The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-11-16

leak out that the George w. Elder was the
champion roller on the ocean, it being re
marked by an officer who came
around Hatteras on her that hi
had sailed round Hatteras FIVE
times on other vessels, but this time
he had rolled around it on her, and
it was evident, if the wind kept amidships
as it then was, We were going to roll intc
! Victoria, if AZ all certainly not u very pleas
ant thingto contemplate, as the rolling with
| the force and att lUTchiDg was combina
ton altogether too much for the human
stomach. At the supper table only about
fifteen made their appearance, instead
Of 100.
All that night the storm increased in vio-
lence, and my roommate, who had claimed
the lower berth very much to my disgust,
but afterward TO my great satisfaction, be-
gan to heave up accounts, and when | had
laid awhile and looked down upon him with
little feeling of SYM athy, got up, dressed
and walked out on to the upper deck in the
storm, rather than listen to him settling his
accounts with old Neptune,
The storm being too severe TO remain
outside, took my pillow and laid down
on the floor of the cabin, but found myself
sometimes on one side of it and then
on the other, with the pillow some
of the time under my head, and at
other times under my feet. Then l could
hear evidences OF sea sickness in nearly
every state-room, and that was not very
comforting, so started, Keeling as | went,
down into the engine-room to see the en-
ginecr, Mr.. Dorrity, a very pleasant gentle
man, whose acquaintance | had made the
previous day. There | found everything
going on regular and put in the balance OF
the night.
The next day the storm, if possible, still
increasing in violence, only seven appeared
at the breakfast table, all the others, in
Guiding the second officer and steward,
having fallen by the way the steamer still
rolling like log in mill pond.
During this day, however, a few ladies, in
sheer desperation, managed to stagger
on deck and lay down with
a blanket or shawl under them,
with faces blauched and disheyeled
hair, and seeming to care but little whether
the other passengers saw the color OF their
stockings or not
Some of the drawer and more fortunate Of
the men were trying to promenade the
deck, and were succeeding about as well as
did Toodles wren he tries to pick up his
hat. There was one elderly, very fat wo-
man, who never left the cabin the entire
trip, but sat in one position, holding on to
the sofa like grim death with both hands.
The passengers all felt lively interest IN
the success of her Efforts to hold on, for If
she had lost her hold and surged to either
side the ves Ell would certainly have gone
on her beam ends.
THE FOURTH DAY,
The storm was at its height, and the ofli-
GERS Except two), your humble servant and
four other passengers were all that were at
the table.
The dining tables were arranged with
wooden Stats laid down on them about
three-fourths of an inch thick and in
squares of twelve inches for each person, on
top of which is laid the tablecloth, and in
these squares are SEE the dishes TO hold
them in place; but this fourth day was too
much for them. | saw coffee cup sheer
across the table and empty itselfinto an-
other mans plate OF meat; then the knives
and forks were constantly changing sides,
and an oval dish of English plum pudding
and boat Of sauce went sailing across the
table into lady's lap-the only lady at the
tabIe-and finally half the dishes landed on
the floor and we all gave il up.
| have crossed the Atlantic more than
once and never saw such rolling and pitch
ing nor such an angry sea. The steamer
was thrown out Of her course frequently
several points Of the compass, and though
the steamer and cargo must have weighed
more than 5000 tons, she pitched and
reared and plunged like a Texas steer in a
china shop.
THE LAST NIGHT
before reaching Puget sound was lear
fully dark and stormy, and the
cross-currents that meet there only
added TO the confusion Of the wa
tiers, the course of the steamer still being
in the trough of the sea, No one attempted
TO retire, and q more weaded and worried
set never saw, some OF the more timid ex-
pressing iesrs that we would never reach
land: but O'Clock IN the morning found us
in smooth water in the sound, and five
Tours thereafter lying snugly alongside the
. Ter at Victoria, a description Of which,
together with Seattle, Wyoming Territory,
and Portland, Oregon, will be given in my
next. Very respectfully,
JosEPH 7. Brown.
Missouri Republican.