THE MUTINEERS

A tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the Far East as BenjaminLathrop set it down some sixty years ago

by Charles Boardman Hawes

Illustrated

To D.C.H.

TO PAY MY SHOT

To master, mate, and men of the ship Hunter, whose voyage is the backboneof my story; to Captain David Woodard, English mariner, who more than ahundred and twenty years ago was wrecked on the island of Celebes; toCaptain R.G.F. Candage of Brookline, Massachusetts, who was party to theoriginal contract in melon seeds; and to certain blue-water skippers whohave left sailing directions for eastern ports and seas, I am grateful forfascinating narratives and journals, and indebted for incidents in thistale of an earlier generation.

C.B.H.

IIN WHICH WE SAIL FOR CANTON, CHINA

    I My Father and I Call on Captain Whidden
   II Bill Hayden
  III The Man Outside the Galley
   IV A Piece of Pie
    V Kipping

IIIN WHICH WE ENCOUNTER AN ARAB SHIP

   VI The Council in the Cabin
  VII The Sail with a Lozenge-Shaped Patch
VIII Attacked
   IX Bad Signs
    X The Treasure-Seeker

IIIWHICH APPROACHES A CRISIS

   XI A Hundred Thousand Dollars in Gold
  XII A Strange Tale
XIII Trouble Forward
  XIV Bill Hayden Comes to the End of His Voyage

IVIN WHICH THE TIDE OF OUR FORTUNES EBBS

XV Mr. Falk Tries to Cover His Tracks
XVI A Prayer for the Dead
XVII Marooned
XVIII Adventures Ashore

VIN WHICH THE TIDE TURNS

  XIX In Last Resort
   XX A Story in Melon Seeds
  XXI New Allies
XXII We Attack
XXIII What We Found in the Cabin

VIIN WHICH WE REACH THE PORT OF OUR DESTINATION

XXIV Falk Proposes a Truce
XXV Including a Cross-Examination
XXVI An Attempt to Play on Our Sympathy
XXVII We Reach Whampoa, but Not the End of Our Troubles

VIIOLD SCORES AND NEW AND A DOUBTFUL WELCOME

XXVIII A Mystery Is Solved and a Thief Gets Away
  XXIX Homeward Bound
   XXX Through Sunda Strait
  XXXI Pikes, Cutlasses, and Guns
XXXII "So Ends"

ILLUSTRATIONS

"At 'em, men! At 'em! Pull, you sons of the devil, pull!"

Suddenly, in the brief silence that followed the two thunderous reports, apistol shot rang out sharply, and I saw Captain Whidden spin round andfall.

We helped him pile his belongings into his chest … and gave him a handon deck.

"Sign that statement, Lathrop," said Captain Falk.

He cut from the melon-rind a roughly shaped model of a ship and stuck init, to represent masts, three slivers of bamboo.

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