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The Adventures of 5 An Eton Boy... 2 S E1Y JAA1E9 GRANT, J - - 1SSWW CIIAITKIl X I -(Continued ) lloit of the homes are built of good stone bat have all their windows Iron birred without and barricaded within for the population (ot which our shlnmale Antonio was a striking ipeclniB) ronsbils of about thirty Ihouund olive skinned Bpstilards nn 1 doul It that numler ot slsves and fr mulattors til lisiie reckless, fiery and apt lo ut their knives on tr'vlal oo- (SSlulll There tt not a ship lying thero for I'nglsnd or any other craft by which Wtnton eoubl have MBl mo horns A Bpsnish stesm packet was on thl ere of departing tor Oadli, but being retried by the monotony of my long voytft I was scarcely In n mood for ths tea again and wished to spend a little more time on tbore Instead of leaving with btr Hoaevir, I wrote lo my family by the Sptnlih mail, acquainting them ot my safety, with Ihe strango Incident which bid 10 tuddenly torn mo from thtm and tddlng that I would tcturn by tie flrit tblp bound for any pntt of rnglaml If poailble with the Ilu gtnle which would probably b frelghtid for Iimlon After the packet sailed with my letter let-ter in lr caiacloua bag. 1 cxperl-encrd cxperl-encrd an emntlon of greater happiness and contentment than 1 had ever dona tinea leaving home, for tho sorrow which I knew all there mutt have suffered suf-fered and would still be suffering bung htavlly on my heart As we were returning to the brig which had now been warped alongside the mole when passing through the street which contains the great hospital, hospi-tal, we heard the sound of trumpets, and raw the glittering of lances with long streamers above tho heads of a dime crowd of people of all shades ot color bltfk yellow and brown an I w had to doff our hata with duo re tptel at they passed tor In the mldtt, turroundtd by a staff of olBcert cpau-letted cpau-letted and alguletted their breattt iparUlcr with medals and crossei and each ot Ihem riding with a cocked hat under his left arm came the present Captain General of Cuba a marshal of the fepanlih army. Don Kranclsco Serrano Ser-rano ds Domlngutt, attended by na escort of mulatto lsnccrs, all mounted on Spanish hoi ts. lit li a, j looking man, and al thouib Utio bad all the bearing of TTrVibSe-A?vrlAV,"''',kl. On returning to the nugenle we found Antonio the Cuban working among the crew na lustily and ns acutely ac-utely as any man on board Weston now offered him remuneration for tho time that he bad been with us, with a hint that he might find a berth clso-where, clso-where, but our castaway evinced the greatest reluctance to leave the brig, and begged that he might ho permitted permit-ted to remain on board ns three ot our best hands had been sent athoro. lick, to the hospital So ahort-slihted It man that Cap tain Weston despite the dislike ot the crew and the advice ot Marc llltlop. ordered that the name of Antonio be entered on the ship books at foro mast man Three weeks after our arrhal the brig was careened to starbonnl, when clear of all the cargo and bad her opper tcraped and cleaned an op--ntlon which the constant rains of tho season grsatly retarded There was much In Cuba tn feed an Imaginative mind and mine was full of the voyage, tho daring adventures adven-tures and the vast discoveries of Columbus, Co-lumbus, with the exploits ot the buccaneers, buc-caneers, whose haunts were amid these wild and. In thoie days, savage shores. I thought ot th gaily plumed and barbarously armed caciques whom Co lumbus had met In their fleet pirogues, or had encountered In the dente for-est! for-est! which clothe the Cuban mountains moun-tains forest old perhaps, as the days of tho deluge of the yillow-iklnned yillow-iklnned womctt with their long, flow-lug flow-lug black hair and with plate ot pol lined gold hanging In their car and noses, of the flcrro warriors etraakod with sable war paint nnd armed with, cane nrrowa shod with leeth or poisoned poi-soned flali Jjonca, that fell harmlis from the Spanish coats of mill, of tlio wild Ctrlbs who devoured their prll-oners prll-oners with whom a battle was hut a procureor of a feast, and of th fit. mous fighting women the torrlbbJ Amazons of (Juadaloupo I thought of tbe atort of CoNniVis writing the narrative or his wondnrfuj discoveries, his perils ami advnliirH. on n roll of iisrelitneut, which U wrapped In oilcloth covered ovnr with wax Inclosed In a little cask and the-v east Into tbe sea with a prayer, and the !o,,e that If he nnd his crew par-Ithed par-Ithed this reiord or their achievements achieve-ments might le cait U) the ortau on the shore, of romn Chrlatlnn land Aa I tat by the auun tlrr ma that rolled Into the b ) of V t-n-ii r ia would I not bine ilin t i m i a the waves cast that old ei. on.siod with weeds and harnacloa, at my I feett j Hut now the plorl ling vtonm tug and tho rusty mi r limit trn br ptoupho I the waters ot the ln 1 ea I of th tlhled HianiMi e ri H or the I in war pin ci i- nf H i ir I and where they f, hi IV r hi ind est j tat Ilea on the wo b I nh r r In the ueen savanna, whera the painted ea-clquo ea-clquo and tbe mailed Cattllbn met hand to band In mortal strife, the smoke of the steam mill grinding coffee cof-fee or boiling augar darkened tho sky, and tho Mngs of the negroes were beard as they hoed la the plantations or In gang of forty tnieked niibogany logs, each drawn by eight sturdy oxen to tho sen And so, In a creek of the bay the sanio place where the Dutch Admiral Ileyn sank tho flpanlsh plato fleet I was wont to alt dreamily for hours with tho murmur or the warn In my cam, with tho bust or Insect an I ths volco of tha mocking birds among the palmettos, while watching the sails that glided past Ihe hetidlandl of the bay on their way to the IHhnnn Chan nel or the great (lull ot Florida. Thla waa my favorite resort A wool of cocoanut and other trees shaded the plica and made It to dark that I have seen the flre-llles gtanra about at noon The cocoas nre about tho height nt Dutch poplar and nro covered with oblong IcAvet, which when young, are of a pate red A spring drew on, the branches been mo covered wild scarlot and yellow flowers Over those Ihe vast corral tree eprend Ita protecting foliage, whenca tha Spaniards, in their benntlful language, lan-guage, name It Ia Madro del Cocoa the tmallMt of which baa at tlmea a thousand thou-sand loTdy scarlet blossoms. CIIAITKIl XVII. An Krll Spirit Wo salted from the Hay of Matantas at 2 o'clock a m on tho 3d of April bound for the Chpo of Rood Hope, which wo were fated never to raoh Tho Uugeule had been freighted for that colony with a rich cargo ot mo-laMc, mo-laMc, sugar coffee and tobacco and arrangrmrnta had been made that from Capo Town she would bo chartered fnr London Thus I had a fair protpoctof seeing nearly a half ot this terrestrial globe before I repassed my good old father's threshold at Klsmcro I earnestly hoped that we might encounter no more waterspouts or tornadoes, tor-nadoes, as they were, not at all to my taste, but from other rautea than phenomena phe-nomena or tho war ot the elements It was my fortune or rather, my misfortune, mis-fortune, to undergo such peril and suffering suf-fering as wero far beyond my conception concep-tion or anticipation flti.rtut vi.-iiiu iSr?r.rMifK.T was bearing souHihy east sinking Into tba waves astern, and'goliiff'outiaaiw bade a long farowell to the lovely abores ot Cuba, Three of our men had died ot yellow yel-low fever In hospital so wo sails I from Matantas with ten able-bodied hands, exclusive of three ship boys, ths captain, cap-tain, first and second raatoa. In tho waters after tho rainy sea-eon, sea-eon, the sky Is so cloudless In ths forenoon fore-noon that Hie heat of tho sun becomes almost Insupportable thus wo were soon glad to resort to the us of wind-sails wind-sails rigged down Iho opon skylight to an awning orer the quarter deck for coolness, and to skids for ths prevention preven-tion of blisters on the sides of ths brig, but In tbe stirry night tbe land-wind which come oft thio fertile Isles, laden with the rich aroma of their spice growing savannas Is btyood description de-scription grateful and delicious Without any Incident worth recording, record-ing, we ran through the sea of tbe Windward Isles, thence along tbe coait of South Amirlia and when ws approached ap-proached the calm latitudes, t thst tract of tho ocean near tbe equator is name I, wo beramo scntlblo of the overpowering over-powering Increase of belt, while ths brecica were but 'fanning ones," as the sailors term tho.io which, under ths double Influenco ot the air and motion of the hull aro Juit sulllclent to make tbo lighter canvas collapse and swell again We wero soon awaro ot other aa-noyances aa-noyances than mero heat, for now It seemed as It there was an evil spirit on board tbe llugenle and that nothing went right wltklu or about her The crew sulked and quarrtled among ihemMltes ns If the demon of mischief lurked In tha vessel, and dally something unfortunate occurred Halyards Hal-yards or brurcs gave wny by which the yards wero thrown aback, and In one Instance the brig nearly lost her miln-msst miln-msst (Handing and running rigging were found tn bo mysteriously trettod and even cut as If b a knife, nnd then the crew whispered together of AnUinlo el Cuhano that horrid dark myrtarloua Mlow whoso character none uf us rould fathom Iwio uir i iimi en-en treat wrong gnd renmliiid so ror dv' and before the riiihe wns dlseovered tbe Uugenle had drifted far from her course I his varying waa Inonplcahle until II I p who a I lm f to wntrti an I frequently saw AliiiiiIo hovering ni r lie llnnuili hi i Wi n-blpi 1 tha 1 , in i box 1 I th re w r t m I I i i It a lr rl I in ,1 f ti I v. I ll I .i I-. " sultroltnl lo aKu t the rmr elle needle I Mt,r '!'' rrr xl t,B P0inIM I , I il fore The eliw I h Hi nllMe,l t , f ll I I I Sll ! , I i re lit In til r In Hi I I Ik lull" , , , I . r ne r I ih i w now r t oie'i I mat in ibH spired by some emotion ot mallei or H mischief, he nlono was the culprit; and B If not loud, their wrath wa deep , JB igalstt him H These variation nt our compass act ,M the busy brain of Marc lllalop to work, - M and In a day or two he declared that V H he had discovered a plan for prevent- TiJaB Ing tho repetition of tricks so danger- i jM ous by Insulating tho needle so na to j fcjM protect the compas from atlracllona j H falie or dangerous. ... I fiK I am uncertain whether ho perfected t jjH this experiment, but Antonio oon j '-JM went to work another way, for on k (IWJ day, when he was suppoted to be busy jKM In tho maintop ho shouted, '8tar.d J t from under! ' nnd ere llltlop, who was 1 Wt Just beneath, could giro the usual re- 1 B sponse, Let go!" a heavy marllnsplke. WW the same which had been found In the I BH binnacle slipped from tlio hand of An- , lonto nnd fell crashing through the g topgratlng , t Tho Iron bar crashed Into tho deck at the feet ot llltlop. whether thla occurred oc-curred by Inadvertence or design knew not but the Scotsman thought tbe latter ' That rascally Spanltli picaroon will work us some sorlous raliohUf befors wo overhntil our ground-tackle or see the Cape," said Wes'on, who was enraged en-raged by this new Incident, and tho narrow eeeape of lllslop. for whom be had a great regard "Aye, he has a hang dog look about him that I never liked," replied tba ? latter "He seems lo bo nlwayi down by the head, somehow Wo should have left blm In hla aklff. Just a wo J found blm like a bear adrift on a grnt- B Ing, or n pig In washing tub" - On another occasion bo Injured Will White, ono of the crew by letting tho lopmaul fall from the forelop, where It usually lay for driving homo tho fld ot the mast His dreams again became a source of annoyance to all In the forecastle bunks, and on being cloudy and severely se-verely quetlloned by Captain Weston and the men as to whether ho bad' ever killed any one, by accident of otherwise after being long badgered, he drew his ugly knife from It sharkskin shark-skin sheath and replied sullenly: 'Onlr n Chinaman or so, when ll California ' I Well, I wish you would clap t stopper on your mouth when you ro to sleep, or turn In out ot earshot In a topgallant studding sail as far oft B as you choose, and the further off the S belter," said old lloberts, sulkily, after ( the ravings of the Cubano bad kept i blm awake for several nights "You seem to dream a rrcal deal, m Antonio" eald Weston, with a keen 9 e- glance beneath which the Spaniard M quailed H SI, Benor Capltano," lie ttamincred. B i Htw la thla!" Brjtl "I am very fond of dreams," h re- M piled, with a bitter smile on bis Up - -HiB and a scowl In his dark eye ' Have you pleasant ones! WiSj "I cannot say that they aro always ( mg? so, but I should like to procure them " fy 'If you please, senor," growled the t "4. Span lard 3m, JsVttfsa) ' Oo to sleep, If yolTcanT'wIth thai llH which la better than tho formula of prayers, which at times you pay out J . like the line running off a log reel." I J "And what la It you mean, mlo cap- i 9 ItanoT' 1 j "A good conscience," replied Weston, ! with a peculiar emphasis J JW A black scowl came over the Span- 1 yl tarda awarthy visage as ho touched '""'el, the rim of his hat, darted A furious j ttfc' glance at his chief accuser, the white- I haired seaman Huberts and to end 4 S tbe examination walked forward J I (To be continued ) Jj 1 |