Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-13

headed out well to eastward, hoping to catch
the northeast trade better, and day and night
Kept every stitch set II takes a man of
nerve TO carry on all sail at night, but that is
the way the famous passages we're made with
the old.time packets and clippers.
1--WE had pretty good luck until we were
somewhere in the latitude Of the Bahamas,
but away TO the eastward in longitude So 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 a burning sun.
1t makes me tired even to this day. TO think
of what We sutf cred for five days The sails
hung limp, aud ratified idly az the ship rolled
In the gentle sWells, or rushed against the
masts with boom when it caught us right.
Aud the tar was melting off the rigging aud
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 paint
ed the hull on the sunny side. The captain
got wild, aud never seemed to leave the deck.
He would climb the rigging 10 look for cats
paw OF wind, and then come down and curse
himself for getting of so far to the north
ard
"To add to his grief, Just az the light be-
gan to show in the east on the morning of
the sixth day, we discovered sail, Just ap
pearing as a speck above the horizon to the
southwark. The captains glass was on it in
minute, and the next moment be was Jump
ing up and down the quarter deck, livid with
rage and speechless. The sail was a trian-
gle. The Alice was overhauling u.s. Half
an hour later our royals began to fill with
the breeze, that had by that time brought the
topgallant sails of the Alice in sight. All
hands we're called to set the stun sails, and
no one was allowed thereafter to 90 below.
Mr. 10 -, T. k.s-
hands, while tho captain looked alternately
at the trianRles astern and the trim of his
own sails aloft. Breakfast was served TO the
men on deck. We drifted 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
spanksr jibed over in a jiffy. and there was
a rush TO the braces The men were tum-
bling constantly forward but no attention
was paid 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 we're 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 than he. just then Dandy from the
foretopsail yard shouted;
ION deck, there. Boat adrift on the lee
bow, sir
"A moment later he said There's some
one in her, sir. / saw an arm waved above
the gun'ae.'
Then he jumped on a bsck-stay and came
down hand over fist. The captain and Mr..
Bevins were both looking for the boat with
their glasses, and pretty soon they saw her
They didn't look long before the captain said
The man was mistaken, Bevins. There's
no one in her.
That's quite right, sir. But see that
Alice raising US will your
They both looked over the taffrail and
swore loudly. Dandy stepped to leeward
and touched his hat
Captain, said he, there's some one
adrift in that boat, sir. l know what see
sir, and l believe it's a woman. It's clean
murder to leave the boat sdrift
The captain gave one moro look at the
Alice, and then turned to thrash Dandy
Both men we're very red in the face when
the captain struck out He waS Quicker than
Baldy, but he only reached Dandy's arm,
and the next instant he was sprawling on the
deck. Before Mr.. Bevins could rightly shout
'Mutny as he tried to do, be was lying
across the captains body and Dandy was ty-
ing him with piece Of the signal halliards,
which he cut with a slash of his knife swear
ing, meantime, that he would cut the heart
out OF the one that moved first. Baldy was
alongside Immediately. aud before Mr. Tullis
could get his head out Of the companion
way he got rap on it. Others of the crew
took hand in, and in three minutes the Of
hcers were sitting in row against the taft
rail, with their hands behind their backs and
their legs tied together like the two parts of
a backstay.
Nov, said Dandy, I'm 10 charge of this
ship till we pick up that boat, Then we'll
turn 1t over to the lawful officers again, il so be
that we are not going to get into any trouble
about this little scrimmsge. Jump aloft,
there, some Of you, and get in those stun
sails
THE stun'sais we're soon in. for the men
worked with a will. Then we squared away
the yards and we're soon beading for the boat
The breeze was freshening, and in less than
fifteen minutes, when l had an opportunity
to jump mp into the main rigging, we were
so near that as 1 turned to look could see
very plainly into boat when it rose on a wave
Aft. in the bottom, child was crawling
about. A white tarpAulin was stretched over
the three after thwarts, and in the bow was
the form of a man huddled up and
motionless. Then a small white hand reached
out from under the tarpauln, as if to find
the child. Once /. waved above the rail, and
Daudy, who, with the men, stood on the
quarterback, said There, that was the mo-
ton saw, and it is a woman
Il jumped down on deck. Dandy was
born sailor. When the mainyards were
thrown sback and the ship lost her headway,
the strange boat was under the starboard
quarter. was quick as a monkey in those
days. landed at one jump on the fore thwsrt
with the end of a rope in my hand. 1 made
it fast, and then secured the baby, which was
crying roundly, in a big market-basket which
Dandy lowered down. Then l Skinned up
the impromptu painter, determined to see to
the baby, for l had a brother of his size at
home. reached the rail as Dandy lifted the
youngster from the basket. At the same mo-
ment Capt Salisbury, by q violent effort
freed one hand, leaped to his feet, bound as
he was, and then fell headlong toward the
child. He had tainted.
Let me see" continued the merchant, af-
ter a moments pause, in which he picked an
old scrap book from shelf and opened it,
This tells the rest of the story" He point
ed 10 a newspaper clipping, which read
MARNE-ARRIvALs.
Ship Alice, Graham, Pernambuco, twenty
FIVE days, with sugar to Carmen q Welch,
vessel TO JackmAn & Jaekman.
Ship Blue Coat, Salisbury, Pernambuco,
twenty-six days, with sugar to Carmen a.
Weloh, vessel to Ogden q Co. Reports pick
ing up ten days ago quarter-boat contain
ing living woman and child, the wife and
child of Capt Salisbury, and the dead body
of Capt. Halliday, of the packet Ranger,
now overdue from Liverpool. The Ranger
was burned in longitude 56 degrees 20 min
utes west, latitude 27 degrees 40 minutes
north. Mrs. Salisbury and her child are the
sole survivors of the crew and passengers,
who numbered 1913. Full particulars in our
next edition.
Oddly enough Mr.. W. d. Howells appar-
emily regards the word purple" in the fa-
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