I was walking along the deck at about ten to six, on Tuesday, when suddenly I heard a shout and' somebody dashed past me with a revolver.
Somehow I knew that it was a piracy at once, so T ran into the engine room ' where the second engineer was, then into the smoking room, where everybody were putting up. their hands, After that we had to stay in there for an hour and a half, with the pirates going in and out of the First they pushed in Mr. Roxburgh and began searching him and swearing, 10 see if he had any pistols, the next to come in was the guard and he was searched and punched.
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river aww that I had such a hatred for guns before in my Life Most of us" were frightened like anything, After @ time we were led out and searched, then led into the saloon where I'saw the Russian guard that had put up a fight and got shot, lying' fust outside the door.
When we went in they were searching and questioning the chief They told us to sit down and eat but we did not exactly feat like it, 80 they told us to stay downstairs, The Detective Pacifier We stayed downstairs for the night and in the early morning I and another voy named Wilkie popped out our heads to see if there was any pirates. sleeping outside, and we found there was about one or two.
That day passed terribly slowly, and only once a pirate came in with Jhis pistol, and at once, there was almost a dead silence, Mr. Duncan was very kind in reading to us out of Sherlock Holmes, which was very interesting.
All the same the tine dragged rather badly.
Tht last of all the days was the worst of the lot, because they were Heaving the Ship. T wondered if would ever see another day. again, Well we got into a dreary looking bay where the pirates were going to leave, when they said they must capture a junk 9 take them ashore fu, and also not to be frightened if we heard any shots.
When the pirates tried to capture a junk, it was just outside of a lighthouse and the lighthouse sig-malled to some destroyers to come.
At last we got a junk, and while they were getting in an aeroplane came oval, and the captain pirate and three others cut the rope of tke Junk and sailed away leaving the others on board. We thought we might get shot, but they got off all right but they took some of the officers, and lett them on the beach. And we got them back all the same.
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