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Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 13 Aug 1914, p. 7

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Sails were then set, paddles got out, and we made for the shore. Not being able to speak their language, language, and the savages bein^ very excitable and jabbering incessantly, our .thoughts were anything but pleasant, ones. Did they mean . to kill and eat us, or were tliiy going slowly to torture us to death 1 We bad heard the stories of the cruelties cruelties they had inflicted upon other shipwrecked crews, and regarded our fate as virtually sealed. We could not make head or tail of their intentions, however, except that it was clear they did not mean a single one of us to escape. After they had beached their boats the Achinese made signs to us that we were to follow them. Several Several pf them, heavily armed, led the way and we sailors followed, absolutely absolutely surrounded by our captors. They plunged into the jungle, t-rav- Ge lierai Sonkliomlinoff, Russia's War Minister, second to the Czar in command of the army. •. J» * I eling in a more or less straight line, British Crew Captured by Sumatrans naa i nrinmg and ^ hus we tramped along for several several hours through thick tropical Experience While Waiting to be Ransomed For the crew of a British ship, numbering 28 hands, to be attacked and overpowered on the. high seas by a band of savage pirates,, and then whisked away and held prisoners prisoners for a period of over five months the wilds of Sumatra, where they endured tortures and sufferings from which they were released only by the payment of a heavy ransom by a European government, savors more of romance than reality. Yet such was the fate that befell my companions and me, of the good ship Nisero, in the year 1889, says the Wide World Magazine. The Nisero, which belonged to D. G. Pinkney & Sons of Sunderland and London, was a cargo, steamer trading between Great Britain and the East. She was capable of .carrying .carrying about 3,700 tons of freight, and in those days was considered quite a big ship. She was in command command of Captain Charles Hoodruff, assisted by the usual complement of officers and crew, my position on the vessel being that of steward. All told, we numbered 28 hands, every one of them a British subject. It was in the February of the year named that we loaded un at Sunderland Sunderland with a cargo of coal, bound for Colombo. The voyage out was quite uneventful. We discharged our black diamonds at Colombo and then proceeded in ballast to Batavia, in Java, to load up sugar for New York. Steaming across the Indian Ocean we sighted the northern northern point of Sumatra safely, passed Brasse island, and then hugged the ""coast, -steering far Diamond Point, with the intention of entering the Malacca strait. Everything went well, until the early hours of. May 29th, when we ran into a particularly particularly heavy fog. 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Tour letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman woman and held in strict confidence. wait until the fog lifted and the tide rose, when we should float off without without damage. It was about 5 o'clock in the morning when the ship struck as. we discovered later--opposite a place called Point Nyes, about half way between Brasse Island and Diamond Diamond Point, on the northern coast of Sumatra. About an hour and a half later, when the fog began to lift a little, the lookout somewhat astonished us by reporting more than a dozen large native catamarans, catamarans, under full sail, bearing down upon us. We crowded to the ship's rail and peered through the fog in the direction of the coming boats, speculating as to ..whether they would prove to be friends or foes. We had not long to wait to settle this point. Through his glasses the captain saw that the boats were crowded with armed savages, and as they drew near we realized that they were the dreaded Achinese, a powerful and warlike tribe, who inhabit inhabit the northern portion of Sumatra, Sumatra, and whom the Dutch even to this day have not completely subdued. subdued. They are notorious pirates, and had evidently come out to rob us, if not to kill us. It was impossible to get the ship away, and accordingly preparations were made to keep our foes at bay, for we knew that if we allowed.them to board us we should be at their mercy. Rockets were fired and shots sent in the direction of the coming boats in the hope that the savages would be frightened off. Still, however, they bore down upon upon us. When they were within hailing hailing distance we shouted to them, making it clear that we did not want them to approach nearer. Nevertheless, Nevertheless, they came on taking not the slightest notice of our shouts and threats. As they drew closer we realized more than ever that their mission was not one of peace, and that if we valued our lives they must be kept away from the ship at all costs. Occasional shots from the captain s revolver troubled them little, and as our armory was small, consisting only of some foiir or five guns, and there was little ammunition ammunition to spare, other measures had to be sought to keep our dreaded foes at bay. It was clear that this was not the first- ship these men had attacked. Presently, by a clever maneuver, they spread out in an immense circle circle and completely surrounded us; then, dashing in simultaneously, they began to clamber on deck, climbing up the sides of the ship like monkeys by means of bamboo poles and grass ropes with hooks at the ends, which they flung upward, thus obtaining a grip on the ship's plates, portholes and rails. When they reached the deck many were hurled back clean into the water, but it was a short fight, for we were hopelessly outnumbered and securely securely bound, though not until we had all been more or less seriously wounded. I had a spear-thrust through the muscle of my arm, the scar of which I carry to this day, and our quartermaster had a spear driven right through his. leg, while the captain had a very narrow shave, a spear, as it whistled through the air, taking the skin off one side of his face. Many of the natives lay about the deck stunned by our blows, while several of their boats had been damaged. damaged. Sails had been knocked down, and here and there men lay apparently lifeless on the lashed logs of which the craft were constructed. constructed. Once overpowered, we v, ere quickly rendered incapable of offering offering further resistance, our hands and arms being securely tied with grass ropes. Our captors were half naked, brown-skinned savages, from five feet, six inches to five feet eight inches in heights fairly muscular, muscular, and as nimLIe - as kittens. Their bodies were greased with cocoa-nut oil, which made it very difficult, to grapple with them, while tncy were armed with spears, a-kind of tomahawk, tomahawk, axes* and a few old flintlock muskets. Once; masters of the situation, situation, 'they quickly made us .Understand .Understand by signs that we were to leave the ship and go ashore with them. forests, which taxed our strength and patience, for fettered as we were, we often caught our feet and fell helplessly among the thick roots that littered" the ground, while horrible horrible thorns tore our clothes arid slashed our bodies. We journeyed on through that interminable interminable forest for some seven or eight hours until we were utterly exhausted from fatigue and want of food. All we had to eat on the march was some wild fruit, which our captors gathered in the jungle., and an occasional drink from some stream. The Achinese made it very plain to us by eloquent signs that any attempt attempt to get aw ay would mean severe severe punishment, if not death. Here, 'held as prisoners by our savage savage captors, we were destined. to spend five weary and anxious months, knowing nothing of what was going on in the outside world and in ignorance of our ultimate fate. That first night, we were too worn out. to do anything hut sleep, but as day succeeded day, and we remained remained cooped up in that wretched shed we began to discuss the seriousness seriousness of our plight and racked our brains for a means of escape Twenty-eight Britishers were not likely to submit tamely to captivity captivity among savages. We had not been among the natives more than a fortnight, when Quartermaster Potter, a big sturdy fellow, attempted attempted to regain his liberty by quietly creeping out of camp at nkçht. This was not easy, for, in addition to the guards around our prison, there were a dozen or more fires encircling us, the glow of which revealed our every movement. Potter- Potter- told us of his intentions, and though none of us cared to join him just then--we felt it was practically practically hopeless--we wished him luck, and grew quite excited when we discovered discovered that he had actually got away. It was a shortlived freedom, however, for about 9 o'clock on the next morning he w T as brought back by a band of savages. The roor fel- |q-\v wa-s 'almost naked, the little clothing he possessed having been torn off him by his angry captors. Potter was given -a punishment which more than one of us was compelled compelled to suffer before we were ultimately ultimately released. Making a hot fire, the Achinese tied his hands together, together, and then, by means of cords drew them over the blaze, holding them there until they were badly burnt and blistered. For days Potter Potter was completely crippled and in great pain, and we had to feed him like a baby. To alleviate his agony we placed cocoanu't leaves dipped in water over the tender skin. The leaves were very cooling, and in time the wounds healed. About the end of June the same fate befell another man, Murphy by name, but the poor fellow died.some weeks later. In this case the savages, savages, with fiiendish cruelty, burnt his feet as well as his hands, with the result that Murphy could not walk. We made him up a bed of dried leaves, and in our rough-and- ready way did everything we could for 'him, bathing his burns and poulticing poulticing with cocoanut leaves. Nevertheless, Nevertheless, our comrade grew rapidly worse, and toward the end prayed for death to release him from his sufferings. Alson, another able- bodied seaman, who essayed a bolt, was subjected to a like ordeal, while I still carry the sears of burns I received received as a punishment for trying to'escape. The torture by burning was unspeakably painful and was always carried out in the presence of the whole village. When' the captive was brought back tomtoms were beaten and very soon the clearing would be crowded with savages. savages. Then the fire would be lit, the prisoner brought out and the cruel punishment inflicted. Being bound arid securely held, there was no escape. The men often fainted from the a^ful pain ; while bh§ Açh these gloatingly' watched their_ sufferings. sufferings. The pirates invariably wound up the proceedings with dance. 1 ' After quite a number of men had suffered this ordeal by fire we began began to recognize that it was impossible'for impossible'for us to get away. Possessing Possessing no compass and knowing no- no t even know m what direction to go. All around us was thick jungle, in some places absolutely impenetrable. impenetrable. What dangers lurked there we did not know, but we were well aware that it containedvwild beasts, for we often heard the roarings at night. There were leopards and jaguars, we knew, arid also enormous enormous pythons. To have escaped from one savage tribe into the hands of another would not have improved matters, and it seemed as if this was the most we could hope for if we succeeded in avoiding the wild beasts and snakes. None of us got more than a few miles into the jungle'before we were overtaken, for the natives were expert expert trackers. Our experiences were practically identical. All the fugitives were suddenly pounced upon upon by the savages, who emerged from 'behind trees arid bushes when we imagined no one was following us. During our imprisonment among the Achinese we were fed on rice. A bagful of this grain, with the husks on, were brought every morning by one of the natives and flung down before us. We had to separate the rice from the husks and then cook it in a sort of cauldron over a fire which we kindled with an old flint. Water we obtained from an adjacent adjacent stream, fetching it in a kind of old pail we found. To vary our diet of rice we had various kinds of wild fruit, such . as mangoes, oranges, figs, apples, tomatoes and cocoanuts. These we either picked, from the forest bordering the clearing clearing or obtained from the natives. We induced the native boys' to climb the cocoanut trees jmd_throw us down the nutsT These we cracked cracked and drank the milk. In spite of these shifts, however, our menu was not very satisfying to healthy, vigorous seamen. Climbing the trees for fruit and nuts played havoc with our clothes, which were soon in ribbons. Many of the men, moreover, had been wearing little at the time of capture. capture. When the ship was attacked the men below dashed up on deck their trousers and shirts and in these scanty garments were now in the last stages of disrepair. The natives took our watches and chains, our pipes and tobacco and every article we possessed that they fancied. They even took the rings off the captain's fingers. It was not long before we detected in the village village many articles from the Nisero in the form of ropes, canvas, awnings, awnings, sails, chains and tools. Bars of steel were brought from the engine engine room, and out of these the natives natives fashioned improvised hammers hammers and ax heads. They eyen brought the ship's chronometer ashore. This they evidently regarded regarded as a curio, for it was 'broken up and the works distributed among the chiefs. These garments they often wore, especially on festive occasions, when they presented a comical sight. One would he seen parading about in a shirt, another in a vest and a third in a sou'-wester cap. . As we watched them, men would ruefully ruefully remark : "There goes my shirt!" "There goes my coat!" and so on. ^ ; , Meanwhile, the days of our imprisonment imprisonment passed slowly and wearily wearily by, and no whisper from the outside outside world reached us. One day was very much like another. When the sun rose we would leave «our bed of dried leaves, stroll down to the stream and perform our ablutions, ablutions, often indulging in a swim. Our next task would be to cook enough rice to last us the day. We ate for breakfast, for dinner, and also for supner, and we soon came to loathe it. After breakfast we would wander into the adjacent jungle, which we were allowed to <Jo--always accompanied, however, by some of the natives--to hunt for fruit. When night came arid we turned in we were greatly troubled bv mvriads of voracious mosquitoes aLï fifes: Now and then we could not help being struck with the humor of thç situation. ' Not-only did the natives natives bring everything movable away from the ship;; but our clothes as well. One morning, when we had been there just over four months, we It was clear that something unusual unusual was about * to happen. The young bloods were greasing their bodies, fondling their spears, and marching to and fro. Were we being being attacked - by a rival tribe, or what was it 1 Just after noon we heard shouts, but they were not war cries, and then a band of natives, natives, many of" whom we had never seen before, stepped into the clearing, clearing, followed by a troop of some 50 European soldiers, dressed in light blue uniforms and peaked caps, and led by a smart little officer. They were Dutchmen, and we could not help giving them a rousing cheer, which they promptly answered. Without more ado they strolled over to us, shook hands with us warmly, warmly, and plied us with questions concerning concerning our health. Never had we seen faces that cheered us so much as those of these sunburnt sons of Holland ! Nearly all of them spoke English and we thanked heaven that we had been found and rescued at last. . We now learned that the British India steamer Mombasa had reported reported having seen our _ vessel ashore, and on assistance being sent to her it was discovered that not a single member of the crew remained remained on board. There were traces of a fight, however, and the wreckage of the ship found on the shore made it clear that we had been overpowered overpowered and carried off into the jungle. The matter was at once brought to the notice of the Dutch .government, .government, which was asked to ascertain what had become of us, and by dint of many inquiries at last discovered discovered our whereabouts. Word was sent, through the natives, to the chief who Jheld us prisoners that we were to be at once released, but this the chief refused to do without first receiving a ransom. He threatened threatened to massacre us if soldiers were sent against him. We learned all this from our rescuers. They informed informed us that the matter had been brought before the British House of Commons by Samuel Storey, then M.P. from Sunderland, and that the British people were very incensed incensed at the inability of the Dutch to release us. The British foreign office office had insisted on something being done, and that was why they had come to bargain with the chief There wore certain preliminaries to be gone through, but we shouk. undoubtedly be free shortly. It was indeed joyful news. The soldiers pitched their tents close to us, and that night we had the pleasure of tasting hot coffee eating properly cooked- European food, and indulging in a smoke-- the first for ages. Never was meal so satisfying and a smoke so soothing to troubled nerves. Next morning dur captain left us, in company with some of the soldiers soldiers and chiefs. There - was to - be a palaver with the chief who claimed claimed us, -and who was away at the time, one of the conditions being that the captain was to be present. As the days wore on naturally we speculated as to what was happening, happening, though our Dutch friends assured assured us that it was only a matter of arrangement. Twelve days later, to our dismay, the soldiers were called away, but returned next morning,, and great was our joy when they informed us that we were now free, and were to accompany them to the coast. Our liberty had been bought by the Dutch government, government, which had agreed to give the natives 12,000 guilden--about £l,- 000. Thus ended our captivity of five months and three days among one of the most warlike and dangerous dangerous tribes of Sumatra. We soon reached Sarawak, where we found our captain awaiting us, and from that place we came home to England, England, via Rotterdam, by the steamship steamship Sourabaya. B B 9 \)W>V W. Pots, Pans and Dishes ! Panshine really has no equal in the kitchen. You should not trust to hot water and soap to remove grease- and all traces of the last meal's cookery. It isn't safe. Use Panshine--it makes pots clean and sweet, tin like silver, paint like new. PANSHINE is a pure white powder with no disagreeable smell Sold in Large \ At all Sifter Top Tins, JL vv» Grocers P-6 HEALTH Heat Apoplexy and Sunstroke. This is often induced by the direct rays of the sun playing for a considerable considerable time upon the uncovered or badly protected head. It may also occur during a prolonged heat wave, when the patient has not been exposed to the direct sunlight, but lives in a hot, close, impure atmosphere atmosphere with little or no ventilation. The attack is due to the heat causing causing congestion of the brain, or its membranes. It may be sudden, producing immediate insensibility, or may be preceded by dizziness, disturbed vision and distressing"; headaches. The patient's breathing is labored and loud, owing to the presence of mucins in the upper air passages ; convulsions and twitching twitching of the muscles may be present, and the face is very deeply flushed. The skin is intensely hot, and the pulse rapid and sharp. The treatment treatment must be very prompt, and consists in applying ice, or pouring- icy cold water over the head. Whisky Whisky mixed with the water will reduce the temperature of tfie liquid if the patient's head is fanned during the application. The patient should be moved into the coolest room in the house, and be laid on a couch with the head raised. Medical attention must be secured at once, as heat apoplexy and sunstroke are exceedingly exceedingly fatal. The 'best preventative preventative s of heat apoplexy is to take care that the head, especially the nape of the neck, is adequately protected protected from the direct rays of the •sun. Women suffer less than men, no doubt owing to their masses of i ai r and hats, while ' among cliild- •en the cases are very frequent, due oerhaps to their carelessness in the matter of head covering. The countryman's cabbage leaf, or wet handkerchief inside the. crown of his hat, has much to recommend it. It is one of the finest preventatives of heat apoplexy known.--A Physician. Physician. Fresh Air. Never do we hear of a centenarian who shut out of his or her life the air and the life-infusing (sunshine. Invariably centenarians revel in the air and sun, and have done so from childhood. It is because of this love of the elements of Nature* that their physical energies are so long sustained ; that their mental faculties faculties remain clear and active for so long a period. The lungs well supplied with air, the bodr magnetised with sunshine, the blood is pure. Consequently, it is more active. Being in a live, active condition broken down tissue is quickly repaired, waste products are considerably diminished ; those generated are readily and effectively effectively disposed of, -and the body is maintained at a high level of perfection perfection not possible by means of any other equalizing agent. Pure air, therefore, we must have day and night, from birth, through youth, when journeying through the middle pass and during old age ; not now and again, when we feel the atmosphere has become close and sultry, but as a daily necessity necessity as the bread we eat, and he fluid we drink. .* a nd A Suggestion. "Waiter, this knife is blunt, the steak is like leather. "Ow'd it do to strop the knife on the steak, sir i" BOY GOES ON ALL FOURS. For Ten Years That Has Been Method of Travel. His reversion thing «lout Ze country, we, did ' found the. natives greatly darned A pease of a possible typeisHhat of Thomas Armstrong, a twelve-year-old boy of Bangor, Alabama. Alabama. Upon the death of his father he was thrown oh the community and sent to the associated charities in Birmingham, then turned over to the juvenile court, which in turn transferred transferred him to a leading physician. The medical profession here is using the boy as an anthropological study. Young Armstrong has never learned to walk erect, but goes on all fours. He is physically strong and can run as fast as the average boy. His body i and limbs are normally formed and 1 developed. His arms are slightly longer longer than normal, presumably, as a result result of use in all-four walking. It has always seemed natural for him to walk that way. When he was a little child his mother died. His father married again, but did not live long, and the boy had to shift for himselfr From habit and usage he can place his hands on the ground with his body in a horizontal position. He says his back and shoulders never get tired from long walks. The boy's mental development has been slow, but the physician who.has him in charge believes _ that in six months he will be able to walk like other boys. He is being trained in the direction and has made some progress. progress. He is gradually developing mentally as well. t^tiÿsiciâfis àre studying the'case with exceptional interest in the belief that valuable anthropological and medical information may be obtained from his treatment. For ten years the boy has traveled on all fours, and can walk for miles that way and keep up with the other. boys. r. Frank Terrace, addressing the Good Roads Convention at Tacoma, Washington, gave the following enthusiastic testimony in favor of good roads : "I am a cabbage grower. I haul my produce to the sauerkraut factory at South Seattle. Before the road over which I travel was built, I had to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to start on my journey. The limit of the load I could haul with a team.of 1800 pound horses was 2500 pounds, and after visiting the factory I would arrive back at my home late in the evening. But look at the difference now that a permanent hard surface has been laid down. I start on my trip about 8 o'clock and need only a team weighing 1400 pounds to haul a load of 5000 pounds of cabbage, which is double my previous capacity. And, best of all, I find on my return to the house early in the afternoon, that I have finished the day s work without the horses having turned a hair. Concrete Roads Mean Road Economy They prevent your road taxes being spent in patching up roads that never will be good roads. They arc the cheapest kind of roads at the end of ten, fifteen or twenty years because they practically eliminate the cost of upkeep. They enable you to haul bigger loads with less effort and less wear and tear on horses and vehicles. They increase land values, better conditions generally, and dëcrease the cost of living. Write for, free, Good Roads literature, and leara how good roads will benefit you. NTlAMr Concrete Roads Department Canada Cement Company Limited 806 Herald Building, Montreal

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