Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-12-29


With . Kaclrot Tat brought Ilr. Tnliis.
second mate. and Captain Salisbury for
ward.
What's up here2' said Mr. Tullis.
Z am, sir. No man shall strike me.
said Dandy, with salute
SO am /, said Badly. - he rose and
made for Dandy again. He got no
further than before. His head struck
the deck first again.
sssAvast, or I'll put you in irons for q
month, said the captain. What do you
mean by thatr
ssBaldy crawled on to the hatch much
as had. and then, there being nothing
small about him told the truth about the
matter. After that nobody was 30 much
respected In the forecastle as Dandy.
But when one Of the crew tried after
ward to chaff Badly about the licking,
he got slap across the jaw that made
his teeth rattle, and Badly said: We'll,
yeou can't dew il, eff Dandy kim
ssAll this time we'd been carrying on
sail and the Blue Coat was just humping
herself Captain Salisbury knew thing
or two about ships, and he wasn't going
to let any rival ship get in ahead of him
if he knew It. After the first two weeks
he used TO ask the lookout, about every
time sail was reported, If it was
square SAIL or rattle. A rattle was the
name he gave to the three little three
cornered skysails which the Alice car
ried above her royals. He was awfully
excited when the lookout reported a
schooner topsail on the weather beam
one day. However, the wind held us
well, and just twenty-five days from the
time we passed Sandy Hook pilot was
coming on board of Pernambuco, and
was telling the captain that the other
ship had not arrived. We came to
anchor inside the bar before night and
the old man looked up the consignees
and the custom house officials. He was
regular pie for two days, and then the
triangles showed up in the offing. The
Alice should have left four days after we
did, and her captain swore he didn't get
away for five.
s'You know how long it takes to dis
charge cargo in South American port
now, and it was worse in those days. 1t
was the Sd of December when we got
away. remember that Captain Sails
bury was walking up and down the
quarterback as the land grew faint in the
distance, and was saying to the little
mate: 'Bevins, she's three days out of
Liverpool. Halliday will take her the
warm passage. The Ranger is a fine ship,
but wife and boy, Bevins are seasick.
Presently the captain went below, leav-
ing Mr.. Bevins to carry on every stitch
of canvas the old Blue Coat would
stand.
g What made this passage more excit-
ing to us, and perhaps more depressing
to the captain, was the fact. that the
Alice's captain had hoped on the rail as
we sailed out by him, and had said he
would be right after us next day. We
didn't believe that, but we knew he
would very soon follow. CAPTAIN Sails
bury headed we'll out to eastward, hoping
to catch the northeast trades better, and
day and night kept every stitch set. It
takes man of nerve to carry on all sail
at night, but that is the way the famous
passages were made with the old time
packets and clippers. We had pretty
good luck until we were somewhere in
the latitude of the Bahamas, but away to
the eastward in longitude fifty eight de-
grees. Then it fell dead calm A
gale at sea is sometimes bad, fog is
worse, but the worst of all is a calm
under q burning sun. It makes me
tired even to this day to think of what
we suffered for FIVE days. The sails
hung limp and ratified idly as the ship
rolled in the gentle swells or rushed
against the masts with a boom when it
caught US right. And the tar was melt
ing off the rigging and dripping down.
and the pitch was oozing up out of the
deck seams and running across the deck,
and the men, without cessation, sawed
on the braces day and night, or painted
the hull on the sunny side. The cap
tain got wild, and never seemed to leave
the deck He would climb the rigging
TO look for a catas-paw OF wind, and
then come down and curse himself for
getting off so far to eastward and north
ward
ssTo add to his grief. as the light be-
gan to show In the east on the morning
Of the sixth day, we discovered = sail
Just appearing as q speck above
the horizon to the southland. The
captains glass was on it In .
minute, and the next moment he
was jumping up and down on
the quarterback livid with rage, but
specifies. The sail was . triangle.
The Alice was Overhauling us. Half an
hour later our royals began to lift with
the breeze that had by that time brought
the t0pgaIlant sails of the Alice In sight.
All hands were called to set the stun sails,
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