Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-08-24
Across the Ocean IN a Tuba Lon
don Account Ofthe CraPO AdVen-
luFa.

Across the Ocean IN a Tuba Lon
don Account Ofthe CrapO Adven-
tuFe.
The New Bedford reached Mounts
Bay, Cornwall, on Saturday night.
and Captain and Mrs. Crapo landed
at Penzance on Sunday morning.
after a voyage of forty-nine days.
The New Bedford, a twenty feet
life boat, drawing 10 inches when
she left and now g inches, a little
over one ton and half in measure
ment, cedar built and leg-Of-mutton
rugged, with two masts-left Chat
ham, Mass, on the I'd of June.
Captain Thomas Grape is thirty-ive
years of age, and his wife, though
exhausted and somewhat indisposed
landed in good spirits after her long
sOjourn in cabins, small spaces, fore
and aft, feet long. The first start
from New Bedford, May %, was un-
successful, as Captain Grape had to
put in to Chatham, whence the
schooner sailed June I'd. For three
days the southwest wind and the
calm sea gave the Grapes a good off
ing; then the wind changed to south
east, and it became foggy for four
days; indeed until they reached the
Great Banks, after being seventeen
days at sea. On leaving the Banks
they encountered a gale which fore
ed them to lay to for three days;
another gale detained them in the
same way for fifteen hours. Again
an the 2Ist of June, they had to
weather a third gale, when they
spoke the steamer Batavia, which
offered to take them on board. The
weather then became very stormy.
While lying down to rest everything
was wet, and atone period Captain
Crapo had to continue steering for
seventy consecutive hours.
Many articles of their clothing
were washed overheard. Captain
Crapo says he could not have stood
another fifteen days, that his average
sleep was but four out of twenty
four hours. He had to run by dead
reckOning,as he had no chronometer,
and only twice during the voyage
were they able to get their lOngi-
tude from two passing vessels. The
New Bedford has been visited by
thousands, and the two UOyGge1lrs
have been warmly welcomed by the
people of Penzance, they think Of
going to Falmouth, then bringing
their boat to London, and finally ex-
hibiting her at the Paris Exhibition.
Few can imagine the sensation of
being on the wide Atlantic, in a
storm, on a craft almost on level
with the sea. The predominant
feeling is loneliness, but to the unac-
customed eye the overpoWering feel
ing would be of terror, as the PIN
naces of the confused masses of wa
ter rose high above the head, upon
which it seemed about to precipltate
itself. The impression is of the i'm
possibility of escape, that the dane
ing chip in which they are buOyed
up could not survive the turmoil, in
the breaking, roaring, foaming bill
lows. Now borne alOft they could
see the horizon circling around,
broken only by the piles of contend
ing waves thrown up into the air;
then as they fell into the hollow
they would see nothing but the
bright blue water and its snowy
foam, rising upon all sides, while the
sensation as the boat jumped up
and fell down with that sharp, quick,
seasickening motion, was jerked
here and thrust there, was hurried
along in the spray, or was checked
and staggered on being thrown back
by flaw, must have been no Ordin-
ary trial. Even when the weather
was fine the boats motion must have
been incessant, and the unrest IA
tuiging beyond expression. lnde-
pendently of the hold, three feet IN
length, to rest, as we understand the
word, even in sleep, would have
been impossible, the sort OF rest
bird would have on the twig of
tree agitated by a gale; with the
mind impressed all the time by the
load of an ever-impending danger.
How did they escape being washed
away?-and had that catastrophe
happened to one what would have
been the feelings and fate of the
otherg Perhaps it would have been
impossible for any one of strong i'm
aginatiHe powers to have survived
the horrors of such. voyage; that
dread alone would have driven such
a person mad. Allthis is endured
and the danger risked for the sake of
notorietv: for that, which in spite
of republican institutions, ,impells the
individual to hoist himself by any
means out of the ordinary crowd.
And at New Bedford another boat
is building, 20 feet long, in which
some foolhardy individual proposes
to make the voyage round the most
stormy of all the capes-the Horn
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