The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1866-09-07

The third .mato said 9hat under this
lnew programmes Of proceedings "we
could see that wpwere' living too High;
wo hal f0tito Et up en- them faisfis,
OF the solip9and bullies one,i tecptsoit
llstood to reason that we wasnt't going
Ito mako land soon, and so they would.
mot last.s" Itwas' 4 matter which had
! few humorous features aboutitto theni
and yciaa smile is aimest pardonahle
at this ideq 50 grayely Expressed of
Giving high" on fourteen raisins at a
lmeaf 7iiiioo 2li fHA ilfi''- 2l' 'l''
y What these mensdfered ndnlihg the
Inext ttlreo weeksno mortal manlmay
/ hope TO describe. Their, stomaehs and
lihtestines felt to The grasp like couple
lof smalb- t6HSt balls, and the gnawing
Ibungefo paiu4-akdithe dreadful thirst
that was consuming them in those'
burDiBg lgf1tadea, became almost in-
Isupportable. And yet, as the men say
I the Captain said funny things and
talked eiiberhil talk until he got them
4 to eoiiveraug freely, and then they
used TO spend hours together, describs
ling delicious dinners thoy had eaton at
home, and earnestly planning intermi-
htAbAt anu DltDO5ttllOub ulllN vi lure
2 for dinners they were going to eat ON
shore, il they ever lived through thoir
troubles to do it. poor 5followsl The
i Captain said plain bread and butter
would BE good enough for him all the.
Il days of his life, IL he could only get It. =
But the saddest things were the
dreams they hndcuAn unusually intel
iigent young sailor named Cox said !. q.
~ 'In those long days and nights we
dreamed all the time; not that we ever
slept, | don't moan no, we only sort
of dosed; three fourths of the faculties
awake and the other fourth benumbed
into the counterfeit of slumber; oh,
no, somo of MS never slept for twenty
three days and no man ever saw the
Captain asleep for upward Of thirty
But we barely dozed that way and
S dreamed-and always of such feagts (!
!, bread and fouls, and meat--every thing
r a man could think of-Apiled tipon long
r tables, and smoking hot And we sat
d down and seized upon the first dish in
4 our reach, like ravenous, wolves, and
G carried it to our lips; and then we
G woke up and found the same starving
: comrades about us, and the vacant sky
n /, and the dosolate seaWng lj2gold -sJl
! These things are terrible even to
think Of ,H,.t, ~. ..
RATIoNs STILL iFURTHER REDUCED. ss
NJ Iteyepstartles me to come across that
\ significant heading so often in my not,
q book, notwithstanding | have grow
"a so familiar with its sound by talking 81
~ much with these misfortunate men.
On the twenty-eighthday the ration,
IS were One teaspoonful bread crumbs
n and about on ounce of ham for thu
Is morning meal; a spoonful of bread
"a crumbs alone for the evening meal, and
!. one gill Of water three times n day
t. A ldtton would perish eventually un
n der such sustenance. ...l.l Fl. a
h B, THEY CAPTURE A PRIZE. 1'. ,r-
n Four little flying fish, the size of tht
o sardines Of these latter days, flew int(
a tho boat on the night Of the twenty
!, eighth day. They were divided among
d tho hands and devoured raw On Tx
8 twenty ninth day they caught another
Z and divided it into fifteen pieces, less
than a teaspoonful apiece.
On the thirtieth day they caught {
Il third flying fish, and gave it to the re
d vered old Captain--a fish of the tame
IS poor little proportions as the others
q four inches long~-a present king
10 might be proud of under such circum
M stances-a present whose valuo, in tn,
= eyes Of the men who offered it, wa
" not to be found in the Bank of Eng
.e land-.4yea, whose vaults were not abl
Or to contain it'll The old Captain re
20 fused to take it; the men insisted; tn
III Captain said no-he would take hi
ffteenth-they must take tho remain
der. They said in substance, thong
4 not in words, that they would see hiT
~ in Jericho frstl So the Captuin ha
" " to eat the fish. ......a
pn TIE LAST RATION. ir 20
d, On Monday, the thirty-eighth Ga
'h after the disaster, I'VE had nothin
es left, said third mate, ""but poun
is and half of ham-the bono was a goo
ir deal the heaviest part of it---and on
he soup-and-bully TIM These thing
,Ir We're divided among tho fifteen meT
and they ate it all two ounces of foo
lst to each man. L do not count the han
sc. bone, as that was saved for next da,
tie For some time, now, tho poor wretch,
cd had been cutting their old boots int
NJ small pieces and eating them. The
Il, would also pound wet rags to sort
!, pulp and eat them,
in STARVATION FARE.
nd On the thirty-ninth day the ha
es bone was divided up into rations, an
nd scraped with knives and eaten. saiC
90 'tYou say the two sick men remainC
ID. sick all through, and awhile two
ng three had to be relieved from standir
l, o,,v "a ,-o,, ,,.k a