Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-16
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they returned and made a clean
sweep of the villages. They took
pigs, yams. sweet potatoes and
all the fowls they could catch,
set fire to the villages and left
them burning like torches with
just few old people squatting
in the sand and wailing at the
destruction that had to come TO
them.
In the Ellice Islands is the
Mitchell Group. It's just a coral
ing with ten lovely islands in IL
Native missionaries from Samoa
had converted the $50 inhabit-
ants of the atoll and they lived
happily, trading with the one
white man there.
When II NJ. S Basilisk called
there in 1872 the population was
seventy. The trader told the
tale He was away in 1854 when
the Callao ships came. Three
large barques under Spanish
colors anchored off the atoll. and
an old man in long black coat
and wideawake hat landed
He said he was missionary
and that the three ships were
from the Church. He invited the
natives to go aboard the ships to
receive Holy Sacrament They
we're all captured and thrown
below.
Then that old scoundrel re-
turned with his oily face and
soft talk and told the women
that their men called for them.
they went off and were cap
tured The few people left on
shore saw the three ships sail
away and they never heard of
their friends again They were
taken to Peru. those who didn't
die on the way. Two jumped
UNtI pOdIN anu sNdlU SFNtIl itlilcS
back 10 the island They told
the tale to the trader.
EVER hear of the brig, Carl !?
- She vas an Australian vessel
under command Of a man who
called himself DR. James Patrick
Murray He sailed In her as
recruiting agent out of Mel
bourne in June. 1871, on a cruise
20 the Solomons and New He
brides to engage natives as
laborers for the FIJI plantations.
Joseph Armstrong was his cap
tain and Charles Dowden the
mate
A passenger. Mount, dressed
himself as a missionary. black
suit. large umbrella and big
Bible, and went ashore to swim
die them poor savages out of
life and liberty But the natives
were leery they saw through
his disguise. maybe. anyhow,
they didn't go aboard the Carl.
Murray was drinking and in
a had way.
We gotta get some of them
lazy swine. he growled. Here.
I got an idea"
They swung swivel guns out
board and roped them so they
could haul them back. They
made sings of pig-iron ballast
and slung that over the bulwarks.
So they sailed to the New He
brides.
When they anchored. the Mel
anesians came alongside in their
outriggers with fruit and stuff
to trade. But they weren't ready
for the ballast and swivel guns
that were dropped on their light
craft. With yells they jumped
from the smashed canoes and
started for the beach. That was
what Murray was waiting for.
Get them" he yelled from
the deck
And his boats scooted round
from the stern and his crew
chased those helpless swimmers
with sandbags and clubs, smash
inc their heads if they tried TO
~ h the shore. BY the time
they reached the Solomons they
had eighty below decks.
Some of the crew were Kama
kas and they spoke the same
language as the slaves.
Too much had feller." said
one. Plenty Robbery over thief
man."
But Murray heard him and
pulled his revolver.
'Looka here" he said slowly.
Any talk from you apd you go