| Show V 9 0 9 99 9 Z 6 DICK RODNEY a 6 14 0 or the adventures of h 4 s ot an eton boy 1 A 6 is A OY jamna cranst 11 X I 1 continued most ot of the houm houses are fire built of 0 rood good tone stone but have all their window iron barred without and inn leaded within for the population of which our shipmate antonio was visa a striking specimen consists of about thirty thousand olive skinned spaniards spaniard A and ad d I 1 double that number of im les an and d tree free mulattoes mulat toen all loose reckless flery fiery and I 1 a apt pt to use their knives on trivial occasion occasions there was as not a ship lying there for figland or any other craft by which eneston eston could hae haie sent me home A spanish atcas packet wi AP on the eve of 0 departing for or cadiz caliz but bet beann n it wearied by the monotony ot of my ion loa q voyage I 1 ras was scarcely arcely ec in a mood for the sea again and wished to spend a tittle little more time on hore shore instead ot of leaving with her however I 1 wrote to my family by the mall mail acquainting them of ray my safety with the strange incident which had bad fo ro suddenly torn me from them and adding that I 1 would return by the first ship bound tor for any part of england it possible with mith the iu nu genie which would probably bo freighted for london after the packet sailed bailed with my letter in her capacious capac loue bage bags I 1 experienced an emption of greater happiness and contentment than I 1 had eer done since leaving home for the sorrow which I 1 knew all there must have suffered and would mould till still be buffering suffering hung heavily on my heart As A we mere ere returning to the brig which had now nov been warped alongside the mole when hen passing through the street which contains the great hospital we beard heard the sound of trumpets and saw the glittering ot of lances with long streamers above the heads of a dense crowd of people of all shades of color black yellow and brown and we a had bad to bodoff 4 doff our hat hats with ith due respect a as they passed for in the midst surrounded by a staff ot of off officers leers and their breasts sparkling with medals and cros ea and each of them riding with mith a cocked hat under his left arm came the present captain general of cuba a marshal of the spanish army don francisco serrano de do dominguez attended by an escort of mulatto lancers all mounted on spanish hv h es he i f a looking man and although ai bad had all the bearing of what ho he was or I 1 should say I 1 Is a a grandee of old castile on returning to the lugenie we found antonio the cuban working among the crew as lustily and as actively as any man on board N eston n now ow 0 offered him remuneration for the time that be he had bad been with us with a bint that be he might find a berth else where but our castaway evinced the greatest reluctance to leave the brig and begged that h he might be permitted to remain on board as three of our best bands hands bad had been sent ashore sick to the hospital so bhart sighted is man that captain IN eston despite the dislike of the crew and the advice advie of marc fare Ill slop ordered that the name of antonio be enter entered d on the ship a books as fore mast man three weeks after our arrival the brig was as careened to starboard when of all the cargo and had her upper scraped and cleaned an op atlon which the constant rains talus of the season gt greatly Atly retarded there was rauh abu h la in cuba to feed an in imaginative mind and mine was full of the voyages the daring adventures and the vast discoveries of columbus with the exploits of the buc life canders ca ta abo se haunts were ere amid these wild and in those days savage shores I 1 thought of the gaily plumed and barbarously armed caciques whom co lumbia bad had met inet in their fleet pirogue pirogues or bad encountered in the dense forests which clothe the cuban mountains forests old perhaps as the dais da of the deluge of f the yellow skinned women with ith their long now howing black hair and with plates of polished gold banging hanging in their eara ears and norea nor ea of the fierce warr ar lore with sable war a ar pk pant at and armed with cane can arrows shod with teeth 0 pol toned fish bones that tell fell harmless from the spanish coata coats of mall of the wild carlas who devoured their pris with whom a battle was but a precursor u of a feast and of the famous fighting women the terrible amazons of guadaloupe Ouada loupe I 1 thought of the story of columbus writing the narrative ot of his wonderful discoveries his perils and adventures ona oa a roll ot of parchment najih he wrapped in oilcloth covered over with ax luc lObed in a little cask and then cast east into the nea sea with ith a prayer and the hope that if he and bis his crew ishad thi this record of their achievements might be cast east by the ocean on 03 the shore of some christian land As I 1 eat sat by the sounding mounding sea that rolled into the bay of matanzas ahat would I 1 not have given to havn bay seen tb the waves cast that old cask covered with weeds and barnacles barnacled barn acles at my feet but nott now the plodding steam tig mir and the rusty merchant trader ploughed the waters wate rs ot of the bay trist instead esil ot of tho the glided elided spanish caravels caravell car avels or the long war pirogues of the indian warriors and where they foul fought lit their bloodiest 0 me wooded chore shore or in the A green le avanna here the painted cacique and the malk d castilian Catt llan met hand to hand in mertal murtal strife the moke smoke of the tram jnell grinding coffee rr cr bulling boiling sugar dark darkened entil fd the sk pit and the songs of the ne negroes grove etere ere heird as they hoed in the plantations or in gangs of forty trucked mahogany log logs eich ech drawn by eight sturdy oxen to the nea sea and so 0 o in a crock creek of the bay the same place where the dutch admiral llen ilen bank sank the spanish plate fleet 1 as wont to sit it dreamily for boure hours ith the murmur of the wares ayes in roy my eare ears with the buzz of insects and the olce nice of the birds among the palmetto palmettos while wat atchi rhin nit the he sells that glided pait past the headlands of the bay on their way to the bahama chan nel net or the great gulf gult of florida this fias as my favorite resort A wood of cocon coro anut and other trees shaded the plate ard n nide ide it no ila dark that I 1 hare have seen the ore fire flies 1 glance about at noon the cocoa are about the height of dutch poplars and are covered with oblong lemes which aich when young are of a pae pale red As spring drew on the branches became covered with scarlet and yellow flowers over thee the vat vast corral tree spread its protecting foliage whence the spaniards I 1 their beautiful un lan guage eime eme it 1 JA le e del cocoa the smallest of m bich has at t tn a th ahr i a sand lovely scarlet blossom blossoms CHAPTER an el spirit e galled sailed fron the hay bay 0 of matanzas at 2 0 clock a in on the ad of april bound for the cape of good isope w which hick we were fated never to reach the eugenie had been freighted for that colony with a rich cargo of mo lasses sugar coffee and tobacco and arrangements had been made that from cape town she would be chartered for london loudon thus I 1 had a fair prospect of seeing nearly a half of this terrestrial globe before I 1 re passed roy my good old fathers threshold at fistere I 1 earnestly hoped that we might encounter no more waterspouts or tornadoes as they were not at all to ray my taste but from other causes than phenomena or the war of the elements it was as my fortune or rather my misfortune to undergo such peril and buffering as were far beyond my ray conception or anticipation by 8 0 clock on the morning of our oar departure the light on piedras ke key y was mas bearing south by east sinking into the waves aies astern and going out as we bade a long farewell fa reuell to the lovel loel shores of cuba three of our men had died of yellow fever in ho altal so we sailed from matanzas with ith ten able bodied hands exclusive of ahn ship boys the cap tain fain first and second mates in the waters after the rainy sea eon pon the sky Is so cloudless in the forenoon that the heat of the sun become almost insupportable thua thus we were ere soon glad to reso t to the use of wind falls palls rigged dov do a the open skylight to an aming over the quarter deck tor for coolness and to skids for tho the prevention of blisters on the sides of the brig but in the starry night the land wind which cornea comes off these fertile isles laden with ith the rich aroma of their spice rowing savannas savanna Is beyond description script lon grateful and delicious It hout any incident worth record in we me ran through the sea of tha the indu ln dward ard iries thence along the coast of bouta bouth america and when we me approached pro ached the calm latitude latitudes as that tract ef the ocean near the equator Is named we me became sensible of the overpowering inq increase of beat while the breezes were mere but fanning ones I 1 as the sailors tern those which under the double influence of the air and motion of 0 the hull are ate just um clent to make the lighter canas cam collapse and well again me e were more soon aware aare of other annoyances noy no ances than mere heat tor for now it seemed as if there was an evil spirit on board the eugenic eugenie and that bothin nothing went ent right v within or about her the crew sulked and quarreled aprong themselves as if the demon of mischief lurked in the vessel and dally daily something unfortunate occurred it hal al yards or braces ga rao gao o way ay by which t the he yard yards were thrown abac kand in one instance the brig nearly lost her maln main mast standing and running rigging were found to be mysteriously louly fretted and een elen cut as if it by a knife and then the crew whispered together of antonio el cubano that horrid dark mysterious fellow whose character i none of us could fathom twice our comra swe went rent wro arof r and remained so tor for day days and before the cause was as discovered the eugenie bad had drifted far from her course this varying was ass inexplicable until slop who mho set pet himself to watch anil an frequently saw antonio hovering near the binnacle at night hipped the compass box and found there were coaled r nr it an iron marlinspike on one side and a lump of tallow on the kotlier either of which ws was ruffic tent to affect the magme magnetic tle needle after their removal the compass worked as well as before the crew were viere strictly qu questioned all tc r tj total ignorance of the transaction and antonio summoned every saint la in the branish calendar to attest bis his innocence cence but none how however eTier appeared the crew BOX now felt convinced that in by some on emotion of mallo mallos or be alone vms a the th culprit ill old it not loud their wrath WM wiss deep against him the to variations of 0 our cio ft pet the buy bully brain of marc to work and in a day or to tu he declared that he be had dis merd A plan fop for preventing 1 the repetition of trick tricks so danger 1 our by insulating the needle so 0 o aa as ti 0 protect the compass from attraction attractions false or dangerous dani ceroua I 1 am uncertain whether be el thil this e but antonio oon soon ent to work another way for or one on day when he aa as supposed to be buy busy in the maintop he be shouted hout from under I 1 and ere alop who wa was jut just beneath could give 1 the usual re spouse I 1 let go a heavy the a aro in Is which had been found in the lipped slipped from the hand of antonio and fell crashing through the top grating the iron bar c fahed cashed into th the 0 deck dock at the feet of ll llop alop it th hether ether this oc furred by inadvertence or aln a knew not but the scotsman nan the latter I 1 that rascally spanish picaroon will work nork us some serious mischief before vc me overhaul ou out ground tackle or ice see the capy corf arn who WM wan on n raged by tha this new incident dest and ani the narrow escape of slop for whom be had a great regard aye he has his a hanc hang dog look about hl n u that I 1 never liked replies replie rb jie a latter I 1 lie seems to be always down by the head somehow we should hae haie left hirn him in his skiff just aj la we w found him like a bear adrift on a irm ing 1 or a pix pig in a washing tub on another occasion occa elon he injured will AN bite hite one of the crew by lettine the top matil fall from the fore tor cop fop where it usually lay for driving borne hiame the th od ild of the tile mait mast ats dream dreams again became a lourte source ot of annoyance to all la in the forecastle bunks and on being closely and et ey by captain weston and the men in to whether be had ever killed any one by accident or otherwise after biting lone long he drew ugly aniie from tta its shark akin sheath and replied sullenly only a chinaman or a when in california I 1 N ell I 1 with wish you would lap a topper on your mouth when y at g to sleep or turn in out of ear earshot a a topgallant studding sail talla as far off as you choose and the further off the b better ater said old roberta roberts sulkily after the ravings of the cubano had kept him awake for several nights you seem to dream a great deal antonio said NN boston eston with a keen clance glance beneath which the spaniard quailed sl 81 senor capitano Capt lano he stammered how itow to I 1 this thief I 1 am very fond of dreams be he replied with a bitter smile on his up lip and a scowl in his big dark eye I 1 ila have e you pleasant ones I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 cannot say that they are always FO lut but I 1 should like to procure them shall I 1 tell you bow how to do so sot ship shipmate matet I 1 if you please senor growled the spaniard go to sleep it if you can with that which Is better than the formula of prayers which at times thries you pay out like the una line running off a log reel and what Is it you mean mio into capitano A good conscience cone clence r aued nil v eston with a peculiar A black men 0 came over the span spin lard a swarthy vl age as he be touched the rim of bis his hat dait d a furious dance glance at bis his chief ae accuser cuser the white whiff haired seaman roberts noLer te and to end the examination walked forward to be continued 11 |
