Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-21

ME. 81 doubt that precious few of them
viii come up again. They have gone too
dcepl"
However, they got the boats head
round again---slowly enough, Augusta
thought--and as they did 50 they heard a
feeble cry or two. But by the time that
they had reached the spot where tho
Kangaroo went down there was no liv-
ing creature to be seen; nothing but tho
wash of tho great waves, over which tho
mist once more closed thick and heavy as
pail. They shouted, and once they
heard q faint answer, and rowcd toward
it; but when they got to the spot whence
the sound seemed to proceed, they could
see nothing except some wreckage. They
were all dead, their agony was done, their
cries no moro asccrded to the pitiless
heavens; and wind, and sky, and sea
were just as they had been.
ooh, my God. my God" wcpt Augusta.
clinging TO the thworts of The tossing
| boat
cone boat got awav-wherc is it?'
asked Mr.. Mccson who, n wet and
Uretchcd figure was huddled up in tho
! storm sheet, as he rolled his wild eyes
round striving to pierce the curtain of the
mist.
There's something" said Johnnie,
| pointing through fog dog in The mist,
that seemed to grow Gcnslr rather than
otherwise as the light increased, at %
round, boat like object that had suddenly
appeared to the starboard of them.
They rowcd up to it, it was a boat, but
empty and floating bottom upward.
| Closer examination showed that it was
tho cutter, which, when full of women
and children, had been fastened to the
vessel and dragged down with her as she
sunk. At a certain dcDth the pressure Of
| the water had been too great and had torn
the ring in the bow bodily out of her, so
that she returned to the surface. But
those in her did not retuln-at least, not
yet. Once more, two or three days hence,
they would arise from the watery depths
and look upon the skies with eyes that
could not see, and then vanish forever.
Turning from this awful and most NOV
ing sight, they rowed slowly through
quantities of floating wreclage-balTels,
hen coops Tin one of these they found two
drowned fowls, which they securely, and
many other articles such as oars and
wicker deck chairs-and began to shout
vigorously in the hope Of attracting the
attention Of the survivors in the other
boat, which they imagined would not be
far off. Their efforts, however, proved
fruitless, owing to the thickness Of the
fog; and in the considerable sea which was
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upon its furrowed surface; therefore it IS
not wonderful that, although the two
boats were at that moment within half a
mile of each other. they never met, and
each took its separate course in the hopo
taot y, IrijI ,,.o,a a1,. iroI,,i,,,s+ atIJ
some twontv other nosscnrcrs torctLer
With tbo Second officer and n crew of six
NOV of+or snniro +bo Earroroo sirlr and
ricI,ino nm o,,o e3rvivor shaved n course
for KcrrnoInn Land br1inrinm tbo+ thnv
a'd tLo,. a1C,,o ,nr,oinId 70 fo1I Tho toin
Of that olvful sLinvr-rl, And hero n.
NAV he convenient 10 state that before
nioitrolI tho,. ,,ora ,,icr-od ~, b,.o ecolir n,
wholcr that sailed with tbcm TO Albony
, ~, mo cc1st ~ Arxr,Iia TLoncc an o.,
, CONT Of tho disaster which as flo
rooIor win r.,oon,bor crao+nd a doom i'm
rrneeion w9e trIorro,ILcd homo and
, Hence. in due cou1.sT. in" widowed Lady
| Uo1mburs+ ond most Of tfc otLar voncn
r,bn o.c,,,od ,,.,r, tal-.., back =, F,,p.1o,,d
70 ret,i,n 70 orr heroine and Mr., Nee
l con
Tho occr,,o,,+s Of tho lit+lo boa+ SAT-
! lool,inc, If oacb otLcr with white scared
= faces Fiji Mt Io,t tho man called Johnnie,
Q Who Inv tIc wov vos NOT n I'm, - , very
l oni1hIo cast If cour+n,,1roo sibly
10 ov,in,, 70 The foct fLa- lis wos
< G~ocLod almost flat orain.+t The = o.. If lis
D face sworo Violently and said -, was no
f good stonnino tbcrc oIl The etcctoraod
t dov," There9pon Bill, who was more
\ ioyial looking man. remarked that he,
5 Jobnnin was etce+orood we'll rirht 50
C thcv had better hoist the foresail."
n A. this noint Anousto intcrnoscd and
y told them ll that the cortain, inst as the
u roiu cnl,n into co1Ison bsJ informed
S to,, tI,ot bo ulas ,no1[ino. Kor"r1cIen land
e wbich was MOT more tL9n siyfv or seventy
. Ills o,voy TLnv b0d cor3noss in the
t hoot and tbov knew tho course the Kan.
+ Do'o, w." ,os ,,,C,, hc spni, Ac
c e ,5r.G ,ritbont wastinr further time
+ tIn,, ~ &c ,'Ich sail he Iittlo boot
c cnv e c"r,, IN tbo stiif Ircnzo and ror