Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-07-09
ALONE ON TIE OCEAN.
The story Of Miss Joumeaux who
Was Carried out To- sea in Skin
and Compelled To Cross the
Atlantic.

st. Helier's. island of Jersey. who was
carried out to sea in small skin, from
which she WAS rescued by French YES
eel and brought to Newfoundland is
now at st. Johns awaiting an appor-
tunity TO sail for home. The story of
her adventure. rs told by her to a COR
respondent of The NeW York. Herald, is
as follows:
''On Sunday April Is, 1886, ut fifteen
minutes past s p. NJ, after church. |
left Victoria pier, ST. Helicr's. with my
cousin, Julia Wiltshire. Jules Farne,
and another young man for row, as
far rs the end of the pier, about n
quarter of mile of. The moon was
bright. the water smooth. and we cx-
pectcd to be back almost directly.
When we reached the pier head |
wished jules Farnc who was my sole
companion. the other two having taken
separate boat. to turn back but he
said: oh, no, Wen go on Il little
further. lie kept going on rowing,
until we had got past Elizabeth castle,
about a mile from our starting place,
and then he turned back.
1--WE had returned TO point between
the two pier heads-Nictoria and AL
bert-when Jules lost an oar. In order
to recover ii he turned the boat with
the other oar, and in doing so that one
also slipped from his hand. AT this
Il. : 50
and the oars were soon swept away,
and lost sight Of them. Jules then
jumped out of the boat to swim after
them. telling me he was a good swim
mer. In the course of minute or so
he got into the boat again, nearly turn
ING her over in doing so, rs he got in at
the side Then taking of his hat and
coat, which he deposited in the boat.
he jumped into the sea again. At this
time we were outside the pier heads.
but cannot say how far, as ! was ex-
cited at the time, and am not good
Judge of distances. The boat which
was n two-oared pleasure skitf was
.hen right in the stream, and going out
to sea at great pace. | could not see
the oars when my companion jumped
into :hc water the second time nor did
ever see them again. He jumped
from the side of the boat and struck
out astern toward the piers to get the
oars. The boat being deeper in the
water he considered that they must
have been left some distance behind.
The boat evidently gained in speed;
and in the short space of one or two
minutes had lost sight of the swim
mer. After he had been gone some five
OF ten minutes heard his cry in French
for help. The voice was evidently a
good way Off could then just see the
pier heads rs II spcck. After the first
minute or two from his leaving the
boat | never caught sight of Farne
again. although it remained very bright
until long after had heard his cry for
help 1t came two or three times and
then ceased When | heard his first
Try was greatly alarmed. and cried for
help myself, shrleking rs loudly rs |
could. continued shrieking out until
became quite fatigued.
"All that night | remained awake,
expecting every minute to see some
boat or steamer coming in search of
me. In order TO guide searchcrs to
where | was | kept on screechng for
help as well as could ut intervals all
through the night. but from the time
when Farnc jumped into the water,
which ! think was about half past 9
O'Clock, never saw and. with the eX-
ception of his cries for help, heard any
body. About midnight it grew cloudy
and got rather dark but could still
have seen any object rs large As a
boat on the water if il had come within
fair distance of me. In the course of
an hour or so after the gathering of the
clouds it began to rain heavily, and con-
tinued raining until daylight. | had a
small umbrella in the boat with me,
which | held over me through the
night, but it was not of much servA,e
and was quickly wet through.
''Some time early in the morning OF
Monday / found the boat had so con-
siderable a quantity of water IN it that
my feet were covered by it, and bail
cd it out with Farnc's hat, which was
Of hard felt; and this did at intervals
'lntil j was rescued. | was in great
fear that the boat would be capsized by
Sarne while he was getting into it,
though he apparently had no extraor-
binary difficulty in doing so, but nc
water came in at that time. The wealth
~ on Monday was fine again and the
sca continued smooth, but | could see
nothing but rocks all around me. Jer.
scy is surrounded with sunken and 9TH
CT rocks, and in my course | must have
passed over many of the former, which
would have proved fatal if there had
been any sea on. But, by Gods good