Extract from the Daily
th
696
hemes of 20% Maron 1874
MUTINY AT SEA.
on the skylight, with revolver pointing down, giving his orders in the coolest of manners, also two buckets and marline-apike. All carried sharp knives. About eight (From the Cape Argus, Feb. 24.)
o'clock they
all left. and steered to the S.W. Now, the The following is an extract from the official log all the matineere were in one watch, it being the watch way they were able to surprise the vessel was this, that of the barque Satsuma, which left Cardiff on the 18th on deck; also the steward and cook. They first seized December last, bound for the Cape, and arrived here on into the aftehold. The names of the mutiucers are:- the officer of the watch, lashed hin, and put bira down Saturday:
No. 1.
About 6 am. in latitude 31-38 B., the morning of the
James Whyley, aged 27, nati
native of Bed- 29th January, 1874, longitude 23-38 W., the following huss brother-in-law, nataed James Swaine, grocer, thirty, ford, Yorkshire, ringleader and instigator of the mutiny, occurred in the South Atlantic:-1, William Leslie, master
No. 3. Wa Lilly, Ipswich Preston, red 18 years
of 366 tous
register, on a voyage from Cardiff to Table Bay, Caps of Jonesland: last shin Alegro, Loudoun ago 21
my
aged 23, born in Boston; Jast
E
Good Hope, with a full cargo of coals, was, on the morn No. 4. Frosporo Beltram, ing of the 29th January, about & o'clock a.m., surprised in Pedrie, No. 6. Robert Melican, aged 21; last Buty
bod, while asleep, by three men, who seived mus, last ship Singwise. My belier One, the instant I raised my head off the rallow, put a mutiny is this, that in the first place they were all a great as to the cause of the rope with a slip knot over my head, trying to strangle me, eet of blackguards, shipped without discharges; two of Another had a hatchet, and the third revolver, all with them had walked from London to Cardiff; the steward murder in their eyes. I, with the strength which despair had most fearfully wasted the stores, one could not credit alone gives, sprang from my bed, closed with and burst it, but which can be proved by all on board. I had drawn through thom, rushed to the fore-cabin where the mate out a statement of the stores wasted, which must have was my neck; but did not reach the mate before ished on arrived at the Cape. The man Anderson,
dragging the man after me who had the ship cored to bia knowledge, and said that he should be pan-
knot
Cook
my skull was laid
open by one or more blows from the Irishman, hove a poor dog overbeant, as he said he ste batchots. With the blood
all over my face, and head realing, with
some of his beef in the forecastle. I said also he should be reached
the wate's on the instant sprang from his bed and saved me ouce useless follows, being both disrated from A.B. to ? Durib, who punished on our arrival. Beltram and Jones, Eroma
killed outright. Gathering *1 again,
who was never at sea before, could not and would I rushed through the mutineers, and not give us clean food to eat; wastold he would be seen and actually dragged the man, who to at the
by slong with me.
ne. Here I
are I could get no assistance.
who was
was no steward, but a was rangor. WILLIAM LESLIE, Master, ship Satsuma.
The stads
statement of
Richard
Jewill, rats, coincides with
my
:
or more times
up the
my strength
Being
still kept hold
companion
me
ith the rope round my neck, the stewart, But all were instigated, and obeyed, an
I WAS found by the mate, who was overpowered by a man, a more powerful man. Now, at this time I managed to sever the that of the master, with the exception of the first attack that was round my recki, but from being half made. He first saw the captain standing in front of his
loss of blood, sud hardly know half what, covered with blood, struggling with three of the
strange, the
from the effects of blows from the hatchets, I
mutineers, one with a revolver, ous with an axe over occurred. All that can remember, there seemed to be his head, and one with a rope round the captain's neck. revolvers in all directions, for the shots were whistling fo rushed to his assistance, and warded of the blows. round us.
At last que fearful blow, aimed at "Yasalants, and gained the deck, dragging the man after head by one man, either partly hit me, or too low.
The captain, by a tremendous effort, burst through his mbled down the companion. The same blow removed him, who had his he dock in possession of the mull-
were 18ers.
in a
a stip
He rushed
up
quite weak, and sat down in the after-cabin, where I was feared the captain would bring a charge of wasting
com
hu
handed up six rifies under the cover of their revolvers. disrated, asduty.
muting
the
top of the companion. I then hardly know what took stai place for some time, believing that all on my side stairs,
He either shot or drowned, when I was joined by the mate, and bleeding, and just remembered the shots whistling was at once tached to the ground, bruised who by some means escaped from them I was now around him. He made his escape below. He believed the
(Willey) was guarded through the skylight by oue
the instigator of the revolvers or mure The mate waR
e muting, because ordered apart from. me, and the Muti-
the stores of the vessel against him, which he knew was neers had charge of the ship at this time. The who was a mutineer, was sent down to the cabin, and about throwing a dog overboard, Jones and Beltram were true. Anderson was afraid he would get into trouble
The mutineers now looked down the skylight, and
and asked nary seamen's
were no sailors, and not fit even for ordi- which toet
they
From a should
as they wore to leave the lud besz concerned in a report on board, the steward
in a former them, they coolly asked if I was much hurt. On my saying that I was, they said they entered in the log-book, is to the effect that sarly in the The statement of Thomas Richarda, secoul mate, sa wore sorry for it, that I was such a powerful man, and if I had
morning, while on deck, the steward came behind him They and dashed him down, holding a pistol to his forehead, second boat in size, with must, suils, SALIR and threatening to blow his brains out if he spoke a one bag of bread, breaker of water, wine, whisky, ram, one hand, new log
hatchet,
word. The other man lashed him, hands and legs. all the rifies, or else
He asked what they were going to do with him, and of nails,
compass, replied, if he kept quiet his life would be spared. tobaees and other they also all of Dun's clothes, part of Simon's. They lay then carried him aff, and lowered him down into now were crying out for the man Duu, as they wanted to cries from the captain for help, and the reports of pistols. the after-hold, putting hatch on. He next heard which, upon Some one looked down the hatch, and told him the
sap; and after me te fake.
took thuiet, I would have been all right
bag
hove them overies, i
a chart from the mato, pipes,
tordage; ala
before ring mo, and
the
hang it at the yard life, who told me he would fain was dead. After the boat let the
who was
hearing, I begged
Cap. was the ringleader, to
ship, the mate and one of them went down after him in the hold to try him, and told him to clear the vent-hole of the big gun, as
spare his
iame down and let bin free. The captain then called
MEL
and and hin, but not seeing him firod several shota in the dark after him. They also took shots, scoop of big gun, and steward was instigator of the mutiny. The statement of it was spiked, which was done. He believed that the also black and white paint, and three paizt brushes, to
to lis
William Dunn, AB., is similar in substance to the fore
guise the boat, which before was painted white, green gu going, and he also attributes the cause of the mutiny to the wale and blue bottom inside. They also cut part of the ran-
ning gear, took saw and chisel, and before leaving they spiked the big gun, ringleader Whylay all the time sitting
steward, who persistently wasted the ship's stores.
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