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Show PIRATESIN THE GULF STREAM. strange Tale of Red Rovers Told by an Italian Skipper. (London Chronicle.) Captain Luigi Montani of the steamship steam-ship Sardegna, which has just arrived at Naples from the United States with a large number of emigrants on board, recounts an extraordinary story of adventure. ad-venture. Shortly after entering the gulf stream, near the Mexican gulf, a suspicious looking brigantine hove in sight, from which piercing cries were heard proceeding. Captain Montani immediately im-mediately gave orders for pursuit, and under a threat of sinking the vessel, brought her to a halt. He then armed his crew, boarded the strange craft and began to search the vessel. It proved to be a pirate ship. Twenty-five Twenty-five pirates, who sought to slink awav in small boats, were surrounded by an overwhelming force and captured. They were all Caribbean negroes or Creoles. Tfro beautiful girls were discovered bound to the timbers of the ship, with their months gagged, and on being freed they had a heartrending story of brutality to tell. The brigantine had been seized by these pirates, who wounded the original crew and the captain, cap-tain, whose guests the girls were, and threw them overboard. The pirates thereupon steered the vessel, which had a large, cargo of she goats, toward the Antilles. Captain Montani ends by-saying by-saying that he transferred the pirates to the Sardegna, kept them in irons and made for Boston, where he delivered them to the American authorities. |