Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-01-11
IA STRANGE SHIPWRECK.

dad on the English brig Duchess, bound for
Parnahyba, coast of Brazil. An English
syndicate had been boring for coal oil near
that port, and with such indications of sue
cess that we were taking up large cargo of
tight barrels to hold the stuff. These barrels
had come to Trinidad as salvage from a
wreck. and had been bought in by the syndi-
cate. Each barrel had a hard wood bung, and
each bung was driven in place as the barrels
came aboard. I state this because these SIM
pie details had a great bearing on the length
of our voyage. Having several thousand
barrels aboard, any one Of which would
have fioated two men in the water, there was
no danger of the brig going to the bottom, no
matter if she started half dozen planls. 1t
was doubtless for this reason that the captain,
whose name was Kimball, left port short two
men. Indeed, we had crew which would
have passed for shabby on any sort of craft.
There were only three of us who dared rate
as able seamen, and the captain was almost
too drunk to walk when we left port.
wanted to get down the coast to join
Scotch wnaler, or I should never have be-
come one of the crew of the Duchess. She
had an unseaworthy look from mastheads to
the water line and things aboard were very
slovenly. However, we got away after a
deal of fuss and feathers, and, hauling well
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