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Green + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Piracy off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere + +Author: Samuel A. Green + +Release Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #26684] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIRACY OFF THE FLORIDA COAST *** + + + + +Produced by Mark C. Orton, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h1><span class="fs1">PIRACY</span><br /> +<span class="fs2">OFF THE FLORIDA COAST<br /> +AND ELSEWHERE</span></h1> + +<h2><span class="fs3">BY</span><br /> +SAMUEL A. GREEN</h2> + +<div class="center"><span class="fs4"><big>CAMBRIDGE</big><br /> +JOHN WILSON AND SON<br /> +<small><b>University Press</b></small><br /> +1911</span></div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="center"><span class="fs4"><span class="smcap">From the<br /> +Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society<br /> +for February, 1911.</span></span></div> + +<hr /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span></p> +<h1><small>PIRACY OFF THE FLORIDA COAST AND ELSEWHERE</small></h1> + +<div class="bq1"><span class="smcap">At</span> a stated meeting of the <span class="smcap">Massachusetts Historical +Society</span>, held in Boston on Thursday, February 9, 1911, +Dr. <span class="smcap">Samuel A. Green</span> presented the following paper:—</div> + +<p>Few persons of the present day are aware how extensively +piracy prevailed two centuries ago. There was no part of the +high seas that was free from the depredation of roving robbers. +At times they threatened towns on the coast, and at others +they attacked ships on mid-ocean; and they seem to have followed +their lawless pursuits at will. When caught, there was +little delay in bringing them to trial and securing a conviction; +and trivial technicality in forms played no part in reaching +results. At times there were multiple executions, and in the +community there was no morbid sentimentality shown for the +miserable wretches. Not the least of their torture was sitting +in the meeting-house on the Sunday before execution and listening +to their own funeral sermons, when the minister told +them what they might expect in the next world if they got +their just dues. On June 30, 1704, six poor victims were hung, +on the Boston side of the Charles River bank, for piracy and +murder; and there was a great crowd to witness the tragedy. +Among the spectators on this occasion was Chief-Justice Sewall, +one of the judges of the Admiralty Court which had convicted +the pirates, who did not think it beneath his dignity to be +present. It was then considered a public duty to invest the +scene of execution with as much awe as possible, and it was +thought that official station would emphasize this feeling.</p> + +<p>The following extract from "The Boston News-Letter," +August 21, 1721, shows how in early times piratical craft, +heavily manned and carrying many guns, sailed the high seas<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span> +and pursued their unlawful calling. The vessel was taken +somewhere in the Sargasso Sea, off the coast of Africa.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>These are to Certifie all Persons concerned that on the 7th Day +of May last, William Russel, Master of the Ship Mary of Charlstown, +in his Voyage from Madera to Surranam in the Lat. 22 Deg. +and 27 N. and Long. 25 and 27 W. from London was taken by a +Pirate Ship upwards of 50 Guns, Commanded by Capt. Roberts, +about 300 Men, who robb'd him of part of his Cargo, and Forced +away from him two of his Men, against his and their own consent, +viz. Thomas Russel born in Lexintown near Charlstown and the +other Thomas Winchol born in Portsmouth, New-Hampshire in +New England.</p></div> + +<p>I have been led to make these introductory remarks on account +of a manuscript recently given to the Library by Mrs. +William B. Rogers, eldest daughter and sole surviving child of +Mr. James Savage, who was for more than sixty years a member +of this Society and for fourteen years its President. It consists +of an extract from a letter written by her uncle William Savage +to her father, dated at Havana, December 31, 1818, giving an +account of the capture by pirates of the ship <i>Emma Sophia</i>, off +the Florida coast, of which vessel he was supercargo. Since +the receipt of the paper from Mrs. Rogers I have found in the +"Boston Daily Advertiser," February 3, 1819, a fuller version +of the letter; and for that reason I here follow the copy as +given in the newspaper. Anything that relates to Mr. Savage +or his family will always be in order at these meetings. At +the unveiling of his bust in this room, on April 12, 1906, Mr. +Adams, the President, said that "with the single exception of +Mr. Winthrop no member of the Society since its beginning +has left upon it so deep and individual an impression" as +Mr. Savage has.</p> + +<p>The account appears on the second page of the Advertiser, +under the heading of "Marine Journal," as follows:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p class="center"><big>MEMORANDA.</big></p> + +<p>☞The vessel mentioned in yesterday's paper, as having been plundered +off Florida, is the Hamburgh ship <i>Emma Sophia</i>, Capt. Frahm—the +supercargo is Mr. William Savage, of this town. It is stated +in the Charleston papers that she is insured at Lloyd's.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span>We have been favoured with the following extract, giving further +particulars:</p> + +<p><i>Extract of a letter from a gentleman of this town, supercargo of the +ship Emma Sophia, dated Havana, 31st Dec. 1818.</i></p> + +<p>On Saturday 19th inst. between the Bahama Bank and Key Sal +Bank we were boarded and taken possession of by a small schr. of +about 30 tons, having one gun mounted on a pivot and 30 men. She +manned us with twelve men, Spaniards, French, Germans and +Americans, and carried us towards the Florida coast. Being arrived +on the coast nearly opposite to Havana, the privateer went in shore +to reconnoitre, and our ship lay off and on. Next morning she +returned with two small vessels, a schooner and sloop. We then +all four steered over the reef towards the small islands, and on +Tuesday afternoon were brought to anchor in a little harbour +formed by the Florida isles and the Martyr's Reef, as snug a hole as +buccaniers would wish. They had seen no papers, but those of the +ship and the Manifest, but the latter was enough, and they asked +not for invoices or bills of lading. As soon as we anchored, they +threw off our boats, took off the hatches and began to plunder the +cargo. They loaded their two small vessels and another that came +in next morning, besides taking our valuables on board the privateer. +Having filled their vessels with linens and nankins, we had still many +left, for our ship was full when we sailed from Hamburgh. Till +Wednesday noon, our cabin had been respected, but then they came +below and took packages of laces, gold watches from the trunks +and other valuable goods. Every man had a knife about a foot long, +which they brandished, swearing they would have money or something +more valuable, that was concealed, or they would kill every +soul of us, and they particularly threatened me. I appealed to their +captain, told him I was in fear of my life, and went with him on +board his privateer. He said he had no command, the crew would +do as they pleased, that I need entertain no fear of my life, but had +better tell at once if any thing was concealed. I told him there was +not. After my return to the ship towards night, the pirates left us +for the first time, and we hoped they had done with us. But next +morning another sch'r and sloop appeared in the offing, and the +privateer and one of the loaded sloops went out to meet them. +They all returned together, the privateer anchored, and a boat's +crew came towards us. I attempted to go on board the privateer +to see her captain, but was ordered back. When they came on +board, they said they had come to find where the gold &c. was, +and that if we would not tell, they would hang every man of us and +burn the ship. Davis, the spokesman, drew his knife and swore, +that every man should die, unless he found the money, and first he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span> +would hang the supercargo. He called for a rope, which he had +brought on board, fitted with a hangman's noose, sent a man up +to the mizen yard and rove it and brought the noose down—and +one man held it, and another stood ready to hoist. Now, said Davis, +tell me where is the money, where are your diamonds, or I will +hang you this minute. In vain I repeated I had nothing more but +my watch, which I offered and he refused.—Once more, said he, +will you tell? I have nothing to tell, said I. On with the rope, +said the villain, and hoist away. The fellow with the noose came +towards me, and I sprang overboard. They took me up, after some +time, apparently insensible. They took off all my cloaths, and laid +me on my back on deck, naked as I was born, except having a blanket +thrown over me. Here I laid five hours without moving hand or +foot. Meanwhile they robbed us of every thing of the least value. +Against me they seemed to have a particular spite, stealing even the +ring from my finger, and all my cloaths from my trunks which they +sent on board the privateer.</p> + +<p>At night they left us, but returned once or twice, for a few minutes, +to see how I was. That night the privateer, with two or three of +her convoy went to sea, and next morning, Christmas day, we got +under way.—Having taken good notice of the courses steered in +coming in, and keeping the lead constantly going, we found our +way out to <i>blue water</i> without much difficulty, and next morning, +26th, arrived without further accident at Havana.</p> + +<p>The privateer was, I think, fitted out from this island. The +Captain is a Spaniard, a short man with a remarkable good face, that +nobody would suspect to belong to such a gang. The Lieutenant is +a Frenchman, a creole of St. Domingo, but called himself an Italian. +The man they called Davis, who ordered me to be hanged, is the +pilot or sailing master, and their boarding officer. He is an American, +belongs to New-York, and was the worst man on board. He +is a good looking fellow, something perhaps over the middle size, +but the most brutal rascal I ever met. There was another American +on board, only a common hand, being a drunkard.—Two negroes +are all the residue of the gentlemen with whom I had much acquaintance.</p> + +<p>The goods taken from us were upwards of fifty thousand dollars +worth, and I have no doubt are landed on the coast of this Island. +The neighborhood of Cuba will be troubled waters until our government +shall seriously determine to put down this system of piracy.</p></div> + +<p>Akin to this subject it may be proper to record an incident +which many years ago concerned myself, and might have been +tragical in its result. In the month of February, 1854, it fell<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span> +to my lot to sail out of Boston harbor for Malta, aboard the +bark <i>Sylph</i>, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. At that period vessels +sailing under the English flag were known in this country as +<i>lime-juicers</i>, so called because in the British navy the consumption +of lime or lemon juice was enforced as an anti-scorbutic +remedy. The only other passenger beside myself was Gen. +William A. Aiken, now of Norwich, Connecticut. The vessel +was in command of Captain Roberts, of Liverpool; and the +first officer was Mr. Hicks, and the second officer, Mr. Wharton. +According to my recollection there were eight in the forecastle, +which number, together with the cook and steward, made up +a complement of fourteen persons, all told, aboard the bark. +The cook and steward were represented by a single person of +African descent, who prided himself both on his hair and his +cooking, as well as on his brotherly kinship to the self-styled +rival of Jenny Lind, who was then called the "Black Swan" +(Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield), a singer, well-known in her day. +His hair deserves a word of special note, as it was sometimes +closely associated with his cooking, inasmuch as its elaborate +dressing was done before a glass hanging just beside a stove +in the cook's galley. He generally kept his long wool tightly +furled in numerous curling papers that stood out from his head +like spikes. On great occasions, such as Sundays and wonderful +deliverances from storms, he used to unfurl his kinky locks +which seemed ample enough then to fill a bushel basket.</p> + +<p>After a delay of a week or ten days in the harbor, owing to +head winds or inclement weather we set sail; and I remember +well that the pilot, Fowler by name, as he was about to leave +the vessel, throwing his leg over the bulwarks, said in his +gruff voice to our skipper, "I will give you twenty-eight days +to the Straits."</p> + +<p>There is little to write about the trip on the Atlantic side of +the voyage more than it was very monotonous, so much so that +both Aiken and myself for some slight relief used occasionally +to help the captain "take the sun" at noon, and in this way we +both became more or less expert in navigation. It was also +interesting to watch the sailors in their various duties and +pleasures; and from them we learned to splice ropes and to +tie fancy knots. We learned, too, the words of command in +proper sequence, as given by the captain, when he ordered<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +the men to tack ship or to wear ship, all which was of great +interest to us. Occasionally in good weather we used to take +our trick at the wheel in order to break the monotony of the +voyage. Sometimes we would catch a porpoise, of which +the liver would give us a taste of fresh meat and remind us of +home. Off Cape Trafalgar we sailed over the waters which +floated the English fleet when Nelson fought his famous fight. +I recollect the first glimpse we had of Cape Spartel, a point +of land in the northwest corner of the African continent, +overlooking the Straits, which we made early in the morning of +March 16, my birthday. With a head-wind it took two days +to beat into the Mediterranean, where we had many calms +and much bad weather. At one time we came near being +wrecked in a gale off Cape de Gato on the southern coast of +Spain, but generally we were cruising along the north coast +of Africa, within a few leagues of land, as our sailing course +was dependent upon the wind. At times we could see buildings +and villages on the shore, and then would sink them +behind as we sailed away.</p> + +<p>The incident to which I have already alluded, occurred in the +latter part of March, off Cape Tres Forcas on the Barbary +Coast. One afternoon, as we were sailing along at low speed +with little wind, two or three leagues from land, we spied +two lateen-rigged feluccas, apparently following us, which at +first sight attracted but little attention. Captain Roberts soon +became suspicious of their movements and watched them +closely, as they were gaining on us. We were going hardly more +than two or three knots an hour, having little more than steering +way, but they spreading much sail were faster. The +captain soon gave orders to have an inventory taken of the +firearms on board that could be used in case of need, but +these were found to be few in number and in poor condition. +The cook was ordered to heat as much boiling water as his +small galley would allow, to be ready to repel any attempt to +board the vessel. There was great excitement on the bark, +and we fully expected to be attacked, but fortunately for us</p> + +<div class="poem"> +<span class="i0">The shades of night were falling fast,<br /></span> +</div> + +<p class="noin">and soon the sun went down. We then changed our course a +point or two and threw a sail over the binnacle light so that the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +suspected pirates could not follow us; and thus we escaped +what might have been a tragedy.</p> + +<p>After our arrival at Malta we learned that three vessels had +been taken by the Riff pirates, as they were called, near the +time when we were threatened, and near the same point of land. +Without doubt the captors belonged to the same crew as those +that followed us. We were on the Mediterranean Sea at the +time when the Crimean War broke out, England having declared +war on March 28. This new condition of public affairs +caused great confusion in the movement of steamers and in +transportation generally, as steamships were much needed for +military purposes; on which account my stay at Malta was +somewhat prolonged. During this time I saw a good deal of +the American consul, Mr. William Winthrop, who was a kinsman +of our former President, Mr. Winthrop, and at a later +period a Corresponding Member of this Society. At the regular +monthly meeting held on November 8, 1882, Mr. Robert C. +Winthrop, Jr., paid a handsome tribute to the consul, on the +occasion of the Society's receiving a liberal bequest from him. +He ended his remarks by saying of him: "He took a pride, +however, in being a Corresponding Member,—the only one +in nearly a century who, so far as I am aware, ever left the +Society a dollar, and I much fear that, in this respect, he is +likely long to remain unique."</p> + +<div class="trn"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b> +Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. +Variant spellings have been retained, in addition to spelling errors in quoted text.</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Piracy off the Florida Coast and +Elsewhere, by Samuel A. 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Green + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Piracy off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere + +Author: Samuel A. Green + +Release Date: September 21, 2008 [EBook #26684] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIRACY OFF THE FLORIDA COAST *** + + + + +Produced by Mark C. Orton, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + PIRACY + + OFF THE FLORIDA COAST + AND ELSEWHERE + + + BY + SAMUEL A. GREEN + + + CAMBRIDGE + JOHN WILSON AND SON + University Press + 1911 + + + + + FROM THE + PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY + FOR FEBRUARY, 1911. + + + + +PIRACY OFF THE FLORIDA COAST AND ELSEWHERE + +At a stated meeting of the MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, held in +Boston on Thursday, February 9, 1911, Dr. SAMUEL A. GREEN presented the +following paper:-- + + +Few persons of the present day are aware how extensively piracy +prevailed two centuries ago. There was no part of the high seas that was +free from the depredation of roving robbers. At times they threatened +towns on the coast, and at others they attacked ships on mid-ocean; and +they seem to have followed their lawless pursuits at will. When caught, +there was little delay in bringing them to trial and securing a +conviction; and trivial technicality in forms played no part in reaching +results. At times there were multiple executions, and in the community +there was no morbid sentimentality shown for the miserable wretches. Not +the least of their torture was sitting in the meeting-house on the +Sunday before execution and listening to their own funeral sermons, when +the minister told them what they might expect in the next world if they +got their just dues. On June 30, 1704, six poor victims were hung, on +the Boston side of the Charles River bank, for piracy and murder; and +there was a great crowd to witness the tragedy. Among the spectators on +this occasion was Chief-Justice Sewall, one of the judges of the +Admiralty Court which had convicted the pirates, who did not think it +beneath his dignity to be present. It was then considered a public duty +to invest the scene of execution with as much awe as possible, and it +was thought that official station would emphasize this feeling. + +The following extract from "The Boston News-Letter," August 21, 1721, +shows how in early times piratical craft, heavily manned and carrying +many guns, sailed the high seas and pursued their unlawful calling. The +vessel was taken somewhere in the Sargasso Sea, off the coast of Africa. + + These are to Certifie all Persons concerned that on the 7th Day of + May last, William Russel, Master of the Ship Mary of Charlstown, in + his Voyage from Madera to Surranam in the Lat. 22 Deg. and 27 N. and + Long. 25 and 27 W. from London was taken by a Pirate Ship upwards of + 50 Guns, Commanded by Capt. Roberts, about 300 Men, who robb'd him + of part of his Cargo, and Forced away from him two of his Men, + against his and their own consent, viz. Thomas Russel born in + Lexintown near Charlstown and the other Thomas Winchol born in + Portsmouth, New-Hampshire in New England. + +I have been led to make these introductory remarks on account of a +manuscript recently given to the Library by Mrs. William B. Rogers, +eldest daughter and sole surviving child of Mr. James Savage, who was +for more than sixty years a member of this Society and for fourteen +years its President. It consists of an extract from a letter written by +her uncle William Savage to her father, dated at Havana, December 31, +1818, giving an account of the capture by pirates of the ship _Emma +Sophia_, off the Florida coast, of which vessel he was supercargo. Since +the receipt of the paper from Mrs. Rogers I have found in the "Boston +Daily Advertiser," February 3, 1819, a fuller version of the letter; and +for that reason I here follow the copy as given in the newspaper. +Anything that relates to Mr. Savage or his family will always be in +order at these meetings. At the unveiling of his bust in this room, on +April 12, 1906, Mr. Adams, the President, said that "with the single +exception of Mr. Winthrop no member of the Society since its beginning +has left upon it so deep and individual an impression" as Mr. Savage +has. + +The account appears on the second page of the Advertiser, under the +heading of "Marine Journal," as follows:-- + + MEMORANDA. + + [->]The vessel mentioned in yesterday's paper, as having been + plundered off Florida, is the Hamburgh ship _Emma Sophia_, Capt. + Frahm--the supercargo is Mr. William Savage, of this town. It is + stated in the Charleston papers that she is insured at Lloyd's. + + We have been favoured with the following extract, giving further + particulars: + + _Extract of a letter from a gentleman of this town, supercargo of + the ship Emma Sophia, dated Havana, 31st Dec. 1818._ + + On Saturday 19th inst. between the Bahama Bank and Key Sal Bank we + were boarded and taken possession of by a small schr. of about 30 + tons, having one gun mounted on a pivot and 30 men. She manned us + with twelve men, Spaniards, French, Germans and Americans, and + carried us towards the Florida coast. Being arrived on the coast + nearly opposite to Havana, the privateer went in shore to + reconnoitre, and our ship lay off and on. Next morning she returned + with two small vessels, a schooner and sloop. We then all four + steered over the reef towards the small islands, and on Tuesday + afternoon were brought to anchor in a little harbour formed by the + Florida isles and the Martyr's Reef, as snug a hole as buccaniers + would wish. They had seen no papers, but those of the ship and the + Manifest, but the latter was enough, and they asked not for invoices + or bills of lading. As soon as we anchored, they threw off our + boats, took off the hatches and began to plunder the cargo. They + loaded their two small vessels and another that came in next + morning, besides taking our valuables on board the privateer. Having + filled their vessels with linens and nankins, we had still many + left, for our ship was full when we sailed from Hamburgh. Till + Wednesday noon, our cabin had been respected, but then they came + below and took packages of laces, gold watches from the trunks and + other valuable goods. Every man had a knife about a foot long, which + they brandished, swearing they would have money or something more + valuable, that was concealed, or they would kill every soul of us, + and they particularly threatened me. I appealed to their captain, + told him I was in fear of my life, and went with him on board his + privateer. He said he had no command, the crew would do as they + pleased, that I need entertain no fear of my life, but had better + tell at once if any thing was concealed. I told him there was not. + After my return to the ship towards night, the pirates left us for + the first time, and we hoped they had done with us. But next morning + another sch'r and sloop appeared in the offing, and the privateer + and one of the loaded sloops went out to meet them. They all + returned together, the privateer anchored, and a boat's crew came + towards us. I attempted to go on board the privateer to see her + captain, but was ordered back. When they came on board, they said + they had come to find where the gold &c. was, and that if we would + not tell, they would hang every man of us and burn the ship. Davis, + the spokesman, drew his knife and swore, that every man should die, + unless he found the money, and first he would hang the supercargo. + He called for a rope, which he had brought on board, fitted with a + hangman's noose, sent a man up to the mizen yard and rove it and + brought the noose down--and one man held it, and another stood ready + to hoist. Now, said Davis, tell me where is the money, where are + your diamonds, or I will hang you this minute. In vain I repeated I + had nothing more but my watch, which I offered and he refused.--Once + more, said he, will you tell? I have nothing to tell, said I. On + with the rope, said the villain, and hoist away. The fellow with the + noose came towards me, and I sprang overboard. They took me up, + after some time, apparently insensible. They took off all my + cloaths, and laid me on my back on deck, naked as I was born, except + having a blanket thrown over me. Here I laid five hours without + moving hand or foot. Meanwhile they robbed us of every thing of the + least value. Against me they seemed to have a particular spite, + stealing even the ring from my finger, and all my cloaths from my + trunks which they sent on board the privateer. + + At night they left us, but returned once or twice, for a few + minutes, to see how I was. That night the privateer, with two or + three of her convoy went to sea, and next morning, Christmas day, we + got under way.--Having taken good notice of the courses steered in + coming in, and keeping the lead constantly going, we found our way + out to _blue water_ without much difficulty, and next morning, 26th, + arrived without further accident at Havana. + + The privateer was, I think, fitted out from this island. The Captain + is a Spaniard, a short man with a remarkable good face, that nobody + would suspect to belong to such a gang. The Lieutenant is a + Frenchman, a creole of St. Domingo, but called himself an Italian. + The man they called Davis, who ordered me to be hanged, is the pilot + or sailing master, and their boarding officer. He is an American, + belongs to New-York, and was the worst man on board. He is a + good looking fellow, something perhaps over the middle size, but the + most brutal rascal I ever met. There was another American on board, + only a common hand, being a drunkard.--Two negroes are all the + residue of the gentlemen with whom I had much acquaintance. + + The goods taken from us were upwards of fifty thousand dollars + worth, and I have no doubt are landed on the coast of this Island. + The neighborhood of Cuba will be troubled waters until our + government shall seriously determine to put down this system of + piracy. + +Akin to this subject it may be proper to record an incident which many +years ago concerned myself, and might have been tragical in its result. +In the month of February, 1854, it fell to my lot to sail out of Boston +harbor for Malta, aboard the bark _Sylph_, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. At +that period vessels sailing under the English flag were known in this +country as _lime-juicers_, so called because in the British navy the +consumption of lime or lemon juice was enforced as an anti-scorbutic +remedy. The only other passenger beside myself was Gen. William A. +Aiken, now of Norwich, Connecticut. The vessel was in command of Captain +Roberts, of Liverpool; and the first officer was Mr. Hicks, and the +second officer, Mr. Wharton. According to my recollection there were +eight in the forecastle, which number, together with the cook and +steward, made up a complement of fourteen persons, all told, aboard the +bark. The cook and steward were represented by a single person of +African descent, who prided himself both on his hair and his cooking, as +well as on his brotherly kinship to the self-styled rival of Jenny Lind, +who was then called the "Black Swan" (Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield), a +singer, well-known in her day. His hair deserves a word of special note, +as it was sometimes closely associated with his cooking, inasmuch as its +elaborate dressing was done before a glass hanging just beside a stove +in the cook's galley. He generally kept his long wool tightly furled in +numerous curling papers that stood out from his head like spikes. On +great occasions, such as Sundays and wonderful deliverances from storms, +he used to unfurl his kinky locks which seemed ample enough then to fill +a bushel basket. + +After a delay of a week or ten days in the harbor, owing to head winds +or inclement weather we set sail; and I remember well that the pilot, +Fowler by name, as he was about to leave the vessel, throwing his leg +over the bulwarks, said in his gruff voice to our skipper, "I will give +you twenty-eight days to the Straits." + +There is little to write about the trip on the Atlantic side of the +voyage more than it was very monotonous, so much so that both Aiken and +myself for some slight relief used occasionally to help the captain +"take the sun" at noon, and in this way we both became more or less +expert in navigation. It was also interesting to watch the sailors in +their various duties and pleasures; and from them we learned to splice +ropes and to tie fancy knots. We learned, too, the words of command in +proper sequence, as given by the captain, when he ordered the men to +tack ship or to wear ship, all which was of great interest to us. +Occasionally in good weather we used to take our trick at the wheel in +order to break the monotony of the voyage. Sometimes we would catch a +porpoise, of which the liver would give us a taste of fresh meat and +remind us of home. Off Cape Trafalgar we sailed over the waters which +floated the English fleet when Nelson fought his famous fight. I +recollect the first glimpse we had of Cape Spartel, a point of land in +the northwest corner of the African continent, overlooking the Straits, +which we made early in the morning of March 16, my birthday. With a +head-wind it took two days to beat into the Mediterranean, where we had +many calms and much bad weather. At one time we came near being wrecked +in a gale off Cape de Gato on the southern coast of Spain, but generally +we were cruising along the north coast of Africa, within a few leagues +of land, as our sailing course was dependent upon the wind. At times we +could see buildings and villages on the shore, and then would sink them +behind as we sailed away. + +The incident to which I have already alluded, occurred in the latter +part of March, off Cape Tres Forcas on the Barbary Coast. One afternoon, +as we were sailing along at low speed with little wind, two or three +leagues from land, we spied two lateen-rigged feluccas, apparently +following us, which at first sight attracted but little attention. +Captain Roberts soon became suspicious of their movements and watched +them closely, as they were gaining on us. We were going hardly more than +two or three knots an hour, having little more than steering way, but +they spreading much sail were faster. The captain soon gave orders to +have an inventory taken of the firearms on board that could be used in +case of need, but these were found to be few in number and in poor +condition. The cook was ordered to heat as much boiling water as his +small galley would allow, to be ready to repel any attempt to board the +vessel. There was great excitement on the bark, and we fully expected to +be attacked, but fortunately for us + + The shades of night were falling fast, + +and soon the sun went down. We then changed our course a point or two +and threw a sail over the binnacle light so that the suspected pirates +could not follow us; and thus we escaped what might have been a tragedy. + +After our arrival at Malta we learned that three vessels had been taken +by the Riff pirates, as they were called, near the time when we were +threatened, and near the same point of land. Without doubt the captors +belonged to the same crew as those that followed us. We were on the +Mediterranean Sea at the time when the Crimean War broke out, England +having declared war on March 28. This new condition of public affairs +caused great confusion in the movement of steamers and in transportation +generally, as steamships were much needed for military purposes; on +which account my stay at Malta was somewhat prolonged. During this time +I saw a good deal of the American consul, Mr. William Winthrop, who was +a kinsman of our former President, Mr. Winthrop, and at a later period a +Corresponding Member of this Society. At the regular monthly meeting +held on November 8, 1882, Mr. Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., paid a handsome +tribute to the consul, on the occasion of the Society's receiving a +liberal bequest from him. He ended his remarks by saying of him: "He +took a pride, however, in being a Corresponding Member,--the only one in +nearly a century who, so far as I am aware, ever left the Society a +dollar, and I much fear that, in this respect, he is likely long to +remain unique." + + + + +Transcriber's Note: + + Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant + spellings have been retained, in addition to spelling errors in + quoted text. [->] has been used to represent a right-pointing index. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Piracy off the Florida Coast and +Elsewhere, by Samuel A. Green + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIRACY OFF THE FLORIDA COAST *** + +***** This file should be named 26684.txt or 26684.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/6/8/26684/ + +Produced by Mark C. 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