The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-07-12

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f,rry batHssn Iifez pool ard H61t York
tnoSs nov Captain e5Is s. slzs ('.s.zs,.l Line
I donss say at hing about his steamship.
because Il.6N okhinR about il. bat iie
Is said 70 BE- BE very best 0f thecom- L
mandera 81 til e6nnary. which beasts
Of never haFiI K lost shin nor q PAS
sengef dufinf Tie many years It has
pl0wod tbe kla 1iic Nv own acquaintance
with hif1 has been solely on shore; bel
cause when 1t sea am never IN condi-
ton 30 make acquaintance with any body. I
There are some folks whose sea-sickness i
GDes oil after o certain number of /
days. 4 ran only say that should like +
10 know the number. It has never gone +
oY With me during even the longest /
voyage between this country and the |
United States, or vice versa. Pehaps it |
would 10 OH If extended my travels |
10 south America, but my impression is
that should 90 Of frst Nature herself
seems to have Aet bounds. in my case. to /
lhs wish to range. If had been born
% the Continent, might have been a
great fraveler but, being insular, no
desire for forei gn travel ever stirs within
me. My bark Is On the shore, and never
goes beyond II, # can help il. can
sit on pier lif it is not one of those
GI1lt DIET " 1lt.FAt AH AK lAl1 Wt1Eltf the
ripple of the wave with much safisfac-
ton. but not all the Establishments Of ali
the boatmen IN Great Britain would in
duce me to EN- bark upon it for pleasure.
OF all poems, Byron's Address to the
OCEAN IS my favorite, because under
/. lpresense Of friendship he shows what /.
monster it is. The wrecks are all thy
sdeed "a strongish expression to use, at
time when French ships 0f battle we're
sunk by scores by the English guns, but
like him ALT better for It. a thou
sand fleets sweep DER thee IN vain.
which, though not quite correct state-
1aent, IS eminentIy trne as regards sea-
sickness YofR may try any number Of
vessels, and oil kinds Of them, but to that
complexion Of seagreen, with black
about the eyes ron come at last, with
which you started
hate the sea. For certain reasons.
however, am compelled periodically to
cross the Atlantic, and on the fifst occa-
sion had letter Of Introduction to good
Captain Cole. We shook hands; the
screw began e move, and rushed to my
cabin, where remained throughout the
voyage. believe he came to see me
very often ii NY misery g Visiting the
sick ct sea j. fa much more unpleasant
t4lAi1t4 lA-4AA ~ okE4kts tIE1lAtl4 IeE, iQuJ i
didn't know and didn't care. I saw
hinlto know him against New York /;
and Il short. though on board his ship he
might have been It's rudder for all saw
81 him we met on shore both in the New
and Old World pretty frequently He
knew Charles Dickens, and being himself
genial fellow, was personally much at
tached 70 HIM, but be could never forgive
him what he has written OF the dangers
ftoN dre) Of D steamer s chimney at sea.
II was the only part of the great novel
isl s Nritinns that seemed TO have come
under his notice indeed, the gallant
Captain newer read anything but his own
log end the points Of the compass1, and
this oAneed him 10 have an unfayorable
view of him IS an author. No, SIR he
Fci4Id 9lx when would endeavor to
stnlbat this idea, he was great man,
noble. generous, hne-haarted creature.
bEl ee writer he WAS nowhere like what
yog| are he would say, with wink of
fhz eye and q roll Of his head, " when
yousf aboard ship. In spite Of which
aIsng greenent Cf literary opinion the cap
tain szd / grew to be fast friends.
He entertain Cd a colossal contempt for
the land and III belonging to it Except
his fellow erdatnres3, which amused
E4E4I Itf14IAY - RIt Ho.t1Sld1ly 4OE 1bS lnOucS
of l0eomotion. Cabs, coaches and omni-
buses We're al IN his eyes senseless and
dangerous; and as to getting astride q
hofse don't believe any sum would
haye induced him to attempt it. He had
ccF5in fespoct, however, for an express
train. Or rather for the engine OF it,
which. flying through storm and sIeet
from starting point to terminus, re-
minded him perhaps Of his own gallant
R md hardly thought or a topic
IL eoin,1dt Il WIS natural that our social
Intefcn se took b narrative shape. /
told hird stories (which, as he had never
read anything. had the merit Of novelty
and lie recirzocated with yarns. was
foolish enough st first to suggest chan
mel for his recoIlections- shipwrecks, Of
the records of which, as q thorough-going
lkndsman. I was naturally fond. Sir, :
be said, drawing himself up and getting
very red in the face, You forget that
yon are talking to the captain OF Cum
arder. What the there he inserted sea
tern1i do zoe know about shipwrecks
However,, he added, more benignly,
there was one occasion when / thought
the spell Of our compauy's good fortune
was about to be broken, and that / should
be the critter to do It. .
g II was several years ago, and In the
summer time, that the ship was making
her voyage out, and a very good voyage.
The whole way the sea had been like a
duck pond.
Here I shook my head incredulously
/ had seen the Atlantic in the condition
referred to, and felt IL.
Well, I should not perhaps have
said the whole way, he admitted,
with q smile. for when we were about
100 miles from land we met with breeze
Of wind.
The captain always talked Of "a breeze
Of wind, just as some shore folks talk
though with less tautology, for sherry
Is not always wine1 Of = a glass Of sherry
wine.n
g remember the breeze, because we
picked up d little sailing boat with only
one man in her, and very short of pro-
visions. who had been blown out to sea,
and whom we took on board. About
half an hour after that incident was in
formed that one Of the passengers wished
to speak with me in private upon very
important matter Accordingly he came
to me in my cabin, little thin wizened
man looking like e tailor, whom I hardly
noticed as being ON board; indeed he was
A4lnA A7AAAt~AAtN CAACAt5AA 50 ste@L
for tie expression Of his face, which GER
tainly exhibited the most intense anxiety
and distress of mind OF course thought
he had been drinking. and in fact was on
the verge Of the jumps, which is what
the Yankees term delirium tremens.
Well, my man, what is it ? said I,
severely; we shall soon sight land; /
have no time to throw away.
That is very trus, captain, be an
awefs;s. in 9 it4sfi1f, quavering voice, and
Win & strong American accent, but
vo,,r time will be even shorter than You
4s,narrine unless you listen to what have
cos IS say to you. Won viii never see
land, and mnch more make It. i you az. are
,s,f prepared to act at once on the imfor-
,natson i an about to give you. Neg
iect #. and your ship will be at the
bottom Of the sea in s'--he looked at bus
watchs YES, in exactly an hour and
a. All right, my man, said !, you
may 70. III send the ships doctor e
look st YOU; for Of course thought he
-, 80. :, & no in hia wits