Show FOUR MONTHS IN A CALM auckland bews yews hold held for nearly four months in an equatorial or dead sea aea calm calr until her provisions were exhausted and her crew on the verge of was the terrible experience of the american ship edward obrien 0 brien which abic h had bad long been given up for lost the th ship left victoria BC early in december last for london a cargo ot wheat and nothing was heard of her until 11 june when she was waa sighted by the steamer galileo flying signals telling that she was short ot of food it was learned that the made a fine run down the pacific coast and around the horn but when near the equator she had been caught to in one of the dreaded calms wat that prevail in that latitude por for three months she re bained within the distance of half IL a mil mile from efroin where she first struck the calm and during that time there was not enough wind to fill even the light est eat of her sails finally a small our cur rent probably made by the storm storla many miles away appeared and served to send her slowly out of the locality which threatened at one time to become a place of death for all on board oa this current the ship drifted for foe almost another month rhen ihen a welcome wind carried her back into the paths of navigation n when the galileo was encountered the th water supply of the edward 0 parlen was exhausted food wag waa almost down to the last ration and in few more hours the men on board would have been beyond help after being supplied food and water the ship proceeded on her way to london |