Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-03-24


1.-The place it comes from must give out soon,
onless new trade winds got fixed into a
whole gale for this here ocean"
"What southing do you allow our drift
will be giving US, captainF' l asked, MUNICH
ing piece of beef,
'All Of four mile an hour he answered. "If
this goes on | shall look to make some discov-
cries. The antarctic circle won't be far of
presently, and since you're scholar, Rod
ney, I'll leave you 10 describe what's inside
Of it--though boil me If | don't have the
naming of the tallest land; for, dye see, i've
mind 10 be known after I'm dead, and
there's nothing like your signature on n
mountain to be remembered by"
At this instant we were startled by wild
and fearful shout on deck. 1t sounded high
above tho sweeping and seething of the wind
and the Missing OF the dashed waters, and it
penetrated the planl;s with note that gave
il an inexpressible character Of anguish,
"A man washed overboard!" bawled the
carpenter, springing to his feet.
Nor cried |, for my younger and shrewder
ear had caught a note in the cry that per-
suaded me il was not Us the carpenter said;
and In an instant the three of us jumped up
the ladder and gained the deck.
The moment 1 was in the gale the same
affrighted cry rang down along the wind
from some man forward: "For Gods sake
tumble up before we are upon it!'
What do you seer roared, sending my
voice, trumpet fashion, through my hands;
for as to my own and tine sight Of Capt. Rosy
and the carpenter, why, it was like being
struck blind to como on a sudden out of the
lighted cabin into the black night.
Any reply that might have been attempted
was choked out by the dive of the briggs
At. IL. Il. L.. a III
her forecastle, and came washing aft like
milk in the darkness, till it was up to our
knees.
''See there !" suddenly roared the carpenter
where, man-wherer bawled the captain
But in this brief time my sight had grown
used to the night, and | saw the object before
the carpenter could answer Ii lay on our
lee beam, but how far off no man could have
told in that black thickness. II stood against
the darkness and hung out dim complexion
of light, or rather of pallidness, that was not
light--not to be described by the pen 1t
was like a small hill of snow, and looked as
snow does or the foam of the sea in darkness,
and it came and went with our soaring and
sinking.
"Icc!n | shouted to the captain.
II see it, he answered. 1--WE must drive
her clear at all risks
There was no need to call the men. TO the
second cry that had been raised by one
among them, VINO had come out Of the fore
castle and seen the berg, they had tumhled
up as sailors VIII Wheh they jump LOT then
lives; anu now they came staggering, splash
ing, crawling ait to us, for tho lamp IN the
cabin made a sheen IN tho companion hatch,
and they could sec as we stood there.
men," cried Capt. Rosy, "yondcrS a
gravestone for our carcasses if we are not
lively! Cast the helm adrift!' 1--WE steered
by a tiller) 1.-TWO hands stand by it. For
ward, some of ye, and loose the forcstaysall,
and show the head of it!'
The fellows hung in the wind | could not
wonder The bowsprft had been sprung when
the iibboom was wrenched from the can by
the fall of the toprallantmast: it stll had
to bear the weight of tho heavy spritsail
ward, and the drag of the staysail might
carry the spar overheard with the men upon
it. Yet it was our best chance; the one sail
most speedily released and hoisted-the one
that would pay the briggs head off quickest,
and the only fragment that promised to stand
s.Jnpnr, ro,red tina cantain in n possiou
of b,,,,., 0Great thunderI His close aboard,
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