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more began to creep up with provoking speed . The captain raged most violently . * " There seems no chance , " he said to the mate ; " we must let her come alongside , and you shall conceal me below when she reaches as . Why did not that fool Darkle let us have guns ?" " But if she chooses to open the casks , and finds what there is there ?"
" Then we must set upon the boarding-party , and cut them down . We will reserve the officer , and make him hail for another boat ' s crew , whom also we will aut down . By this means we shall nearly drain their crew , and then we can give them the stem , and run the schooner down . " This wild scheme met with approval from , the mate , who was almost as desperate as the captain . The schooner came nearly
alongside , fired a gun for us to heave too , which we did ; while the captain went below , was rolled up in a sailcloth , and placed in the coils of the cable , where they would not be likely to look for him . An officer from the schooner came on board , with a warrant for the arrest of Thomas Jenkins , an American citizen . "Where is Captain Jenkins ? " he asked . " Captain Jenkins , sir ? No such a name on board . "
"Who is your captain , then ? " " I am , sir , acting captain . " " Show me your crew-list . " The crew-list was produced , and inquiries were made about the captain , whose name appeared there .
" He , sir , was landed by a schooner , off Bio . I then took the command , at the wish of the crew and the desire of the supercargo . " "It is true that you sent this captain on hoard the schooner , " returned the officer , " but did you send him for mutiny ?" "We did , sir . "
" No you didn't , you sent him because you took Captain Jenkins on board instead . It is useless for von to denv it , because we boarded the schooner outside Eio , and found Captain Jenkins not in her , though he had been in her just before she met you . Then the captain who . took you out of Rio was on this schooner we boarded , and Captain Jenkins is on board you now . " u nni • r » • • t i . t i i -i t ¦¦ Thensirif about that had better
" , , you are so positive , you produce him . It is idle to assert that without proving it . " " Very well , I shall search the ship , " and the officer proceeded below , with a boarding-party . They very soon had opened one or two of the casks , and found in them the following articles : — In case 1—Copper galley , with distilling apparatus . In case 2—Condenser to galley .
In case 3—Eire-bars : and in case 4— "Funnel for pullev . In case 3—lire-bars ; andm case 4— . Funnel for galley . In case 5—Kettles ; in case 6—Eighty slave tins , large ; twentyone , small ; forty caps ; four lanterns , with case of glass panes ; two large tin-kettles , and cooking utensils , belonging to the galley . In case 7—Carpenters' tools . In case 9 and 10—Chests of modi-
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more began to creep up with provoking speed . The captain raged most violently . * " There seems no chance , " he said to the mate ; " we must let her come alongside , and you shall conceal me below when she reaches as . Why did not that fool Darkle let us have guns ?" " But if she chooses to open the casks , and finds what there is there ?"
" Then we must set upon the boarding-party , and cut them down . We will reserve the officer , and make him hail for another boat ' s crew , whom also we will aut down . By this means we shall nearly drain their crew , and then we can give them the stem , and run the schooner down . " This wild scheme met with approval from , the mate , who was almost as desperate as the captain . The schooner came nearly
alongside , fired a gun for us to heave too , which we did ; while the captain went below , was rolled up in a sailcloth , and placed in the coils of the cable , where they would not be likely to look for him . An officer from the schooner came on board , with a warrant for the arrest of Thomas Jenkins , an American citizen . "Where is Captain Jenkins ? " he asked . " Captain Jenkins , sir ? No such a name on board . "
"Who is your captain , then ? " " I am , sir , acting captain . " " Show me your crew-list . " The crew-list was produced , and inquiries were made about the captain , whose name appeared there .
" He , sir , was landed by a schooner , off Bio . I then took the command , at the wish of the crew and the desire of the supercargo . " "It is true that you sent this captain on hoard the schooner , " returned the officer , " but did you send him for mutiny ?" "We did , sir . "
" No you didn't , you sent him because you took Captain Jenkins on board instead . It is useless for von to denv it , because we boarded the schooner outside Eio , and found Captain Jenkins not in her , though he had been in her just before she met you . Then the captain who . took you out of Rio was on this schooner we boarded , and Captain Jenkins is on board you now . " u nni • r » • • t i . t i i -i t ¦¦ Thensirif about that had better
" , , you are so positive , you produce him . It is idle to assert that without proving it . " " Very well , I shall search the ship , " and the officer proceeded below , with a boarding-party . They very soon had opened one or two of the casks , and found in them the following articles : — In case 1—Copper galley , with distilling apparatus . In case 2—Condenser to galley .
In case 3—Eire-bars : and in case 4— "Funnel for pullev . In case 3—lire-bars ; andm case 4— . Funnel for galley . In case 5—Kettles ; in case 6—Eighty slave tins , large ; twentyone , small ; forty caps ; four lanterns , with case of glass panes ; two large tin-kettles , and cooking utensils , belonging to the galley . In case 7—Carpenters' tools . In case 9 and 10—Chests of modi-