St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-04-25

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to God II hadn't Thrown my chance away,
and by this time I might have had my
hands out Of the tar bucket. '5 70. / !
| / told him he wasn't too old thercA vas
'imo yet; and if he didn't borrow my
"Norrie's Epitome" that same day to be.
gin learning navi Cation with'! jill n''@' a%
We were now within three days Of, tho
Coust, and the wind fell dead. Il There We
were lying, without so much as a cat's-paw
of wind, all the sea like a great sea of gla i
and sun so hot that the tar in the riggin 8
melted and dropped about the deck. The
chaps were below all day, getting up tile
boilers and things, and sond .ng the cotton
down into tho hold, SO rs to leave q clear
deck for tte slaves. :, ~! ''''. =
, Ned was getting fidgetty. There did
MT seem chance of our getting away; ;
not sail in sight; and we two could do
nothing against the whole crew. ..lIhey
had stake, you Gee. 1t was $500 .ors$i-
600 man if it TUNED out well, and they
would have shot US like a couple Of mad
dogs at the lesst attempt at violence; be-
sides; it could do no good. 80 VIC were
obliged to wait for something to turn up.
Suppose / try and get boat, and get
the girk int" it, and make a start, said
Ned, will you go with us :? "E':'%
Ned, you don't know rne yet I see
We agreed to sail together, didn't we2
We did so, Charley. -~- " " .
We'll, then, the agreement stands at a
times we sail together. -~",.., ''...!
God bless you, Charley, says he, I
know she'll never be anything to me. but ]
can't help it, aud, I should 60 mad if it
wasn't for the hope Of saving her: ''''''' .
Next day we had "a little wind, and the
lookout sung out, Sail, no?
Where away says the mate. '''..,:,s.
About two points on the starboard bow,
SIR !. =: .':' '~..: -.,.. ',,,.
He got his glass and looked at her, and
then called the captain, and they both
went into the top. After breakfast the old
man came on deck. -..uI, j. 81:
Slack up all those .topsail sheets Mr.
Coates, slacken the braces make things
slovenly, and send up sig gnal of distress.
+ The sail proved to be British cruiser,
and she soon came up within about mile
Of us, and then it fell dead calm again.
While she'd been coming up, the captain
had ordered the carpenter to rig the graf.
ing over the side for burial, and had u
bit Of canvas sewn up and placed on the
grating. just like body. -'f
Send O'Connell aft, said the captain.
NConnell went aft, and was talking to him
a bit l saw the mate look at Ned. '..',
Keep quiet, now, SAYS I, IF they smell
a rat now, your games up. Look as if you
cared nothing about the cruiser. 80
1917 She sent of: boat to u.s. and when it
was about a cables length off, O'Counel
ran up large yellow flag. 'r.t 1.,.''
The chaps stopped. pulling, without Or
ders, directly they saw it, and we could
see they hesitated. -, IT: ,..E ,i,"'
Give way there, says the officer in the
boat; put her in fir their quarter cox 'un
They came within hail, .andthen the
men stopped again without orders The
officer -stood up and hailed-What shi
Magnelia- from New Orleans-for the
Cape--in ibullast, says the captain. <,,' y
:;.; Oar fellows had been ordered not to
show more than two or three heads above
the bulwarks. - 5gs.... :',,. ~; -,
What do you do here, then? What's
your distress signal .j..' :-~
:. Got the fcver-short handed-lost nine
out Of twenty-three, and another on the
grating.now. Short, Of water, 'too-leaky
,tank-lnaking for the coast for supply.
Send doctor on board, if you can, and
50 ne; medicine. III. l. Il 80 ''"a
When he said we'd got the fever, the
chaps in the boat backed it two or three
times its length, without the officer saying
a word .~:y%-t...' 1:.'.': =
: Send your papers into the boat on a line
h He went below to get them, and they
were made fast to light line to heave ON
to the boat. The mate stood right aft on
the taffrail and US the men in the boat shot
by, he flung it in. They cast off: the line,
laid the papers on the boats bottom, with
a pin on 'em to keep 'em fror, blowing
away, and touched 'em as if they'd been
red hot. just as she, was passing round
the head again to 60 back to the ship, Ned
jumps on to the fo'castle and sings out
It's all a d. d lie. There's no fever.
She's - -7.1:.....a, il..3.s ~ ..>.a,1.:s:
He'd no time to say more, for the sec-
ond mate had come behind him and knock
ed him down with. an iron. Delaying pin.
! went to him, and, he, was stunned The
boats people took no rotice, and went to
make their report. g. .....,
In about an hour they came again said
the doctor had sent sspme medicine, but
vas ill and could not not como. The papers
were all right and; in the small cask they'd