The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-10

hats who they're about he's such sweet dear,
I'm sorry I told you that other
bout his red face-thOugh it was awful queer
For now he's beautiful brother.
An Arctic Expedition Three Hundred Years
Ago.
So you want me to tell you an Arctic
tory, little people, says Capt Hardis-
ay, looking up from his seat by the fire.
Z Hadn't you better wait till Cousin
Rck comes, and tells you what he's been
9eing for the last eighteen months with
apt. Mares? TbatW be a story worth
caring ("
" No, no, uncle, . cry three voices in
arill protest; "we want story n0aO"
" Well, then, I suppose you must have
- says the Captain, with a chuckle,
king Alice on his knee, while Tom and
lefty take their places at his feet "but
can tell you, it is pleasanter to talk
Oout these things beside warm fire,
18th a good supper on the table, than
hen spars and stays are all sheeted
nth ice, and the huge, DIM giants Of ice
pergs are looming all around you
trough the darkness, and you have to
,eep the deck four hours together, with
our eyes dropping out of your head
or want Of sleep, and the bitter wind
nd sleet tearing the very skin off your
ace.
Alice shudders and nestles closer to
her uncle's breast.
$50, before you run away to sea, Tom,
ny boy, just make sure that you'll like
It, when you get there. And now I'm
going to tell you story which will show
you that voyages of discovery are not
always such good fun as you seem to
ihink."
con the 18th of June, 1888, small
squadron sailed out of Cawsand bay
five ships, carrying 260 men-the largest
only 200 tons burden, the smallest not
more ten C)-such craft as our big
steamers nowadays would hang over
their sides for quarter boats. But it
was just such cockboats as these which
America, and shattered the
pride of the invincible armada.
"Many man stood Watching them
from the beach, as they melted into the
blue haze that covered the meeting of
sea and sky; for, in those days it was no
light thing to plunge into unknown
seas which are now mapped out and
and traversed by telegraph ca
bles, and crossed by scores of steamers
every month. For in those days, men
believed in sea-serpents, dog-headed
men, and headless monsters with eyes
in their breasts, and other horrid things
which have never existed, and [ hope
never will. And, besides these imagin-
ary perils, there were real ones in
abundance-cruel Spaniards in the West
Indies, and fierce savages in North Amer
and calms, icebergs and
deadly fevers, and many more dangers
besides.
Among the men who looked wistful-
ly after the disappearing ships was a
tall, handsome man, whose dark, lus-
trous eyes were clouded with bitter dis
for he had hoped to sail
with the adventurous fleet, and only the
Queens express order withheld him.
But he, before his life ended, was to do
deeds that should never be forgotten.
and to perish at last by yet sadder and
darker doom, for his name was Walter
Raleigh.
" And beside him, perhaps, may have
stood (fOr they were men who always
liked to be present when great deeds
were doing) sturdy Francis Drake, with
his brown hair curling crisply round his
face; and grim old Haw-
ldns, twisting the ends of his bushy
beard and stout Martin Frobisher, with
the healthy brown of the sea upon his
bold, bluff visage; and brave John
Davis, whose name still lives in the soil
tudes of the Arctic ocean, and many
brave man more.
And SO the little feet went ,gallantly
forth into the painless sea, taking with
them, in addition to the actual neces-
saries of their voyage, music in good
variety, together with morrice-dancers,
and May-like conceits,
to delight the savage people, whom we
intended to win by all fair means pos
sibler"
"What fun" cried Tom; clancy a
acknowledgement among the Indians
~ t0OtgC0 asIon1sll Gne naulVes DIT, L
fancy Y
"But, resumed the Captain, solemnly.
" there was a doom upon the noble en-
terprise, as there is upon all greatunder-
takings too lightly and hastily vcntured
upon. There's nothing upon earth
needs more care and Judgment Gas
know wel) than the picking of men for
a long voyage; and here it had been
done so carelessly that mischief was not
slow to follow. The sailors were a
rough, mutinous, piratical set, got
together at haphazard, just as they Of