The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1899, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO 19 sUNDAY. MARCH 19, teen share: should only be eight shares, as only eight were concerned in the mutiny, but Leon with greater sagacity argued that ry one should be equally involved in he crime by taking their share of the o There were money and clothes to divide, and a big box of boots which represented some little commercial ven- ture of the captain's. Every one was stamping about in a new pair. The ac- tual money came to about £10 each, and the watch was set aside to be sold and divided later. Then the mutineers took permanent possession of the cabin, the course of the ship was altered for and the ill-fated bark second chapter of her in- Watto insisted that it began famous v ge. The cargo had been broached and ere littered with open cases from which every one If as he passed. There llade of popping corks all and the air was full of the faint, mell of the wine. The ;i was nominally command- he was a commander without r to command From morn- and in- . and it was Leo inter- e and the w grounded convie- that never make the hich saved him menaces. They gave mpagne carousals by knives in his face. were subjected to treat < and Watto came to the Nor- carpenter’s whetstone to shar- knives, explaining to him as that they would soon use throat. Watto, the hand- ared that he had already kilte sixte me: He wantonly stabbed offensive Chinese stew- ard through the fleshy part of the arm. S id Candereau, the French- two or three days I shall kiil ill me then!"” cried Candereau with rit knife,” said the bully, “will you the same that it has the captain. There seems to have been no attempt no protec- 1d stepped htened a were upon the part of the nine honest men to combine against the eight rogues. As they were all of different races and spoke diffe: languages it is not sur- prising that they were unable to make ad against the armed and unanimous ineers. nd then there befell one of those incidents which breaks the monotony of ages. The topsails of a above the horizon and her hull. Her course and seen in that rrible a group nce hos con- The Manila m le round age Mongolian do with me?" goon there ro kit me? 1d take } s their bows, and the mate as to hail her, as he was doubtful as to his latitude. “You may do so,” said Leon. “But “we are not golng if you say a word about us you are a = have killed the dead man.” Nobody on The strange ship hauled her yard avigation. aback when she saw that the other to where we can wished to speak her, and the two lay rolling in the Atlantic swell within v believing a hundred yards of each other. of safety, “We are the Friend of Liverpool,™ ion. cried an officer. ‘“Who are you? to?” he “We are the Louisa, seven days out from Dieppe for Valparaiso,” answered Spanish the unhappy mate, repeating what 4 it was the mutineers whispered to him. The broken Eng- longitude was asked and given, and the two vessels parted company. With River Platte,” said he. yearning eyes the harassed man looked Plenty Spa » And at the orderly decks and the well- 1 served officer of the Liverpool ship, while he In turn noticed with surprise 1 ailous those signs of careless handling which would strike the eye of a sailor in the rig and management of the Flowesy Soon the vessel was huil down the horizon and in an hour the ship was again alone in the vast ring of the ocean. cried Watto, This meeting was very nearly being 1 as he a fatal one to the mate, for it took ail Leon's influence to convince the other . ignorant and suspiclous seamen that the saloon they had not been betrayed. But a ereau, the more dangerous time still was before i at the him. It must have been evident to him ocent hae that when they had made their landfall of the crime to save then was the time when he was no longer ne: ary to the crew and when ap effects were lald our they were likely to silence him forever. the table and divided into seven. That which was their goal was likely a cold fit ssed throt of ——— —_— = e T —— — i T il 0 il !; 5 »!‘,;.;«l;;! 0 | il LAST OF TME FLOWERY-LAND. S S LAV S to prove his death warrant. Every day brought him nearer to this inevitable crisis, and then at on the night of the 2d of October the look- out man reported land ahead The ship was at once put about morning the South Americar a dim haze upon the wes! ‘When the mate came upon deck he found the mutinee est con- clave about the fo: 1 looks and gestu! told him that it was te which was being debated. Leon was again side of g you like to kill the carpenter and t mate, you ca I shall not do it,”” said he. There w opinion upon th helpless mate wai a knot of butcher: ““What are they to do with me? e cried to Leo received no repl “Are they going to kill me?” he asked Marsolino. “I am not, but Blanco is,” was the discouraging reply. However, the thoughts of the muti- neers were happily di y other 1 things. First, they clewed up the sa for the shore. and dropped the boats alongside. The It was 4 in the after mate having been deposed from his 4th of October that the; command there was no commander at on the South Ame all, so that everything was chaos. Some s a desolate spot, so tramped got into the boats and some remained ng along ‘with the gait of upon the decks of the ves: The mate seamen their bundles upo found himself in one bo: which cor their shoulders. Their story was th: tained Watto. Paul the Sclavo were the shipwrecked Early, the ship’s boy, and the Chines 3 n s cook. They rowed a hundred yards She had foundered a hundred m: away from the ship. but were recalled and the captain and officers by Blanco and Leon. It shows how another boat which had parted com- They had been filve days and 1 the deck until one of them struck a t h o the took Cassap, to the cabin. heard a ¥ then!” words that he sprang i s and one lar, \ tow of the nd the poor, e a sheep near down un- Then the boats, er, made slowly on upon ‘the ran their boats beach.. It £ cen_who had started death of the officers di he Fl r ejudice of deaths their of apportion- men and absolutely the honest men had lost S Tat their spirit; that though they were four upo: ) m an Tat- to o:‘.ep in this particular boat they rd evening thevy came upon the British law than that w s boy, meekly returned when they were re- estancia of a lonely farmer. to whom V! few months this mixed d An- nt all gave their eriminating one and told their tale, and from whom Sclavonian, negro, Manila me e . some received every hospitality. Next Turk and Frenchm deck, and the others were allowed to they were all driven over to the 'n the shore of the float astern. The unfortunate steward nearest town of Rocha andereau and had descended into another beat, but the mate got an opportunity of escap- Duranno pushed him overboard. . He ight. and within twenty-four swam for a long time, begging hara for been told to the his life. but Leon and Duranno pelted eers were all him with empty champagne bottles called. The Chinese cook was ordered on s carried »f Newgate upon the 22 Five ropes j d the The