The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-25
A TAR'S TALK ON ICE.
TUE OLD SALT spINe SOME YARNS
Or wlo-oceAN DANGERS.

,ro,.ter Berg, sixty MiIes Wide. Wit"
Bay IN u. ceuter-A cako Iha' ""
Ten thousand Feet from Top 10
BOTTOM.
Ont m one OF the long docks, just oeio"
wan street ferry. heavily bearded rathsr
wolff, do looking ....... stood looking up ""
tho ric,ing Of a big American ship. ina'
10 tne,s what he vas looking at was rs e'F
dent as was the fact that he wanted some
body to talk to. and It only required pieas-
ant samtation to get on speaking terms VIII
him. Ia
YIe was en old sailor. having. az be SAID
.scr,r.i.d in the hawsepipe and come OCT a.
the cobin Windows which being translateo
,raans that he had worked himself up from
before the mast to the masters DeF'"' Nv
was ON old time American master
"lt wasn't 50 strange 70 SEQ an aiDerlV1"
aae at lofty saH in those days, saiu Io'
we had the finest and fastest ships IN tne
world and when "A lime juicer sailor Tor
Cnrlisbmanl saw cotton canvas on royf-
vsra he knew that it wasn't any use trylns
10 catch that bloody Yankee as they a.
ways called a ship from tue States.
He SHIFTED THE AIR.
Inst then the Oil sailor shifted rather
eagerly in the rather damp misty air lne
-onortorial nose could only family trace the
Hunters Point aroma that haunts the 'lNei'
/ but the sailor bad caught a whih OK so'i'e-
thing else.
DO YOU know" said be, Il thought
;melled an iceberg just then. AT sea IN oisn
ATTITUDES YOU can sueil them miles away ana
many a night | have Kept all hands ON deck
1 sullina and peerng around on the watch Tor
deli ice or bergs. [ tell you IL - no run 10
/ have half dozen icebergs loafing around
when your ship is logging niue or ten knots
/ straight of the reel and you are 10 sueu
| curry u make passage that you don't want
/ 70 shorten SAIL
The scent had awakened train OF mem
/ orv, and. seating himself on one OF tue ooea
/ niles be took a large sized chew OF plug an !
.ettled himself TO talk about field Ice ana
oergs.
# was for nearly twenty years master OF a
| deem sea shin. began the old sheilback, anu
4 nave doubled both Cape Horn and Cape Of
/ Good Hope more times than nave 'iise''
lwice over. That's where you see zee lue
bcrgs down there are not 50 LOFTY or 50 oe"u'
uful as those in Arctic regions but they arc
much more dangerous; first, because OF their
number and extent. aud again because they
have submarine formations that are Just IKE
A ledge Of rocks and project sometimes oaiI
a milo or mile out from the base OK the
BERG. You see with those fellows You mlgo'
,hink YOU were giving them oil the oertn
/ they needed and still break your saip up Oh
ono OF their reefs.
A MONSTER ICEBERG.
Tho biggest ice island ever heard tod OF
( by sailors was seen drifting around IN aoou'
= 5. and a W, almost in the track OF INC
English Liverpool boats bound 10 Melbourne
70 was in 1888 that 1t was first sighted, aud
the same chunk Cf ice was reported from tha'
vicinity until 1855, when it disappeared II
was said 10 have been about so feet hign, y.
miles long and a miles wide, and was curNeu
into very much the shape Of q horseshoe ih'
TWO arms Of the curves embraced bay iortj
miles across and perfectly sheltered. bis
English cmiglant ship, called the Guiding
star ! think, sighted the ice island, bu'
whether because Of fog or caralessness
I uObody knows. sailed slap into the bay be
! tween the arms n the island and was ios
with ell hands Pieces VI her wreckase "ei'
picked up near tie ISLAND BY q steamer bounC
for Australia
THE highest berg ever heard Of was seeI
led tho southern ocean, wnere they are no
generally very Lofty. | sailed With MAJ
Who declared that he had seen this berg Aux
,hat it was q thousand feet high above tn
surface u the water Now as there IS Away
nine times a. much Of "a berg below th
water as there isaboyc. that would mako tBi
fellow 1000 feet from the base under waite
10 the highest point above That's a pfett,
big chunk Of ice considering that It Is owe
Gfry times as high a5 the Brooklyn bridge
III bet it made a splash when It fell That
where the danger = IA warm latitudes th
base melts away and the first thing yol
know ii falls over. have heard OF seyera
ships that bad big CHUNKS tail on their decks
one vessel having her masts carried ava.
and several of her crew killed.
Northern bergs are neither SO large 10
So numerous as those seen in southern water
but they are usually loitier and more beaut
full with lots Of spires aud dones, and whe
tho sun shines on them they look like II lot c
raiubOws piled Oh top of each other Thes
fellows are tall and draw lot Of water
have heard OF them grounded on the bank
u Newfoundland, where there was over SO
teet Of water by the lead. They have bee
reported Ia Baihn's bay hard aground j
500 feet u water New York Mail en-
Express.