The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-03-11
yOYAGING IN COCKLE SHE'LL.
TRYING To SAIL FRoM BOSTON To MEL
BOURNE IN A SMALLER BOAT THAN
HAD EVER CROSSED THE OCEAN.
From the \. Y. Herald February Is

From the y. Y. Herald February IS
The steamship City of Para, captain
George F. Carpenter, reached the Rob
ertson stores in Brooklyn shortly after
noon yesterday, having made her voyage
in twenty-one days from Rio Janeiro.
She brought twelve cabin and ten steer
age passengers, among whom were two
seamen who had had a hair breadth es-
cape from death by starvation. Captain
Herbert F. Burrill, of Falmouth. Cape
Cod, who has been almost from child
hood a seaman, had read with lively in
terest the accounts of voyages in small
boats on the Atlantic, and from these he
conceived the Lotion Of making longer
voyage than had been made by any other
person and in smaller boat than had yet
essayed ocean navigation. Accordingly
he built the Golden Gate, Of ton and
half burden, fore and aft rigged and
changeable at pleasure from schooner to
sloop, and having engaged Andrew Coon.
of Nantucket, to accompany him on a
voyage to Australia. sailed for Boston to
put in provisions. 1t was Capt. Burrill's
dream that if he could make his contem-
plated voyage previous to the close OF the
Melbourne exposition he and his craft
might be lionized, and he might make
the trip pecuniariIy profitable.
The Golden Gate sailed from Boston
on the 9th of July last, with provisions
and water for four months voyage.
She was decked over the forecastle, and
the bedding was slowed on the provis-
ions and water tanks in the forecastle.
The bed was for only one man, as there
were only two in the little craft, and one
would be always navigating her. On the
forty-eighth day out captain Burrill put
into San Jago, in the Cape de Verdes,
and after five days in quarantine put his
boat up for repairs, and then, taking
aboard fresh provisions, sailed seven days
later, on the 18th of September, for the
African coast; but he encountered heavy
weather and the storms wet his provisions
until they began to ferment and burst
the cans in which they w1re stored L.
Most of them were therefore thrown over
of December, that what was left Of the
provisions would not last until they could
reach the coast of Africa, and hence she
was headed for the nearest land, the is
land of st. Helena; but light winds and
strong current sent her to the leeward
and captain Burrill was obliged to point
his prov for the coast of South America
He was 600 miles distant from Brazil
when his provisions gave out, and for
twenty-five days thereafter he and his
companion subsisted on water and half
pound of cocoa. Their strength failed
day by day for fortnight, and when
they were within about weeks sail of
Bahia nature was SO nearly exhausted that
they were no longer able to stand even
for the short time required for adjusting
and thereafter they sailed by dead reck-
oning.
Famishing and barely able to steer
their cookie shell, at length they ran into
a small creek about twenty miles north
of Bahia, and dropped anchor at native
settlement called TORY; but after twenty
five days of voyaging without nourish-
ment they could hardly make their wants
known. Their emaciated faces did that,
however, and the natives speedily took
them ashore and gave them food and
shelter The two men thus rescued from
the very jaws of death were unable to
eat heartily until they had been nursed
for week in TORY; but they soon re-
gained their flesh and vigor, and the
skipper of cargo lighter took their boat
in tow and gave them passage down to
Bahia. In that place Mr.. Riceard A.
Edes, the United States consul, took
their case in hand, and with the assist
ance of some English and American cap
tains made mp purse and sent them to
hotel to await the arrival of the City of
Para.
Consul Edes provided for the passage
of captain Burrill and seaman Coon to
New York, aud captain Carpenter slowed
the Golden Gate in the hold of the City
of Para and brought her as free freight.
The two men are utterly destitute, hav-
ing only the boat and the clothing in
which they were saved, but captain Bur-
rill says that as soon as his boat is taken
out of the hold of the City of Para, prob
ably to-day or morrow, he can man.
age to make his way to Falmouth. The
officers of the City of Para will keep the
| two seamen in the Para until they are
ready to embark for home. Captain
Burrill is thirty four years Of age and
| Mr., Coon twenty-eipht.