The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-07-18


stands or can cope with. Fresh provis-
ions all gone, and Others becoming bad.
This unprecedented calm may last a
month; and the current is steadily losing
us ground, Tor water cheerful outlook.
To-day's event was catching shark,
which was cooked and generously divided
out as far as it would 60.
Later.-The captain has decided to
PUT INTO SIERRA LEONE,
which is only 81 miles from us now, for
water, fresh provisions and medical at
tendance. The announcement gives gen.
eral satisfaction, and the people are gath
cred on the bow singing joyfully. This
seems most wise measure, for it would
be running fearful risk to pass the port
and take the chance of being becalnned
without water and a pestilence raging.
May 2S.-This morning
THE NINETEENTH DEATH
occurred, being that of an infant son of
Scott Bailey, Of, aged fifteen months,
Death is attributed to the fever. 1t seems
as if we were getting in just in time
Two more persons sickened with the fever
this morning. The hills about Sierra
Leone came in sight at o'clock, and now
at p. m. they are plainly to be seen with
the naked eye. Everybody is singing,
dancing and shouting, and people are
running to my cabin window or door,
announcing that they can see houses and
trees. Some seem almost wild with JOY
Gus excitement at seeing something be-
sides sky and water. At o'clock the
town (Freetown) was in plain sight dead
ahead.
The land, as seen from shipboard, con-
sisted of long, irregular range of hills.
On one side, to the northeast, or on the
left side going in, the range terminates
in a steep incline. from which the coast
runs low and fiat, as far as the eye can
reach. On the right, away Oft, there is q
break in the hill chain, after which there
are several abrupt hills, (what in East
Tennessee they call "knobs," which ap-
parently decrease in height as they run
to the southwest. This is the general
outline of the horizon. The town proper
is apparently clustered in picturesque
confusion on the side of the last hill to
the left, just in the bend which the cape
forms at its junction with the mainland.
As we slowly sailed in British mail
steamer was made out following US. The
shore became more and more distinct as
we approached, until we. could plainly
see the white lighthouse situate on the
cape, built close to the waters edge and
surrounded by deep green foliage. The
! hills looked like any other hills, with
patches of red clay peeping out here and
there, through the trees and grass, with
the little water courses, or gullies, fur
| rowing their face. Their appearance was
very familiar to eyes accustomed to
Southwestern and Northern landscapes.
| Many of the trees, however, were palms
| and cocoas, and all the others were
| strange to US. Several fishing boats,
precisely similar in build, rigging and
crew, to those plying in Charleston har-
Dor, sailed out past US, one or two COM
| ing quite close. Those aboard of them
must have snrmised that the Azor con-
tanned the inmates of a lunatic asylum
out for an airing, from the scrambling,
| rushing, shouting and vociferoas laugh
! ing of the passengers, as well as from the
variety of aprons, skirts, hats, rags and
haudkerchiefs waved at them. We
couldn't make out much of the town, as
it was covered by the trees, which seemed
planted in great confusion all through it.
AT about half-past o'clock an ordi-
nary ships beat was seen pulling out
containing five men. AS it approached
nearer, it was seen that all FIVE were
black as tar, and that four were dressed
| in a narrow cloth hung about the loins,
and nothing else. The other was attired
| Just about as The ordinary colored long
shoremen or boatmen around Charleston
usually are. AS the boat came up on
the port side of the Azor, there was a
general break among the emigrants, who
| fled in every direction, scrambling over
the hatch houses and tumbling over each
other in. their precipitate flight. The
children seemed especially frightened,
and fled below. The individual with
the clothes on scrambled up the side, q
rope being thrown hip, and proved to be
small, weazened and respectable-look-
ing old black man. His companions
stood up in their boat, slipped on loose
.blouses and pantaloons, put on their hats,
and came aboard, excepting one philo-
sophical savage, who remained in his
boat and state of nudity with as much
freedom from embarrassment as Adam
ever did. The Azor's passengers rallied
at the sight of the clothes, and crowded
around the visitors, who held out their
hands and suffered them to be shaken,
and looked around them with natural
surprise. The four strangers then went
aft to the quarter deck, where the old
man announced himself to the captain
as pilot.
Think if all the humbugs in the world
could be collected and settled somewhere,
that George Curtis would be king by
natural right. As he did on all occasions,
he eagerly embraced this opportunity of
making an ass Of himself, approached
this old man with book about the size
of common ledger, and proceeded to
ask him questions and record the answers,
as if he were taking deposition. The
pilot spoke q sort of cross between
Frenchman's English and a negro's, and
answered the inquiries of spills" Curtis
soubriquet) in a helpless sort of way,
while his companions stared in open.eyed
wonder. The captain finally got the
victim away, and he proceeded to attend
to plotting, while his three friends Zone
of whom was his sony wandered about,
being 80 beset with questions. end stared
at that two of them finally took refuge in
the rigging, where one Immediately took
off all his clothes again. The boat was
meantime towed astern, and its solitary
occupant proceeded to light chalk pipe
and smoke to the great delight of all be-
holders. The steamer passed US and went
on in, and we dropped anchor about 100
yards from the landing. Very soon the
lights in the town began to glimmer out,
and beautiful effect they produced shin
ing brightly up the dark side of the hill
from the waters edge.
Soon after dark the deputy harbormas-
ter came out in neat little gig, pulled
by two black oarsmen in sailor dress.