second 
The only years for which we possess complete lists of cargos are 1870 (l) 
and 1872 (2). In the former year four ships were loaded with a total 
of 6029 tons of guano and in the latter three ships were lozed with a 
total of 4822 tons @ Many of these cargos went to foregin pog^g n guch 
as Hamburg, Germany, Bath, England, or Cork,Ireland. The last two vessels 
known to have sailed for Enderbury were the Matilda and Skjold, both 
Norwegian ships. 
One of the guano ships, the William Tapscott, whic^ w ga^§j|gf 
Enderbury on June 1873 was ±k±kx subject to a mutiny. Much dramas 
were not uncommon in the days of "wooden ships and iron men" Two versions 
of the mutiny exist but both indicate the ever present possibilities of 
violence on the high seas an those years. The first officer claimed that 
tha Captain had cut down one man with and axe, another with a cutlass, 
and ordered such brutalities on the crew that they mutinied. The Captain, 
himself, that he had used the axe only to defend himself from the mate 
when, after being confined in irons, he worked himself loose and went on 
the poop. The Captain, in response to a threat of shooting from the 
mate, sturck him on the cheek with the axe, and was himself subsequently 
shot in the knee/Tft % 
(1) Hempstead, E. 1871 . Sailing Directions for the Phoenix Islands. 
The Friend, Honolulu.August 1871 
(2) The Friend, xMxxxkxifiT^ Honolulu, March 1873 
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