Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-02-03

it used to dart at the meek of the flow
 and suck it's blood.
 The fowls came to an end about
 the time we reached latitude s6 degs
 south. Then the skipper fed his pc,
 on rats which he caught in the laza
 rette. having dozen traps of the
 most approved variety. He would
 take his mongoose out of his pocket
 and put it in the trap with the rat
 and gloat over the spectacle. The
 mopgoose would dart like lightning
 at the neck of tbe rat and make in
 stantaneous work of it. No terrier
 that ever lived was half So smart as
 the capsain's chun. At last there
 came a time when the rats refused
 to be caught and Satan came near
 dying of starvation.
 Amongoose will touch nothing that
 ithasn't killed. Blood warm from the
 veins is the only pabulum it will take.
 Satan grow thin as O herring, and
 Captain Corcoran was in despair.
 One afternoon, however, when the ship was becalmed, a flock of cape pigeons swarmed around, and the captain caught dozen of them with
 fine hooks baited with salt pork. This meant new lease of life for Satan. In a few days he was as sleek and fat as ever.
 Three weeks afterward we were
 running our casting down, in lati- tude A degs. south. A westerly gale was blowing with fury. We were under three lower topsails. reefed foresail and foretopmast staysail. Enormous seas pursued us, and the roar as they broke under our stern and seethed and boiled as they raced after the old packet threatening to poop her. was quite disturbing to our greenhorn crew, who had never be- fore seen the south Atlantic disturbed by tempest Two men were at the wheel, and although it was bitterly cold they were in their shirt sleeves and sweating. too, at that, so hard was tho work of keeping the Rajah of Cochin on her course. It was the dawn of a tempestuous day. The sky in the east was a mass of cold, dull gray, frightened up here and there by tinted clouds of lurid red The waves that followed were almost black, save where the crests of snowy foam top pied over in white and translucent beauty.
 It was the second mates watch on deck. He paced the poop close by the wheel. ready to lend hand should the old packet threaten to broach to or he drought by the lee. The skipper came on deck at eight 1 bells The chief mate and were | about to relieve the second mate, 1 when the captain beckoned to Mir. | Robinson and said:
 Mir. Robinson, go into the fore ,astle and tell Tom Wiley that must | nave his jacktlaw. My mongoose is lying. and rather than l should lose Jim l would sink the ship
 glanees, at the captain and real zed that he was insane. There was tsA1sniac glare in his eyes and a iendlike expression on his counte- lance. He was hugging the hungry to his breast.
 The chief mate, accustomed to 'beying the captain blindly, touched lis cap. sid, Aye, aye, sirt" and hurried forward as quickly as the olEny us dle vessel would permit.
 WhilaEHis is OF his way to the fore isS.sss Isk me explain. Tom Wiley .1as 2 :.,tge Yorkshireman, hailing run Re5ir Hoods bay. He was one f the few men that the captain laln't maltreated- When he came n board at West Hartlepool he 'rought with him a pet jackdaw in a wicker cage. The bird had been his on many a voyage and le loved it The jackdaw could talk little and would hop around the orecastle and fraternize with all lands. l knew that Wiley would lever allow the bird to become the ,rey of the mongoose.
 In a few minutes the chief mate with Tom Wiley's answer hat if the captain wanted the jack law he was to go forward and get i'm.
 The captains face grew gray with avage passion. With an oath he ushed forward to the forecastle, fol- owed by the chief mate. Johnson nd remained on the poop. There vas scuffie, and before one could ay word the skipper and the mate we're thrown overheard
 You should have seen the shippers ace as he went whirling down, kick ng his heels together over his head, nto the black water. Or maybe you 7ould rather not have seen it. It is o special fun to remember. As he rent down he tried to grab the first nate, and the two men struggled to- ether for an instant on the crest of wave. Then the mate hit the skip CT between the eyes. Itwas all done , second. |, Then the whole ships company, d by the boatswain, rushed aft and , ,ok charge. The second mate and l , ere seized and bound, but no un- ,