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Show JJEI.MIT OF THE SEA. THE REMARKACLE VOYAGl OF A FINNISH SAILOR. Hla Tlwy Craft l lrk Hailed la All Ike raal M a I era f Iha World Hoar It ! W mm VI racked lite Bleep aa Ik a ' AHcr seven years voyaging en near- ' ly every ocean, the only ocrupant of the little y.-I which he himself built, j Capt. Adolphus Friet. h landed here I from hia last solitary cruise, met his family, which had come all the way 'mm Milwaukee to se- him, and an- ; nouncerl his determination to sell hli boat, retire from h.s solitary sea life, and spend the remainder of hia year in F'cnta.ola on the pr.ceeda of his voyages and speculations, says a New Orleans writer. CapL Krletsch la a Finn, only 41 years old. but has been at sea for 21 years 8.-ven years ago. when he was living in M.lwaukee, en-Itaftcd en-Itaftcd in the schooner trade there, the viking spirit seized cm him and he determined de-termined to travel over the world and visit all the aeas. He himself built a Jittle vessel, the Nina, with a 40-foot keel. He left Milwaukee In lt4 f ir IJverpool. pacing through the Great I-akes by way of HufTalo and the Erie canal to New York. His little ve-el iroused some Interest at the time and thousands came to see her. He et sail from New York for Kurope; and for most of the world, that was the laat heard of CapL Frletsrh and hi Nina That was seven years ago. The aoll-isry aoll-isry mariner has been "plowing the i ran waves ' ever since. The Nina has long since gone the way of all such tiny vessel and the captain come to New Orleans In a new vessel, ves-sel, the Anna F.. also built by him. and a trifle larrer than the Nina, having a 44-foot keel and 12 foot be(m He comes h re from a cruise along the coasts of South and Central America Amer-ica and the tropica with the little res-el res-el gtorked with shells, corals and other marine curiosities, all collert-d hr himself, for whenever he saw coral cor-al or shells that pleased h!s fancy b-rilvcd b-rilvcd overboard to cnll.-ct them. Sev-en Sev-en years In a hermitage on the sea Is remarkable, and It seems strange that C'apt. Friet.sch should have escaped all time, for when the first v.ss'l. th Nina, was wrecked off the rcf n Kil-i Kil-i brennan sound, the captain Just missed j by a f.-w .. , on. Is. goinir with her to I dc-r ni' f :on To tiavi.-.iie a v- with, iit a c-.-w is a ii::".i,;t n..r!-r j 'or h- r- . the tion of the watches. V. i. , gng ,0 J, -ok after . the Nina or th,. Anna F. when the I -I't.'iin. l...t.-wa;n. chief matin, r. all I rolled In or-. w, re as'e. p' Over this app-trently ln-r. ,-.-! le dil'icul'y C.ipt j Fn-t-h t r i it T!i j-.-i. .1 by a Ic-son he ! learn. d in the malt-r of sl-vp, till, h he aays any oi.e cm b-am who will make th- prop, r trial -the ability to sleep for a fixed time, an hour. tw hours or three hours, as the a'c-per might d.-ire This enabled the captain cap-tain to rest during calms and when there was no danger to fear and to be awake and to attend to hi boat when danger threatened. He na ural-ly ural-ly slept most of the day, because there was less danger of his little Tessel being be-ing run Into, as it could be en. whereas at night he had to be more particular and keep a watch for Teasels. Tea-sels. In crowded places like the Hrit- inn channel be denied himself all sleep, and when he was on the rnu'e Of Vessel he seldom allowed h mse'f more than two hours' rest, making a good examination of the horizon before be-fore retiring t ) rest to make sure the e were no vessels within reich which might run him down. He timed himself him-self carefully and gauge 1 his rest by the character of th water In which h was and the outlook for the weather. He also so trained himself to the slightest luffing In the wind or differ-nt differ-nt rolling of the vessel. So areua-tomed areua-tomed did he .n- uns in time to th- system of voluntary sleeping and waking wak-ing at a fixed time that when the Nina waa wrecked, when It wa evident that he would go on the Kllbrennan reefj he timed the hour at which the wreck waa to occur, and having marie all the necessary arrangement what he would do when the little vessel went to plecea. and finding that this could not occur before an hour, he lay down and took a good hour !eep o that ! he would be rested and Invigorated when the wreck came. The Nina was wrecked at the appointed time, and It waa only by uperhuman effort that Capt Frietsrb waa rescued. Cut, however how-ever pleasant It may be, and full o' adrenture. an o, ean hermitage bsl come tiresome In time; and ao Capt Frletsch ha concluded, after haring been tossed about in hia two little boaU for seven years, that he will return re-turn to the domestic l.fe of a -landlubber."' |