Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-11-07
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But we were fast sweeping to tn,
northward. The West India island
were passed, and | ceased to think o
the English brig as lowering any
where near our path.
One night, however, when we wert
almost up with Bermuda, | dreame,
Of going on board the Catherwood
and seeing her crew in the most terri
bic distress. | have little faith il
dreams, vet 50 vivid was the impres
sion conveyed by the one in question
that during all the following watch
them was able to rise upon his feet.
After being carefully lifted on ou
deck, they showed an anxiety to inform
us OF others of their vessels crew VIII,
were somewhere drifting in a like con
dition. Three or four of us ran aloft
away up to the royal mast heads.
In moment or two we hailed tn,
deck, announcing Il discovery, and the
ship was headed for the forlorn object
which We made out upon the distant
waters.
We came down from our lookout tc
find one of the five poor sufferers al
ready dying, and our kind-hearted
tars doing all in their power to allie.
viate the misery of the others.
That portion Of the wreck for
which we were steering was soon visi-
BILE to all hands, and as we hove To
and towed it alongside with our boat,
it was seen that among the nine per-
sons who lay upon it were a woman
and a boy.
Until this moment | had not con-
nected the Catherwood with the tragic
scene, but the sight of these two in.
spired q sudden thought of her, and
recalled my dream of the night be-
fore.
Yet that they could be Mrs. Dore
and her son appeared almost impossi-
ble-this CHASTITY woman and boy
who resembled nothing living that !
had ever seen before.
The child appeared at the point oi
death, but the woman, although very
weak, seemed to have bone up better
than any other of the sufferers. She
could speak with no great difficulty,
and her first words, upon being hand
ed over the ships side, were those Of
anxiety Tor her boy.
do not mind me now she said
ATTEND TO him. Oh, do not tell m,
that he is past help
Still, we could not see in her Mrs
Dore, or in her son the little lad we
had SO petted rs most welcome Wis
itor only few weeks before.
But presently she added
1--WE belong to the brig Gather
wood. | remember your faces.
came on board your ship off Brazil
Save my poor boy Oh, to lose him
now, after all this suffering !"
Her woeful, sunken eyes were
wholly dry, as she spoke, but those oI
our honest sailors were moist indeed
In the meantime, one of the unfor
tunates had already breathed his las
OH our deck, ard most of the other:
looked as if they must soon follow
HIM.
There were now Is remaining, fiv,
of whom died within three days bu
Capt. Dore, with his wife and boy
and five of the foremost hands, begar
slowly to mend
They told us that the CatherwooC
had been caught in hurricane TO tn,
southwest Of Bermuda. Her mast.
were swept by the board, and she be
came water-logged, but the oil she haC
below prevented her sinking. Th'
casks, however, thumped so heavil,
as, after some days, to start the deck
which, breaking into two parts, float
ed with the crew, the remainder OF tn,
vessel going down.
There had been % persons on board
Of whom three were lost in the hurri
cane, while eight had died OF starva
ton before our ship hove in sight
the only morsel of food tasted by tn
sufferers during their ordeal of /
days having been the carcass of
small dog belonging TO the captain.
\ week after the rescue, we place.
the survivors safe on shore at our owl
port, where in a few months they re
gained their former strength.
Capt. Dore, being under no nece:
sity OF returning to England, accepted
the command of a fine American
whaleman, while Arthur, as intelli
gent as modest, became the most pop
ular boy in the school Of his suburban
neighborhOod.
BY the time had told the maste
the story, the boys had all gathere'
around /; and left them standing
with looks OF admiring sympathy
about their little marine associate, VIII
had seen and suffered So much NOR
than themselves. - Golden DAYS.
felt my spirits oppressed by a melan