The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-24
A STORY p R ma liners.
The Queer = dventures ola Brig n thu
New Zealand Sea-

In the year 1868 signei papers with
Capt. Delano Of the brig josephine for
voyage from Sydney TO Auc6la Id and
return. She was an lglish craft and was
loaded with sc Ieral cargo, and had made
many voyages across the New Zeala ID sea.
Tue crew consisted Of captain, mate, COOK
an -FOUR men before the mast, d every
one but the cook WAS white and spoke
English. l was then IS years old an
just out OF my apprenticeship. should
nave mad sec md mates erth, bat the
Josephine carried no such officer. The cap
| tain stood ais own watch, and there ere
oc' asions when the mGte had 10 go sl0f
with the nea. Capt DelaIo ~aS good
sailor and Good-hearted man, and there
| vas nothing in the rub or t discipline to
/ hnd fault with. We 1t Sid ey one m I'm
! Ing with fair wind for the $50 l-mile voy-
ag@, AID ad any one preiicted the queer
| adventures aud the tragedies whic were 70
| befall us he woul have been locke upol
as Il lu latic.
A portion Of the story am going to tel
You appeared in some Of tue Australia
apers twenty years ago, but only p1r-
ton, aud that full OF error 1t was only
mont ago that / wa, asked to send my aid-
davlt to rtain fac to lawyer q
Melbourne, and so h5 whole series OF d.
ventures is fresh in my memory.
For the first three da - out We had fair
winds I'd a smooth a, an the brig ma
| find progress. At midnight o the : ird
nlglt the wind ,hifJed, blew up 4 SOU
which lasted half an hour, All the died
way as hat as you please. We were LEI
rolling on the wave for an hou
or two, but when daylight ca ne the
surface of the sea was 18th ut a
ripple, lille there was not the slghtes
brsRC of air moving above. he su
came up like ball u fire, and the greenes
hand aboard knew that We were in for
cam. 1t was terribl: hot by indifference
and our human captain riersd all hand
to ock of and make themselves as co IL
ortable as possible. BY noon the brig "a
like al oven. The decks were so bot tina
even the cook with his t0ug feet dare no
walk them unshod. Down In the fo'caStl
was sitting, but as it was worse on dec
ne had to stand j..
1t as about noon when the cook, VINO
Aad gone to the side TO thc)w over some slop
lied out TO us come and see 9 large
shark which human eyes ever beheli /
crawled up from the forscastle, Away
Gu ious 20 see one OF the monsters clos
At hand, but expecting at the c)ok ha
greatly exagger tel, and ~hsn | locke
over the all l was a4tounded. Their
lay q shovel nose shark Of sucl dime
/ MS that l should not credi
~ own eyesighG He la
parallel and not over ten feat away.
when, after few minutes,
Captain all hands had reused up t.
look at the follow. We got his exact lie 1t
Oy a tape line al ng the deck. he was 80 =,
EeeL long, WITH jaws ca )aols of cut
Ing bullock in too at one snap Tn
Inly sign of life he gaze vas slight move
leHt Of The eve no ~ and then. He Law wit
ais great dorSal fin baGlng in he hoy sun
and 30 near that We could se5 every littl
teIail. All agreed tina he was he iaryes
mark any one lad ever seen, although ali Of
5 had sailed in the warm seas, a "a some If
mel had turned ava wben the cClA
eli II ed UPON the rail and said he woul4
top lit lie for ane with the big fell Nv
10 meant by that that be would have
ak with him. | have met number. OF
iD's co ks who clal ned to have mad
~" with sharks and we're not afraid [
Osing hurt by them. The cook "a. Just op-
lie the sharks middle, a d be ia b4gu
sort OF chant, whe | paSse for ward in
ending 10 find q missile and ueave i
yer and scare ths monster away. | had
lst uud an old bit Of iron d got ba L
. the rail when there was u splash d
ell. The cook Wa in the water tn Dug
ONE careless move Of his. had my eYeo
ne shark, and his movements were like
Oh. ing. Vito one drt Of his tail b
LEVIED himssl around, his graf jaws
pc ed, and | was looki & right down uJo.
Jim AS ne took the COOK in clear to tins mid
Il and bit him in two so slick and clea
hal the upper part of the body rollsl az
rom the sharks aose and rem lined on the
81 face directly below me. After half 1t
minute it began slowly to sink, but waS not
yet out of sight when | So the shs K
,ei1e it. AS he grabbed it he rushed awaf
nd we saw him no more.
The tragedy upset IS il more ways tnan
Lee
It the begi lning OF the yogaSe, and the =
vas msthing il his taking off whic4
iroussd the superstition OF the hands TO-
ward. | think tae captain felt it as much a
We did, but Of course he concealed it as puca
IS possible. All hat day We lay roasting
mi motionless, and as the sun went down
lnd a lig breeze sprang up everV man
it-ered heart cit "foank ueaven" W.
owed TO soon, however. The breez
did not push US over five miles be-
fore it tired out, and we were If
{. before the sky full of stars a d the sea
ike 2 mirror. | wa in the mates watch
nd came on duty at mldnig t. Indeed,
we were all on du for that ma tor, as
acre was nothing Whatever to do an we
yers sleeping on deok ! WAS n Gus !,
however, to take the 10 kout, and took
n seat on the hsel of the bowsprit rs
after Of form. AS we we're not IN wing,
10 other sailing craft cIuld move, aud tue
lew steamers crossing on our line c uld see
Iur lig IS and avoid US. Something hap
,ened, however, before l had be,
n duty a. hour The Josephine was
'ising and fall on the glass; s~ell-,
1 d swinging her head 70 every point I
che compass by tn ms, and | was scan
Ing the sea and the heavens in the most
Derfunctory way. when an ohjsct sIddeniy
anne iIto view. l. was black spot agAius
he darkness, a after rising to my fHst
and watch 10 for a few minutes | ma
1T, as / thought, tho dismasted null OF =
small vessel IL was Dming 'wn tow ard
us, and when sure Of this hslled the IN &.
he ME forward with the 81 ,ss, and after
10 x look be said:
"Wcll, { lat beats my time. It is the hull
Of a ismastod schooner, q al stands up high
ami dry. There's q It OF rain around her
bows, and believe Il VIII ale is Ia ged up III
it "a towing the wrecKm
lie sent mo to call the captain, an in
lew ma luGe, All lands na caught me ex-
ci.ement. The wreck stopped TOR = while
on our sta board bow, and not owe
quarter OF mile away. Then 1t or sse
ur bows and CO ne down On our port side
20 the qusr err. whore 10 lay SO close ia
very man could SCI what 1t was IL was
chen, at the sdggestio OF the c . ain, that
70 raised Uur voices in a snou to ser X
anybod, was aboard the strange craft. We
ware answered al most Immediately by the
irkiug of a dog, "a the caJtail aid:
'Ihare ara men Z ere. 4 a thcy m Nv be