Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-09-28
CHAPTER III.
SOUTHAMPTON QUAY.


Thrco hs have naS-e1--'hrcc long
M" Aa.tt. :.tt- and cy.r i,c:-n.
winds i.v iiaIloaA oua} ing her course
for Norfolk. in the UaitoJ States, had
made put = poor passage of it, She got
into the saU,faGa, trades, and all went
well t.iI tHr L-..n IT. Pau.s Rocks,
WHORE .. '-crc detained ly the doldrums
and w.. D.. W!.ds. AtCrWard she passed
into the northeast trades, and then,
further Norjh, met n series of westerly
gale. tLat ultimately drove her to the
Azaits, jUat rs her crew were getting
very stplt 81 water and provisions. And
here augusta bid farewell to her friend
the Yankee skipper; Tor the Whalor that
had saved her lie and Dicks, after rcft-
ting once moro, set sail upon It's almost
endless voyage.
She had had quite enough Of the IIar-
poon and yet she was loath to say fare
well to her; for her days on board had in
many respects been restful and happy
ones; they had given her space and time
to brace herself up before sho p aged
once more into the struggle of acti life.
Besides, she had throughout been treated
with that rnvalying kindness and consid-
GRAFTON fer which the American people are
Justly noted in their dealings with all
persons in misfortune.
But Augusta was not the only person
who with sorrow watched the departure
Of the Iiarpoon. First, there was little
Dick wi o had acquired a fine Yankee
drawl, and grown quite half an inch ON
board OF her and who fairly howlcd when
his particular friend, a remarkably tierco
and gris.y looking boatswain, brought
him as Il parting Offering n large whales
tooth, p, iently carved by himself with a
spirited picture of their rescue on kcr-
guclen Land. Then there was Mrs.
Thomas herself. When they finally
reached tho island of ST. Michael, in the
Azores, Augusta had offered to pay fifty
pounds being half of the hundred sover-
q ms given to her by Mr., MeosOn, to
Capt. Thomas as Il passage fee, knowing
that he was by no means oycrburdened
with the goods of this world. But he
stoutly declined to touch Il fdrthing, say
ing that it would be unlucky to take
money from castaway. Augusta as
stoutly insisted; and, finally, Il compro-
mise was come to. Mrs. Thomas was
anxious, being seized with that acute
species of lomcsickness from which Suf-
folk people are no more exempt than
other folk to visit the land where she
was born and the people midst whom sho
was bred up. But this she could not we'll
afford to do. Therefore Augusta's prof
fered $50 was appropriated TO this pur-
pose, and Mrs. Thomas stopped with
Augusta at Ponta Delgada, waiting for
tho London and West India Limo packet
to tal;e them to Southampton.
SO it came to pass that they stood to-
gether on the Fonda Delgada brealwater,
and together saw tho Iarpoon sail of to-
ward the setting sun.
Then came a soft, dreamy fortnight in
the fair island of St Michael. Tho Eng,
liah consul there most Hospitality enter
tanned thcm-with much more personal
enthusiasm, indeed, than Lo generally
considered it necessary to show toward
shipvTe EeI voyagers-a class Of people
OF whom consular Representatives abroad
must got rather tired with their eternal
misfortunc5 and their perennial want of
clothes. Indeed the only drawback to
Augusta'5 enjoyment was that the consul.