Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-01-23

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longitude - DEGREES. Then il fell dead
am. 4 gale at sea is -omctimcs bad, a io5 is
worse. tut the worst Of all j, a calm under
"a luruiug sun. 1t makes me tired even
to TIL, aay to think Of what We suffered
for five days. Tine sails hung limp, and
ratified idiv as the ship rolled IL the .eutlc
SWcll,, or rushed against the nasts with
boom when it caught us right And the
tar was melting oil the rigging and DRIP
ping down, and the pitch was ooIlng up
out Of the deck seams and running across
the deck, and the mon, without CESSATION
sawed IN the braces day and night or
side. The captain got wild, and never
seemed TO leave the deck. lie
would climb the rigging TO look for
cats paw of wind, ana then come down .
and curse himself for getting oil so lar to
eastward and northard.
ITO add to his grief, as the light begal
10 show in the east on the morning of then
sixth day we discovered sail, Just APP
nearing rs a sueck above the horizon to
the southwark he cal tam glass was
on it in minute, and the next moment he
was jumping up and down on the quarter
ieck liyid with rage, but SPECIFICS. The
sail was ii triangle The Alice was over
hauling Us. Half an hour later our royals
began TO lift with the breeze that had by
that time brought the topgallant sails Of
the Alice in sight. All hands were called
to set the stun sails, and no one was al
lowed thereafter to 90 below. Men were
even kept with the braces III their hands,
while the captain looked alternately at the
trianglcs astcrn and the trim Of
/ his own sails aloit Breakfast was served
| to the men on deck. We drlfted along
without gaining an inch on the Alice un-
| til abou, 10 o'clock Then, without warn
ing the wind hauled around on the other
quarter The spankcr g!l ed over in Il
/ iitly, and there was "A rush TO the braces.
/ The men were tumDing constantly for
ward but no attention was paid TO that,
although they had not been allowed four
hours OF unDroken sleep in IA week When
the yard, were trimmed and the stun sails
wee set on the other side, we hogan to
gather better Roadway than before, but as
the captain was noticing this he saw that
the Alice was favored with still letter
wind than hc. just then Dandy from the
forclop,ail ward shouted;
"Un deck, there, Loaf adrft on the Ice
bow, sir.
a moment later he said. "Thcres
some one in her, sir. saw an arm waved
above the gun ale
Then he Jumped on IA back-stay and
came down hand over frs. The captain
and Mr. Ecvns were both looking fol
the boat with their glasses. and pretty
soon they saw her They didn look long
before the captain said The man was
mistaken EeVins. There's no one III her
"'Thats quite right sir. But see that
Alice raising Us, will YOU?
"Thcy both locked over the tafrail
and sworc loudly Dandy stepped aft TO
lccwerd and touched his hat,
Captain said he, there's some one
adrift in that boat, sir. know what |
see sir, and believe it's Il woman. Its
clean murder to leave the boat aCritt
The captain gave one more look at tho
: Alice and then turned to thrash Dandy.
10th men were very red in the face
when the captain struck out Il" was
QUICKER than Badly, hut he ony reached
Dandy rim, and the NEXT instant Ice was
: Spawning ON the dcCk hGiorr VIZ ley
ms could nightly shout 'MuUhy ~ ht
tried to 90. me WAS lying across me cap
tain body ana lfn"N was IyIhG MN