Walt Whitman Junior High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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DEATH MUTINY He whipped us unmercifullyl He made the crew go hungry! He worked us eighteen hours a day, but he was captain and he was supreme. From his first brutal act,we knew he was not fit to command. While we were off the coast of New Zealand, one of the men was caught stealing a few morsels of bread. He was stripped to the waist and beaten mercilessly with a cat-o'-nine-tails. Other heartless punishments for minor offenses continued for weeks on end. Then the crew took action. The captain was with the pi- lot when mutiny rang through the ship. It was a bloody but short Sailors fell limply on revolt. the deck as they were overpower- ed. The shouts of helpless men competed with the explosive noise of the musket. There was the re- lentless thud of falling men and the slash of the cutlasses. When the sudden revolt ended, the ship was in the hands of the mutineers with the captain locked in the galley. But the crew was not satisfied. They wanted the captain to be punished for his fiendish practices. A vote was proposed and the crew agreed that the captain should be whipped. His once mighty figure was shackled to the mast like a com- mon seaman. Each time the whip cut into his flesh the crew roar- ed. Each slash paid for one more of his vile acts. Suddenly a volley of French guns thundered across the port side, and the deck became a con- fusion of debris and broken bo- dies. The evil captain lay dead crushed bv a fallen mast. Again .. 4?5:L. .1 .f-'ith 'ZS -is sh i f ff-git.-.... 4 , 9 A.-3, 3' 5' ii- Z- - Q- - -s-':.2-b -Wim a volley of shells thundered across our bow and smashed into our hull, Fires broke out in the magazine. We were in serious trouble. The guns were red hot and couldn't be fired. Our once proud ship was now a raging in- ferno. The men cried in agony as the flames licked at them. Moments later two British men- of-war came into view. Unknown to us Britain had de- clared war on France months be- fore, after a series of interna- tional incidents. Again guns fired and men screamed. This time French blood stained the water. Our survi- vors were picked up by one of the British ships. That's the story as I saw it, and here I am with the other nine- teen members of the ill-fated crew about to be hung in a public square in London. Keith Sherwood Z1