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hatred of the Germans that caused his
refusal. Worse yet if people of an
other nation-one that is just now
very bitter against Germany-can risk
their all to save their enemies, surely q
Christian non-combatant can sell a lit
tie impersonal assistance.
But to leave that accursed tradesman
to the retribution that will probably
be visited upon him ere many days,
and return to the wreck. Failing to
get the rope, ran back to the beach,
for, as the AdLer was lifted clear out OF
the water and crushed down upon her
side on top of a reef within five hun
dred wards of shore, / had no time for
further quest. Forming line with
the natives we waded out as far as pos
sible to catch the bodies before they
could crush upon the rock-bound
beach. The storm was steadily in
creasing, and at times one could not
see further than twenty yards ahead,
hence our work was more difficult,
and less liable to be successful. How
ever, we picked up nine men and one
officer alive, and three dead bodies.
While this was being done I saw that
the good ship Nipsic was going ashore
in Apia, and was, of course, obliged to
90 to the rescue of my own ship-mates.
The Nipsic was badly used up; dur
ing the night the German ship olga
had gotten adrift and rammed the
Nipsic three times, OH one occasion
cutting off our main yard, and the
smoke-stack (weighing q tons) as if it
were tin on another, carrying away
u boat astern, and the last time clear
ing the port side of all its boats, in
Guiding steam-launch, and driving in
the hammock-rails. During these col
lisions our anchors were lost, and we
were obliged to steam ahead to main
tain our berth, and while doing so, cut
the trading schooner Lily in two pieces
amid-ships, causing the lives of two
men to be lost. One was a white NOR
mon and the other Sandwich Island
er; another party on the schooner was
Capt. Douglass, the American and
English pilot of Apia, who, after
struggling nearly two hours in the wa
ter succeeded in catching q rope hang
ing from the olga and was hauled
aboard that vessel and saved.
1t was the purpose of Capt. Mullan
to keep the NipSic at1oat until daylight
and then "beach" her as safely as pos
sible on the sand. In obedience to
these orders Ensign H. p. Jones, Jr.,
officer of the deck, handled the ship in
admirable style. While the olga was
colIiding with her, and scattering de-
6ris everywhere, he and the Captain
stood shoulder to shoulder, never
budging from their position, though
obliged to cling desperately to the rail
for support. In momentary danger
from falling Spars, and other wreck
age, and from the sinking of the ship,
these two men proved their manhood
and became heroes in the truest sense
of the word. TO the orders of the
Captain, and their execution by En-
sign Jones, are due the preservation of
nearly every soul aboard the NipSic,
for, had she gone down when rammed
by the olga. scarcely Il man would
have lived to tell the tale.
At 7:20 Il. III. the Nipsic was beached
in beautiful form within sixty yards of
the shore at high water, and fifteen at
low. However close she was, u tre-
mendous current from the Faisiago
River swept between her and the
beach, rendering swimming OF rowing
Il boat quite impossible; added to this
We're the awful seas constantly break,