Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-03-23
hitting hcr up TO my hand when the blue fold

nftmg hor up TO my hand when the blue fold
swung past.
NY next business was 10 victual her. I
ran TO the cabin, but found the laxaretts full
Of water, and mono Of the provisions In 10. -
bc como at thefeupun ransscked IL
cabin, and found . whole Dutch cheese, .
piece Of raw pork, half . ham, eight or ten
biscuits, some candles, q finder box, several
lemons, q little bag Of -four, and thirteen
bottles Of bser. Thoss things rolled up IN
q cloth and placed them In tho boat, then
took from tho captainS locker four jars Of
spirits, two Of which smptied that might
fill them with fresh water. I also took with
mo from tho captains cabin . small boat
compass.
Tho heavy, sluggish, sodden movement Of
the hull advised mo to make hasta She was
now barely lifting TO the swell that camo
brimming in broad liquid blue brows 70 her
stem. II seemed a. though anothAr ton Of
water would sink her; and II tho swell foil
over her buws and flied the decks, down she
would 60. I had smalt parcel Of guincas
in my chest, and was about to fetch this
money, when SORT Of staggering sensation
in tho upward slide Of the hull gave mo o
fright, and watching my chance, jumped
into the boat and cast the line that held her
adrift ...-.-...
threw tho oar over the stern Of the boat
to keep her near to tho brig, not so much bc-
cause desired to see tho last OF hor as bc-
cause Of tho shrinking Of my soul within mo
from the thought Of beading inimy lpnslines
Into those prodigious leagues Of ocean which
lay stretched under the sky.
had risen to step the boats mast, and wus
standing and grasping It while directed q
slow look round the horizon, in God knows
what vain hope Of bcholding q sail, when, my
eye coming to the brig, ] observed that she
was sinking. She went down very slowly;
there was horrible gurgiing sound Of water
rushing into her, and her main deck blsw up
with loud clap or blast Of noise. could
follow the line Of her bulwarks huctuating
and waving in tho clear dark blue whom shs
was some feet under. A number OF whirl-
pools spun round over her, but tho slowncss
Of her laundering was solemnly marked by
tho gradual descent Of the ruin Of masts and
yards which were attached to the hull by
their rigging, and which she dragged down
with her. On q sudden, when the last
fragment Of mast had disappeared, and when
the hollows Of the whirlpools were fattening
to the level surface Of the sea, up rose =
body, with sort Of leap It was the sailor
that had lain drowned on the starboard side
u.
rose in the posture in which he had expired.
that il. with his arms oxtended-- SO that.
who nhe jumped to tho surface, he came with
his hands lifted UP to heaven, and thus he
stayed q minute, sustained by the eddies,
whichaso revolved him. = ~.
The shock occasioned by this melancholy
object was 80 great It came near to causing
me to swoon. He sank when tho water
ceased to twist him, and I was unspeskingly
thankful to see him vanish, for his posture
had all the horror of a spectral appeal, and
such was the state of my mind that imagina-
tion might quickly have worked the appari-
ton, had it fingered, into an instrument for
the unsettling Of nv reason.
Irose from the seat on to which rhad sunk
and looscd tho sail, and hauling the sheet AZ
put the oar over the stern and brought tho
little crafts head to an easterly course, The
draught Of air was extremely weak and
scarce furnished impulse enough to the sail
to raisa n bubble alonpside Tho boat wa |,