"SEA-PIRATES." 



Such a mischance befell the pirate fleet — 190 eail— in 

 which the before-mentioned AJexander Bross was serving. 

 *'Oue day we perceived iin European vessel, which we 

 took for a merchant vessel^ because it was painted of a 

 brown-grej, wJiile nien-of-war are generally black ; we 

 therefore made all sail 'for our prey. We soon, however, 

 perceived that it was a man-of-war that we had to do 

 with. The two firat discharges from the brig damaged 

 several prahus, and killed a great many pirates ; a second 

 broadside suuk tlii'ee prahus, with every soul that they 

 contained. Flight became necessary/' ^c. 



There are no records of au}^ censure passed upon the 

 captain of the Meerrnin^ for not catcluug his friends for 

 tn"al, instead of sinking them. 



" MoAing, the monarch of a peopled deck/' in his 

 Bteam-frigate, Amldand^ Captain Young of course would 

 see nothing to " dread in a pirate's prahu. Yet, when 

 crossmg to Sincapore in only a trading prahu, he seems 

 to have appreciated the advantage of pirates not being 

 in " season*" 



But again, " No mie^ sa^^s the captain, " who had 

 them^ could have any groat dread of them as sca-piratei** 

 That also is possible. The pirate affects not dreadful 

 looks. Such as ho was to look at. such as was his prahu 

 in the earliest tunes, such arc they now ; low, deckless, 

 imostentatiouSj they are described by Thucydides to have 

 been in Homer's days. 



But what does this officer mean by a " sca-pirate ? " 



