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"NINGPO'S" ADVENTUROUS
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Pirates seem a long time removed from present day adventure. Jolly Rogers, buckets of blood and walking the plank make thrilling reading, but we can scarcely hope to see them outside the covers of some book. Nevertheless, one relic of their day still survives, and can be seen in our own waters.
To-day. in Catalina Harbour, there rests the "Ninggo," one of the mest desperate and notorious old pirate ships that ever sailed the Yellow Fes. She made much history in the old days, and her record would serve well for many a romance.
by the British for smogging and carrying slave girls to Canton.
FOOTBOARD.
In 1841 the Chinese Government ROBBER HAULED BACK FROM agrin secured possession of her and converted her into a prison ship for the very smuggiera and pirates who bad been ruling her. years she was an agent of the law she One of the men was esptured, and had defied, and is was during those the police expect to arrest his missing seven years that the bloodiest chapter comrade soon.
For seren
The Wiesbaden to Rais express was robbed by two men near Metz.
of her history was enacted. The ex- Train passengers have apparently pense and inconvenience of feeding so learned a lesson since the last two any prisoners was great, and one train hold-ups, and the capture of day the Chinese captain determined Scandine Vittorie, the first bandit. to cut Government expenses, and or dered 158 pirates beheaded on her was a very smart piece of work. The two criminals had carried out their decks,
coup in a first class coach, which was In 1861 she was again taken almost deserted by its occupants, who rebels, and then retaken by Chinese Gordon." who changed her name were in the dining car, and were pre- to "Ningpo" after the city of that paring to jump from the train when name. In 1861 she was wrecked in they were noticed by a commercial a typhoon and in 1911 captured again by rebels in the battle of Hankow.
REFORM COMES HARD,
traveller named Mollard.
One had jumped from the train and the other was on the footboard ready to leap when M. Mollard seired him In 1912 a party of tourists caw the by the wrist. Vittorio turned and "Ningpo," still in the hands of the struggled with his captor. Failing to rebels against the Government, and get at his revolver, be bit him vicious- were so impressed by her romantic ly in the arm, but assistance came history that they returned to the from a police inspector, M. Tommasi, United States and raised 50,000 dollars and Vittorio, cat and bruised, was
hauled back into the carriage.
Rings, bracelets, and pocket-books
This old ship, probably the oldest in the world, was built in Fu Chow, China, in 1753. She was built mainly ef camphor-wood and iron-wood, of a grade better than can be procured in these days of second-growth timber, Her main-mast is a perfect piece of iron-wood 90 feet long and dine feet in circumference and has an estimated to purchase her. weight of 20 tons. Her main beam;
On June sixth of the same year
is made of one solid, huge tree, she left Shanghai but was caught taken from the belongings of passen- squared off, and four feet in in a typhoon when she was six gers were found in his pocket. After days out, and wrecked. After being a little persuasion the bandit, an out-
diameter.
The superstitious Chinese formed repaired she again set sail and was of-work miner, gave the name and a her to represent a sea monster. The caught in another typhoon of full description of his accomplice. open bow was the mouth; the port Kyushi. During this second stom
holes were the eyes, and the masts the crew mutinied, and tried to make
and tails were the Gus. The high off with her a pirate life again the only floor consists of a bamboo pole, stern was the tail and it was from this goal. But fate had destined her for upon which the victim stood. When bigh tail that the boat was steered reform and she was rescued by the he was unable to keep his footing any The rudder, which weighed two toas, mate and three loyal Chinese sailors. longer on tois round pole he slipped
as at the stern, and was attached to After a feturn to China, where & and hanged by his neck.
the bow of the ship by cables which white crest was signed on, she com- But pirates and prisoners are gone passed beneath the vessel.
A GOOD SHIP DONE WRONG,
menced the journey afresh, und at forever from her decks," and the old last reached San Pedro Harbour, ship will never sail again. She is. The Ningpo" was originally making the trip of 7,000 miles in 58 grounded in a shallow place near the store and a little pier connects her named "Kin Tai Foong," and days. was designed and intended for B During the first year of the with the land, where a sign warns the life of commerce. She was the Panama-California Exposition, the stream of sight-seers that they visit fastert and best equipped boat at Ningpo" was on display in San ber at their own risk. Water can be that time in Chinese waters, and Diego Bay, and after being exhibited seen through cracks in her decks, and these very virtues contributed to her in various places she was finally certain portione of the boat are downfall, for she was seized by deposited in Catalin Harbour, where placarded as unsafe..
It seems a fitting place for the smugglers and slavers as an ideal craft she has since remaired, having passed
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for their purpose, on account of her into the hands of the old Banning old ship to end her days, for there capacity for speed: From smuggling Company, which at one time owned are many indications on the island of early visitations by Mongolian to piracy was but a step. She be Catalina Island. cemes terror to Chinese shipping and On ber deck still lies a coil of seamen; and perhaps the "Ningpo" even/attacked small, defenceless bamboo rope-stronger than a steel has been here before on come secret. villigis along the coast. In 1796 she cable of the same size, alec an ancient pirate venture. Perhaps she has been Was chgaged in a rebellion against cannon four hundred years old, of the in this very harbour, which is one the Chinese Emperor and from then style the Chinese were making 3,600 the seaward side of the island, on her derds became darker, and her years ago. It is three feet long and and, until a few years ago, seldom recur more crimen. In 1806 she looks like a child's toy. Near the frequented by visitor frem was seized by the Government for opening into the hold of the ship mainland Perhaps, if the old. muggling and piracy and in 1814 stands a Chinese instrument of tor-monster could tall, he could tell was tuptured and set on fire at Nan- ture, known as Kes Lung. It is a us of treasure buried in the very hills king Rescue must have arrived bamboo cage with sliding boards in that rise from either side of the har- quickly, however, for in 1828 she was the top to enclose the neck, in which bour-treasure buried there on some Aguin seized for smuggling silk and prisone aweze suspended without earlier trip of the Ningpor to these opiam. In 1834 she was confiscated food or water till death came. The water-Baton Transript.
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