gun son
- sort or else a spear as long as u
" oaff of a Wivenhoe cutter. Inc
dhows. YOU know, think nothin
ing in three points o the wind al
in the big black hull was alongside IN
n time.
IS Sheer off, you niger hounds
rt sboutad the cam. while the bla'
Jig guards twlrled their jayelins a
1T bared their spiked teeth and steer
be the black shell so as to come alol
en- side at the lowest freeboard The
of was whirr + the air and the voice
Is. the chief. Mind YOURSELF as gI'
llv ,lin' iron flew over the side ana "a
nd a grip O. the iron rail. jamie II
Id ertson cast it off Just as the heath'
nc got a turn around cleat, wi a SCI
on o. guns leveled at his head. And s
ed the big dhow held us. we coulu
he shake her off.
on why they didn't blaze away AT
,iu wi the guns | dunno. Maybe u
ter had no ammunition. Boardln'
,ro their little game and if they had @
is gained the main deck those 20 3
30 eyed rascals. every beastie o ther
-. Mohammedan, what chance would
fl white men ha' stood when
own natives turned and shifted o
a. TO their ain kind? Ma. ma. d
care about thinkin' too much
~" even now. month after. But
oe as the air seemed to get thick wi
ere iron hooks the engines got under
d way and We shot out ahead o
res dbow and the niggers shouun
ID souls l. the pit as the screw chur
and
rip