| Show nn nn n nA A Corner in in Wild Pepper I Americans were werl E hu hustlers of tIC commerce cotal t f area front from tho the berUtI beginning For witness u good goad story of Jf fact us liB told hy lIy Ralph D n Paine in III visa the Outing Magazine 1 for February l under tho the title of at in Gt Distant Seas Sen In lit 1793 1713 Capt Curies ot of Salem was looking for tor n a trade along the Iho Sumatra const coast Touching at the port of ot ho happened to too learn that lint wild willi pepper might light hu ho found the th north northwest went coast coant of ut Sumatra rho Tho Dutch East India I lid III company wn was nut not us alert as us this not eel Yankee lel roaming along strange and nile hostile coasts Capt Carne Carnen kept his hu to 10 completed his hili voyage OUKe to 10 Solemn thorn there whispered It to n it merchant Jonathan that an M ant t 1 onn its U possible a secret pepper ex ox expedition should be bo fitted out nut Mr 2111 1010 ordered o nit a n fa fast l I schooner built She was Willi called the and cur Curtle tied sled tle four guns Bunn ns and ID 10 11 men There wed much gossiping speculation about I 1 her hI but Copt Ca pt Carnes hud had nothing at III all 1111 to 10 say RI In November 1795 ho hll cleared for Sumatra and not nott 1 t L soul In iu atom Salom except excl Ir I the tho owner o t t t and know nano tt whither ho hit was hound bound tier Her cargo oC or brandy bra Kin git III Iron tobacco ind Ild dried to Ii be he bar bartered bartered for fOl wild pepper For or eighteen months no an word old re tc returned turned from the Ihl rajah Dud amid her my quest lluc t Capt Games Corn s might have havo been heen wracked on coasts ls whereof ho hit hull had no nn charts or ho Ito might have been slain by b Hut Poole having hh Ills slake as nS Salem Salim nor mr hants were wont wet to 10 do du busied bulled ol with w Ith other af affairs fairs and pinned planed his faith faint to th the proved sagacity and amid pluck ot of Jolla Jona thun Iian t Cornea At 11 last bast n a string of or signal flags fags fin flat flut fluttered flato lorl d front from a 11 at nt tho o harbor 1 mouth nn t oth 1 n l I ele reached Inn lor 1 11 his hi s and 1101 saw sae n a I topsails lifting limn from front seaward Tho had hud come home and amid when Rhe Ahl lot Itt go her anchor in iii Salem harbor Capt Jonathan Jo athau Carnes brought hr word ashore that he h hud bud secured a cargo curo of ot wild popper pepper In bulk which would woul i return a 1 profit of nt ot hR t per par percent remit enl on tho the total cost of or tho the vessel and an the voyage vO lIge In other words this ono ammo all advent adventure ura ure u of or the tho h realized what amounted to 10 a comfortable hlo fortune In that generation Ill Ill 1 on There was WI treat Ir lIt excitement unions anions the other alent merchants They Thu forsook th II desks to discuss 9 thin pepper pauper bonanza but Capt Call Jonathan fames Curnell had nothing to say Imy and Jon Joll Jonathan athan nthan nth an Peels won im tui dumb OH UK a It clam chain harbor barber clam chant The Tho Iw Rajah najah was at once refitted 1 1111 Id for a II second Sumatra voyage and in their s s to lath fathom ore her hOl I dazzling secret several rival merchants hastily mode made vessels ready tad for n or sea en ea with to go JO to t tilt ur const coast ns ne fast ns as could curry carry them and endeavor to find out where them Panics Carnes found round his wild pepper epper I They The hurried to but hilt were welt elo un any and had to proceed to In India Indin India dia din to nil fill their th II holds with whatever canto came cam to 10 hand Meanwhile the Rajah slipped away n for a n pepper voyage vo ng and returned with 15 1 pounds of the precious 1 condi condl condiment ment |
