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Show A PACIFIC PIRATl I FIVE YOUNG GIRLS WERE FORCIBLY CARRIED OFF FROM ONE ISLAND- The Would-be ltescuers are Fired 1 pon, Their Boat Overturned, and all Are Devoured by Sharks The Itemnrk-able Itemnrk-able Story of a Deserter. Ban Fbascisco, .Inn. ','1. .Tames White, a stowaway from Honolulu on the tnuner j Australia, tells a remarkable slory of his adventures ad-ventures in the South Seas. I.ast May he deserted from an American ship in Syihiey ami shipped on a hundred ton schooner for a trading voyage amone; tlie islands of the Pacific. The vessel carried a rrew of fifteen men commanded by Captain Colton. At the first place the vessel touched live young girls were forcibly abducted. The natives pursued pur-sued in n canoe, and when near the ship I they were lired upon, six or eight being killed. The canoe was overturned and the i rest devoured by sharks which swarmed in the water. Two weeks later the vessel touched at another an-other island and in a light with the natives one of the crew was killed and the mate's arm broken. At another island a lot of sandal san-dal wood was stolen and the schooner chased by a French gunboat, but she got away. White deserted and reached Honolulu. |