The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-04-02
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calm A gale at sea is sometimes bad, a
fog is worse, but the worst of allis calm
under a burning sun. 1t 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 boom when it caught us
right. And the tar was melting of 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 captain got wild, and
never seemed to leave the deck. He
would climb the rigging to look for a
cat's-p paw of wind, and then come down
and curse himself for getting off so far to
| the northard.
ITO add to his grief, just as the light
| began to show in the east on the morning
of the sixth day, we discovered Il sail,
| just appearing as speck above the hor-
izon to the southwark. The captains
| glass was on it in minute, and the next
moment he was jumping up and down
! the quarter deck, livid with rage, but
| speechless. The sail was triangle. The
Alice was overhauling us. Half an hour
| later, our royals began to lift with the
breeze, that mad by that time brought
the topgallant sails Of the Alice in sight,
| All hands were called to set the stun'sails,
| and 10 one was allowed thereafter to 90
| below. Men were even kept with the
| braces in their hands, while the captain
looked alternately at the uiangles astern
and the trim Of his own sails aloft.
| Breakfast was served to the men on deck.
| We dfitted along without gaining an inch
on the Alice, until about ten O'clock.
Then, without warning the wind hauled
around On the other quarter The spank
er jlbed over lii a jit1y, and there was a
uSh to the braces. The men were tum-
bling constantly forward, but no attention
was pald to that, although they had not
been allowed four hours of unbroken
sleep in a week When the yards We're
trimmed and the stun'sails were set on
the other side, we began TO gather better
headWay than before, but as the captain
was noticing this, he saw that the Alice
Was favored with still better wind taan
he. just then DANDY from the toretop-
sail yard shouted:
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woman
81 Jumped down on deck. DANDY was
a born sailor. When the majnvards were
thrown aback and the ship lost her head
way, the strange boat was under the
starboard uuarter. WAS onick as =
monkey in those DAYS. landed at one
lamp on the forethWart with the end Of
a rope in nv hand. made if fast and
then secured the baby. which was crIino
ronndly. in a hip market basket which
Dandy lowered down Then Skinned
no ne imnromutn nainter determined II
see to the baby. for had hrother NJ
his size at home reached the rail a,
D3nd, lifted the vonnoster f,om +he has.
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