Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-02
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light, and all painted of the gayest
colors, red. white, yellow, blue, striped;
these are the passenger or smallest
boats, each of which carries two men
as crew, and has a small lateen sail: they
are used to take passengers off to the
larger vessels lying further out to sea.
When a stiff lerdnte is blowing. the
noise and motion of this little painted
fiotIlla form most varied and pleasing
spectacle. These little crafts are called
''6Otes," and it is marvellous what an
amount of sea they will stand. The
other classes of boats aad ships are
mostly for trading purposes. The trade
of Cadiz is of three kinds. FIRST, the
large French, English and Portuguese
packets which bring passengers and
cargo. and depart with full cargoes of
lead from the Surra. oranges from the
Campo, and wine from the vineyards
of Jerez and Port st. Mary. Then
there are the sailing vessels from
America and Russia, which come in
ballast TO load with salt from the salt
fields of San Fernando; this salt is the
finest in the world for sailing fish in
Norway, Russia, Newfoundland; the
salt is nearly always slowed in bulk,
and forms a heavy and very dangerous
shifting load. Then, as regards larger
vessels of the steam class, they are
ever coming and going, the Havana
packets, carrying hands, passengers,
and cargo to the Havana. 1t is
picturesque sight sometimes, in cross
ing the harbor in the grey of early
dawn, tn see two or three fdiUcds.
crowded with Cuban volunteers in
their light-blue checked shirts, shout
ing and hurrahing most voeiferously,
standing cut in harbOr for the Havana
packet. These volunteers are great
rascals. They receive as bounty fifty
dollars, spend it in debauchery in Cadiz
get invalided or desert, and come back
in few months change their name. get
another bounty, and 90 off to Havana
again. Next in order to these larger
vessels come the laoul, the mistico, and
mistico de galleta. These are large,
heavy crafts, built to stand any amount
of sea, and two masted. They are en-
ployed in the eOasting trade. bringing
potatoes from Valencia, wine from
Malaga, oranges from Sevilla, timber
from the north of Spain. They vary in
tonnage from forty to eight tons, the
laoul has one mast amidship and one
in the stern. and carries enormous Ia
teen sails. The misticO has two masts
amidship, carrying two lateen sails and
a jib. These boats carry as crew from
five TO nine men and the patron, or
Captain; the owner has always one
of the other half, the patron has two
thirds, the rest being divided among
the sailors. The trade of Cadiz is fast
going down; the poor bOatmen can
scarcely pick mp a livelihood; nearly all
the large trading craft now go up the
river to Sevilla. But still, there they
are, these bronZed, clever, reckless sons
of the harbor, always suffering from
hunger, and want of clothing, yet ever
eontented and warm hearted. There is
plenty of wit on Cadiz wharf, plenty
of deep pathOs, plenty of fatalism.
plenty of strange kind of semi-Ch
tian morality, exemplified in the say
iDgs aud dOings of these men. Here Is
the boatman's favOrite prOverb. one
forever on his lips: "Well, but do you
not consider me your friend :" Ca
rGjO" q. e. -it.) ''RO: no hay mas
amigo que Dios, D uR dro en- lay bot
siiiG." CThere is no friend but God,
and a dollar in pOeketD He has a su-
preme, nay. the supremest, CONTEMPT
for the IIeh and the Outwardly relig
iOus. For himself he wears a charm,
blessed by some priest, round his neck;
but there all outward religion ends for
him. Talk about rich men; cdrdmbd,
man; why, they go to church, yes, to
please their wives when they are
young; but one-half of them have very
poor relations wanting for little help.
and they won't give it them, and then
dare to say their prayers Cargo, los
ricOs, Jesu. que son GRimdleS :" Course
the rich what brutes they areD These
two last sayings are, surely, replete
with truth; indeed, is not the last the
very echo of the Scriptural definition
of ''pure religion and undefiledF7 No
one must blame the bOatman for his
constantly having on his lips the word
"Jesu,r (Jesus;) it is no more than for
an Englishman to say Good Lord" or
Lord bless me.n Strangely enough, no
Andalusian man or woman of the lower
class will sneeZe or hear another sneeze
without saying "JesH," and why, they
know not; but TO omit it, they say, is
unlueky. have fairly laughed out
right, having sneezed in company with
eight or nine peasants TO hear as many
"JeSuS" uttered, in a tone of absolute
alarm. If you are out in n rough sea
with a Cadiz boatmen, he has only two
phrases to reassure you: No hGce dGnO
and No teRgd listed eUiaddO-that ia,
There is no danger, and do not trouble
yourself. If he says this, yOu may feel
safe; but if he says " Una eOSa nlUy fea."
IAN ugly loOk,) then be sure there is
mischief brewing; when the pORiente.
or west wind, suddenly rise :, it tumbles
a fearful sea into the bay, while the
East wind meeting the tide. also raises
a nasty, though less dangerous, sea
The boatman's greeting to a stranger,
or on entering a shop or stall to buy
or sell, is always, "AldUddO Sc DiOs,"
praised be GodD to which the correct
answer is "POr Siempre," (FOr everD q
more formal answer is 'POr siempre
dIauddO bendtO.' His speech is in
terpolated, asis thatOf every Andalusian
with oaths (Which, however. have
long since lost all significance and po-
tency) and religious phrases. He says,
Cardmbd. Cargo, Maldito ser, as Oaths,
and with themhe intermingles the words
BeRditO DiOs, (blessed be GOd:) dos
milo, mi alma. (my God. my soul;) Santa
Barbara, "a great patroness among the
seamen) JesH, JeSH, and SdHto Cristo.