The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-05-09

us, were the victims or n2Uun bau1nage.
Men We're sent aloft TO look out for the
boat, and the ships headed to the north
east in the wake of the squalL We had
a clear sky, and the seas soon Went
down, and how it came about that we
overlooked the boat | can't understand
She had run before the squat into the
northeast and was not above 10 miles
away when we began the search. If the
Wanderer had been alone, it might have
been said that the lookout saw the boat
and gave no sign, thus securing revenge
for the abuse they had received, but the
whaler had three men aloft, and they
saw nothing.
The dying sailor had prophesied that
Captain Duff would be left to suffer
hunger and thirst as he had left the poor
fellows on the wreck, and when we had
searched the ocean for two days and
nights and found no trace of the boat
we said that Tallman's prophecy was
bound to come true. Had the boat been
upset in the squat we must have found
her floating, as we found two of the
nights for the search. Our failure to
find her, as we afterward learned, was
no fault of ours. A second squall, which
we did not feel at all, caught her and
carried her to the west, and the strong
breeze which followed the squall kept
her running in that direction,
Eleven days after the boat went adrift
she was picked up in midocean by an
English merchantmen named the Derby.
The mate had been dead for two days,
and for IL days Captain Duff had not
had morsel of food or drop of water.
I afterward fell in with the mate of the
Derby, and he related the horrible par
ticulars. They were running their course
one night when they heard singing and
laughing from the open sea. The watch
on deck were greatly frightened, but
when the captain was called he put the
ship about, fired rockets and hung out
lanterns, and by and by the boat was
found Captain Duff was living skele-
ton, and the skin on his face and hands
was almost black. His lips were swollen
and cracked, his tongue filled his mouth,
and the sounds he uttered reminded the
men of the chatter of apes disturbed at
night. His eyes blazed SO fercely that
they believed him insane, but it turned
out that he was still in his right mind.
1t was horrible enough to think of those
long days and nights of suffering, but
there was something worse to come.
So great was the mans vitality that
he clambered aboard Of the ship without
assistance, and it was only fair to be-
ieve that food and rest would soon
bring him around all right. But he
could touch neither water nor food.
When it was placed to his mouth, he
started back in horror, and when his
parched lips were wet with water he
went into commissions and gasped as If
diving. For two days and nights after
being picked up he went on starving and
thirsting and growing to look more and
| more like wild beast. And yet, strange
as it may seem, he not only had his
senses but he sat down in the cabin and
wrote out his adventures in plain,
straightforward way. He told OF the
waterlogged ship-the whaler-of his
killing Tallman, of everything / have
related to you in this story. He even
made will which was subsequently
probated in Pennsylvania. His cond1-
ton was one to arouse the feeling Of
pity in every breast, but nothing could
be done for him, and on the morning OF
the third day he began uttering wild
shrieks and soon fell down and died.
TWAS three years later that learned
of the fate of the crew he so cruelty left
behind on the wreck. They were, | am
glad to say, taken off by French steam
er next day and carried safely into port.
Every man of them had sworn to Kill
| Captain Duff on sight for his heartless
desertion, but retribution had overtaken
! him long before they were safely land
ed A year ago, in the shipping news OF
a New York paper, found three line
item to the effect that the James Brady,
whaler, had arrived at Honolulu, and
that she reported the loss of Captain
Duff at sea. Was he like our Captain
Duff, and was that also case OF retr1-
button? The sailor has no friends at sea
and only enemies ashore, but now and
then at long intervals something hap
pens to make him almost believe that he
| is not entirely forsaken by God and man
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