Smyrna times., 1875-02-17
mise eII0N 2 OuS.
Not All Bad A Shippers Yarn.

I've been good deal about the world in n,
time (said Captain W, strokine h his !" arn ~
beard with his big brown hand), and I've Sec
a lot o rough customers; but its nv opinio,
that the very worst of EN- all's cot SOM ,rno,
IN EN-, II you only take the trouble m Iooc f.
1t; anu that, let fellow be ever so bIsct,
he not all bad. You don't acrse viii
me! Wen, | Il just tell you stery
ABOUT eight or nine years ago now-afor,
ever 'his Su'z Canal as we cum through YES
terday' was maGe--that | was first mate Of ,
steamer 4iylng from Suez to Djeddah (th(
port OF Mecca, you know carryin' Gov'n(or
stores and fighting tackle for the Tnrks e.,
OF course thsre was row going on among thf
Arabs OF the hedjaZ. as it seems to me fber(
Always IS q precious rough lot for crew
that voyage-a odds and end.. Ike AN fr;sI
s'e%IUreekS, Maltese, Damatians, nigpers,
aud what net. -'=seiS'
Most OF these men o mine was too thick
headed to be up to mischif, and | managed to
get en- along pretty well on the Wbola
IFeachth at eIh warn t much good, but when
TALKED t) en- with handSpike or bit ~
Two Inch rope, they understood that va,i
enough But the worst of the whole lot WAS =
Pa'hatIan' name of Spiro. 70 give him his
"ut' he was fust-chop sailor. like most O his
sort tor palmatia kind o. nursery ~ s,,
i'ut that was ali the good there was to he s,;i
i'r NM i'r Il more vicious, blood thirsty dos
never breathed: ln the parts where he cum
ir"hi, they take to blood as materially as
SAILOR TO gEog and he was Just like all the rest
oi em-neyer happy unless he was in row
with somebody. ''' - p" -"
Now' may say without Dragging that I've
pretty sharp eye for the cut Of a man. iih-
specially when he ) a-going to sail with me
ana this fellow Spiro hadn't been aboard twn
days a'ore Ia picked him cut as rn ugIv
customer. lie was pretty smart in bickinr
INC out TOO, as chap that wouldn't stand no
nonsense; and SO it warn long afore We pot
10 eyelng each other, him and ma, like two
strange dogs making up for fight Bout a
week a ter we'd sailed on our first cruise ~
we wOs Yin in Djeddah harbor this chan
Splro was ravther slow over somcthin ia told
MIN to 40, and began hollerin' at him: when
Nhat does he DO out turn around and cbeek
me IKE anything to my very face 7 don:t
taSe cheek very kindly, that's a fact; and he.
side' | was reg lar mad to have all the work
showed on to me in this way so ius. m f,t
ana let HIM have it between his ewes. knock. !
ing hlm right other side OF the deck. II was !
more minute afore he knew whore he was =
| puI "heh be cum to, he just gave ue wicked |
l"ok out OF the corner oi his eve. and bnhbI.J |
down below. The minute he was zone nc'i,n mn
comes my chum BIZ Barlow, the enginer IwLo
had seed the whole thing), and SAYS TO me
Ioal says he, 'n9~you ye done lllat, YOU d |
better Just shoot that ere felier right off II
yol 40 4on your llie ain worth Matt" (
= we'll Bi!l, >lys |, Il Ill pretty much oc
mat q way OF thinking myself bit stilI don't
IKE killing ieiI-r 10 cold blcod, somehow
I-et wait till he does summut, ani then we'll /
let him know" "0 !"
Bat Bill words suck ia my head. and they
stuck IN 1t trifie more two nights tier, wban
uSt as We was getting out Of tn. harbor
io"n comes block from the fore rigging with.
= an lnch OF my head, and pretty nigh knocked
"y ora'hS out There Was more u 10z,.I Of
EN- up lott at the tiIne making ,ail. 50 .
curse It might nave been a hacciIeut. hut
Then | seed. Master Spiro ;. comm 9own
long with the rest, had my own thougLt.
"2It VINO sent me that ere sug4r-pium.
wen, the second day Il ter that. lust as We
'as q ABOUT hall, to Suez, Spr, was on the
~ iiaii colin down rope, when the shin gave
iureh' AMI MS foot slipped, and OVERHEARD
. went. II It had been ou'y that, it w1uiIn't ,,
ave mattered pin to him, far not man an
olrd could hold c,ndIo to him at swimminr
Ut ye see, he fell somehow h!t-ways. and .
'He such a lex up01 the water that il
.g lar stunned him. and he lay ont in the ;
H..
oe the nearest 20 | sang ont, ''St0D her -
no jumped Il ter him, and colIared him inst
=, ne was a-slnkln the second time. But
nat with his weight, and the rough sea. |
al 10 do all knew to keep ahoat; and by I
'' time they picked us up, I'd swallowed l.
ore salt water than all the grog on board t
'Hld ~, Ina put away the taste Of |
ven, SpIrO was put into his hammock, and l
p warm, but 1t was next mOrnn" alore he b
TN straight aglR. The first thin he axed t
as who saved him? And when they told [
Ion 1t was me, he just stared for minute t
Iinout sayIn nothin', and then flew up the a
oder Ike a wild cat-cane rushing IN to a
here was standing, and threw himself down "A
ms knees, and took my hand and kissed it, t
I'd cried like a child. t
L cum precious near ppin' nv eve too 7 v
u tell yc to see 80 much natterai gratitude in e
great hulkIn' cutthrOat like him. But the t
ext minute he got up and stood afore me rs r
u and grand as king, and looks me right in t
ie face, and says .
'Capjtano The always called me tbaN- J
Capltano, you no know all You 'member Q
At block tall at your head de odder night? | a
owed It; and when it no kill you, link xiii 7
'u wild dis knife. See you take de knife,
i've me into my hsart-sov' (he gave me ::
le knife, and stripped open his shirt)-'you y
ab revenge, and all done = :
Talk of play the way the feller sa id that. +
ld the way he stood waitin for the blow, +
ever moVin a muscle, beat all the plays that +
'er was. | said nothn' for a minute--I :
'uldn ha' spoke TO save my lfe-snd then | Q
lng the knife down on the deck and says to a
I'LL l.
L won't touch a hair OF your head, my Q
rave fellOw-Ony you be good boy, and s
0n let s have aOV more nonsense ~ q
lie gave my hand a grip that made it ache a
II whole day after, aud away he went and t
lere las tboueht) was an end of thst. But Fl
Warn't an end Of it, neither. !
Bout week after, we was lying at Suez, a
KING in cargo, and had pretty nigh got it ali
91oard, when. ono afternoon, | took a thought
ne weather being murderin' hOt) that might 81
well have battle and SO did-as jolly il
pc as ever had vet. | was lust thinking. O