The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-26

in short, this gentleman was III the
habit, when he went to sea, of carrying
his parlor with him, and bidding mo
BIO seated he asked number of Qucs-
tions, all of which I saw with much
pleasure, by tho expression of his face
I answered to his satisfaction
''Thc interview ended in his offer
ing mo tho post of mate of the schooner
on lump wago for the run to Sydney,
and early next morning went aboard
with my chest and took up quarters in
the cabin
1T broezed up ahead after we had
been at sea few days The CGmbrian
looked we'll to windward, but she was
still points off her course. Then again
the great Agulhas stream SGT us to leo
ward, and our progress was slow. On
the ED day of the month, we then be-
ing four days out from Table bay, the
weather blackencd on a sudden in all
afternoon i'll the north, the lightning
streanod like catarscts of violet flame
OH those sooty sierras of storm, tho
thunder rolled continuously, but it was
not till the edge of the electric stuff.
black as midnight, was over our mast
heads, with sea and sky dim and fright
full as though behold in tho deep shadow
of total eclipse of tho sun, that the
hurricane took u.s.
THE schooner lay over till her star
board shear poles We're under, and then
it was deep enough to drown man in
the lee scuppcrs.
"It was doubtful for Some time
whether she would right, and l was
clawing my way forward with some dim
hopc-of getting ut the carpenter chest
for an Ak for the weather lanyar,ls when
the noble little craft suddenly rose buoy
ant, with the long savage yell of the
gale in her rigging as she thrashcd her
lofty spnrs to windwaNl
After this she made fairly good
weather of it, but for three days we lay
under bare poles, sagging helplessly TO
leewaIrl in the trough of that mighty
ocean. The weather then moderated
Within six hours of the breaking Of the
gale it was blowing IA gentle wind out
of the northeast The sun shone bright
~, and the schooner tapped leisuNly
along her course under all plain sail and
over a large but fast subsiding swell
During the time of violent weather
Captain Huddersfcld had seemed much
depressed in spirits. l had attributed
his detection to tho peril of those hours
Wewere small ship for that tall south
ern surge. Moreover, his risk in the vps-
sci might be large, for all we knew. 1
could not guess how gravcly misjudged
one of the manifest intelligcnces that
ever Informed sailor.
Eve We're seated alone at dinner Oh
the first day of fine weather He said
after regarding mo steadfastly for some
moments:
DO you attach any meaning to
drranls:'
Il do not, answered.
But when they rucur?' said he
No, said |, not though they should
recur for month of Sundays
He was silent for while and then
said, speaking i'll very serious voice:
For three nights running the same
odd vision has troubled me I have
thrice dreamed that l was becalmcd in
an icy atmosphere of antarctic dark
ness. The stars rode brilliantly, but
they made no light. Regularly through
this black atmosphere there sounded, in
Il note of signing, human with articula
ton and yet resembling the noise made
by the whale when it spouts its foun-
tain, these mysterious words: Try for
her i'll 90 Try for her i'll 50r Over
and over again it so ran. Try for her
in 50!' Now, TO have dreamed this once
would be nothing; twice makes it re-
markablc; the third time of the same
vision must affect even the most wood
ell of minds with Il spirit as of convic-
ton. ! don't believe i'll dreams any
more than you do, yet there ought to
bc'somc sort of meaning III the rcpcti-
ton OF one i'll such a haunting cry re-
peatcd on several occasions of slumbcr
rs, Try for her in 5On''
"a few days after we had had that
talk have just repeated, almost imlnc-
diatcly on making eight bells by our
scXtmnt, man on the forccastle hail
ing the quarter deck bawled out that
there was IL small black object OH the
lee bow
II took the glass from the captain
and made out boat with a mast, but
no sail. The figure of man stood
erect and one arm hooked the mast.
We shifted our helm and presently had
the boat alongside
1.-Two men were i'll her One lay mo-
tionless under the thwartS The other,
though erect on his feet, had barely
strength to catch the ropes end that
was flung. The boat WAS of the ordinary
pattern Of ships quarter boat While
we leaned over the side looking down
into her, tho captain said:
What is the namo written In the
stern sheets there?