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    A Pirate Among Pirates
REAL STORIES FROM THE LIFE
& CAPTAIN GEORGE B. BOYNTON
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T was In the summer of 1874
that I made my first plunge
Into piracy, for. with all of the
tn turnings and aids to decep
tion stripped sway, that was
■ hat it really amounted to. 1
did not know into just a hat I
was being led when 1 em
barked In this new enterprise,
but I am frank to say that '.t
would hare mu tie no difference
tor a free translation of the
•ord “piracy" la adventure of the first order."
K, and than was what I *a> looking lor.
Frank Norton, who had interested me in the
*Tt:aa sea. said we would need the Leek with
and two ships to carry on the business to the
bee* advantage so ! selected the Surprise, an
Americas brig and the Florence, a topsail
schooner. both ft cut. fast ships. 1 put I>oren
ee* on the Leckwitb as sailing-master. George
****** <* the Surprise and old Bill Heather
«c h*- Florence. The Surprise took on a gen
*"■*1 cargo for Japan and was ordered to ren
ds rot:., at Hong Kong, while the Florence
loaded it r Singapore Norton and I followed in
the Lerka ith
We reached Singapore mo-* ’ban a month
ahead of the Florence Our scheme a a* to
prey on the pirates who infested the China
•**- aini tarticuiariy that part of it lying be
***** > ngapore. Sumatra and Borneo, which
«as doned with Islands and beautifully suited
fcy nature So their plundering profession, and
many a ere the good ships that ended their
cr mis there, along with their passengers and
creus The British government had been try
ing for years to put an end to their operations,
t «t the undertaking was s gigantic one. It was
1A -t *ti years after that it was officially an
naurcad that piracy had been rupyressed, and
l-r**T *• *fUl being carried on even to this
day, though in a small and desultory way.
they cou'd not withstand
our combined rush, and
the last them soon went
over the side into their
proa, which drifted away
into the darkness when
they cut her loose. How
ever. in the last few min
utes of fighting, the
young British officer, as
I took him to be. sus
tained a savage cut in
his right shoulder, and
after we had laid aside
our dead and givbn our
wounded rough attention
I was surprised to re
ceive an inquiry front
him as to whether we
had a surgeon on board.
Taking him aboard the
Leckwith. I dressed his
wonna on tne canm table.
1 then saw that his uni
form was that of a captain, but not of a naval
officer, lie told me his name was Deverell, but
when I asked him the name of his ship he an
swered evasively, and I had learned the ways
of 'he < l.ina sea too well to press the question.
At Sine.ipore. where w'e discharged cur cargo,
our agents reported that Moy Sen was vowing
vengeance on us for the loot Ve had wrested
from him and the havoc we had spread among
his Geet. We worked our way back to the
rendezvous a.’.d. after consulting with Norton. I
took niy interpreter. Ah Fen. who wa* ball
Chinkie" and half Malay, from the Leckwith
and went to Hong Kong on the Surprise to see
just what was going on.
The Beautiful \\ hite Devil.” a woman pirate,
whom I at fir-t regarded as a purely fanciful
being came into my life on this visit to Hong
Kong in the early day of 1876.
Y\ hite waiting for Ah Fen's report I lounged
around the hotel. Soon I began to hear weird
stories of a woman pirate who, while never mo
lesting honest merchantmen, preyed merciless
ly and successfully on the Chinese and Malay
pirates, just as Norton and I were doing.
It occurred to me at once that If such a wom
an really did exist it might have been her ship
whose captain I had attended, but I could not
make myself believe the tales that were told
me.
Then a man called at my hotel one evening
and asked if an English physician was stopping
there, and I recognized Captain Deverell. but
he was as formal as a stranger, and I did not
indicate that 1 knew him. He asked if he could
consult with me and I took him to my room,
where be assumed a much more cordial air.
“I called." he said, “to invite you take a
cruise with me so that we may get better ac
quainted and I can show you my appreciation
of your kindness.’’
I packed my bag and turned It over to a man
whom Deverell summoned from the street.
I was given the cabin of the surgeon, who
had died recently. Deverell took me to his
room and we talked until midnight
It was considerably after eight bells before
I retired, but my sleep was not long or heavy.
At breakfast time Deverell, wearing a smart
uniform, escorted me aft to the private Quar
ters of the queen.
In a moment the queen appeared. As she
parted the curtains and paused in the doorway
with an air of diffidence, I was transfixed by
her marvelous beauty.
"I already know Dr. Burnet.” she said, as
she swept toward me with superb grace and in
finite charm of manner and extended her hand,
small and soft.
“We are headed for my retreat,” she explain
ed. “I should like to have you stay with us as
long a» you can. I will put you down in Hong
Kong or Singapore on three or four days’ na
tive.”
I assured her the prospect was delightful.
On the afternoon of the third day out from
Hong Kong we ran into a group of Islands, ofT
to the eastward of the regular course to Sing
apore. Just as dinner was announced a flag
was waved from the bridge and I made out an
answering signal on the steep side of a small
island just ahead of us, but could see no sign
of either a landing or an opening. Then a mes
senger brought word that the queen was wait
Ine dinner for me. The ship slowed down
while we were at dinner and finally the screw
stopped. Immediately the queen led the way
to the deck.
“This." she said, “is my kingdom—without
a king. Isn’t it beautiful?"
I assured her that It was the most beautiful
place I had ever seen, wherein, when day
dawned. I found I had not exaggerated. We
were at the head of an oval lake, perhaps a
mile and a half long, with mountains rising
crescent-shaped around it There was a small
village of English cottages and native huts. On
three sides of the lake was a narrow beach;
the fourth side, toward the sea. was a perpen
dicular bluff, sixty feet or more high. I search
ed it for the passage through which we had
entered the lake, but nothing could I see but
a bare wall of dark rock. The queen smiled
at my perplexity. “Wait until tomorrow.” she
laughed. "We will go ashore at sunrise.”
She appeared with the sun. accompanied by a
Dyak woman whom I had not seen befotie. and
we landed at a little stone dock in front of the
village All of the inhabitants, consisting of
about fifty English and Scotch men and women,
some with silvered locks and bent backs and
some of ’ten crippled by the pirates, and near
ly as many natives, crowded the pier to meet
her. their manner one of the greatest affection
and deference. We walked through the vil
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There was nothing to do tut fail in with her
p!an.
I knew about where to End the Florence. We
picked her up in a few days and I bearded her
made sail to meet the Leckwith at the ren
dezvous. Kate went on to Singapore, where
she took the next ship for England. Six
months later 1 received word that she had died
suddenly there, before she had applied for a
pardon, and the course of my life was changed
When I rejoined the Leckwith. I told Norton
simply that 1 had been away cn strictly private
br.siness. A day cr two later I told him I had
decided to sell the Florence ar.U Surprise and
quit the business we were in. Norton, dum
founded. advanced many arguments against
such a course, and finaliy he lost his temper.
“It may be." he suggested sneeringly. “that
this is due to the fact that lloy Sen has
threatened to exterminate us. If you don’t
want to fight the old scoundrel why don't you
say so?”
That dart struck a tender spot. ! would he
the last one to quite under a threat or under
fire, and Norton knew it. “Far from running
away from a fight of that kind,’* 1 told Norton.
“I should much rather run into it. We will
cruise around awhile to see whether the Chink
ies really mean to give us battle. But it is the
sport of it that I want and nothing else, for if
it comes off it will be a great fight.”
Nothing happened for ten days or two weeks.
We saw several junks which we could easily
have stood up and robbed, but 1 would not per
mit it. Then, late one evening an enormous
junk appeared suddenly from behind an island.
She appeared to carry only a small crew, but
when we came together it seemed to me for
a moment that she had more Chinamen on
board than I had ever seen before at one time
Suddehly she swung to starboard and would
have smashed into our bow if we had not gone
full speed astern. As she passed under our
bowsprit she threw a grappling-iron which
caught on our port bow.
We lit our battle-lamps so that they Illu
minated our deck, where we preferred to fight
because we knew every foot of it.
It was such a fight as one gets into only in
years, perhaps only once in a lifetime. The
butchery was dreadful, but the excitement of
it set one’s blood ablaze. There was not a
pirate left alive on the junk or on our own
deck.
lieiore we naa time to congratulate ourselves
or count noses, we discovered a big steamer
almost on top of ns. It was the Ly-ce-meon. the
flagship of Moy Sen’s fleet, and, though we did
not know it. the old pirate chief himself was in
command of her.
The result was a repetition of what had oc
curred with the crew of the junk, but it re
quired much longer to accomplish it.
Gradually, but slowly at first, we got the
upper hand of them.
It was broad daylight by the time we had
thrown overboard the last of the dead China
men and washed down the decks, after giving
our own badly wounded men such attention as
was possible under the conditions. We thought
for a time that Moy Sen had escaped, but we
found him. almost chopped to pieces, close to
the after-wheelhouse, with three of our men
beside him.
On the Ly-ce-moon were two teak chests,
filled with gold and silver coin and ingots, sil
verware. jewelry and precious and semi-preci
ous stones of the Oriental variety, apparently
representing the most valuable portions of sev
eral stolen cargoes, and these I allowed to be
transferred to the Leckwith. In preference to
throwing them overboard.
It then became a question as to what we
should do with Moy Sen’s ships. We com
promised the difficulty by scuttling the junk
and putting a crew aboard the steamer. We
went to Singapore, arriving there in the early
part of 1S76, as 1 remember it. to close up our
business, and sold the pirate ship to our
Chinese agents for a third of what she was
worth. We also sold to them, for a small part
of its value, the loot we had taken from her.
but all of that money was divided up between
Norton and the crew, j held to my promise
and touched none of ft.
I left the China sea behind me and never
have returned to it.
After a fruitless expedition after burled
treasure In Corea, we sailed for Shanghai and
from there for London.
lage, which was a model of ncatnesr. and on
up a winding path for nearly a mile, when a
sharp turn around a flank of the mountain
brought us to a large bungalow—the palace of
the queen.
W hile breakfast w as being prepared she
made herself mere beautiful by changing her
dress of Europeau style for a native costume
of flowing silk so becoming that I wondered at
her ever wearing anything else. After break
fast she looked down at the little town and far
out to sea in silence for a long time and then
told me the story of her life.
Her name, she said, was Katherine Crofton;
her father one cf the younger branches of a
family headed by a baron. Her father was a
lieutent-commander in the British navy, and
to prevent an accident he disobeyed the order
of an incompetent and arrogant superior officer.
In a quarrel that followed, her father knocked
his superior down and otherwise abused him.
for which he was court-martialed and dis
missed.
“My father was a high-spirited man,” she
continued, “and his disgrace embittered him
against England and everything English. He
soon left home, and when we next heard from
him he was in Hong Kong. When I was about
fifteen, he wrote mother ami me to take a P.
& O. ship for Singapore, where we would find
further instructions. When we got there father
was waiting for us on a handsome yacht, the
Queen. 1 am still using her. He brought us to
to this island, where he had established a small
settlement and built a warehouse and a ma
chine shop for repairs. He had taken great
pains to make his rendezvous secure from dis
covery.
ueu 1 w *xs not muon older tnan nineteen
father and mother were taken desperately ill,
and he called me into his room and made a
confession. He said that in his hatred of the
British he had turned pirate and had been for
all those years preying on ships flying the flag
he despised. He had also, occasionally, waged
wax on the native pirates and taken their loot
from them, which explained why he had fre
quently come in with wounded men on board,
and he made me swear that if he died I would
continue the work he had begun. He told me
I could rely on Frar.k Deverell. his chief officer,
whom he said he hoped I would some day mar
ry- —this last with just a trace of sarcasm.
“My father died the next week and my mother
three months later.
“That was four years ago. I have kept the
oath, but the fulfillment has brought me In
creasing misery. My attacks on the British
flag have been few—in fact, I have given timely
assistance to many more English ships than 1
have robbed, and hundreds of their passengers
and crews owe their lives to me. but I have
Preyed on the natural pirates of these waters
as ardently, perhaps, as did my father.”
After luncheon the queen and I set off toward
the mountain-top. nearly one thousand feet
above us. but we did not reach it, for the heat
was intense.
“Well, what do "you think of us now?" she
asked, on our way down, after I had told her
how I had Bpent the forenoon.
“I think enough of you to*devote my whole
life to your service!" I quickly replied.
W hen I came back to dinner she was waiting
for me in her bower. As she came to meet me
and extended her hand she said, earnestly and
aimost sadly: "I believe you were honest and
sincere in what you said this afternoon, but I
can only say ’Thank you.’ What you suggested
is impossible.”
In the three weeks that followed I urged my
love upon her with all of my determination, but
6he refused to change her decision and ap
parently was a firm in it as she was at first
It was agreed that we should both give up
piracy, but all of our arguments ended there
until finally, one afternoon, as we sat looking
out over the sea and talking of the ordinary
affairs of life, she said, slowly and emphatic
ally. “Deverell was my father’s right-hand
man. I am going to take the next ship for
England, lay my case before the home secretary
and ask him for a full pardon. 1 will confess to
him that I have taken from the pirates what
they had stolen from others. To offset that
offense I have hundreds of written statements
from people whose lives 1 have saved from the
pirates. I believe I can secure a pardon, and
if I do I will meet you with a clear conscience
and become your wife!**
Tti* chief cjf a large aectlon of the <hine*e
! ratea cti old Mot Sen. a net Chinaman who
f lived In a handsome home in Cantcn and posed
*♦ a peaceful trader
\cnoo argued that the pirate* were hound
to keep on robbing and bunting and murdering
it spite of anything we could do. and that we
eonld derive plenty of excitement and large
profits by robbing them Incidentally, he con
tended we would put a lot of them out ol bus!
com for got d and all. thus contributing to the
end detdrwd by all nations
It wa* arranged that I should pose as Dr.
1 turner, a rich Er-pidi physician who wa* cruis
ing In his private yacht for hi* health. The
Fluretjoe and Surprise were to carry some
gen-ral cargoes from port to port among the
islands but were so to shape their cruises that
we could beep closely in touch with them.
They sere to be given large crew* and so
he**: y armed as to be safe from piratical at
tach* Tie Deck with wa* to do all of the prey
ing oa the pirates, and the loot we took from
•hem was to be turned over to the other ships
at tie meeting places It wa* arranged that
balk of oar loot should be sent to • firm of
«•&■♦■■*■ at Singapore, who dealt largely la
di-bi-oert cargoes.
VI :tt the law fcwttb’s bunkers stuffed with
• aal we beaded for the islands in search of
pirates
Our find experience wa*a profitable one When
near the "hunting grounds'* we lowered the
smokestack, got up our canvas and sailed
atong. awai’ing developments We were get
ting in among the Islands when we met a big
Jcsk which had Just looted and scuttled a rich
ly laden ftrmztilaa barkentine We made a pre
tense of trying to ge- away, but in reality we
eared our sheet* to hasten matter* along. When
she was cfcn-e artern of ua. with the wind
a enm we luffed up. got out guns ready for
wm* la a Jiffy and. as vre crossed her bow*.
iked her fore and aft with our rarrocades.
^ which were landed almost to the muzzle with
slogs and nails
Taken ccmpi»-tely by surprise and with more
than half of their number Uttering the red
dened deck, the pirates were panic-stricken,
liefr-re they could regain their sense* we came
about again and gave them another broadside,
which put them at our mercy. As t< ranged
a>jcgwlde. keeping up a rifle lire, but disdain
ing any further use of our gun*, they managed
t Uonch a couple of boats, and all who could
ge into them pulled for the nearest island
* e took out of the Junk fully one hundred
thousand dollars' worth of specie, silk. ten.
f- r hi a and drugs, a; a tr.ec set nre to ner.
mi itut her to tary her own dead
ter that easily won victory we trapped
ana -ad sank half a doers proas and feluccas
fa the name may. though with more spirited
rv-stataacr bt some cases.
*> had tamed oar cargo over to the Fior
rura. along with a number of wounded men.
and mere hark among the islands, mben early
one evening a full ngged ship hove in sight.
She passed ns hut was not more than six
sum away when we saw flashes that told us
she had been attacked and we lost no time in
going to her assistance
As we closed la we saw a Malay felucca on
each side of her and the pirates swarming on
her decks, with the crew putting up a brave
fight. Running the Lrckwith up on her star
^. board quarter, we threw our men aboard and
they went at the pirates savagely from the
rear I led the boarding party
The Malays outnumbered us more than two
to one lot me »«t at them with a fury that
was urm to them and were slowly forcing them
hack toward their one good boa?—we bad
smashed the other one to bits when we
slammed alongside—when a beautiful white
yacht came tearing up on the port quarter and
sent three boatloads of men to our assistance
(n smart style They r'ambered over the bows
under command of a at oddly built young officer
wearing what kwhed like tbe uniform of a
naval captain, and we had the pirates be
tween u*.
I understood later, when 1 learned who and
Bwhat they were, why these re-enforcements,
tosiend of discouraging the Malays, caused
them to fight »1th renewed desperation, but
Women Would Be Soldiers
believe that the failing birth rate In
Prance is a grave menace to the na
tion, and they consider it a shame that
the government has done nothing to
reward those who have done their
duty to the state by having large
families.
It is said that, unless the senate
treats the petition favorably, there will
be trouble, and very likely there will
be windows smashed in France as well
as in England.
Last year some of the advocates of
“women's rights” in Berlin started a
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movement in favor of compulsorv
military service for women. These
ladies asserted that there should be
complete equality between The sexes,
and that, as conscription exists in Ger
many for men. it should also exist for
women.
The ladies, however, were not quite
agreed on all points, for while one sec
tion of them merely demanded that
women should be compelled by the
government to go In for ambulance
and commissariat work, another sec
tion demanded *k*t women should he
compulsorily trained eraetly -,n the
same footing as men. According to the
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the hardships of war.
Even the militarist Fatherland has
has not taken kindly to the idea, and
we are n jt likely to see a German army
of Amacons in spite of the arguments
that have been put forward in favor
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Don't take things for granted—find
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BABOLB BOKEBS, 110 DaBalb Ave.. Brooklyn, M. T.
PFOR MIJB — 618 acres: square section;
■ .BoflaAo <-oumy. Neb. 400 acres culnvated, lies
we»l: balance pasture. 50 acres a)fal£a: fair ftm
pmvements: well fenced. Amherst A Kearney U
milea Good terms. Might consider small farm aa
pan pay. inquire, iwUi-iifniw Lm4 C#.. kemej, id
past M with horse and buggy to sell stock
condition powders. 175 per month. Address
Room 2. 11&6 Fa mam Kuet, Omaha, Neb.
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The Condensed Product.
“Oh. auntie, can I go to the fancy
dress ball as a milkmaid?”
"Xo. darling; you're too small.”
"Well, then, can I go as a condensed
' milkmaid?”
If every lie in the world were
grow old. or merely catch up with
their age.
WELL POSTED.
A California Doctor With Forty Years?
Experience.
“In my forty years’ experience as a
teacher and practitioner along hy
gienic lines.” says a Los Angeles
physician, ”1 have never found a food
to compare with Grape-Xuts for the
i benefit of the general health of all
classes of people.
“I have recommended Grape-Xuts
for a number of years to patients with
| the greatest success and every year’s
experience makes me more enthusias
I tic regarding its use.
“I make it a rule to always recom
mend Grape-Xuts. and Postum in place
! of ccffee. when giving mv patients in
structions as to diet, for 1 know both
Grape-Xuts and Postum can be digest
. ed by anyone.
“As for myself, when engaged In
much mental work my diet twice a
day consists of Grape-Xuts and rich
cream. I find It just the thing to
build up gray matter and keep the
brain in good working order.
“In addition to its wonderful effects
as a brain and nerve food Grape-Xuts
always keeps the digestive organs in
perfect, healthy tone. I carry it with
me when I travel, otherwise I am al
most certain to have trouble with my
stomach.” Xame given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek. Mich.
Strong endorsements like the above
from physicians aD over the country
have stamped Grape-Xuts the most
scientific food in the world. “There’s
a reason.”
Look In pkgs. for the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville.”
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•»* appear* from time to tlat. They
ate iPeaatao, trae, aad tall at taaaa
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KODAK FINISHING giten special
attention. All supplies for the Amateur stnctljr
fresh. Send for catalogue ami finishing pru-ea
THE ROBERT DEMPSTER CO.
■813 Farnam Street. Omaha. Nebr.
DOCTORS
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STACK COVERS
ScottTeit & AniBg Go.,OBUba,Neb.
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