East Saginaw courier., 1865-08-09

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ance, and upon our arrival, whicl
| was the twenty-eight of their impris
, onment, there were but two DAYS o
4 food rations, and one days supply o
: water remaining. Their boats haC
all been stove and destroyed befor,
the ship broke up, and there was nc
prospact of any other fate than per
ishing miserably there, on that bar.
rem coral rock, by starvation and
thirst.
"One may imagine something OF
their gratitude, but no one can never
realize it at all, unless he has been al
some time rescued from similar i'm
pending fate.
Among the passengers was an Am
sterdam merchant named Prins-a
man of immense wealth, perfect
gentlemen in manners, and possessed
of sterling educational attainments. s.
He was accompanied by his daughter,
named Airline, the most perfectly
beautiful woman ever saw, and also
by little dark eyed Dutch Bantam
ese, named Theresse Van VUet, in her
beauty almost as bewitching as her
cousin, Airline. Mr.. Prins was on his
way home from visit to his brother
in-law, merchant of Bantam, and
Miss Van Welt was accompanying the
merchant and her cousin, for the pur-
pose of spending a year in Holland.
The Amsterdam merchant was deeply
grateful, and philosophical the senti-
ment in this manner:
Now, gentlemen, We are collect
lively just as much indebted to these
generous men who have ventured
their own lives to save ours, as we
should be individually, if any one of
us had happened to have been here
alone, and rescued in like manner. 1
trust we are all duly grateful, anil
those who can afford to do so, will ex-
press their gratitude in something
more substantial than words. AS for
myself, but promises are a commo.
dity / do not deal largely in how
ever we shall see.
Mr.. Farley and myself both pro-
tested that we had done no more than
our plain duty; nevertheless we would
not repress the thousand warm ex-
pressions of gratitude bestowed from
every quarter, any more than we
could the modest, grateful glances and
gracious smiles Of Miss Airline Prins
and her little Bantam cousin.
care you the captain of the brigan-
tine yonder ?" inquired Mr.. Prins of
Mr.. Farley.
'No sir, am her chief mate. The
captain is prisoner in his own cabin !
for refusing TO run down TO your re-
lief The second mate / have put in
irons for taking sides with him.
ond ~ Farley then briefly related the
and expressions of gratitSu%al11 u%al11ic@lly,
multiplied four fold.
1t was soon ascertained that the
brigantine could be warped right in
TO the rock without the least danger,
and within two hours after we got her
alongside, we had every shipwrecked
soul, with whatever valuable effects
they had saved from the wreck, snug
on board our vessel, and she standing
boldly out from st. Pauls harbor 10y a
clear channel through the western reef,
i was appointed chief mate pro tenn,
by Mr.. Farley, who had no idea of
surrendering the command of the
craft to Capt FELTON,, until she was
safe in port. We had the port OF Sur
imam directly under our lee, with a
fair wind and favorable current, and
as it would have been utter folly to
have attempted to beat her up round
Cape st. Rogue, against wind and
current, we kept her jib boom pointed
to the westward, packed studding
sails on her afore and aloft, and drove
her through it at her best speed.
Our cabin was unusually roomy for
vessel of her size, and was entirely
given up to the women and children,
whom it accommodated with tolcrable
comfort, while the men bivouacked on
deck as best they could.
Our stock of water was scanty, but
frequent showers afforded the needed
supply, while of provisions there was
an abundance in our hold, and under
the circumstances we paid little re-
gard TO battened matches or sea-sa-
crednoss of cargo. Beef, pork, fish,
flour, hams and butter were routed
out on deck, and converted into pala-
table food bv dint of keeping the
cooks big stove at a high pressure
heat night and day without intermis-
sion.
long before we reached port Capt.
FELTON, had abandoned the idea of
having Mr.. Farley and all hands ar
rested for mutiny and sent home for
trial, as at first he had threatened to
do. and begged so abicctly that we
would never mention the subject while
in port, that out of pity for the old
rascal we gave the required promise.
Some of us probably kept our word,
but somehow the whole truth got out
and home in the United States in the
course of time, and Capt. FELTON, new,
or got command of another vessel.
AT the evening of tho fourth day we
arrived at Surinam, and before night
on the following day each one of ON
forecastle tars, and Black Ben, oul
, cook, jingled in canvass bags a thous
: and dollars in Brazilian gold as sole
expression of the Hollander's graft
r tude. Mr.. Farley and myself having
a persistantly refused all pecuniar,
t compensation, council was calle'
h among the solid Amsterdamcrs, an'
1 the result of the conference was tina
s wo were literally compelled to accep
: n proposition to accompany the, gen
tlemen home to Holland. Our ac
: ceptance was perhapo tho moro read
n lily obtained by tho inducements hel,
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