New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-30

heal IN tha sbip tbourh sbs was under fore and att
canvas only. The swell canne along from the north
and east with regular Channel roll, and bit OF
sea on top that Missed sharply in email, green Surges,
and made an eager glanclng under the sum- tnae
sailed fast among the squadrons Of windy CLOUDS
which swarmed along the pale autumn blue. Inc
swell was nearly ended, and the ship pitched slowly
as she went smotheriug broad space Of water
around her with surface Of blowing and winkng
and shining foam at every crushing and shearing
| blow of her powerful bows and cutwater; and the
tug ahead sometimes rolled sponsors under, as She
dragged at us, now and again hosting one OF tine
other of her wheels almost bodily QUE OF water lnto
the air where you could see it spin round Ike q
circle of bright steel sparkling wet in the sum- ana
dipping her head in the smother she raised until the
sea-line beyond stood as high rs the bridge ana
then, slackening the great hawser into blght Us
her stern swooped into the snow under her counter
! and gave us q clear view of her deck. Some OF the
storage passengers overhung the forecaStIe rail or
main deck bulwarks, very sick. The chief officer
was forward standing by for the tug to let CO. and
the crew lounged about waiting for the order to
make SAIL 1t was O moment full of interest and ex-
| element The little steamer ahead was the final
link that connected us with home and she would be
dropping us very soon, like the wlthdrawng OF the
| hand that gives you tho last shake There was a
| feet of smacks ratcl ing to the eastward on our
port bow, pumping the green hoows 6e AZ. AM, anu
crowding space of the cloudy sky and the Jagged
olvegreen of the hazy horizon with their chocolate
colored sails; few gulls hung in our wake peering
with arched necks into the boiling eddies and bal
ancing themselves like shapes Of marble against the
streaming wind, now and again utterlng hoarse cries
Sna coil 60 of the feathers from
| their own beautiful breasts; right ahead OF us was
small galley-punt, flashing through the seas under
her fragment Of reefcd canvas with couple OF men
in yellow oilskins sitting to wndward, and FELLOW
crouching aft the wind was keen, and damp with
spray, as il blew in means over the bnlwarks ana
| al xuifh rio OT1Uhf
staysails and there was hard look in the sky to
the southwark and eastward, away past the tiny
which made suspect that teaser lay lurking
down there, in readiness for US presently. ,
We were heading to pass the GoOdwlns 10 the
eastward, which would keep the land shadow
| wherever il was.
About three-quarters of an hour after Florence
had left the deck the tug dropped us. Lunch was
! on the table and had slipped below to get some
| thing to eat, and should have stopped there, had
Florence been visible but, not seeing her. ana pre-
JacksOn's views on the decadence Of the royal navy
and Mrs. OBrens loud abuse Of her native country.
pitching aud finging tho green water in shining
| showers Of cmeralds over her forward deck as she
swept in long curve away from ~ . FELLOW on me
| funnel blowing like flying scud straight into the
land Hands we're aloft in our ship. canvas was
rafting its folds. chain sheets were grinding and
bearing upon the sheayeS and the crew were spring
ing about in all directions raising those hOarse,
peculiar cries which are, to my ear, as much por-
ton of ocean sounds the SETTLING OF foam or the
| singing Of the wind. - .
Isonld hardly realize had nothing to do with all
! thiS business as stood smoking my pipe to leeward
Of the skyght, watching he chief mate on the fore
castle, bawling the second mate on the main-deck,
yelling, and the third mate on the poop shouting
| home with the apprentices aud ordinary Seanen
| swingng off on the hallarls or failing on to the
braces. 1t was hard To believe that my duty did
| not lie somew here, and that III a minute or two
gruff voice would not be singing out What IN
blazes yOu mp TO- with yonr pipe in your mouth,
you loatnR rogIef jump before skin you " f0E
Loan tniu nd IN v.
| ishrd gentlemen they now are. and when an order
! WAS given II was usually accompanied by yOllcy
Of excavations. Discipline and hard work Mt sea
grow into 80 strong habit. that sailor cant hear
the fnging down of rigging or the songs OF seamen
without feeling that he oIEht to be- pulling ana ana
soon the Strntmnre was leaning with her channels
ash under three whole topsals. spanker foresail
and maintopgallant-sail This was as much canvas
M che needed in those narrow waters, and III the
face of freshning blast that braced our, yards
pretty nearly fore and att and kept me me weather
| ~ boy sucking n swcetmcat. Last nights blow
ha, left behind it strong swell, which the piping
bruce that was now driving along did not help to
Hn,ntll and every fathom We measured with our
| h,'pBI'bt~om beading magnetic s%HtneaSti 10
| Iiondv ms f0uHh the liquid folds heavier and the
suIgcS ,t7onI", AMI sharper.
! 70 goa.ay sight att. as dlI, when Sail had been
! made and tho ting meTr lCaping shadow down
| III the windy thickness astcrn. and stand to wind
ward If the whc" tnat was grIpped by powerfully
| bniit seaman with dark face and reddish beard,
! and cleaning black eyes which fell and rose from
| thr Weather topgnaipt erch to the binnaclc-card
w,ththc regularity of the hNavc OF the ship-6oys,h
! was a sight, inter three Years OF shops and pave
! ncnts. TO keep my heart dancing-belleve that.
! Why, from the rOyal -lnastL 'ad, over which the
! brown clouds were driving II shoals along tho
thr:kening foul weather blue, down 10 the yellow
! metal "a wndward, under the bt nds, where the
! luminous green bIllONs flashed into yeast, aud
rushed IN gIddy milk white wnrlpoOls aStern, the
ship made marine picture III 10 serve ~ memory
for fc-for you had the great topsa'lo rsing into
brilliant spaces or finding into ashen gray, - tho
s,InbraIns came and went among the driving yaL"r;
| and there roll of thunder in every white ho;
! low when the spars swept up against the wind, and
made ,r strong brrcEo furious aoft; and the giant
: bows mounted upward with a steady heaYo upon
fine yrnuIng brow Of "a sea whose valley lay III the
violet beyond II. and forked up tho libboom us
though some mighty spirit of the deep had graspcd
! It. and was showing the ship the way to heaven
! aud then descended with a gradual, slcarlng crush
ing sweep of the cntwatcr that rAiScu SNOW
! under the hmrchcad, aud hewed out ol the sofa
! hollow a green sca on either hand, which, 70 WIND:
! wnri met the OucOmng surgcs, and was shattered
| by them into splcndor OF swirlng White, blobs
and feathers Of which like chips Of wood ghder the
90, drove forward aud whlrl away into the sky
they came into the streaming wind that
out Of tho marblc-hard cOnycxltlcS OF the
rs AS the sight was l reckon the passengers
u 10 admire. as they vonited over tn" Slue'
WIN ocss on the deck or III their buuEs below.
pourd joke 10 tho landsnan to come from the
sails. ,trr Of the Thames INTO tho Aea that could
Rrr g. Is ,rse, 80 far as his stomach is concerned,
saw ~ Atlantic in q gale. Sailors are not
or law ia 'hctic race when alt0at but, during my
f. i, y II shorc-lifr, a good deal Of the brutal
smo,lh M hat IL given to one by calling made
not Lc ~ ard weather and bad food had lea ked
vrre Il IA stood looking on to the Iuuin-dcck
yrrv sympJ * Of the poop, saw deal to excite
tbrye yeaTl " Of the poorly clad folks, who, with
ind itTeIrnrei L. rail- seemed 10 be yielding up tho
M Of kicks E ers staggering. with yellow faces,
awnv anil til oulstretChed hands, and III the
frnu tLc brl Te aud there coils OF rope, on
my nitr in an = or under the bulwarks with
fhr,r ,Lins ON cir heads, forced by the motion
ghost and In al \ 4 air, and now trembling from
ssinng the dsrk mbcr sea-wind, without any
Syo,nen who sat gloom and grooming tween
tL. hatch rnami,I had been expelled By nausea.
their onwns over ss nos aud endure great hard
helo,y into the IRE 4 think that Of all the people
tI,a cold raw, SIN; 2 a living merely to get
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