Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Chinese Ingenuity. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Ingenuity.

Chinese ingenuity seems equal tc «-?ery emergency. A man-of-war attacked a Chinese junk engaged in illegal traffic and was eager to capture the crew alive. The sailors on the junk thrtrw overboard thousands of cocoanuts and then leaped among them. The man-of-war's men could not distinguish heads from cocoanuts, and nearly all the Chinamen escaped.