The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-07-02

our hands to our mouths aud made one graz
cry Of vulcan ahoy" The tux dropped nstCrh.
and when she gets within Speaking 81 tunoc
The sEipt"- sings out, what do y0u w.nti"
The. lsthing 10 hc seen Of the wreck, 50 we
la, r,Ier lie to for the hight" | answered.
VERY e d." he answers, and then the little
steamer, with the water tumbiing over lur
bows like cliff, resumed her station ahc..-.,
her paddles revolving just fast enough TO keep
her from dropping a,lern.
As cOxswain of the boat, sir, take no credit
for resolving to lie TO all night But / am
bound TO say a word for the two crews, whu
made up their minds without II moments he.
tation to face the bite" cold and fierce sea- q.
that long winters night that they might be or
the spot to help their fellow creatures wheu
dawn b.oke and showed them here they
were. All we had TO do now was TO make our.
selves as comfortable as we could. Our tow
rope veered Us out a long way too tar asterp Of
the rug iur her TO serve US IA IL oIu.skwdter,
and the maunerin which we were flung toward
the sky with half our keel out OF water u 81
then dropped into hollow, while the heads OF
the seas blew into and tumbled over u all the
time, male MS reckon that, 50 far from getting
any rest, most OF our time would be spent in
preventing ourselves from being washed over
board.
We turned to and got the forrsail aft and
made a kind OF roof OF it. This was no easy
lob, for the wind was 80 furious that wrestling
even with that bit Of a sail was like fight
ing with IA steam engine. When II was NJ, 10
II Us snugged oursclyc, away undcril, and Two
men stood on the after urgting thwart kccuiVg
a lookout, with the lie lines AROUND tncn.
There was nothing on board to eat and no get.
ting near the tug in that sea- However, we
hadn't come out 10 enjoy ourselves, 30 notliug
was said, and we lay all in a heap, hugging
one another for warmth, until the morning
broke.
The first man to look to leeward was old
Tom CoOper's son-yOung Tom COoper-and IN
a moment he bawled out There she is.' point
ing like mailman. The morning had only
Just broke, and the light was gray and dim,
and down In the west It seemed still to be
night, The air was full Of spray, and scarcely
were we atop OF sea than we were rushing
like an arrow into a hollow again, that
young Tom must have had eyes like a hawk to
have seen her, Yet the moment lie sung out
and pointed all hands cried, There she is!'
But what was II, sir? Only mast three miles
off-just one single mast sticking up ont Of the
white water, as thin and faint as a spiders
line. Yet that was the ship We had been wait
ing all night to see. There she was, and my
heart thumped In my ears the moment my
eyes fell on that mast But, Lord, sir, the fear
full sea that was raging between her and us;
where We were was deepish water, and the
waves regular, but all about the wreck was
the sand, and the water on It was running
In fury all sorts OF ways, rushing up in tall
columns of foam rs high as ships mainyard
and laundering so loudly that, though We were
to the wndwaTd, we could hear Il above the
gale and the boiling Of the seas around us.
ran my eye over the mems faces Let slip
the towrope." bawled Dick Goldsmith. "Up
foresall" 1 shouted, and two minutes after we
had sighted tbet mast We were dead before tho
wind, our storm fore,ail taut as drumskn,
our boats stem heading full for the broken
seas and the lonely stranded vessel In the
midst of them. IL was well there wa, some
thing in front of no TO keep our eyes that way
and that none OF US thought of looking astern.
or the sight Of the high aud frightful seas
which ragged after us might have played Old
Harry with weak nerves, some of Them cane
with such force that they leapt right over Ia
boat, and the air was dark with water nyiug
doz, yards high over us IN broad solid She,
which fell with n roar like the explosion o.
gun ten or dozen fathpms ahead But y
took no notice OF these seas. even when We
were In the thick OF the broken waters aud all