Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-06

the whole voyage. didn't know whoth-
er it woula be best % ask about him or
not when we got into port, but ! CO.
cluded not 10 do So, because | was aifald
thai il q ! would appear to acEnoWi-
edge that WIS In some way responsible
for rim. so when ! went ashore 4 san
notmue about jonah and heard nothing
about MIN, although / WAS IN CONSENT
dread hi. turning ur s0m,hc" or olh-
err. fsrpud that business was very dull
st Care Haytieh a d tRat man. OF the
N archaats had met with lossvS S nee mad
been there last, and that the town haH le-
come unusually u~beal Iy. ms, on
course. laid at JoDah's door. and 1t made
mt fear that the unlucky le1 as Sun
around AM vO1sd turn up before cou-
get out Of fort, AZ last the return cargo
was all on bard and we we've ready %
leavs pOrt The day before ge sale l
noticad tha. b. stew ard was acting lit
tie strangel III ~ med uneasy. and
was alway1 OOH inc at me KIND OF sus-
,iclously but paid no particular at
tentiOn 10 this behavior, as / had olnef
thiu S to attC I'd to.
Next morning Ia. plot came on board
and sc set sail. ~ we bad passed out
of the IA, bon and han urt .'ped the pilot, }
felt uneasy somehow. Thought 10
strange. }rcause had got away without
Jonah turning 40, and IL seemeO O. me
that ought ~ fe j lght-nearted. Things
passed % about A. usual during the day,
except taat noticed that the stew rd
was always l0ot ing at me kind Of
strangely. The wind was fair bur som
what li1ht. The feeling N unedsluess
grew on me early Ia the evening. ] ~ emit
en- deck and look sOundlnZs, but they
didn't agree at al with the dep.hof water
marked on the chart tor tAe spot where /
supposed " as. Then n flashed over M
thai must have got into strange cur
rent listened FOR some minutes care
fully, and could IN Ike out he dlst9ni
roar OF breakers. There could be no doubt
thar We were being carried toward 1he
rec Of the CaycOs. There was no get
ting out Of the current Although made
every attempt 10 stem the currest, II car
rIed me rapidly toward the reefs. An
hour later the bark struck % one of tue
reefs. fne sea was smooth ana our lives
were in no danger, but ! saw plainly that
there was no getting Oh the reef The
Dafk was a hopeless wreck. Next morn
ing | saw several small coasung slOops
near by. ] told my men that We would
nave TO abandon the bark. We lowered
our largest boat and the men put their
chests IN tins aud got IN themselves. de-
cided tn row TO one OF the coasters which
lay to near by. All my menwere in the boat
except the steward. called out to him
to hurry up. He pointed to a small boat
that was coming Up from another coast
or, and SAID that he would rather go off in
her. My boat then pushed off. When We
got about 100 fathOms from the wreck /
looked back, and then l understood why
the steward mad acted so strangely for
two days pas and mad finally preferred to
abandon the bark in another boat. There
by the stewards side stood my Jonah
with a wicked grin on bis tat face. The
steward had found the yOunu ster at Cape
Hayden, and fearing that | would refuse
to take him home he had slowed the tel
low away IN his state-room. And that
was how it came about that my bark got
into the current that stranded her among
the Caycos reefs"