j those on the junk
Fifteen o f them stayed on the cap
tured ship, taking aboard two guns
and plenty o f small arms, while the
others sailed away on the junk. We
white men were obliged to obey the'r
! orders or walk the plank like the others
And that’s tlie crime i have to confess.
For weeks, when they were overpow
By DWIGHT NORWOOD
ering unarmed vessels, looting and
murdering, we were doing our part of
There is a record o f the ship Julia the work. What else could we do?
l-turdevant having been burned at sea We could have refused and given up
with all on board except five o f the our lives, and it’s been troubling me
crew, who were picked up in a lifeboat for more than half a century that I
while the vessel was burning off the didn’t choose the better part
I’m not going to name all the crimes
coast o f Korea. This happened many
we committed because we had to. I’m
year* ago when I was a young man. 1 simply going to tell how we finally
am now a ninety year old hulk, laid made our escape. After awhile we
up at the Sailors' snug harbor, ready agreed that we would pretend that we
for the junkheap. The Julia Sturde- were contented with our lot, ask for
vaut was set a tire, and I applied the our share of the plunder and do every
torch that burned her. Before sailing thing else we could to put the yellow
on my eternal voyage I huve to confess j devils off their guard. One thing we
this fact and tell how 1 came to do it. ' were afraid of. There was one ship
There is no sin on my conscience in that we tried to capture and failed
** that burning, but there are others that We boarded her and were fighting
are a hundred times worse thuu burn hand to hand with her crew when they
saw us white men fighting with the
ing a ship.
When 1 stepped on the Julia Sturde- yellow ones. We were about to join
vant I was twenty-two years old. We our own color when, fired with hatred
sailed from Boston to Japun. taking against us for being part o f a Chinese
out a cargo such as the little yellow pirate crew, they made a desperate
men needed then, but don’t need now, dash and drove us back on to our own
for that wasn't long after Commodore ship. After that we knew that If we
l*erry sailed in among them and began escaped the pirates and were recognlz
their civilizing. The Sturdevaut was ! ed by any o f the men ou that,ship we
one o f the early steamers, having pad I would dangle at a yardarm.
The next ship taken had a lot of
dle wheels and sails, and her engine
was a primitive one. Any well rigged liquor aboard, and every pirate got
ship in a stiff breeze could outsail her. drunk. We watched our opportunity,
We were plowing along through the pretending to drink nnd be drunk like
China sea against a stiff uor'easter, j the others, till they were all laid out
when before the wind came a Chinese When eight o f them were either asleep
Junk. Before she reached us she hoist I or stupid with liquor below nnd the
ed the skull and bones and tired a shot rest being in the sume condition on
at us as an order to stop. We hadn’t \ deck, we elnpi>ed down the hatches ou
so much as a salute caunon aboard and i rhose below. What we did to those on
few small arms. There were ports deck I don't mention, except that they
for four guns on each side o f the Junk, didn’t trouble us any more.
We hadn’t more than fixed them all
k and her decks swarmed with men. We
when looking ahead we saw a ship
saw it was all up with us, and our
coming and made out the stars and
captain surrendered with a condition
stripes at her peak, for in those days
that all our lives be spared.
our flag was often seen on the ocean
As soon as the pirates came aboard
Some o f us thought that if she over
they began to look the vessel over and
hauled us and we told our story we
concluded to divide their force, run would be believed. Others didn't think
ning her as well ns their own ship.
we would.
Some day some o f us
Without regarding the condition they
might meet some o f the crew of the
had made, they forced all the crew ex
ship we had boarded. I made up my
cept five of us to walk the plank.
mind what to do and without saying
What they kept us five for was to di
anything got a lot of tow and oakum
re t the working o f the ship, since they
together and set lire to It. The wind
knew nothing about the use o f steam.
was high, and in fifteen minutes the
Tw o o f us were tlie engineer and his
whole ship was ablaze. We lowered
assistant. The other three they kept
one o f the boats, got into her and pull
to post and help them in working the
ed for the Yankee ship.
chip's sails that were entirely unlike
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th e , b e l l
boy
knew
IT W A S
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SCUSE ME JUOqE. FER. QlTTIN ^
Y£R UP AT DIS LATE. HOUR
BUT DE NIIQHT CLERK DONE
SAY COULD YOU ALL SPARE
HIM A LITTLE. OF DAT REAL
T o b a c c o
C h ew
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When we reached her we reported
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time we would have been lost. And
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had boarded long afterward In Hong
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