DARING ACT OF PIRACY.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 441, 12 November 1875, Page 3

DARING ACT OF PIRACY.

The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 21st August reports that Captain H. Yonge, the master of the Dutch schooner Pleiades, of Wilderwank, which put in here yesterday afternoon, made the following deposition on oath before the senior naval officer, captainof the port:—"On the 16th August, while on his voyage from Trieste to Rio Grande do Sul, and when 10 miles off Cape de Gatte, a Spanish boat ranged alongside with a crew of seven men, offering to sell fruit and vegetables. The master refused to buy anything, when six of the men, armed with revolvers, swords, and daggers, jumped on board the schooner and threatened to murder the crew if they resisted. The crew of the schooner, six in number, took refuge in the rigging, but the master remained at the wheel, and. one of the pirates, presenting a revolver at his breast, demanded the surrender of some of the cargo, or otherwise he threatened to shoot him. The master offered half a barrel of Hour of his own stock, and the crew being ordered down from the rigging, the mate was taking this out of the stoie-room when the pirates broke open the fore hatch and took out 14 barrels of Hour, which they forced the crew to assist in transferring to the falucho, on which they embarked and made off, rowing straight for the land, but before doing so flung on board the schooner a few bunches of grapes and some potatoes."