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Show AFLOAT L A ST0BM. The Hairm Tyace of a Tea-pes(.Tose4 Tea-pes(.Tose4 aad WMe4 MUTINOUS OUTSNCAK QUCLLCD BY.THC- CAPTAIN. Baaeta fcx Ike Wave mm Ktsm4 Heirless, taw Teasel Arrlrn afelx la Port, Late In November of 1850 the good bark Eagle, hulen wlui Umber, sailed from Quebec, bound tor Swansea Swan-sea in Wales. There were on board, the captain, first and aecnud mates, cook and steward, twelve sailors and two passengers. Twenty-four-hour after Bailing, the second mate and "his watch" left the anchor windlass wind-lass and moved In a body toward the after cahin. The captain met them midship to Inquire the cause, when they stated that the ship was leaky and unseawortby and that they would not go to sea in her. The captain replied that though the ship was leaky, she was seaworthy, sea-worthy, that he valued his own life and those of the crew and passen gent, that the ship should go to sea, and any one who refused to obey orders would be put In Irons. A com motion ensued and the mutineers made a rush to seize the captain. Almost as quick as thought he raised a handspike and three of the leaders lay on the deck. The rest turning tail were followed to the forecastle and put in Irons. The other watch lifted the anchor, sail was made,and our bark p-'jceeded down the BL Lawrence river. The beauty, extent and grandeur of the scenery of this river has been often described. We saw St. Amas mountains, the Saguenay river, a mile wide at its mouth, with its placid flow, 1500 feet deep, through headlands 1500 feet high as it entered en-tered the St. Tjiwrence; passed BIc lighthouse, that shows its beacon from a promontory for miles up, down and across this great river's expanse ofwater; sailed through schools of thousards of porpoises; came near enough to count Seven Islands, which, as rocky sentinels, stand up 1000 feet hlirh (It would seem to protect Seven Islands bay, making it a safe harbor for 1000 ships.) Keeping north, we sailed near enough to the Island of Antl costl to see Gamachl's bay and the Southwest point lighthouse, and then clear out on the broad Atlantic without further adventure. The pumps had all the time been kept at work keeping the water from gaining in the hold of the ship. The mutineers, upen promise of good behavior, were now released, arjd none too soon, foras we reached the Banks of Newfoundland, and with short notice by the barometer, a whole gale of wind from the northwest struck ourshlp. To handle the best equipped ship at such a time is no child's play. Sails that could not be furled in time were split in ribbons, the sea broke over the gunwale, "washed the deck clean" as sai'ort express It, ca.rylng two boats, the cook house and water cw'dj overboard, daylight day-light gone, water gaining In the hold with two additional men at the purapi, and at midnight one of the pumps declining peremptorily to suck. Our captain, none daunted, bad the wooden duct of the pump hauled on deck, which was'found to be perforated with wormhp'es and "Hiewriier iioluingthe lamp." he w.-apped the pump duct with can vas soaked in pitch, placed it again in position and a good flow of water was abtained. To pile on the agony still more, the other pump acted in a similar ungenerous manner and had to be doctored In the same way Such was the condition as daylight day-light dawned witli s.torm that in crea.ed in fury s the day progressed. Thl tioie of affairs continued for .eral days, no abatement of the storm, and as the waves Increased In power with the water In the hold steadilv gaining in depth and the ship necessarily gradually sinking. All relief watches ceased, each man, passengers Included, stayed on deck, with the exception of one at a time who got one hour's relief in his turn. Our brave little ship behaved well, a beauty truly, but too heavily handicapped. Shegraduallyaettled down In the water, so that It became be-came necessary to run her before the wind to prevent the sea from making general havoc by coming on board over her side. But the sea now outstripped In the race, and the novel spectacle of the sea hreaking over her stern, rolling on over the decks and pouring off over the lows, ensued. The position was grand, indeed, while sad, to see a vessel that had made a passage from Quebec to Liverpool In sixteen days almost panting for breath, ler stent pushed underwater as the waves boarded her, throwing her bow up In the air. Grand, because the relentless ocean bad asserted its rower nay, rather old Boreas, who In his wrath had lashed the quiet sen and made her do his bidding. Thm the sew continued to sweep pur decks from stem to stern, .making .mak-ing necessarr -i& lashing of the sf ersmen and the pumpenrtojire-Tent pumpenrtojire-Tent their being washed overboard; Several times "man to the wheel" was called as one became disabled by the force of the waves. Thr PBmpers were frequently lifted'" their feet and floated as --" ,'? ropes tied arnund tfc! -s,won,d 3f,a wltb; the crew, was uSrawave,nndwent sliding out .nnurti one of the gunwale E? -Lih? .h"d t,el rape around his wais to protect him as he made the emnds on derk. As be slid orerbotrd several went to his rescue and sbt him floundering along at the en of a long rope fastened to the handrail, the Tid Il.ll.nw I with great energy drawing himsell hand over hand toward the sain: tills the. humane and gentle sailors said was not shipshape style, so with a "heave ho" mey seised the rope and, nolens volens, the body of the scared and- bruised Italian was hauled through the " ,P) he went out. and ten-frtyM ten-frtyM upon the deck to recover his fright, for he was not quite drowned, though the rest of the voyage he was less of a thief, more wise, and looked considerably cleaner. T ml of salt foo-i, wet biscuit and short of fresh water, we looked in vain a friendly tail t see; thus sadly burdened with too much salt water we reached the welcome gulf stream, which is about sixty miles wide at this crossing. It bad been Impossible to take the sun. not having seen it for many days, nor to take our reckoning, but sow the captain could pretty well I guess our position, the storm ami. I I ually abated, and the water, being warm we took the sounding with a Letter grace. " Our spirits now rose, as the warn water pat vigor into oar bodies that had so long been cold, bow becoming becom-ing thawed; that night some aapw, anplea that had been kept., fee an emergency were served -out. tfae sailors sung their laot; negleeted song. "Bully' of the 'Alley," aad a kin-like merry cfewd.tffDwe.daU care away till the dawa. f " If any one had allowed, bk.ftoan to pallor hie cheek, daaanr'aai madefriaada. WaxreuaaQr "aaat to sleep while worUng-UMpaasaa. to be roused by a, wave that .Used us from our feet, thoaafa as we aaw he retrtaUog wave " sjfctaialalMn4t)Agaatfssi. theparpoSespf a partkatto?feL'' moral ataiosphete and the aV!j!-tj-Cetimeht the time baCSzl "v TtoWUaSS tS , 5h then a K"V w.I m ISa.'oin aajfegMsaK See, -iir jA.I . A isffjKfa f " aaaaajaaasaaa11tirn tit TfaTTfl1 SSSTiiitaepeaUntftrwpet S aaifr if - the after loop deck treated la sou'wester, cat oil akin coat and lephooti,alma&vateb. Ad of every., action of his ship, his wetraTen black hahy forcing eye, and fine chiselled features, he was a picture never to be forgotten. -. The wind moderating and Ibe gulf stream passed, the ship settled Sown la the water as far as the buoyancy of her cargo would permit. per-mit. She continued to drift southward south-ward till she became like a log. the rudder unshipped and the EagU was practically, uumauageable, rolling roll-ing with eaJi motion of the Immense Im-mense ocean swell, though no crested wares washed over her..The ured crew (lad.sunk.to rest after eighteen days' aad nights struggle, the warm air making the uecb a pleasant place to. lie on, but this quiet was net to last long, for we "gained sight cf ibe first object since we left the banks of Newfoundland; let us. suppose sup-pose a tail of water, three or four limes as high a Niagara Falls, ami miles in length, turned upside down ana you may form some Idea of this great sights Varied and curiou were the guesses as to what It could be. Borne thought it was the chalk cliffs In 1Tent, England. Our cap-' tain looked conceiiied and said we were nearing the coral reels, and unless a favoring current or wind helped us, we mighVsfcn lookuur last upon this grand scene, AsTrtr neared the reefs the 'roar ot the dashing wares, increased till Jit seemed 'our fate was to be saved from the ocean to be dashed on the rocks. These reefs are) formed by tiny Insects built up from the bed of the ocean as a.kinu,ofwall or coral. The long roll of the sea as it fallowed fal-lowed the storm assailed the reefs, but the work of the insects was too well done and threw the wave in the air from 500 to 1000 feet "high, the water combing over as it fell in towards the island, hiding it entirely en-tirely from our view. -This .immense .im-mense body of water looked like an inverted waterfall, and" was literally so, having first been a water raise. Our grana Niagara was insisclflcant compared to lu It was worth the whole trip to see this sight. We were now among- tho. Western blinds, commonly called the Azjres. It teemed almost miraculous, miracu-lous, 'jut we Aviated along this great sea wall about three miles distant till late lu the eTen'ng, when we drifted south, and d.'knera sent us to a'eep with the deep sea roar, real or fancied, still in our ears. Morning dawned uuopacloudle&s sky with no land In view. At high noonaschoorerhore in sight and soon came alongside, her captain and mate came on board, and our little timid passenger, th'nking himself safer there, slipped on board the schooner. Daring tome negotiation nego-tiation with Captain Rudolph, unnoticed un-noticed the schooner had shoved clear of the ship, the sailor in charge had hauled up his mainsail, set our late cempanion at the helm, had returned re-turned from below decks with a bottle bot-tle in his hand, and as he sailed away made grimaces at his late captain cap-tain between his addresses to the bottle. .His captain and mate became be-came frantic, and dancing on our deck besought our captain to lend him our only row boat. Here was a new dilemma, a serious Joke, too, as the captain gathend from their mixed Jargon of Spanish, Portuguese and French. We had two of a wrecking crew on board; but he was equal to the emergency; our only boat was swung In the davits, took the water like a duck, and with four picked seamen and the chief mate equipped, with dirk knives in case of need, and the two wrecktraaspastcngin and belters, a chase ensued that promised enough excitement to gratify the most fastidious. The captain's orders were to board that schooner and bring back the truant passenger. The breeze was very light andhe temporary -tnCte7-of the schooner Was liable the lsUjWwine."' The' lftaoccr: pants laU muili to spur them on, so the) watchers from our ship strained their' ejes, .some going aloft, and id guessing and calculating, calculat-ing, the-afternoon passed till near sunset We saw the boat draw alongside along-side of the schooner. If ever three more rousing cheers were given, telllog of conquest, echoed In tills balmy clime, and borne along those glassy seas, none told more of Joj and thankfulness than those shouts that went up from" our poor disabled -hip. Upon the return of our boat Iter nightfall,. r-ace and pi umbel brought hope. By day dawn our helpless ship had drifted, bringing us in sight of the island of Tercel, Ter-cel, probably seven miles distant. dis-tant. Our flag of distress hanging at the masthead was spied from the shore, and the ex'-governor with a boat's .crew came on board. A swarm of small ro w boats followed, every spare rope was employed as a tow line, and the once famous sea racer was Ignominlously hauled: into a small bay formed In the sand. A Jump from the foredeck brought the passengers to land. Through the hospitality of Jtlie ex-governor we I roceeded to his mansion, situated in the city -of Angra and half a mile from the ship. - After two daj a spent as guests of the ex-governor, during which we frequently Visited the ship, which was being refitted for sea, we received re-ceived an invitation from British Consul Read, residing at Pyra, and crossed the mountain ranges on ponies to await the sailing of a fruit vessel bound for England that would leave In a few days. The Eagle, her captalu and crew reached her destination, and we sjeut our f'hrlstmas right Joyfully In Pyra. Scltdjutton in Den vtrA cwt. |
