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pumps, started all his fresh water, and set his colours half- 

 mast, union down, as if in sore distress. Two steamers soon 

 came to his assistance and offered to tow him into port ; but 

 the captain's humanity overcame all selfish feelings, and he 

 replied, ' Save these people, and let the ship sink. If she is 

 afloat when you return we will try and get her in.' The 

 Chinamen were landed, the steamers paying the head-money 

 according to the laws of Victoria ; but when they returned for 

 Hayes, he was not to be found. His next cargo of Chinese 

 were landed without trouble, as he had them all made British 

 subjects previous to starting. 



' Bully Hayes ' was then lost sight of again, no one being- 

 able to learn anything of his doings or whereabouts, except 

 that he occasionally dawned upon Tahiti like a comet, and dis- 

 appeared as mysteriously as he came. Presently he commenced 

 his career as a trader among the South Sea Islands, and after 

 raiding and robbing stations for a couple of years, he was 

 found under arrest at Upolu, in charge of the British Consul. 

 Just then the renowned Captain Ben Pease arrived in the 

 brig Leonora. Captain Hayes's chronometers required rating, 

 and he obtained permission to take them on board the Leonora 

 for that purpose. Next morning the brig was gone, with Hayes 

 as a passenger, and shortly after turned up at Shanghai. Before 

 she had been ten days in port Pease was in prison, and Hayes 

 was owner of the brig. He fitted her for sea, as usual only 

 paying one bill, which, in this case, was for a spare mainyard, 

 and set off down the China coast, levying black-mail on its 

 villages for means to carry out his speculations in the 

 Pacific. 



In Saigon, Hayes was chartered to take a cargo of rice to 

 Hong Kong and vrny ports. At one of these by-ports the 

 owner went ashore to make a sale of rice, while Hayes kept 



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