The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-12-21
Ten NatiOnalities Represented On
the Steamship Wenning-
ton Hall.
THIRTY DIFFERENT RELIGIONS.
Captain Wants to Lose Them, But Cant t.
The Strange Voyage Of
Cosmopolitan Craft

ThaG sailed the Wlntfy sea;
Her crew was the queerest, mixed-up lot
That ever man did see.
And there is more truth than poetry
in that. The Wennington Hall ar
rived yesterday. She came from un-
pronounoable Tjilatjap, in the far
away island of Java, and stopped en-
route, at New York, where her tor
mented captain sought relief but
found it not
H0stler IL the name Of the master of
the Wennington Hall, and he has had
more to contend with IN the past three
months than any skipper that sailed
the sea. 1t was all the fault of that
polyglot crew.
The Wennington Hall sailed from
Tjilatjap on September 25 last, and
cast anchor at Colombo, ia the island
of Ceylon. There, Captain Hostler,
who wanted Lascar crew, found that
the Lascars cared not to sail away. He
had TO do the best he could-and that
best was the remarkable collection he
now has on board his ship.
Think of it'll Ten different nation
alities, land three times as many differ
ent religions, confined to the narrow
limits of the steamer deck, and out of
sight of land! That was Captain
Hostler's predicament, exactly; and
he thinks it wonderful that he ever
made port.
The personnel of this crew is as fol-
lows: Six Lascars, eight Kutch men,
two Persians, seven Algerians, six
Chinese, ten Arabs, one Frenchman,
one German, one Zanzibar man, and
several Englishmen.
That's study in ethpology for you,
that's worth your time. But however
puzzling may be the divisions of ma.
tionalitv among the heather members
OF the crew, it "isn't in it" with the
subdivisions of religious belief. The
nationalitles represented are eubdi-
vlded, until there are "a many shades
of belief as there are men in the crew.
There are five kinds of Mahometans
aud six varieties of Buddhists. Each
religion has different food and DIFF
ferent hour for meals. When the
hour comes for religious services,
each man goes off to himself, and does
his own peculiar devotions.
The clashes between the different
religions have been frequent on the
voyage, and drastic measures had to
ba employed in each case to prevent
the outbreak of a miniature holy war
While going up the Red sea, Jain
stoker boss told a Kutch man to "step
lively" The Kutch man felt so hu-
inflated at taking orders from a man
of different religion, that he tried to
jump overheard. The incidents of
the voyage would fill large volume.
AtNew York, Captain Hostler hoped
the men would all desert, but they
fooled him. Never a one left. He is
bound to carry them back to the place
of shipment. The heathens heard it
was warm down here, and that ts just
what they wanted. If they should
lose themselves in the "Acre" or some
other locality, the captain wouldn't
object.
And "B.bi." Bib is the prettiest
thing in feline shape that ever came
to Brunswick. Bib is the Hind0o-
stance for "lady - and it is the name
of Persian cat which Captain Hos
tier keeps in his cabin. The value OF
Bibi-there are few like her in exist.
.ence-is 100 in good, American
money, but you couldn't buy her for
twice the sum. She is one Of the at.