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Show LI THEDARK AGES CAPTAIN AND TEN MEMBERS OF CREW OF TRADING VESSEL MURDERED BY SAVAGES. After Pretending Friendliness, Ferocious Feroc-ious Natives Slaughter Men and Then Make a Funeral Pyre Out of Their Ship. Victoria, B. C Furthor details of tho massacres In Now Britain early last month, briefly reported In Sydney Syd-ney cables, received by the steamer Marama on Tuesday, aro to the effect that Captain Lindsay or tho Ketch Rnbaul and ton of tho crow wero murdered and burned and tho trading vessel looted and set on fire, tho bodies of some of tho victims thrown Into the flames. Captain Lindsay, owner and master of tho vessel, and who was prominent promi-nent In tho New Britain trade, was off the east coast of New Britain about 200 miles from Hobertshonc, recruiting recruit-ing labor, and about sundown, when ho anchored his ship for the night, a swarm of native canoes camo off and tho blacks; asked that ho come ashore as plenty of men wore ready to sign on as laborers. Captain Lindsay went ashore and was cscortefl to a big natlvo house whero about a hundred blacks wore gathered. As soon as ho stepped In he was struck down from behind with a spear and tho blacks sprang upon him with knives. Ho fell bleeding from scores of wounds and was hacked to death. Tho body was then dragged out to the beach by tho heels and burned. Tho flotilla o canoes then went off to tho Rebaul and tho natives na-tives swarmed aboard. Ono after another an-other the ten men of the crow were slaughtered. Then whllo they lay, somo dead, somo mortally wounded, on tho deck, a raid wan made on tho stores and koroseno poured over the deck and in tho. holds, making tho ship a funeral pyre Tor the murdered men. Ship and victims wero completely com-pletely dostroyed. Somo natives reported the occurrences occur-rences to tho Lanocog, which at once steamed for Hebertshono and report-od report-od 1L A Gorman punitive expcdlton was being prepared whon tho Lane-cog Lane-cog left tho Islands. |