The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1882-01-14

The excitement continues for three or four
hours. and at the end of that time they stop
feeding and biting as suddenly as they COM
menced. The lines hang listlessly over the sides
Of the schooner, not nibhle. and although
the rocks may be covered with thousands of
fish they will not touch hook or bait. When
they are feeding you can pull them out just as
fast as you put your hook in. but if they are
not feeding it is perfectly useless to try to
catch them. They will not bite. After the
excitement Smith felt his hands were singing
and when he examined them, he found that he
had worn all the skin off his fingers letting the
long line slip through them pulling in the fish.
This he did not provide for and the sailors did
not tell him about il. tits now time to heave
anchor and be off for home Poor Smith,
how little he anticipated such misery as he
had now to undergo His hands were swollen
so much and gave him SO much pain that he
became almost frantic In the excitement he
little thought of the consequences of letting
sixty feet line slide over the palm of his hands
and fore fingers at such a rapid rate and for
SO long a time. As soonas the fact of Smith 5
painful situation came to the knowledge of
the captain, he relieved him. You know,
that to make an inventory of the locker on
a fishing smack is one of the impossibilities.
1t is said to contain in the way of restoratives
everything from a sticking plaster to a pull
can. in medicines from dose of castor oil to
a liver pad: in mechanics tools, from tack
hammer to - was Just going to say
steam saw MILL So thanks to the locker,
Smith was soon himself again. The delight
full breeze preceding the rising of the morning
star filled the sails of the Bonita. and while
the sailors were busy clearing the decks our
passenger crept below into one of the hunks
of the cabin. and was soon dreaming of the
pleasures of a
Life on the ocean wave
And a home on the rolling deep"
Ii was vet two hours until daybreak, and
soon after he was called to witness the rising
of the sun at sea. 1t was grand sight, and
for months afterwards around his fireside in
the bleak aud chilling latitude of his home in
Chicago. he loved to call to mind the pleas
ures and accidents, and tell over and over
again. to willing listeners, the true story of his
visit to Pensacola and his "trip to the snapper
banks
4 party Of gentlemen from Detroit Miehi
gan. who we viii name, Scott. Livingston and
Cali, with their servant and cook Jerry, in the
fall of 1850. organized hunting and fishing
excursion on and alongside the coast of Flo
rida In this expedition they consumed, the
two last months of 1850 and the first two of
1881. At New Orleans, where they went to
outfit, they chartered beautiful schooner,
fully proyisioned Der for the voyage, and en-
gagged a sailing crew. the Captain of which was
an old and experienced pilot ON the Florida
Coast. They sailed from the Upper Basin,
New Orleans. on the 18th day Of October,
1850. making their way through Lake Ponehar- /
train. aud along the Gulf coast TO the agreed I
starting point. the eastern end Of Santa Rosa I
Island. near Pensacola. A full description Of
this cruise OF the "Gauder'' 1.-THE name they
had given to their vessel was given me by one
Of the party at Tallahassee, in the spring Of
1881. So ] warn, especially the sehool.boy
readers Of the DEMOCRATIC ADVOCATE, 10 get
out the;r maps and follow me next week. along
the coast Of Florida. while tell them about
the wanderings Of the '.(iander' while on her
Wild (ioose Chase.
Az Olp MAEYIANDER