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the vessel outside to save expense. The owner turned one 

 corner of a street and the first officer the other, the latter im- 

 mediately going back on board the ship, which left, leaving 

 the owner to wonder what it all meant. Bankok was soon 

 reached, and the cargo of rice sold at a good figure. The 

 Leonora was newly coppered, and a complete outfit taken on 

 board for the Pacific trade. The mail steamer entered the 

 port with the owner of the rice on board, as Hayes was 

 leaving. This gentleman had never met Hayes but once when 

 he chartered the vessel. 



We next hear of the U.S.S. Naragansett, Captain Meade, as 

 being engaged in searching for Hayes, who was found at 

 Upolu, arrested, and taken on board the man-of-war, where he 

 had no difficulty in winning the hearts of both men and 

 officers, and after three days' detention he was liberated, there 

 being no evidence against him, and all being firmly con- 

 vinced that he was a much-injured and most worthy man. 

 Insinuating to Captain Meade that he was in want of some 

 sails, he was supplied with all he required, and the gentle- 

 manly pirate departed with the best wishes of captain and 

 officers. 



How he stole the schooner Giovanni Ap'wni is worth record- 

 ing. She belonged to a Frenchman whom Hayes met at one 

 of the islands in the South Pacific, and with whom he made a 

 bargain for an interest in the schooner, in consideration of a 

 certain sum of money and a share in some of the stations 

 belonging to Hayes. One fine day, as they were sailing 

 smoothly past an island, whose beauties the Frenchman was 

 admiring, he was gently touched behind the ear, and as he 

 turned his head a blow between the eyes ' put him to sleep,' 

 as he subsequently expressed it, to wake on shore, with the 

 schooner out of sight. In a moment of inconsistent faith in 



