Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-01-04
AN OLD SAILORS YARNS.
A Truly N oble Wonaan-Two Weeks
OF Disea Sc and Death In the
Gulf or Mexico.
From the New York world.l


Did I ever tell you. SIR said the old
sailor. sof that passage | had in the
Rhone from New OrleansP / think sure
l must have. for it we're sartainly one OF
the most remarkablest passages either l
or any body else ever made, and surely
1t don't seem as.I would have forgotten
to tell 1t, nor yet that either OF US should
have forgot it if it had been told; but
yet don't just now recollect as I've
spinned this yarn to you atore. Any
how, sir, it is a event as will bear tellin'
every day in the week and still be
wonderful at each repeatin'. 1t would
seem as though ought for to spin this
yarn on top of that there last one tor
whereas that were kinder hard onto
| wimmin as showing how they could be
nulsances aboard OF ship this here will
90 to show as there's exceptions to the
t-rule, and in certain events they may be
very angels OF marcy.
went down to New Orleans in the
ship Neva. Capt. Brown. from 1avre,
arrivin' the last week in August bad
time tor to git there in any year, but per-
tickerlerly bad this time, bein' as the te-
yer were carryln' 'em off at the rate of
from fifty to hundred day. I'D had
it once afore, and weren't much afeard
of it. Still. just thought it best tor to
| git out as soon as possible, and goes to
BLACK Wash,' the shippin' master, the
day a-ter arrived, for to see what the
chances were, and he tells me he were
shippin' for the Rhene, Capt. Baker. for
Liverpool, aud if liked could make
nv mark onto her articles, which done
right away.
you shall 60 to sea in her in three days.
purviden you amt dead by that time.
as it's quite likely you'll be, says Black
Walsh, encouragingly; but had always
knowed as Wash were villain, and 50
didn't pay no attention to his cheerin'
remark. l knowed, however, that the
best remedy for the disease were corn
whisky, and believin' as it might act as
preventive, fills myself up chock
. full, and knowed very little more till
finds myself down to the mouth OF the
} river, outward bound. ..... ..-
Nv landlord were Bob Darlin', and
: him and Black Wash together had ap-
r propriated my advance. which l were
. told afterwards were $50, beside q
couple OF weeks wages from the las
ship. havin' only got mouths ad
vance in Havrc, and we'd been little
over six weeks into the passage. pre-
sumes, as I'd been KEEP in Darlln''
. place all the while under unlimited
rations of corn whisky, but OF thats
: can't speak with any great sartalnty
a One thing were sartain: l had beer
. took good care of, and produced at thu
Il proper place at the right time. tor her
e were, and the second mate, which hi
o name were Simmons. were a-poundln
e me industrious tor to bring me to a re
o ANN sense OF my condition.
}. were told by the other chaps as
le had been brung aboard the night atore
l. and artcr being examined by the mat
to see whether l were alive-it havit
II been too much the custom to palm o
|. waller fever victims tor honest flesh an
y blood were permitted for to sleep til
l. mornin', when the ship being down t
of the Passes all hands was r0usted out
m git the jibboom out. and me among tn
= rest. r41 -..E
- I'll say this, though, of Bob Darlin
- y. and it's proof that no man is altogethe
ly bad he had seen to it that my duInae
q. were all right, and on examination {
M the same, arterI begin for to come to
r little, were overjoyed to find in add
u ton to good supply ofterbacker qua
II bottle of bourbon. Ifyou ever have bee
OF recoverin' from q big drunk, you ca
c. imagine my feelins when this discover
he bust upon me, and in that moment
vn sublime gratitude l forgive Bob all ,
II. he'd done toward robbin' me. l couldn
OF help thinkin', too, as it were more n
ry own fault. since filled myself full
n the first place, and perhaps if Bob ha
be not looked out for me. might have bee
~ worse off.
l. There was sixteen of US atore th
~ mast into that ship, a carpenter, tw
~ mates. q cook and steward, the skipp'
=, - and his wife. a lovely little woman
~ ~ about twenty-five years old. We towe
~ out over the bar and made sail onto h,
reachin' her to the eastward. with a mo-
tn crate breeze from southeast. We hs
~ been out couple of days and l was il
in comm round all right, when or
es night in the middle watch chap Of tt
n, name of Arthur Jones, as was IN ol
a watch, and were a lsyin' on deck alon,
es side of me, says'Tom, Pm afeard there
Id something wrong with me. Eve got
it terrible chilli
ng As said before Id had the feve
r. and knowed as that was the wa. it CON
nd and goes ait to the mate, whose nan
lis were Mills, and tells him as how
ch thought Arthur had the lever. T
C. comes tor'ard and takes Look at hin
and then orders US to clear out the ait
81 hatch house and put Arthur in there
r. =. as to keep hin separate from the rest
.;s the chaps, if so be as 1t should turn o
hs as he had the fever, as were by this tin
N. pretty sartain.
The Now. them says the mate, (which
eet you chaps has had the lever?' The
he didn't nobody speak up tor time. al
b. as I seen what he were arter. al
, n thinkin' as it would be easy job. sa
lat as how had, and he says then. we
nd you can stop att with this man and lo'
,ol out for him. and mind you don't
the for'ard at all till sich times as he q
IS. WE'LL
ok Afere that happened. howsoeve
the there was three more of the chaps to-
nd down and brung aft to the hospital, al
'eh had quite as much as wanted to
Inc a-lookin' out for 'em. The fust O
e, ceased to trouble me arter the third d
nu and he was took out and put over t
~. side. On this day there was four mo
i, new cases, and as there weren't no mo
taI room into tho hatch house, all the W.
hi, men was ordered out of the forecast
bv and that place was CIV up to the sic
the The old man had done what he cou
hat for them as was sick in the way of me,
ing cine. but the stock OF quinne IN t
aid medicine chest weren't very large
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