Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-03-04

ion Of tB< 4oitital, Social, 9gri
O., THURSDAY,
its close to the foot of mountain, where he
slept, to wake drenched with the night-rain and
hardly able to drag himself up the hillside. Upon
reaching the top, the sight of the sea invigorated
him for time but, to his dismay, his ship was
nowhere to be seen, although be could plainly see
the bay in which she had lately ridden. A brig
was still there, evidently about to sail Almost
mad at the thought of losing the sole chance oi
delverance, Lord tore down the hill, through bush
and brier, to reach the beach, and see the brig but
speck on the horizon.
This realization of his fears was succeeded by q
stupor making him oblivious Of everything until
day had far advanced, when a craving for food
aroused him to exertion, and he hobbled along the
shore in search of some fish, but was obliged to
content himself with such repast as he could
gather from the shrubs within his reach. The
next day. managing to take seal unawares, be
rayenously ate its liver, the result being violent
sickness. As soon as he got the better Of that, he
rambled on again till he fell in with tortoise, up
on which he made good meal, giving him heart
to return to his SEAL and strength to cut it up and
lay it on the sands to dry. Upon this, Lord lived
as long as it lasted sleeping in the woods and row
ing about the shore during the day, and then re,
turned perforce to his vegetarian diet. He knew
there we're plenty of fish in the sea, and many a
plump bird flew tauntingly above his head; but he
might have parodied Master Tommy Tucker and
sang:
| .sEiow can shoot them without e'er gum
| How catch any hrh, hook and line having none'"
His monotonous life was only relieved by the
strange bedfelows misery brought him-at one
time snake; at another, a huge seal, which he
found lying cheek by jowl with him on the sand.
When he awoke to the latter discovery, Lord had
mislaid his trusty stick; but resolved to get din
ner at any hazard, he gsappled boldly with the
SEAL and rolled into the sea with him, getting de-
cidedly the worst of the bout, and thankful Of
being able to scramble on land again. On the
twenty-6rst day of his Crusoeship, he crawled up
hill once more, with very little hope of ever COM
ing down, and could scarcely believe his eyes when
he saw dark speck upon the ocean grow and
grow into large ship making for the bay. AT
last, doubt changed to blessed certainty; Lord
rushed headlong down the mountain, and, stagger-
ing upon the beach, saw her enter the harbor, drop
anchor and lower boat Thsn be tainted. Com
ing to his senses, he found himself surrounded by
sympathizing seamen, who answered his cries of
"Water, waterl' by handing him can, from
which he drank till he swooned again, when his
deliverers took him up tenderly, and carried him
on board, just in time to save his life, and give
him cause to bless the accident that had brought
Captain Cook to his rescue.
Upon the lava-island of Tristan d 'Acunha there
landed in 1910, three men-an American named
IIambat, Portuguese half-caste and a native Of
Minorca. OF this small party, the first was the
chief He voted himself king, drawing up for
NAL instrument, setting FORTH that in order to pro-
vide himself with competency beyond the reach
of chicanery, he took possession Of Tristan Acun-
ha for himself and his heirs; by the same deed,
binding himself. and those he ruled, to receive all
comcrs with hospitality, and supply them with
everything his dominions yielded for fair con-
sideration The palace of this self.constituted
head of very limited monarchy was grass
thatched hut; his domain some three or four
hundred acres of cultivable land. With the aid of
his two subjects, King Lambat raised potatoes,
cabbages, onions, ettuces turnips, carrots, radsh-
es, parsnps, and geese, fowls, ducks and turkeys
and collected sealoil and seal.skins. For food, the
| little community relied principally upon their
island native resources, living upon grampers,
sea-elcphants, mackerel, cray-fsh and sea-fowl.
In 1872 Lambat disappeared in mysterious man.
ner never to be heard of again. His deserted
people suffered considerable from the depredations
of American prvateers; but when the Falmouth
figate arrived, in 1885, to take possession Of the
place for the British Government, they still pos
sessed forty sows, two boars twenty acres Of vege
tables, and three reed-roofed houses. Upon the
arrival of the English, the halfcaste took the first
opportunity of departing, but the Mnorca man
remained, to give the soldiers the benefit Of his
experience, and excite their suspicious as to LAM
bats real fate, by dropping selfcriminatory re-
marks whenever his libations loosencd his tongue.
This happened very often, for old Thomas was
very flush of cash, though where his bank was no
one could guess. He promised to dvulge the Sec
ret some day, but was suddenly struck by death,
and died without making any sign;. and although
every likely and unlikely place was examined by
eager treasure-seekers, the storehouse was never
discovered.
In 1914, an English vessel was wrecked off one
of the Falkland group, called New Island. The
passengers and crew escaped to land and were hos.
pitaby cared for by an American captain, named
Barnard, WI promised to crown his kindness by
taking them on board with him, and landing them
at some Brazilian port At this time, England
and America were at war. The Englshmen,
doubtful of the Americans intentions, and deter
mined not to give him the chance of handing them
over as prisoners of war; took advantage OF his ab-
sence hunting in the interior, to cut the cable and
sail for North America, forgetting, in their hurry,
to leave any supplies for their unsuspectlng host
The victim of this scurvy ingratitude wos naturally
astonished when he awoke to his predicament, but,
like sensible man, lost no time in vain gru1nbling,
but set to work to make himself and four compan-
ions in misfortune as comfortable as circumstances
admitted. They built themselves stone house
strong enough to resist wintry weather; made
themselves clothes of seaskins, stored up albatross
eggs and potatoes-these last had been planted
long before by the captain himself; and their dog
now and then brought in pig as his contribution
. IL .-,,,,, lordor IT, WAS not LONG, however,