The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-29


aims complainin o. grub er grog
aboard this 'ere raft, bat If the old man
had been so erninded as to take my ad-
wise and leave the cook 9 cat aboard Std
der heavin her over the rail soon's
we left port the brig I'D al been max
in into Boston in another week stldder
hevin gone to Davy Jones', and him,
with the rest OF the crew, clawin sea-
weed 'longside Of her. I wouldn't kur
"a 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 date with & shipmet o. mine,
Lijah Hawkins BY name, hailin from
New Bedford, when he ahoat, but now
bein ashore in them ERE parts When
A pass my word Jack, it's same's if I
signed articles, and that's NOR u I've
done aboard this crib. r
The raft as made Of spars and empty
pork barrels, with a cutdOvn lib rugged
on a jury mast forward, and our stores
and dunnaga in a lead colored chest
lnshed anidships alongside of the water
cask, and the whole drippin outfit roll
ing on the seas, cEmbin up hill and
Eousin into the trough and olaWin of
sideways like a fiddler crab.
Accordin to our reczonin, this was
the 18th Of November (year 40, and
Portland, from Liverpool into Boston,
with a cargo of tin plate, had been
struck by an easter, and the captain had
driven her before the winds for 48
hours under next to bare poles until her
lore and main sticks went overheard in
am extra gale, and her rotten old hull
sprang a-leaL- When the old man gave
Zip the pumps, expeotin her to 20 down
before mornin, we provisioned the two
quarter boats regular, and the captain,
hevin the compass, and Bill Marlin,
bein mate of the Nancy, hevin only
the ship barometer to sail by, the crew
was that crazy to go in the captain s boat
that they swarmed over the side and
swamped her before our eyes. leavin
Bill and me leanin On the rail and the
old man and all hands goin to the bot
tom like lead afOre we could heave 'em
so much as a ropes end
Me and Bill eased away the other
boat, and Wnen she struck the water
a cross sea stove her against the brig
and crushed ller like an eggshell
'Shipmet, p says Bill. 1T amt fttin
TO 90 to sea inst yit and what we've got
to do is pump 'er, and pump her we
did all that night watch and watch.
the other one lashin the raft. By morn
i'm the water had gained nine inches
QA us anu DnE EAAA L24 SILL460 lLt1t
much by the side Bits face was long,
but he allowed it warn't no use to put
off till the raft was shipshape and her
stores dashed proper, so we worked and
pumped till near rooU and swung the
whole outfit overheard by the mizzin-
mast boom and got onto it in our oil
skin pajaners and clear Of the Nancy
in time to see her go down bow on.
When asked Bill what the nature
of his engagement with Hawkins of
New Bedford might be. he said 1t was
social and religious and included wearin
alongside and heavin aboard a Thanks
Eivin dinner. and he had the old mans
consent beforehand for the cruise ashore
III was two year shipmet with Lige
abound a Bedford whaler up north in
38 and 9, and then ! struck him agin in
Az aboard a West India lime juicer in
the coastin trade, and comm into Boston
ON time we had shore leave together
ON Thanksgivin day, and bein New Eng
land born Of honest dsherfolks we kept
the day proper. accordin to our lights.
The next / seen Of O. Lige after we left
the lime juiCer was when we saw break
in out the I ancy's cargo alongside the
Liverpool docks him a-celebratin his
last day ashore afore the schooner sailed
for New York and long with i'm a Ka-