The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-22

three days out Of Liverpool. Halliday will
take her the warm passage. Tue Ranger Is g
fine ship. but wife and boy. Bevins, are sea-
SICK" Presently the Captain went below,
leaving Mr.. Bevins to carry on every stitch
8 OF canvas the old Blue Coat would stand
What made this voyage more exciting to
us, and perhaps, more depressing to the Cap.
tain, was the fact that the Alice 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
Salisbury headed well out 10 eastward hop
ing to catch the northeast trade better, aud
day and night kept every stitch set II takes
man OF nerve to carry on all sail at night
but that is tbs way the famous passages were
made with the old-time packets aud clip
pefs.
I'VE had pretty good luck until We were
somewhere IN the latitude of the Bahsmas
bat away TO the eastward in Longitude 90 de.
gress- Then i fell dead calm. A gale at
sea is something bad, 3 fog is worse, bat the
worst OF al is calm under burning sun.
1t makes me tired even, 10 this day, TO think
Of what We suffered for five DAYS The calls
hung limp, and ratified idly as the ship rolled
in the gentle sEells, or rushed again7t the
masts with boom when il caught Us right.
And the tar was melting 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 Captain got
wild, and never seemed to leave the deck
He would climb the rigging to look for a
cats-paw Of wind, and then come down and
curse himself for getting OFF so far to the
notbaId.
TO add to his grief, Just ss the light began
to show ia the es 81 on the morning of the
sixth day, we discovered O sail Just appear
ing as speck above the horizon to the soath.
ward. The Captains glass was on it in a
minute, and the next moment he was Jump
iBg Up and down the quarterback, ligid with
rage, but speechless. The sail was a triangle.
The Alice was oyerhauling US. Half an
hour later, our royals began 10 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
10 one was allowed thereafter to go below.
Men were even kept with the braces in their
hands, while the Captain looked alternately
At the triaDgles sstern and the trim OF
his own sails sloft. Breakfast was
served 10 the men On deck. We drifted
along without gaining an inch on the Alice.
until 10 o'clock. Then, without warning,
the wind hauled around on the other quar-
ter. The spanker jibed ever in jiffy, and
there was rush 20 the braces. The men
were tumbliDg constantly forward, but no
attention was paid TO that, although they
hGd not been allowed four hours OF unbroken
trimmed and the stun sails were set on the
ether side ne began TO gather better head
way than before, but as the Captain was
rotlcing this, ne saw tia. the Alice was
favored with still better wind than he. Just
then Dandy from the foretopsail yard
shouted:
ION deck there. Boat sdrift on the lee
bow. sir
IA moment later he said. There's some
one In Der, sir. l saw an arm waved above
the g1n'as.
"lhen be Jumped on back siayand came
down hand over fst. Toe Captain and Mr.,
Bevins were both LOOKING for the boat with
their glasses, sDd pretty soon they saw her.
They didn't look long before the Captain SAID:
TIE man was mistaken, Bs7ins There's no
one in her,
"'Tbaps quite right, sir. But gee that
Alice raising rs will you?
They both looked over the taffrail and
swore loudly. Dandy stepped TO the lee ward
aad touched his hat
"'Csptain, said he, there's someone adrift
in that boat, sir. l know what see, sir. and
believe it's woman. It's clean murder to
leave the beat adrift'
The Captain gave one glance at thelAlice,
and then turned to thrash Dandy.
Both men were very red in the face when
the Captain struck out he was quicker than
Badly, but he only reached Dandy's arm,
and the next instant he was sprawling on
the deck. Before Mr.. Bsvins could rightly
shout 'MutiDyp, as he tried to do, he was
lying across the Captains body, and Dandy
was tying him with piece OF the signal hal
liards which he cut with slash Of his knife,
swearing. meantime, that he would cut the
heart out of the one that moved first.
Hardy was alongside Immediately, and be-
fore Mr.. Tullis could get his head out OF the
companion way he got rap on it. Others OF
the crew took q hand in, snd in three min
1tes the officers were sitting in a row against
the taffrail. with their hands behind their
backs and their legs tied together like two
parts Of backstay.
Now said Dandy, I'm in charge OF this
ship till We pick up that boat. Then we'll
turn il over TO the lawful officers again, II so
be that we arc not going to get into any
tIouble about this little scrimmEge. Jump
sloft there, some OF you. and get in those
stun sales.
1.-The stun sails were soon in, for the men
worked with q will. Then we squared away
the yards and were soon heading for the
boat. The breeze was frsshening, and in less
than fifteen minutes, when had an oppor-
tunity TO jump up into the main rigging, We
were so near that as | turned 20
lcok l could see very plainly into the
boat when Il rose on 3 wave. Aft, in the
bottom, child wEs crawling about. A
white taTpaulin was stretched over the three
after thwarts. and in the bow was the form
OF man huddled up and motiOniess. Then
q small white hand reached out from under
The taIpsulin as X 20 find the child Once it
waved above the rail- and Dandy. who, with
the men stood on the quarter deck, said:
There, that was the motion I saw sand it is &
wOmsn.
Il jumped Down on deck. Dandy was
born ssilor. When the mainysrds were thrown
shack and the ship lost her headway, toe
strange boat was under the starboard quarter,
l was Quick SIS a monkey in those DAYS. |
landed at one jump on the foreth wart with the
end OF q rope IA my hand. / made il fast.
aud then secured the baby, which was cry
ing rouDdIy, in big market basket which |
Dandy lowered down. Then | Skinned up
the impfoDptu painter, determined to see