Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-29

Aot Uc truSCeO W1Cu SnOfc leave, ana that they must stay on board till the anchor was up again.
 The Captain Hattered himself that he had settled the matter by his firm words and decided way; but he did not know the spirit of these men. They | had determined that they would never return to Boston on the Nellie. That night the whole five tried to swim ashore. Two were carried out to sea by the swift current and drowned; the mangled body of another was found floating the next morning, all most bitten in two by shark; as the other two were not heard of again, it was never known whether they reached the quay safely, or whether they succumbed to some of the many perils of this harbor.
 l Captain Willis now found himself reduced to his mate, Ben Hardy, the cook, and a single seaman, beside his nephew, who knew nothing about working the ship. In no pleasant frame of mind, he went ashore and of fered large premium to a shipping agent to procure him Q crew immedi- ately. The agent promised to do his best, and wont to work. The same evening he visited the Captain on board his vessel. . 1 ''It's no use, sir," he said. "1've found dozen able seamen in Havana who want to ship; but one and all tlatly refuse to sail with you."
 'What do the rascals mean?" the Captain demanded.
 ''Why, the truth is sir, the story about your bark being unlucky has been spread all over, and they won't go in her."
 1.-The idiots'' shouted Captain Willis, stamping about his cabin. 'I've sailed this bark for more than dozen years, and nothing has gone amiss until this voyage. Never lost a man overheard before; never had more than a day s sickness before."
 ''Well, sir, you know what sailors are better than do. Those fellows de- sorting, and at least three of 'cm get ting wound up at it, has fixed the thing, so there's no use in my talking about it. I'll try and get you picked up lot, of all sorts; but better than that I can't do."
 The Captain ragged and stormed at the idea of his going back to Boston with crew of 'fore-the-mastcrs; but he had to yield to the inevitable, and the agent went ashore with instruc- tions to do the best he could.
 All the next day the agent was bringing out to the bark by ones and twos the newly-shirped crew, until eleven had been secured. The Cap tain examined each man, and his temper was by no means improved when he found that there was not one able seaman among the lot. There were four negroes, powerful, muscu- lar fellows, who had been working as stevcdores, and who had made up their minds that they would like a sea-voy- age. They carried clasp-knivcs i'll their wristbands, and were not a very pleas ant lot to look at. Four moro were depraved-looking Creoles, the very dregs of the Spanish population, with four as villainous-looking faces as were ever seen aboard ship. Two l IloIc NcTc FdSItHI SlOWdNdyS, WnO had come from Liverpool on a mer- chant vessel, getting the rope's-end liberally on the passage, and after spending month at Havana in the calaboose, upon being released they went straight to the shipping-officc, not knowing where else to go. The eleventh was a mulatto, almost giant in size, with sullen, ugly look about the eyes,. His account of himself was that he was free man, had worked on tobacco-lands back of Cardenas, and had come to Havana to engage in some thing different; he didn't much care what.
 This man the Captain eyed very closely.
 "There's something about your mo- tions, my man, he said, ''that makes me think that you know more of the sea than you want to tell. Walk across the deck"
 The mulatto hesitated.
 "Start!' thundered the Captain.
 The man walked to the other side and returned.
 ''That walk can't be disguised l You're an old sailor; what your reason is for concealing it, I don't know no]