The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-18
CH|NK CREW FIGHT
MONKEY MUT|NEERS
Terrible Two Days Struggle on
Board the Steamship Low
ther Castle
TRAGEDY OF The INDIAN OCEAN
Wing kee Discerns a Noble Soul Re.
incarnate in Chane-Fierce Re-
venge for the Murder Done by a
Needless Billow.

Brooklyn, N. Y.--There was mutiny
on board the steamship Lowther Cas-
tie, which arrived here a few days
since from far Eastern ports, mutiny
that lasted two days and two nights.
Before it was quelled and the mutt
neers were safe in the hold fourteen
of them had paid the penalty with
their lives and their bodies were
thrown to the fishes.
When the Lowther Castle, Capt.
William Lightoller, flying the British
flag, sailed from Yokohama with a
Chinese crew the officers did not be.
lieve that there would be trouble. All
went we'll until after the ship left
Singapore and was out in the Indian
Ocean well on her way to Port Said.
At Singapore the bumboat men and
other traders had come alongside with
monkeys-many monkeys, both large
and small. Monkeys are cheap ut
Singapore, and when the vessel sailed
there were fifty of them slowed in the
hold, to say nothing Of two fine ring
tailed simians that Wing Kee, the
cook, had in cage in the galley. Wing
Kee bought his pair from the Malay
servant of a Chinese merchant who
lived in the town Of Djokjokarta.
which is in central Java.
a few Gays later Wing thought that
he saw in the eyes of the female,
which he had named Ki XII, a piteous
appeal for liberty, so he opened the
cage door ever so little and let her
out. Ki Ki romped about the decks
happy as lark, if monkeys ever get
that happy, but always at meal times
she was to be found near the gallery
petting her mate, Chang, through the
bars.
One day the cook decided that there
would be no particular harm in letting
Chang have his liberty-so Chang
joined Ki Ki and the two climbed all
over the ship.
One night there came typhoon
from out of the south and the waves
rolled high on the bosom of the Indian
Ocean.
The gale increased; so did the fears
of the Chinese crew and they burned
fireworks to frighten away the storm
devils that were pursuing the ship.
The noise of the firecrackers and the
glare of the Roman candles frightened
poor little Ki Ki and she bounded
from one side of the deck to the other
in terror. Finally she leaped on the
| port rail just as huge sea came over
the port bow. Wing Kee, seeing the
30 III n t~sl1 nv
to save her. But he was too late,
! the ring tailed one was caught Ga
the crest of the wave and carried
away.
Chang from his cage top in the gal
lery saw Ki Ki go overheard, and rush.
ed to the side. He gazed at the trou
/ bed waters and then went to the
, cook. He caught Wing by the trous.
| ers and seemed to be trying to ask
him to save Ki Ki.
The next day the storm abated
Chang would eat no breakfast and
climbed to the foremast head There
he sat the entire day, looking out over
the sea and chattering to himself
| Night came and still Chang clung tC
the fore truck. One of the crew went
after him, but returned to the decl
minus part of his cherished queue
Another tried to get the monkey dowr
and was frightfullv scratched
The morning or the third day Chans
was not to be found and it was
thought that during the night he hat
Jumped into the ocean where his mate
had gone.
At midnight Second Officer Donohu'
took the bridge. All was quiet saw
for the throb of the engines and tn
muffied football of the lookout on thu
bow.
Then there was heard a terrible
noise below. A rush as of many feet
a chattering as of many tongues, an
fifty forms rushed from the hold u
the after companionway and on t
the deck.
Forward they rushed, tumbling owe
one another in their eagerness to b
at the front.
what the mischief is the matte
here?" yelled the second officer.
"The monkeys!" screamed tn
DOS n. lney nave eScdpeu!
And before the bos'n could sa
more, they had pounced upon him an
: felled him to the deck.
The struggles OF the bos'n, combine
with the cries of the second office
: and others of the watch, brought a
hands on deck.
: AS the captain hurried from tn
cabin and the Chinese scurried frol
the forecastle, they were met by tn
3 monkeys, who seemed bent on mi
chief.
Time and again the monkeys wei
chased to cover only to return to II
attack, and for the next two days 6
most the entire crew were fighting fl
their lives against a willy foe.
When fourteen Of the larger mo
. . keys had been killed, the rest we
= cowed and secured in their cage
from which they had been liberated
= Chang.
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