The Portland daily press., 1889-01-19
e, Never g mind me, John. Look to your

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but If the sea gets up, we shall founder"
Look to your ship. .Johnl l can come
Look to your shipw
he turned, and motioning the crew to fol-
low, crawled forward TO the forecastle. Nv
working half under water, they succeeded in
letting go the lee anchor, ond the chain,
having no stopper but spun yarn lashine'
ran out to the bitter end, and hung from the
BOWS straight up and down in the water. 100
fathoms long. ~
The effect was immediate. Pressed by the
squat, the ship swung round, as ii piyoted
On Tue enaln, and when the under side of the
epars ana remnants of the sails caught the
gale, she righted slowly to an even keel, and
lay Oead TO wind, the torn canvas and broken
spars, aloft, Stating and banging
Al, II was Just In time, for the first violence OF
Tue sQualiI which had kept the water fiat.
was now aDated, and the waves began TO rise
rapidly. They came with rush that showed
strength enough to have soon wrenched off
the matches and sunk the ship, had she re-
NAMED upon her beam ends.
When semblance OF order was restored
aloft, and the vessel placed under command
again, the captain went below to tell his wife
| that all danger was passed. In few mo-
ments his excited voice was. heard calling;
Send the carpenter aftP
Chips" obeyed the summons; and when
| the captains wife jammed by heavy chest
| against splintered lee bulkhead, and half
| covered with broken crockery from the
shelves of the stewards locker.
When the ship went over she had jumped
| from her bed to run on deck, but the chest
| broke away from its lashings on the weather
| side and sliding across the floor, knocked her
down and half way through the thin pine
| paneling, holding her there, bruised, bleed
| ing and unable to move. +
She knew that II her husband left the deck
to come to her rescue the few moments in
which he might right the ship would be lost.
When he called through the broken port she
| said nothing of her situation, feeling sure
| that If advised of it, his first thoughts would
be for her. She purposely misled him by her
felgned solicitude for the safety of the log
book. and forgetting her own danger, admon-
ished him to look to his ship.
have been drowned like helpless animal in
q trap; but she ran the risk In order that the
crew on deck might not be diverted from
their efforts to save the ship. With this end
In view, she made no cutlery when the heav-
Ing OF the ship moved the chest back and
forth, grinding her against the sharp splint-
erS.
she had tainted from pain when the cap
tain found her. Part of the bulkhead had to
be cut away to release her without further
iaceration from the ragged edges of the wood
work.
When the carpenter went forward, he told
what he had seen in the cabin; and the man
who had been at the wheel related the con-
versation that had passed between the cap
tain and his wife through the window.
The crew were impressed. Sailors un-
avoldably see so much that is unlovely in
women that they are especially quick to
recognize true womanhood, and are out
spoken admirers of that high moral courage
which often nerves delicate ladies, in times
OF great danger, to heroism seldom equalled
by the sterner sex.
After breakfast the next Sunday morning
Mrs. White appeared on deck for the first
time since the squall. She was seated in an
easy chair on the quarterback, her arm in y
sling and bandage roun0 her forehead.
The officers were suddenly startled by seeing
the crew come aft in body; aud, remember
ing their former experience Immediately as
sumed defensive attitude.
one OF the men treasured them by advanc-
ing as spokesman, and saying with much
rude eloquence, that they wished to thank
Mrs. White for her brave and unselfish action
both In defending her husband and for in
directly saving the ship when struck by the
SQuall, as they knew we'll that, had she been
released first, the ship could not have been
released afterward They had been so de-
termined that show of force by the officers
would not have sufficed to make them work
the vessel to Montevideo; but the courage
and kindness of the weakest member of the
ships company had done more than all the
powder and ball in the arm-chest could have
accomplished, namely, induced them to give
up their intentions to mutiny again, and run
the ship ashore near Pernambuco.
They all felt that she should be credited
with the prevention Of the mutiny and blood
shed. the safety of the ship and the lives OF
the officers. Presenting their respects TO
Mrs. White, they assured her and the officers
that they would be peaceable and subordinate
for the rest of the voyage. st galoh
The man who had been wounded during
the mutiEy brought aft hammock which he
had made of cod line for Mrs. White, and
when he had slung it In the shade of sail,
she was placed in IL. well pleased at the in
ftuence a good woman could have over
sixteen lawless and desperate men.
After the Sunderland reached port, the in
cldents OF the voyage were made the subject
OF much comment by the press, and the cap
tain's wife received every mark of respect
and admiration from the masters of the YES
sells then lying In the har5or of Montevideo.