In Search of an Unknown Race — page 190: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

‘‘Manuel Rodriguez, outward pilot of steamer Clytie, hence to New York, brings the following report. The morning before he left the steamer off Braganza shoals, he saw from the wheel house a man clinging to a partly submerged tree trunk. A boat was lowered, and the man taken on board in a terribly exhausted condition. His statement was in effect this: That his name was Joshua Peterson, master of the schooner Kattler, of and from Boston, Massachusetts, for Para. That on the night of the 14th instant, he then having charge of the deck, he was suddenly assaulted by two of the men, one of whom struck him a blow with a heaver, which, missing his head, broke his shoulder bone. At the Same moment, and before he could cry out, he was for- cibly seized and thrown over the rail—the schooner then moving about six knots. As he rose to the surface he fortunately grasped a floating tree trunk, to which he clung till rescued. Captain Peterson has no doubt but that his mate was murdered and thrown over in the same way, the undoubted object being to get posses- sion of a large sum of money in gold known to be in the captain’s stateroom. Whether the mutineers pur- pose scuttling the schooner and reaching the shore in boats, or will take her to some far away foreign port where she can be sold for a song and no questions asked, is of course uncertain. On his arrival at New York, Captain Peterson will take proper steps to ascer- tain, if possible, what has been done with his vessel.” This was indeed good news, and it greatly lightened the weary waiting for the expected steamer, which arrived in due time. Among the first to engage passage Eomicbooksne