The Portland daily press., 1895-07-20

the 1orescuttle shatch. and swept over the
top OF the house to the mainmast Sever
al barrels of water-went down into tbe
forecastle and struck a hot cook stove.
Mf. Purlngton, who was in the cabin at
the tl1ne, came running up and said that
the DOW was stove in. Capt Small at
once put the hatch on, and lashed it
down, and luffed up SO the boat could
shake the water off. When the steam
cleared away SO could see the water was
about two feet deep ON the floor. 1t
looked hard for few minutes, but the
only thing to do was to keep cool. The
pumps were rigged and set to work, and
after time we surmounted the danger.
Meanwhile we kept off for the ships, as
we could hear the guns at constant in
tervals.
After passing Cod Ledge some two
miles we sighted the Monarch in the
mist, made toward her. and shortly saw
the Plymouth short distance to her lee
ward. The Captain of the Mon
arch wished me to see Admiral Farragut
and ask him to take charge of the ship
|
went ashore and found the Admiral at
the Falmouth, where he made his quar-
ters. The hotel corridors were filled
with reporters and other curious people
The Admiral planned to have the ships
come up the harbor two abreast On my
reminding him how we sailed in the Ter
ror (then the Agamenticus) from Ports
mouth some years before, and what bad
steering ship she was, he readily reca He'd
the trip. and with smile made his dis
positions accordingly. The Ply
mouth, Miantonomoh and Terror saluted
repeatedly during the progress up the
harbor. By one of these discharges, in
which sixty pounds of powder were
used, the glass windows in the pilot
house of the Miantonomoh were shatter
eel, and the captain and pilot driven
down the deck. The procession up to
the wharves was the greatest naval pa
geant ever seen in these waters, and one
never to be forgotten by those who wit
messed it. Thousands of people crowded
the wharves, and lined the streets through
which the funeral cortege passed ON its
way to City Hall, where the body of the
great philanthropist w as to lie in state
It was one of those beautiful days some
times seen in a New England winter,
when everything is encased in armor OF
frost :"
THE CRUISE FOR THE SEA SER
PENT.
HIn the summer of 1878, if remember
| rightly" writes Capt. Willard, "the
sea serpent was again reported, off Boon
Island this time. AS my boat was receiv
ing new rigging called on Capt. Paul,
of the yacht Viva to see if he would &c
out. He could not, but gave me the use
of his yacht to cruise as long as pleased.
got the following crew: <. D. Atwood,
Alex Taylor, Theophilus E. Smith and
one or two others, with Geo.. o. Gosse as
passenger. We cruised between Wood Is.
land and Boon Island the first day, an
ichoring at Wood island that night The
next morning we got under way, cruis
ing broad off to the eastward. Wher
off Seguin we heard that the serpent
had been seen the day before. We cruised
as far east as Monhegan Island, and no,
seeing anything came home. The same
day that we started for home, as WE
learned afterwards, the serpent was seer
about eight or ten miles to the eastward
of us. He was seen by two or three cap
tains of fishing vessels. They were il
sight of him some two or three hours,
} and one If the schooners started in search
but the wind going light could not gair
on him. All who saw him give the same
J description of his head and neck, and say
he was going about four miles an hour
but as to the body and length they vary.
, They agree that he was seen only on calm
/ hot days.
J 81 was we'll prepared with all kinds O.
: implements and four. hundred fathoms O.
line, and had made up my mind not tt
) harpoon him until near enough to ths
head to strike between the eyes and des
troy his sight at the first stroke, and talk
my chances to back off from the lashing,
| of his tail. When clear of the tail, I would
/ give him all of the line by putting hal
barrels on each one hundred fathom sec
GlOn. linen COulu WdGCn MS movements
} from the first half barrel and wait and le
l the iron do the killing But the chanc
) to test this plan never came. This sea
} son the serpent came to the coast will
the herring and went east into the Ba7
of Fundy, in which he was seen seyera
times during the summer He went of
the coast when the herring went. TIL
g last time he was reported was by one O
I our New York steamers when With,
: about thirty miles of Cape Cod. 1t is IN,
opinion that his native home is deep il
the ocean and that he only comes I'D afte
4 food, near the surface, and perhaps a
long intervals. If not a real sea serpen
he has head and neck resembling one
e and is certainly strange monster of tn
g deep.
CAPTURE OF THE SUN FISH.
In July, 1898, Capt. Willard went ou
with the following party for deep sea fish
| ing: f. D. Rogers, George Thayer, CAPT
H. E. Willard, Edward Keene, F. Fl
Little, and II. A. Clay. "W
first went to the eastern part of Rock Co