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In 1828, I was second mate of the brig Isabel. We had been freightng for six or cight menths among the West India

Islands, and picked up a good deal of |

At last the hot weather came on, freighting grew dull, and we made ready to sail for home. In the mean- time there came on board four Spaniards who wished to engage a passage to the North, and being able to accomodate just that number, we accepted them. Thev were all sinister looking fellows, and one in particular was so much so, that I wondered why Captain Hillman entertained so little distrust of him.

Neither myself nor the chief mate liked the arrangements; for in those days ever sailor had the dread of pirates pretty deeply upon his mind. And in- deed, we had only a few months pro- vious been chased by the murderous scoundrels off the Isle of Pines.

We sct sail, and I must confess that [ passed the first night in some uneasi- ness. he passengers spoke but little Englisli, "and their conversation was, therefore, mostly between themselves. During such coloquies, itseemed to me that I could detect in them the manner of guilty men—a constant look of dis- trust and watchfulness; but as the second day wore on I became accus- tomed to the appearance of their well- dressed figures at my side, my anxiety abated.

Toward the evening of this day, however, my attention was drawn to a slight altercation between the cook and the Spaniard, Bacalardo, the man whom f had remarked as the most villanous- looking of the four. Drawing near them, I asked what had happened.

“Why, sar,” replied the negro cook “while I was out ob the galley, dis Spanish gemmen’ sprinkle sometbing on de meat. I scrape it off de best way I could. [doesn’t want no interference in de ’fairs ob my galley.”

The faithful negro looked angry; nor was this all—his glance and tone told me that a grim and dreadful sus- picion had entered his mind. The Spaniard, however, remarked that he had merely intended to season the meat with a kind of pepper highly es- teemed in Cuba; but upon my express- ing a curiosity to see it he regretted that he had none remaining. I was about to order the cook not to produce the meat at supper, when the captain approaching us, made light of the af- fair, laughing at the old negro’s jealousy of the encroachment apon his peculiar province ; and as the mysterious sub- atance seemed to have been wholly re- moved by the cook’s knife, [ hoped that no harm might result.

The captain ate trecly of the meat ; the mate was evidently affected at what had transpired, yet his appetite prevail- ed. I avoided it entirely ; and as to the Spaniards the circumstaace of their leaving it untasted seemed not remark- able, us we had learned on the day previous that they were not in tho habit of eating animal food at supper.

Shortly afterwards, the captain, mate, and three of the crew became dread- fully sick. [ felta terrible presentment of the worst yet what was 1to do? The captain was helpless in his berth; the mate lay in agony upon the transon ; the only foremast hand able to come on deck was at the wheel; the cook was paralyzed with fear ; and my ideas of what could or ought to be done,were confused by the suddenness and appall- ing dificulties of my position.

Should I arm and attack the villians ; whom should 1 arm, and how com- mence? Were the helmsman to stir from his station, a knife would be at his heart; and were the cook to leave his galley, he would not walk to the end of if.

| went to the cabin, where the cap- tain and mate were vomiting in great distress; and while overhauling the medieine, more from the sense of rest- lessness which we all feel in the pre- sence of sickness, than from any hope of atfording-relief, the companion doors were shut upon me, and the slide shoved to its place. And at the same moment there was a slight struggle on deck, a guoan and a fall; and next came aheavy splash in the water under the stern. | had felt that I could as easily defend

money.

myself in the cabin as elsewhere, for | upon deck I had been entirely at the

mercy of the pirates, momentarily ex- pecting them to strike; but the reason for their not évident.

Bacalardo came to the slide and ordered me to come on deck. I refused, and expressed a determination to defend myself.

“We no kill you,” he said ; “we want you for navigate.”

“What did you do with the cook ?” 1 then asked.

‘“Westab him; he is overboard ; so is other man. All menin the forecastle (lead ; we stab them all.”

Then I knew the three villiaas had

killed the th ison | : 2 POFO® meh Whptn The. BORON | oa a sets iin Beaten. DEAR. 00., URAC RIBS fa: we DAILY EX-

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myselfand the two fearfully sick officers | May 21—6m 3aw

remained. They were already on the point of death.

I told Bacalardo that I would come on deck when the captain and mate should have passed suffering. 1t seem-

‘adful that the impatient wretch- es ild murder them with knives; and henee I could not bear to leave them. My refusal to do’so, however, availe’ nothing, for crowding into the eal 1 ot once despatched thei: bodies

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Sailing From Liverpool for Charlottetown not later than the 5th September.

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PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. in Chancery.

SAMUEL NELSON ROBINSON,

JOSEPH ROBINSON and

GEORGE FREDERICK ROBINSON ,—

Complainants

AND

MARGARET McCRAITH,

JAMES REDDIN,

PIERCE GAUL,

MARGARET McCRAITH, Guardian of James Barry McCraith, Arthur Edgworth McCraith, Mary Louisa McCraith, Augus- tine McCraith, Marzaret McCraith, Elien McCraith and Beatrice Marion McCraith,

Defendants.

In pursuance of a decree made in this suit

by His Honor the Vice Chancellor,

bearing date the twenty-ninth day of

August, instant, A. D. 1878, there will

be sold by Public Auetion, on

WEDNESDAY, the eleventh dey of

December next, ensuing, at twelve

o'clock, noon, in the Supreme Court

Iiouse, in Cherlottetown, in Queen’s

County,—

LL that Tract or Piece of Land situate, tk lying and being in Charlottetown, aforesaid, being part or parcel of Town Lots Number Four and Five, in the secoad tun- dred of Town Lots in the said Town, bound. ed and described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at the southeastern corner of the dwelling- house and store now occupied by Henry J. Calbeck, in the northern edge} or side of Sydney Street, and running thence along the edge or side of Sidney Street, paraliel with the line of said Street for the distance of forty feet; thence at right argles to said Strect, northwardly, for the distance of seventy-nine feet; thence at right angles westward)y, along the boun= Cary line of the late John McGuli’s land, forty (40) feet, or until it meets the boun- | dary line of Jand occupied by the said Henry \J. Calbeck; thence at right angies south- iWardly along the said last mentioned line seventy-nine (79) feet, to the place of com- mencement, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, and the appur- tenances thereunto belonging.

Dated this 31st day of August, A D. 1878. J. LONGWORTH, Master in Chancery.

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Prince Edward island

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To be sold by PUBLIC AUCTION, on THURSDAY, the Twelfth day of December next, A. D, 1878, at tweélre o'clock, noon, at the Court House, in Charlottetown, under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in an Inden- ture of Mortgage, bearing date the {fteenth day of March, A, D, 1876, and made between Donald McLeod, of Car- digan River, in King’s County, fermer, aud Hannah, his wife, of the one part, and Edward Jarvis Hodgson and Neil McLeod, of Charlottetown, in Queen’s County, Barristers-at-Law, of the other part (and which said Mortgage was duly assigneu by the said Edward Jarvis Hodgson and Neil McLeod to Edward Jarvis Hodgson and John Ball, Trus- tees of the Estate of Devid Stwart Rennie, by assigument dated 30th March, 1878)—

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