Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-06-29

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"'Aye, aye, sir says the mate; so,
steady just as you 60
"sSteaay says the old man; keep her
list as she's a-headin'
"'Well, it weren't long afore we riz her
from the deck, and in the course of a
couple of hours we was nigh hand unto
her. She were evidently big ship, with
three to- gallan' yards across and the sails
onto 'em snugly furled, as was the fyin'
jib, ;jib and spanker. The courses was
hauled up snug and the three topsails
close-reefed.
"Runnin' clear under her lee quarter
the old man hailed, Ship, ahoy!
HALO says the chap aboard of her,
and he, so far as we could see, seemed to |
be the only person on board.
"'Is anythin' the matter with you!'
says the old man.
"I'm all alone here" says the man,
'and I'd like to have some help for to
work the ship"
"We'd ranged along out of hail by this
time, but the old man hauled up the
mainsail, backed the maiDtopsail and
told the second mate for to go aboard
happened as were one of the boats crew.
We pulled right up under her lee, and
the chap aboard hove us a line and all but
one of us scrambled aboard, and whoever
should tne chap be that met us but Billy
Edwards, him as had been shipped N my
place when I were in the calabc >,se, and
his here ship were the FAIRY Queen.
"Out # all that were on board of her
| when she left New Orleans there was left
only Billy Edwards and young woman
named Mollle Hammond; all the rest had
died Of yellow fever. The ship were in
good condition, and all that Billy wanted
were as many men as our old man could
spare him for to lend hand for to work
tue ship. Our mate wanted Billy for to
go on board of our ship with him and
spin his yarn to our old man, but Billy
were fly he were not goin' to abandon
his ship and have her took possession of
as derelict, and SO he has just told the
mate that it so be as we wanted for to
let him have some hands for to lend him
a band WY we'll and good, we could
found a claim mn that for salvage onto the
strip and cargo: but if we didn'twe could
20 along about our business, and he'd
trust to getting help from someone else
So our mate vent back and reported to
the old man, who jumped in the boat and
went aboard and had talk with Billy
who told him he could navigate the ship
and that all he wanted were some help
for to handle the sails. The old man be
wanted for to send one Of his officers,
and Billy he said he had no objections
to that except that under no circumstan-
ces would he give up the charge of the
vessel and whoever comes must come pre-
pared to obey his orders and treat him as
the captain of the ship.
FINALLY the old man concluded for to
send the second mate and four men on
board Of the Fairy Queen, and on the
call for volunteers was one as stepped
forward You see had been ship-mates
with Billy Edwards, and know'd he were
good man; also considered that she
were my ship, havin' been shipped into
her afore Billy where, and so me and
three other chaps went along with the
second mate, takin' our bags and ham
mocks aboard the Fairy Queen.
''The young woman what were aboard
here with Billy were the daughter of a
rich old, buffer as had took passage in the
ship and had slipped his wind along with
the rest of EN-, and our old man offered
her passage in the Westmorland if so
be as how she wanted for to quit the
,, Fairy Queen, but Billy Edwards were a
fine lookin' chap and she and him had
been alone together for about week
afore we fell in with 'emsand she had got
. to KNOWN and trustin' him, and SO she
said she d stay where she were, in which
she were right, for no one could have
= treated her with more respect or took
: better care OF her than Billy Edwards
: did. The ship had two cabins, and the
after one were Civ up entirely to her use
= Billy never goin' near it and, of course
> never allowin' anybody else for to do So
!, carter the boat got backon board the
!, Westmoreland she filled away and pro.
9 ceeded, all hands givin' us three cheers
= which we returned. Tnen we turned tt
y and set the courses, jib and spanker, anc
: turned two reefs out of each topsail, set
q TIM the to'galiant sails over EN-, and We
:, = was soon a jumpin' along arter our ole
i ship and goin' as fast as she were.
"Billy spun us the yarn Of his trip arte
we got all to rights, maxim kind o. FREE
;. with us on account of KNOWN some o
d us before He said: when we left New
e Orleans there were twenty Of us afore tn
4 mast, the skipper, two mates, carpen
= ter, cook and steward, and three passen
q gers, this Mr.. Hammond and his daugh
- ter, and a cotton broker Of the name o
|e Williams The sickness broke out aft
- this passenger Williams bein' took fus
l. and dv,n' the day we left the bar. Tn
70 disease must have been IN the ship, as
70 understands she had nearly everybody di
# aboard of her the p evious year; tor afor
~ the next night there were six new case'
+ the old man and steward oeing anon
II 'em. The wind were extremely igt
az from southeast, and we were makil
a scarce any way, and in three days
IA many of us was dead and sick that tn
= mate had to put the ship under sho7
AZ sail for fear as there wouldn't be enoug
of us left for to handle her canvass. d
4 thought some of tryin' to go back, but b
~ know'd if we could git down into tt
a trades we'd git better, while to go bac
et would be running into the disease.
Id "sOn the fifth day out the wind shifte
We to the north'ar and all Of us that WI
left-and there was but four-manage
er to lend the mate hand to square Il
he yards. That night the mate and tn
a poor girls father was taken down, and ]
IL less than twenty -four hours arter that
n, were left alone in charge, with only tw
men left and they both sick. Next ds
he l made the Tortue as, and the wiz
comm out fresh from east no 'theast,
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