The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-05-13

So he went off and sat in his berth
planning and plotting how to do Jeiter-
son. When no went on deck again he
found his man under the poop awning,
leaning on the tatirail, and looking at
one Of the biggest trading dhows that
ran into Zanzibar. She was "bagala,"
with high square stern, tall poop
and curious long projecting prov,
She was using her sweeps just then, Tor
it was dead calm.
whats that, Mr.. SMITH" said the
man .from the Admiralty glad to see
anyone, for he was beginning to feel the
heat dreadtully and to funk the lever.
"That's dhow, cir"
"a dhow, EN-" said Jefferson, show.
ing more Interest, and is she 800 tonsT
Lord, no, sir she's only q cookie
shell compared with their big boats,
such as a Mtepe or Jumbo. You wait
q piece aud IN show you Jumbo"
SIS this one slaver~
"They're all slavers when they can
be; but now she's an honest, HONORABLE
trader, with orchilla weed or some such
trash in her; but tomorrow think l
can show you real dhow, sir, ii you
have mind to come in the boats round
yonder point"
He pointed away to the north, to-
warda Bet al Ras, along the oily sea
which shimmered with heat and shone
like brass in the wake OF the sun.
Cant we go in the ScorpionP" asked
Jetfeson, wiping his forehead.
mot very well, sir. You see it's dead
naIr, aud ynoy ha for 1nVa unlasa
there's cyclone comes"
"And supposing one came while We
were in the boatsT asked Jefferson, in
alarm,
ave should probably be able to got
ashore" replied the wicked gunner,
with an emphasis on probably that
made the enterprising clerk fairly
sqUirm, but he said no more,
Next morning, two hours before
dawn, they reused out Jefferson, gave
him cup OF coffee, and put him in one
OF the boats. The bo'son stayed on
board, but his smile was cheerful as he
saw them depart with one OF the boats
much in advance OF the other. Under
its stern sheets was pot OF black paint
and some brushes
"Where's that boat going to?" asked
Jefferson, as he saw it going oil into the
darkness.
"Just ahead OF us, sir" answered Mr..
Smith, shes the lishtest and fastest
boat We have"
AS they went along the gunner pratt
tied arttessfy about therains and levers,
and niggers and Arabs and their blood
thirsty treacherous ways, and he mixed
Jefferson up with native and nautical
terms until the poor fellow was ready
to swear that masika meant very big
dhow and bedeni was opplied 10 heavy
rains. For Mr.. Smith used all the
words he knew and some he didn't, and
he span yarns about khors and mtos,
and about Tumbutu and Pemba with
fine geographicalinaccuracy not wholly
confined to sailors. But Just at dawn,
when the sun and day come together
across the. island that VIC call Zanzibar
and the natives Unjuga, they rounded q
point, and Jefferson saw vessel hard
ashore in the blight Of small bay.
"Why she's on the shore" he ex'
claimed.
"she went ashore a month ago"
"And is that dhow2" he asked.
Allthe mon in the boat looked at him
with an odd expression in their eyes.
One Of them gurgled strangely, but the
gunner was very solemn.
eyes, sir, thats one OF tho biggest
the very biggest dhows we catch. l
doubt il we ever caught quite such
big one. In fact they do say she was
quite too big for them Arabs TO man
age, and that's why she got on the
ground"
The men dropped their eyes and
There's boat by her." said JefTer-
"Yos, our boat, sir" He coughed
little himself, and taking his glass
looked through it. As he shut 1t up
again he nodded contentedly.
In less than quarter Of an hour they
were alongside two.masted vessel.
which any sailor would have recognized
as Swedish or Norwegian brigantine
by her paint and curved martingale, in
spite OF her being Dashed about and al
most dismantled but to Jefferson she
was dhow, q big slave dhow, such as
he had come 90 far to see, aud as he
clambered up her side he had a sense
OF romantic adventure come over him
to which he was stranger,
$50 this is q dhow," said he simply.
"Well, must say never had any no.
ton that they were 80 big or go we'll
fitted. But, Mr.. Smith, l don't remem-
Der ever seeing any picture Of such yes.
sells as dhows. She's very like ones
own kind Of ship"
"Picture, STRIP said the gunner, con.
temptuously; "who draws emf Do
they come out hero and do 1t or stay at
home aud think about itP Besidesthey
fellows want the pretty little bragaias
such as l showed you yesterday. They
don't think it good enough to draw
Arab craft like our own. But the
Arabs, sir, the Arabs they know. And
now, sir, perhaps as you care in the
dhow, you'd like TO measure her up and
satisfy yourself about the size.
That" said Jefferson, cheerfully, lis
just what was thinking OF.
Then we'll take her length aud depth
and beam, and any other measurements
you like, and both reckon 1t Ut"
So they took those three dimensions,
and several others which Jefferson,
enamoured OF his new study OF naval
measurements, insisted one
1--WE are not SO particular, sir" said
the gunner, loftily.
"No," said Jefferson, sat the Admiralty
we think you are sometime little in
accurate" And he thought he had
made q point.
"WhGt figures have you got2' he
asked after quarter OF an hours hard
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