The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1896-01-03

afioat. | Will Keep you posted oi
our progress as often as | can get ;
chance TO write. Love to all.
DECEMBER 20, 1895
We are still drifting and are nov
about 200 miles from land, litt.,
south of the Columbia river. All day
yesterday was spent in ineffectua
efforts TO pass tow-line TO tht
"Strathnevis." When darkness cam,
on the work had TO be abandoned, anC
our captain sent up signals TO inform
the derelict that we would stand by
until morning. All night the "Mio'
vera" was running after the drifting
vessel, keeping her in sight, and this
morning the cork of passing a line
was resumed. The sea is still heavy
and it was only about noon that we
succeeded in picking up buoy thrown
over from the Strathnevis with line
attached. After hours of work the
cable from the Strsthnevis came in
sight, and just as We were sll con-
graduating ourselves on succeeding,
SNAP WENT THE LINE AND AWAY
WENT THE CABLE,
and we were Just in the position We
were thirty-six hours ago. The
anxiety of Captain Stott and his Off
GERS can be imagined. AS q last re,
course crew of six picked hands, in
charge of chief mate (sll with life belts
strapped round them powerful man,
were lowered in 8 small boat under
the lee OF the Miowera and they
managed TO secure small line thrown
over TO them by the Strathnevis. By
means Of it We have at length passed
the wire cable, and after forty-two
hours OF delay, just as night is falling,
we are under way again with the
Strathnevis following in our wake.
/ do not see any Cinnamon on her
deck. Some think that they are
battened under hatches; but others
who know the Chinese character best
sllege that they are below of their !
own free well, sleeping, or playing
''fsn tsn," awaiting death or deliver |
ance, as fate may send il. Captain |
Stott's course may be challenged as to |
whether he has done right or not in |
taking upon himself the responsibility /
In delaying Her Msjesty's mails and 1
involving the, Miowers's owners in 4
damages for breach of contract. On
the other hand there are 204 souls, a
new vessel and cargo drifting rapidly
IN s lee shore TO their inevitsble de-
'truction within four days. The pas
'engers all back him up in the course
le has taken, though il involves loss
md inconvenience TO them sill. For
ny part do not think there is civ
liZed community in the world thst
Ia ay1Hnrsn "A 70 ~ f,,Fs
I be takes the vessel in safely it will
'e one of the most unprecedented
vents of the kind in the history of
lavigation on the Pacific, and will be
big advertisement for the Canadian
Australian line. think We will pass
ape Flattery tomorrow night, and /.
Till land in Victoria on Sunday.
REAT SCOTT, ANOTHER BREAK,.
5 P. NJ, GOTH.
Our cable parted sgain half an hour I
fter We had started and everybody '
as in despair. Fortunately, IS the
IN declined, the wind aud sea went s
own. a boat was lowered, aud be- {
're it became too dark 10. see we had i
ten-inch Manila hawser and an L
s6CA ~ AC NNACAC A3SA " Tue lOn. w i
re now stesming along at the rate OF b
oout seven knots per hour, and il We {
, not strike gale off Cape Flattery r
he entrance 10 the Straits OF Fucs) v
e shall reach Victoria by Sunday u
TeniDg. l can imagine the disap- a
ointment Of the several tugs aud u
Gamers that are out north looking fl
r the missing vessel when they re- p
I'm and find her safe in port. learn {,
lat We were $50 miles from Victoria II
hen We made our last start. a
ack chart Of our steamer for the last
r.y eight hours look something like
chain with turns ami twists. Every I
ing Is now running smoothly and 7 a
L going 10 bed. II
Sunday night, Dec. q, 1885. o
We were anticipating 3 safe arrival :.
port this evening, bur our hopes q,
i've been blasted by heavy gale, :
ith rain, that is making the vessel VI
IL and pitch in q way that renders il :,
difficult; 10 keep ones n
ST snd write. Captain Stott has a
Isnged our course and We are now al
out TO sea, of Cape Flattery, II
the teeth OF the gale. His object is q,
get away as far from land as pos n
bic for fear of our hawsers breaking. h.
'ere they 10 snap now nothing could il
event the StrathneyiS from going a,
The rocks before she could be pick es
Up sgain. If this gale continues it
hand TO say how long We may have
beat of this coast before we can
tempt 10 enter the Straits Of Fuca. in
le passengers are taking the affair "
philosophically as possible. For ~
: part l am no~ going 70 bed. If m
e ship founders in the gale NAV as n
I'll De drowned comfortably in nv N,
nix ss anywhere else. 81
MONDAY A. NJ, DEC. -, 1885. VI
Inirty miles from s les shore. q q
* bound coast, snd parted from our 10
v. The strathnsvis and her pass ~
. er- and crew are doomed. When r
'ssd my letter isst night, | went ou
ck 10 have look ar the weather. II fr,
= like peering into dark cellar. y
e SKY was ink 6iack, the rain pour th
, IN torrents, aud the wind aud sea co
ing. The lights OF the Strathneyis yC
owed dimly = cable length astern. il!
neuues towering away above Us
4 sometimes away below, snd ",
ned IN feeling that there was 6isss- Sc
ahead. Between midnight aud | siI
D. the wind WAS blowing a gale, in
. the l0-inch manila hawser suau- be
like thread. We still held our les
' With the six-iDch wire cable. but yo
fTs nf hoff bnr,r .