The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-16

seen what I took for group Of people,
huddled about the stump of the mizzen-
mast. As soon as We hauled on the
wind we got the full force OF the breeze,
which increased to half n gale, but, II
we carried sail before, you may be GER
tain we didn't take in any now that We
thought stood the least chance Of hang
ing on. AS the ship careened to the
breeze she trembled like n frightened
thing, but went flying through the wa.
ter, deluging her decks and throwing
spray as high rs the weather-leach Of
her topsails. The wreck was coming
towards us with every heave OF the sea,
and when we had made two tracks, We
could make ont six people on top OF her
cabin, who didn't seemto notice us par
ticularly.
"After working to windward of the
hulk, we lay to, while one Of our quar-
ter.boats was lowered, and myself and
crew OF six men pulled OF to the
wreck. When quite close to the dis
mantled ship 1 noticed her name,
'Cherub Of Boston, rs her stern rose
on u sea. On getting alongside We
found her main deck nearly level with
the sea, tho only dry spot being the top
of the cabin, where the people had as
sembled.
"I walked aft and found five mon
and woman near the stump Of the
mizzenmast, and all so exhausted rs to
be entirely helpless. l never saw such
thankfulness in any beings eyes Us
came into those of that poor, weak wo-
man as lifted her in my arms and car
ried her to our boat, where laid her
in the stern sheets, and covered her
with cont. Then, taking four of my
boat's crew, we went back for the five
men and got them into the boat. After
that we went into the cabin OF the
Cherub to try and find something of
the ladies clothes, for we had nothing
on board of the White Swallow to dress
her in but mans rig. In state-roOm
on the port side OF the cabin We found
n large trunk containing women's wear
ing apparel, and from the captains
room we took the chronometer, baro-
meter, charts, and a quantity Of cloth
ing. These were placed in tho boat,
while two Of us took down the spar from
which the signal Of distress was flying,
after which the boat was manned, and
We pulled away for our ship. After
getting alongside the White Swallow
the boat was hooked on to the dayits
with the rescued people in, and 30
hoisted. because the sufferers were too
much exhausted to climb up the ships
side on ladder. They were carried to
the cabin and their clothes removed ;
then they were wrapped in blankets; and
after vino and water had been given to
them in small quantities, they were
snugly slowed away in state-room
berths, where they fell almost instantly
into sound sleep.
"When the people from the wreck
had been got on board, the White Swal-
low was put upon her course, and went
reeling or eleven knots m hour after
her detention Of almost four hours. In
two days the rescued people had recov-
cred sufficient strength to walk about a
little and be much interested in the
time for meals to bc served, and ut the
dinner.table the captain Of tho lost
Cherub told his story. His ship was
bound from Honolulu to New Bedford,
laden with oil and whalebone. When
eight days out she had been dismasted
in gale, and became SO strained that
the pumps had to be kept going con-
stantly, which, together with the loss
by salt water OF all but n small amount
OF provisions, SO exhausted tho crew
that, out OF twenty.six people who left
Honolulu in the ship, all but six had
died from exposure, hunger, and thirst
combined. The lady was the daughter
OF merchant in Honolulu, going to the
States to visit her fathers relatives.
They had been on the wreck twenty
seven days, drifting helplessly about,
when we picked them up.
"0uriine fortune in fair weather con-
tinued, and We went booming around
Cape Horn in terribly cold weather, up
through the southeast trades, across
the line in the Atlantic, through the
northeast trades up st. Georges cham
mel, and into dock ut Liverpool on the
one hundredth day after leaving San
Francisco. The Sea Horse had not yet
arrived, and as day after day passed and
still she did not como, We began to lose
all interest in ship We had beaten so
badly. After we had been three weeks
in Liverpool, one morning the papers
reported the arrival OF n steamer from
Fayall, and among the passengers we're
the officers and crew Of the ship Sea
Horse, wrecked on Flores, one of the
western islands. From the newspaper
accounts it seemed the Sea Horse had
experienced continuation Of thick
weather after losing the northeast
trades, and consequently the ship had
been navigated by dead.reckoning.
Judging themselves clear Of thewestern
islands, the ship had been kept away
two or three points, and brought up
ashore, about midnight, with south.
westerly gale blowing, on Flores. ALI
hands had been saved excepting Capt.
DAILY, whowas drowned by the capsizing
OF q boat in which himself and thirteen
others we're leaving the wreck ut day
light on the morning after theSea Horse
had gone ashore.
"fhe survivors were sent to Fayall,
and from there the British Consul sent
them to Liverpool by steamer. We on
board the White Swallow learned that
after Capt. Adams heard OF the loss Of
the Sea Horse and her captain, he got
tile draft for the money on the bet
cashed, carried the thousand dollars to
the owners Of tho lost ship, and had
them invest tho money for the benefit
OF the widow Of Capt, DAILY.
"The people whom we rescued from
the wreck left the White Swallow in
Liverpool. Tho captain Of tho lost