. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . O CD o. o SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS II of savage enemies. To those on shore its fate seemed sure; andthey tried to hold by force the first mate Daniel C. Bacon, whohad been sent from the ship when there was no thought of danger. But the gallant seaman tore himself from their hands, andwith his small boats crew, rowed at full speed to rejoin hisbeleagured ship and share her fate. He and his men were goton board while yet the little battle raged; and now the goodship was in range of Macao Forts, which began to throw theirshot also amon
. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . O CD o. o SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS II of savage enemies. To those on shore its fate seemed sure; andthey tried to hold by force the first mate Daniel C. Bacon, whohad been sent from the ship when there was no thought of danger. But the gallant seaman tore himself from their hands, andwith his small boats crew, rowed at full speed to rejoin hisbeleagured ship and share her fate. He and his men were goton board while yet the little battle raged; and now the goodship was in range of Macao Forts, which began to throw theirshot also among the eager pirates. This episode put such cour-age into the cowardly mandarins that, by means of bribery andtreachery they secured the cut-throat Apootsae, and had him putto death by the slow and prolonged process of hacking, called the thousand cuts. From this time forth there was intenserespect for Americans at Canton and Macao. When Captain Sturgis took the Atahualpa back safe andsound to Boston, he was reproved by the owner, Mr. TheodoreLyman, for taking t
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