Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-22
TRIP AROUND THE GLOBE
OUTINGS NAVIGATOR TO SET
SAIL ON FRIDAY.

sis Arriv al in Savannah THIS Morning
The Boat In Which Hs viii Make the
voyage-The Route He WIN Take
Something About the Man and His
Life OF Unusual Incident and Adven-
ture A Sailor without Su perstition.
Next Friday is the day Capt. F. A.
Cloudman hopes to hoist sail on his little
sloop, the Outing, and start out of the
Savannah on trip around the earth.
The Boston steamship City of Macon did
not get up on last nights tide, but is eX-
pected this morning with Capt. Cloud
man ana his boat. The Outing is said to
be the smallest boat ever licensed by and
registered with the United States govern
meat to make foreign trip.
TO START ON FRIDAY.
Sailors generally are superstitious in
regard to Friday, but Capt. Cloud
man does not seem to be.
just before leaving Boston he said to a
Globe reporter: "l was born on a Fri
day in 1850, and, as far as superstition
goes, let me say that my life has been one
of thrilling incident, and, on the whole,
success; but every big enterprise in
and been successful has been
begun on Friday; and If any
day in the week is more lucky
for me than another it is Friday. Even
this plan OF betting the world for Outing,
so to speak, was preached on Friday"
TwENTY-FoUR FOOT RING.
or his boat, he said that he could stand
almost erect in her cabin. She is "a feet
long, 10 feet beam, and Der draught is 80
feet. Her tonnage is 4 clio gross, ana
she is sloop-rIgged, carrying jo and
mainsail, gaff topsail, spinaker and bal
loon jib. She was built in South Boston.
GOT course | am the Poo Bah of the
craft" the Captain marked, las l hold
ali offices from Captain TO CABIN boy and
will enjoy my own company exclusively.
At least l hope that nothing worse than
mermaid will break in upon nv soli-
tude." His lie has been rather eventual.
When be was not quite II yeare old he
entered the army as a drummer boy in
the Sixth Massachusetts regiment. When
his time was up he was put in the tarra-
gut squadron and served on the Brook
lyn, Hartford and Richmond-iour years
in all. On The Hartford he was private
messenger to Farragut.
AN OLD SAILOR.
At the end OF the war he Went into the
merchant service and m AIDE trips in the
African trade, between San Francisco
and New York, two voy ages 10 China for
L hs
the snip Surprise, and once in the bark
Beneiactress, when he was wrecked at
Cape Town bay. He spent one winter in
the Arctic, where he went with fishing
smack from ewburyport and got caught
In the ice and had to live several months
on herring.
The Captain says that the funniest ex-
perlence he ever had was after a trip he
made from New York to Para-3, 800 miles
tVynnfV.tnnt /
took 12-yesr-old boy and a dog with me,
but the Internal brute drank so much
water that we had TO chuck him over
board View fifty-one days in making
the journey. and didn't make port be-
tween New York and Para.
SOUTH AMERICAN ADVENTURES.
"Well, after l reached there, Joined a
party of North American naturalists,
who were going up the Amazon or tour
OF exploration. l left the party at Quito,
where L got stranded financially and in
every other way. What to do / didn't
know. There L was 1900 miles from the
coast, and no hope OF getting back to it
again. just then, ike a godsend, heard
OF German party who wanted guide
down the river. l had just come up the
river, and, says / to myself, in despera-
ton and with Yankee 'nerve,' why the
deuce can't Take that party downT l
made my bargain-l25 cold gold English
dollars month, when | would gladly
nave worked my way down on raft; and
L took the whole party back over that
4.OOO miles without sllp-up."
NEWSPAPER MAN.
Mr.. Cloudman is a well-known news
paper man. He first wrote sea sketches.
as much for amusement as anything else,
then became regularly connected with
the st. Louis Globe Democrat, and TOR the
past eighteen months has been on the
stan of the Kingston IN. " Freeman.
outing, as Stevens, the round-the-world
bicyclIst, was just coming home, wanted
man tor fresh enterprise IN the same
line as his, sent for Mr.. Cloudman and
the bargain was soon made. Mr.. Cloud
man in this trip Is limited neither as to
expense nor time, and expects to finish
his voyage in three years or three and one
half at The most. Every foot of the Jour-
Ney Will be made by water except across
he lsthmus of Panama, and the little
,oat, carried on car, win be the first
registered and licensed boat 10 cross this
amous strip Of land.
THE ROUTE HE WILL FOLLOW.
Capt. Cioudman's route will be az fol-
lows: Savannah, down the coast to ST..
Augustine, the Bahamas, the Windward
Isles, and others in the West Indies.
Trinidad, Aspinwall, san Francisco, Ore.
ROD, Sitka, Behrng Strait, the Siberian
coast, Japan, China, British India, Ara.
b:a, the Suez canal, the northern coast Of
the Mediterranean, Gibraltar. Portugal,
France, Calals, England. Scotland. the
Shetland Isles, Iceland, Greenland, Lab
rador, and home again down the coast.