The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1894-11-30

amt complainin O. grub en- grog
aboard this ere raft, bnt if the old man
hatl been 80 emiEded as to take my adj
wise and leave the cook S cat aboard stid-
der heayin her over the rail soon's
we left port the brig 'u'd a-been max
In into Boston In another week stidder
hevin gone to DaYy Jones', and him,
with the rest Of the crew, clawin sea-
weed 'longside of Ter. ] wouldn't kuF
q ropes end fur this ere turn in the
tide, - continued Bill, takin an ex-
ira half hitch in his lashin's, "if hadn't
made a date with a shipmet o. mine,
Lijah Hawkins by name, hailin from
New Bedford, when he's afoat, but now
bein ashore in them ere parts When
/ pass my word, Jack, it's same's If |
signed articles, and that's MORN I've
done aboard this crib. -
Tho raft was made of spaEs and empty
pork barrels, with a cutdown iib rugged
on jury mast forward, and our stores
and dunnags in a lead colored chest
dashed amidships alongside Of the water
cask, and the whole drippin outfit roll
ing on the seas, climbin up hill and
sousin into the trough and clawin of
sideways like fiddler crab
Aceordin to our rcckonin, this was
the 18th of November tyear '45l, and
three days before the brig Nancy OF
Portland, from Liverpool into Boston,
with a cargo of tin plate, had been
struck by an easter, and the captain had
driven her before tho winds for 4S
hours under next to bare poles nntil her
fore and main sticks went overheard in
an extra gale, and her rotten old hull
sprang a-leak When the old man gave
up the pumps, expectin her to go down
before mornin, we proyisioned the two
| quarter boats regular, and the captain,
/ heyin the compass, and Bill Marlin,
bein mate of the Nancy, heyin only
che ships barometer to sail by, the crew
was that crazy to go in the captains boat
that they swarmed over the side and
swamped her before our eyes, leayln
| Bill and me Ieanin on the rail and the
old paan and all hands goin to the bot
tom like lead afore we could heaye 'em
so much as q ropes end.
Me and Bill eased away the other
boat, and when she struck the water
cross sea stove her against the brig
and crushed her like an eggshell.
/ AShipmet, says Bill, tit amt htttn
to 20 to sea iist yit, and what we've goi
70 do is pump 'er, and pump her we
did all that night, watch and watch,
the other ono lashin the taft BY morn
in the water had gained nine inches
On us, and the ship had settled thai
much by the side. Bill's face was long,
but he allowed ii warn't no use 70 pm
oil till the raft was shipshape and hel
STOKES dashed proper, so we worked ant
pumped till near noon and SWING th'
whols outfit overheard By the mizzln
mast boom and got onto IL in our oil
slsin pajamers and clear Of the Rancl
in time to see her go down bow on.
When asked Bill what the naturi
! Of bis engagement with Hawklns 2
New Bedford might be, he said u wa
social and religious and included wearil
alongside aud heayin aboard q Thanks
9iyin dinner, and he had the old man
consent beforehand for the cruise ashore
III was two year shipmet with Lig
abound Bedford whaler up north i
s8 and o, and then struck him agin \
! 42 aboard q West India lime juicer 4
tic aoastin trade, and comm into Bostto
on time we had shore leave togethe
on ThaDksgiyin day, and bein New Eng
land horn Of honest fslerfolks we kep
the day proper, accordin to our lights
The next seen Of b Lige after we le'
tie lime juicer was when we saw break
ID out the Eancy's cargo alongside q
Liverpool docks him a-celebratin ~
last day ashore afore the schooner sale
for New York and long with i'm q ~