Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1860-02-09
NO. Is.


would soon follow. / got into the cab 1
once more and found three or four blank,
ets, which, though soaking wet, would
Keep the wind eff. Wrapping thegeRo
woman up well as could, carrie$
into the main rigging, out Of reach 49,
seas, and dashed her fast clinging hard
with my knife in my teeth, ready 10 u
at the last minute.
j don't know if told you before the
brig was the Tanguin from Turks Island
loaded with salt in bulk, and the break.
ing up of the deck. that thought wou'A
be the ruin Of us, proved after all, our
salvation. When the pIanks parted and
1oated off the cargo began to wash ouF,
aud as more was uncovered it went BY
the ton. She began to have a longer
lift with the sea, and didn't strike so
heavy. Icoudnt get range to see, but
thought we must be moving: and pres
emily, sure enough, she SWING round te
her anchors, fairly afoat, and my hearty
Thank Godv told my companion We
were safely over the Tar.
AS the brig lay pretty easy, head to
it, took the young woman down, and
slowed her against the manmast. while
made little survey. The hold was hail
| full of water, and there was evidently
big leak somewhere so l thought be
| to cut cables and let her run ashore. /
tried to get steering sail on her, bu'
everything was whipped out and haF
to let her go as she would.
| The young woman had quite livened
up by this time, bit found her mourniR..
piteously, and learned that her only BROTH
err lay in the cabin with the others. Ii
appears that he had been at Turk island
for house in New York, and his sisteg
had accompanied him there, they two b
ing entirely alone in the world. He hai
taken a fever out there, and they wer::
returning home in hope of lettering h
health, when the storm came upon then
just as they were rejoicing that the peri>
of the voyage were over. The poor gi !
cried bitterly while she told me her
story; and if it hadn't been for tho
breakers close on the lee bow, Ben Goa
. over might have felt another dash of 81 s
water too.
We struck the beach about nj :
below the 6oat-house, but the people be-;
| followed us down shore aud as the sea
wasn't very heavy there, they hadh :
much difficulty in taking US off all RICH
They made kind of litter with SWEEP :
and thwarts, and l had the girl carried
up to Uncle Jerry's, where,good old Aunt
Sarah made her comfortable as possible
Next morning. as she was sleeping
| good, went to York without seeing her.
1t took me three days to settle the affairs
Of the brig and when | got back size
Was SO glad to see me that / Well /
don't know-only somehow felt pretjs
glad, too.
Having been to TURKS island since
| she was little girl, she had no fliend
here, and didn't know what to do noi
where to 60 to. | advised her to sta.
where she was tor little while any way ;
and so she did. Urcle Jerry rs folks too ,
a great liking to her and when | built
my house in Shrewsbury, and was read5
TO move in that next spring, they didn 6
want to give her up at all.
i There, Saxon, that's the longest story
ever | told. We must be inside the Hook
| by this time. Let's go On deck and see
if the South River boat is in sight =
And, Saxon if you want to see pert
ect picture of the girl | found in the cab
in of the Tonquin, you come down III
Squan and make us visit. Ny daugF'
ter Sarah is just the image OF her.
Captain Ben was right. about the corr
ing storm. The night of the 10Th of No
velnber witnessed one of the fierce, Z
tempests Of the year, and sixteen feIov.
creatures became indebted for their liv, :,
to the skill, courage, and humanity of
Captain Ben Conover and the hearty
'longshoremen of the Jersey coast.