New-York tribune., 1884-02-17
CHAPTER XXXY.
y THE SOUTHERN OCEAN.

Why have | stopped TO spin you this yarn 1t
has nothing TO do with my story. But avast l
think it kGs. What is this log but the record of
Gyoyage how it was begun. what happened during
1t. and how il ended and that beng so, why, "a
part Of the voyage, our Oycrhaung of the briggs
boat in a fog ought to be told. If it's not art,
YOU cant growl. boys for you know / cautio ned
YOU at the beginning against fostering any expecta-
tions OF that kind. But such a deal remains to be
told that gc shall get ashore again if we hang
oyer the sido Story-spinning in this fashions; so
now lei us start afrosh for steady spin down
the South Atlantic. and then 4 bold shift of
tho helm for New Holland.
The day following that which met with
the brig y picked up tho southeast Trades They
blew in hall gale of wind had never met them
so strong; a maiEtopgallant-Sai single
reefrd tOpsaii vas as much the StrathmOre
could bta.ger under; aud for several days her
decks we're lust a white smother she drove along
oyor tho high seas. lee channels out of sight,
and the foam sometimes standing up so that by
putting your hand over the rail you could have
graspod a handful of the sluicing snow of it. We
swept along close hauled the port tack and
that il was which made the wind feel a whole gale.
l never should have thought tlat on a taut bow
line the ship loaded down she was to her chain
plate bolts. would have shown such IA pace.
Looking her the rail you would have thought
her Hyiug clear of the water rather than
sailing though it, Grand il was to mark her
strike tho dark blue rolling cOmbcr, shatter il
INTO froth. aud rush through the rainbow which
arched upon the storm of foam, like girl making
q bound With a cOlOred scarf over her head. Grand
but uncomfortable One could sometimes
taste The spray on the wind right aft. The main
deck vSi, imras>able by all but iEc crew aud how
fhe tvcc, deck passenger made shift to get their
meals from the galley don't know But You
heard no complaints; everybody was TO glad TO leel
rho strong wind and watch the broad wake shining
and rising and falling upon tho leaplng seas tIll
it seemed 10 vanish upon the HORIZON, TO grnmho
at the discomfort of the cabins and the decks.
Every day at noon, Daniel would discover that We
were TO many degrees nearer tho latitude OF
the Cape. and the passengers began to make bets
anchor ia sydney Bay. Well, we carried these
tempcstuOus Trades as low down as thIriy-0ne de
grees and the change from the thrilling, punging
rushing to the long SOuth Atlantic swell and a
west-ncrthvest breeze, with barely enough weight
IN 1t to Keep the lorecOurse lifted was lamcnted by
Now. will here say that as oyery parallel we ran
down inevitably brought whatever result my vOy-
JCc was 10 Weld more and more TO n head every de-
gree 81 latitude tue ship chalkcd out found me IN
Crcasine uy thOughtfuncss in tho matter of my
COurshp, and 80 speculative rs often to be- abomin-
able company to all but my darling. l knew that
IN few days we should bc having the sun rising
over our bows aud measuring our progress by de-
greos Of lontgudc; and then, should think the
next thing will be the loom OF the New-S"uth
Wales coast the circular quay, lodging On
George st. aud afterward-tLc Lord alone knows
Whatl g., $50
| never managed to get half an hour with Flor
snco without talking 10 her about this One fine
evening | remember she came on deck alone ana l
ioiued her The ship going along quietly.
gently rolling upon the deep indigo swell, the sky
was Olear and brilliant with stars and star mist
vague streams of milky ght-tho planets which
hung under them burning blue like diamonds and
MageliaI,s shining clouds and the beautiful South
ern Cross among them, the latter sparkling glOrI-
Ously on the black breast Of the nghtthe arest of
:ii her radiant iewelswhile IN the cast the moon,
fresh from the deep was softly waning We
walked to and fro. taking such things Will come
INTO lovers heads and presently my darling stopped
a moment to look at the moon and at lts ice-hke
greenish silver wake that wdened and narrowed
rs the swell rolled through IT,
She will be rising over our bowsprlt before
long" said l. GIt'Il soon be Eastward hOl with us,
and then what's TO happen y
Jack" sand she :" have told you again and
again what you ought to do"
Az" said !, " but hang me If have the courage;
know what will be the result; the moment tell
your aunt that am Jack Seymour, she'll step be-
kween us. No doubt she can't prevent us from
being together while we're in the ship; but what
will che do when she gets ashOref Not, certainly,
that she could do anything that y0a didn't choose
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