Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-11-17
A SAILOR tlAMEo SAVAGE
ae Lived a Man and Died the Death or
Hero.

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ae Jiyeda sian and Died the Death Of
Hero.
Nv life asa cabin boy OF board OF
Me Saraceu was a hard one.
The Naracen was Is fine steam
packet Of the early days, which car
ried the mail between New York and
Liverpool She took first and second
cabin passengers immigrants and
general cargo 1t was my first eX-
nerience as sailor and | confess that
il did not come up 10 my GXpCrtd'
tons
Every one seemed to take the
greatest pleasure in abusing me and
making my life miserable generally.
l wa, kicked and ordered about from
morning until night Every menia
service that could be thought OF !
was made to do
My greatest tormentor was the
secoad mate a man named DOUG lass.
lie was a good sailor, but by nature
he was a brute a coward, and a bully
When we arrived at LIVERPOOL my
work from experience had become
easier, and as the men were fully em-
ployed on other matters than bother
ing ME, / began TO take some sort OF
interest in life.
one of the crew, deserting, was re-
placed hy d man named Savage, who
was a big powerful fellow. with an
I honest, upright face that attracted
I everybody who met him.
+ Somehow he took fancy TO me
j and after that nobody but the second
mate ever abused me, and by dint Of
/ caution ! managed to avoid him very
/ successfully
We soon had our cargo below the
/ hatchers and after dropping down
the stream the tender brought of the
passengers and we got under way.
homeward bound
W. ,,-.-Ld Lad -.-2 ordinary nneEentf,.l
passaEc until we arrived of the
e Grand banks, where we ran into a
e dense Tog and the weather became
p colder The fog was so thick that it
n seemed as il we were sailing in the
clouds md the moisture dropped
e from aloft like rain.
r A restless and oppressive feeling
II seemed to I'LL the air and. the passen-
4 gers and crew paced silently up and
down the decks pauSing every now
and then as if they had heard some
r strange sound. a
WHY we should have been so ar.
g fectcd is more that l can explain.
% was standing on deck and Savage
was passing me when he stopped
: and said Il think there are bergs
h around Don't you feel it getting
g coIder;'
e had felt it, and was asking him
questions about hergs when the look
. outs 10th cried, 'Starboard, sir. Ice
IS ahead
n Before the ship could answer her
T. helm, | saw an immense shape oi
white towering high above US, and
the next minute we crashed into a
II solid mass of lee. which looked like a
.e mountain
The shock was terrific and dis
lodged a huge fragment, which fell
crashing through our decks, a2d we
II heard the rush Of the water. as the
e vessel began TO TIL and sink with in
.e credible rapidty
;, As soon aS they could collect them.
selves every one rushed 10 the boats
+ savage and managed To crowd into
at the second cutter. She was soon
10 lowered away, and we shugeu of and
!. lay t. a little distance from the ship.
We were packed in So tightly that
' it was next to impossible to even
$ turn around and the guuwales were
barely awaSh | found that Mr..
Douglass had charge or the boat, aud
nav heart sank with FolT