THE TIMES, NEW BL00MFIEL1), PA.. APRIL 22. 1879.
ADVENTURES AT SEA.
STROLLING aloiig the Circular Quay
In Sydney, New Routh Wales, one
afternoon, looking at the shipping, and
blowing away the weary hours In a
cloud of smoke from a much-loved old
clay pipe, my attention was attracted by
a schooner of one hundred and thirty
tons burthen, lying at anchor off In the
stream. There was nothing wonderful
about her, either for build or rig ; she
was merely a handsome schooner; but
the extreme neatness of everything on
board, from rail to truck, was eminently
gratifying to the eyes of a seaman. I
was sitting on an old spar, landed on the
quay from some vessel, with my back
against a moorlng-post, when a man
passed me, and, stopping on the edge of
the quay, hailed the schooner
" Adventure ahoy V"
"Ay.ay," was Immediately responded;
then a man appeared In the waist, look
ing towards the shore. lie waved his
hand to the person who had hailed, and
disappeared; and in a few minutes a
Btnall boat containing two men pulled
around the schooner's bow, from the
further side, headed for the boat-landing
near where I sat.
As the boat approached, the stranger
on the wharf stepped down from the
sill, on which he had been standing, and
moved towards the steps that led down
to the platform ; and much was I sur
prised lo recognize in the schooner's cap
tain (for such he was), an old friend of
mine on the gold-llelds of Australia,
caused Graham.
"Halloo! Graham," said I ; "how
are you, old fellow J1 What are you do
ing here Sidney J"'
"Murray, by thunder!" exclaimed
Graham ; " what, in the name of mis
chief, are you doing here 5"' at the same
time extending his hand and giving me
a warm grip. " Come off aboard the
schooner, that one off there, the Adven
ture; I'm trading with her, have been
on two trips, and am going out to-morrow
or next day on another. Come off,
we'll have a yarn ; what have you been
doing with yourself, anyway V"
Having nothing else to do, and as
Graham was a good fellow, and had
been a good mate on the diggings, I ac
cepted his invitation, und was soon in
troduced to his mate, and went into the
schooner's cabin. The latter was not
large, of course, but numerous muskets,
three very heavy doubled-barrelled shot
guns, a dozen cutlasses and a half a doz
en revolvers, evidently all carefully
looked after ana niguly polished, were
disposed in racks or arranged on the
walls of the cabin, or around the main
mast, which came down through the
fore part of it.
" Halloo 1 what sort of a hooker have
vou irot here. Graham "' said I. in some
surprise; "do you go 'trading' on such
capital as that 1" pointing to the mus
kets and cutlasses.
" Why," answered Graham, laugh
ing, "I told you I was trading; and
we have to carry all that stuff for safety.
But that isn't all our armament, either.
.We've got a little brass cannon, a four-
pounder, that we mount on the to'-gal-
. lant fo '-castle of the capstan, unship the
capstan and mount the gun ; we aren't
to be sneezed at, I tell you."
" No, I shouldn't think you were," I
said ; " but where in the Old Harry do
you trade to, that you have to carry all
this lighting gear '"'
" Where do I trade to! Why, where
' should I go to trade, except among the
islands ? I'm going to make a cruise
among the King's Mill Group, this
time. Shall touch Tanna Island flrst,
and get two or three Tannamen; they
are good fellows, and we have 'em for
interpreters. I know lota of 'em ; had
four with us last time. Then, if I can
pick up a cargo of sandal-wood or oil,
I shall run across to China and sell it,
and bring a cargo of tea and silk back
to Sydney, on owner's account."
"Oho! I understand; you're going
on-a sandal-wooding trip. Why didn't
you say so at flrst V I thought you were
going to do a little bit of pirating when
I looked at your armory," I answered
uranam laugimi, and produced a
square bottle and three glasses from a
transon locker ; and the mate (Moran)
ana myseir joined mm in annking a
glass of " old Holland," after which we
adjourned to the deck.
Iu conversation with Graham and
the mate I discovered that " trade" not
only meant the exchange of one kind
of goods for another, but was also ap
plied to the goods exchanged : and that
the " trade" taken out to exchange for
sandal-wood and cocoauut oil consisted
principally of gaudy calico, brilliantly
colored glass beads, tobaoco, rum and
cutlery, the last being the very meanest
and cheapest it was possible to procure,
made to order, in fact, and the other ar
ticles but little better. This wretched
" trade" was traded for the wood or oil,
and exorbitant prices demanded and ob
talned.
I had heard of " eandal-wooders" be
ing taken by the islanders on more than
one occasion, and kuew that the King's
Mills natives were ferocious cannibals;
so wnen uranam, at Bupper-ume,
broached the subject of my accompany
ing him on the trip, I replied :
Well, Graham, I don't know but
what I'll go; I should like to see some-
thing of those Pacific Islands ; but don't
the natives eat up everybody they can
get their hands on r"
"Well, what if they do V" said Gra
ham. " Let 'em eat, we needn't care a
curse as long as they don't eat us ; and
we'll take the best care of that. You
see our flxln's here (pointing to the guns
and pistols); them's all for arguments
to persuade the natives to let us alone.
Come, now, I want a second mate ; will
you go?"
"I'll go, yes ; but I won't go as Beo-
ond mate, for I'm not a schooner Bailor.
Give me yards and square sails, and I
know what I'm doing ; but these fore-
and-aft sails I'm not used to. I'll go as
supernumerary, If you like."
" No you won't go as supernumerary
or any other ary, not in this packet.
We've got no real work to do till we get
among the islands. I'll stand on watch
with you myself till you get used to
schooner work, and you'll like it."
I agreed to go, and two days later we
were bound away for Tanna Island, with
a flue breeze and a pleasant sky. Noth
ing worth noting occurred until we
reached the Island. Here Graham found
his interpreters of the previous trip,
and took them on board ; and another
native, a chief of some kind or other
among a tribe on one of the King's
Mills Group, also got a passage down to
his native island with us. This chief
or partlarch, or whatever he was, was
well known to Graham, who had pur
chased sandal-wood of him on his previ
ous trip, and we were all particularly
careful not to annoy him on the passage
down from Tanna, as he gave us to un
derstand that he had as much sandal
wood as would load the schooner, and
we wanted it, of course.
Captain Graham knew . the character
of the natives, and told us that probably
the old chief had not more than a few
boat loads, at most, which he magnified
much to make himself of consequence
among us ; and this proved to be the
case.
He had lour boat loads, each boat car
rying auout unir a ton ; and that we
bought for two or three knives and
about six yards of calico, with a pound of
of tobacco and a handful beads thrown
in.
when we arrived at the island, we
put old Daisy (as the sailors called the
the native) on shore at once, he promis
ing to have the wood down to the beach
in the morning ; and we then stood off
with the schooner till daylight should
come.
Pistols and cutlasses had been dis
tributed among the crew, aud soon as
we sighted land ; and Graham and I
spent the evening in carefully examin
ing and loading the muskets and shot
guns, the latter being heavily charged
with buckshot.
With the first streaks of daylight we
stood in for the land, and brought the
schooner to the wind about two miles
off. The boat, built something after the
style of a whale-boat, but shorter and
wider, was got ready ; the "trade" being
stowed away in the bow and under the
stern sheets. Each man had a revolver
stuck in his belt; two cutlasses and one
of the shot guns were laid down in the
stern, and the largest of the double
barrels was stood up in the bow. A keg
of water and some biscuits and beef
completed our outfit, and soon after
sunrise we pulled away for the shore,
Captain Graham standing at the steer
ing oar, and four of us rowing,! pulling
the bow-oar.
We had not pulled more than half
way to the island from the schooner
when a number of natives appeared on
the flat white beach of a little cove, for
which Captain Graham headed the
boat; and as we neared the shore the
natives made signs to us where to land
When within about two hundred yards
of the beach, the Bklpper quietly re
marked, half to himself and half to the
natives:
JNo you don't, not u 1 Know any
thing about it." And just as quietly he
gave the orders to us, "Hold water,your
port oars, pull round, starboard," at
the same tlui9 sweeping the boat with
the long steering-oar, till her head lay
to seaward.
I was somewhat surprised at this
movement, for we could see several pret
ty good piles of what I was assured was
sandal-wood, near the beach.
"What's the matter?" I asked
ain't you going to land and get the
sandal-wood ?"
"Land bed dl no," was the reply
" but we'll get the wood, never fear.
Don't you see how shoal the water is
here ? Well, we should have to beach
the boat, which isn't gospel in this
trade, no how, unless you are inclined
to be made soup of. These black imps
have picked the place out a purpose
most likely ; but they'll bring the wood
to the place I pick out, see if they
don't."
As we pulled out of the cove and
along shore, the natives screamed and
made motions for us to return, holding
up pieces of the wood, to show that
they were ready and willing to trade;
but Graham took no notice of them.
We kept on until we found a spot where
the water was several fathoms deep close
in to the shore, which suited Graham's
Ideas exactly. The steward, who had
pulled the stroke-oar, now took the
skipper's place at the steerlng-oar; the
two seamen moved the two after oars, to
make as much room forward as possi
ble; and Captain Graham took his sta
tion at the bow.
" Now, Murray," said he to me, "fleet
aft onto the next thwart, turn round,
take that half-grown cannon (the big
double-barrelled shot-gun), and stand
by to blow the flrst darkey that shows
mischief clean to the devil ; keep both
barrels cocked and don't take your An
gers off the triggers for anybody or any
thing, but be kind o' careful and don't
shoot me. Pull in, hoys, keep her
sternlng fair out to sea, steward, and
be sure you don't let her swing broad
side on to the beach."
In a few moments the boat's stern
touched the rocks, and the skipper con
tinued:
"Lay on your oars, men, and stand
by to stern off at once : Murray, keep
your weather eye lifting now, and if
there be any ugly-lookln' move made by
the darkeys, let rip into 'em at once;
there's no law here, you know, we've
got to take care of ourselves."
" Do you always have to be as cau
tious as this ?" I asked.
Well, yes ; at any rate, I always am
Just as cautious. There have been trad
ing-vessels taken by the natives among
these islands more than once, and I do
not mean that they shall have our
hooker, nbt through any fault of mine,
anyway."
The natives soon made their appear
ance at our landing-place, but brought
no wood; they were urgent that we
should return to the shoal water of the
cove, offering to bring the wood out to
the boat If we should do so. But our
Tantiaman gave them to understand
plainly that If they wanted to trade they
must bring their sandal-wood to where
the boat now lay, and nowhere else.
At this they seemed displeased, and
threatened not to trade with us at all ;
but the interpreter was not to he " bluff
ed" by them. Holding up a piece of
calico printed in the most glaring col
orsJet black, scarlet, green, blue and
yellow, In stripes six inches wide, look
ing like a rainbow gone mad he told
them, in their own lingo :
" All right : you keep your wood, and
we'll keep this splendid ' tappa.' "
The sight of the gorgeous calico was
too much for the natives (no wonder ;
one look at it was enough to upset al
most anybody), and very soon the san-dal-wood
began to arrive at the boat.
Now the trade commenced. Old
Daisy on the shore, and our Tannaman
in the boat, kept up an unearthly jab
bering, each depreciating the other's
wares and praising up his own, after the
manner of more civilized nations; and
Captain Graham excited the covetous
ness of the blacks by holding up the
marvellous calico, brandishing the huge
castiron knives, or letting a handful of
glass beads, as big as marbles, run from
his hand Into a tin pan. But a dozen
times, while the trade was progressing,
he drew my attention to my own par
ticular duty, by Baying :
" Mind what you've got hold of, Mur
ray; we're depending an aimigmy lot
on you."
So I did " mind what I had hold of,"
though I could not detect any arms
among the natives except their clubs,
At last we had received as much of the
wood as our boat could carry, and Gra
ham invited old Daisy to go off with us
to the schooner, promising him a glass
of whisky. To any one who has ever
been among these islands, it is needless
to Bay that old Daisy accepted the Invi
tation, and soon stowed himself away
on the top of the sandal-wood. As all
was now ready for our return to the
schooner, I laid my gun down to take
my oar; but before I could touch the
latter, Graham spoke to me in a way to
make me pick up the gun again, pretty
quick :
" Look out, Murray ! d nation, man,
keep your guu and your place till we're
clear of the shore; do you want these
black devils to knock out all our brains ?
Stern, the after oar, stern off in to deep
waters ; don't lay her round yet, stew
ard, wait till we're a good ship's length
clear."
But the natives showed no inclination
to prom by my carelessness, and we
were soon nil dowji to the oars, and an
hour later were safely on board the
schooner, and the valuable wood In her
hold.
On the way off Graham told me that
the natives knew well the difference be
tween tbe destiuctiveness of a pistol
ball and a heavy charge of buckBhot ;
and that, well-armed with revolvers as
we were, the big shot-gun probably bad
more influence in keeping them quiet
than all our other arms put together.
He told several yarns, some of them
pretty tough ones, about the natives and
their doings, and spoke of old Daisy's
wife (or one of his wives), whom he
had seen on the Adventure's last trlp,as
an immensely fat woman.
Directing the Interpreter to inquire of
old Daisy regarding the welfare of his
obese spouse, that worthy coolly replied
that she had gone ; voluntarily adding
by way of explanation, that she had got
so fat as to be unfit for work, "so he
clubbed her and ate her!" This was a
new plan of utilizing a wife to me, and
I vowed that old Daisy should not have
one of our four glass tumblers to drink
Ills whisky out of, for I'd never drink
after him, but Graham and the other
men had a good laugh at the circum
stance. But I made old Daisy drink his
grog out of a tin dipper.'
It was too late when we got on board
to go for another boat load that day, but
next morning we went again, carrying
old Daisy with us.
We remained about this Island for a
week, and then, having secured all the
sandal-wood to be obtained there, we
left for a new field.
Three months of very successful trad
ing filled our hold two-thirds full of
sandal-wood, and we had secured nearly
thirty barrels of oil, besides. All the
trading was conducted with the same
caption as was at flrst displayed ; I con
stantly holding the big gun, ready for
an instant discharge, whenever the
trading was going on, though no signs
of treachery was ever detected.
Graham was beginning to talk of a
run across to China in a week or two,
when one morning a circumstance oc
curred which sent us
in Tasmania, Instead
in China.
Into Hobarttown,
of Foo-Cboo-Foo,
We were near one of the largest and
least known islands of the group, the
evening previous to the occurrence
which so altered our destination, and
Graham remarked at supper that he
" expected to get a good lot of wood here
for he didn't know of any trader having
called at the Island since the 1 Spec' was
lost."
"Wasn't It here somewhere here she
was taken ?" asked the mate.
" Yes," answered the skipper ; " there
is nothing certain known of how she
was lost ; none of her crew eves got
back to tell the story. But the natives
on this Island bad lots of her trade
among them, and much of her gear and
sails ; the Victoria a gunboat found
them when she came down this way
looking for tbe missing missionary
barque that was wrecked about that
time. '
I knew the Spec's skipper well, and be
was a good Bailor, too, but I always told
him he was too careless when he was
trading, and I think the natves took the
boat first, and then attacked the sloop,
or else boarded her in the night with ca
noes, and killed all hands : they told the
man-o'-war they didn't, though; said
the sloop drifted on a coral reef in a calm
when there was a big sea on, and all got
drowned. But they lied, of course they
lied!"
Well," replied Moran, " they won't
board us in tbe night with canoes; if
they do, there will be a confounded row,
that's all. Keep a good lookout in your
watch, Murray, and don't be afraid to
rouse all hands if you see anything you
don't like. We'll look out for our hides,
for we've got too good a voyage aboard
to get used up now."
" Light O 1" sungout one of the watch
on deck, at this moment, and the cabin
was soon deserted.
The schooner was slowly head-reach
ing under short sail, and had got far
enough past a point of land to open out
the shore beyond, which bad been hid
den from view as we approached the
island in the afternoon. A large fire
was burning on or near tbe beach, but
we were too far off to see who was near
it or what they were doing. The mate
suggested that it might be a signal for
us, but Captain Graham thought such
was not the case ; had it been intended
for us, it would have been kindled on
the other side of the point, for which we
were heading at sunset, the schooner's
course being always changed after dark
when we were near the islands, to guard
against any possible attack from the
shore. S
" Well," said the skipper, " we shall
find out to-morrow if it means anything;
Just keep your wits about you to-night.
Let the schooner crawl off "as she's go
ing now till eight bells (midnight), and
then ware her. Call me at four o'clock
and rouse everybody if you've the least
cause, or think you have." And with
these instructions he went below. Con
cluded next week.
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M assure you it iff true that he Is
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"Welia-day! That is remarkable ! I
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poor George I know hops are good."
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