The evening times., 1897-11-24

! | ceeds pro rata. There was man anon,
them who claimed to be navigator, an.
VINO put the idea into their heads aDs
pushed them along. When the mutiaeef,
mad made their object known Capt. Cor
don fegan TO argue with them, hut with
out any show of temper. He doubted tha,
any one or them could navigate the bars
10 port pr act as her captain sea and
Ne pointed out that 1t would te impossai,l.
Ior Them to dispose of craft or cargo. He
looked upoL the affair as a notion on
Their part. aud offered to double their al
'owanc.; or erog in case they would alan
don It, Whsn they refused ne offered an
increase OF wages but they persisted ami
he folded lis hands and turned away.
Ar. Shtelds was dumb with indigna ton
am surprise. and was ready To ,s,cs
him IN vigorous effort to put the crew
down an restore dis cipline We he
sought Capt. Gordon t. take a firm
staDc, but. he refused to raise a hand.
The heart had gene out of him, anu he had
no nGre courage than a baby. We two,
beirg well armed, could have driven tn.
crew hack to duty. but to attempt such
Course against the wishes of the can
tain would have laid us liable to heavy
punishment, and wrecked an v future .e-ors
Is. We had To stand idle While he
CUaxed and argued mol Could W. ars,,ss
the man even when the mutineers lowered
one OF the QUarterboats and announced
their intention to set US adrift. They
p'ovisloned the boat foi two weeks, gar.
US oars and sail and a compass, and
Just at sunset we were forced in and
Sent adrift, the bark being then abou,
80 miles from the nearest land. Before
'aK'hg MS pace In the boat the captain
mace farewell speech To the nell He
sain he had tired to use them in Accord .ass
! with the new light which had Come In
/ hirl- and that the Lord would punish
them for their ingratitude He boped.
however. that the punishment would not Ia
too severe. and that he would hear IT them
| as humoiy repentiug the error OF thei,
ways
His remarks were received with riilicuIe
and Contempt, and some Of the men were
Overhau!ing the cabin as we showed off.
No sooner were we clear of the barb
than night fell, and The breeze died away.
| AMI az the captain stretched himself out
TO sleep taking the affair as IL IL were
an everyday occurrence, Shields suggested
| plan to me. 1t was to hover abDm
the bark until midnight and then t1ke
three men in So doing, the circumstances.
would bear us out. Each of us had a
revolver. while none OF the men had a
fire-arIa, and at least half Of their numbe,
would be drunk and incapa bic OF resistan nee
The plan was duly laid and would M.
doubt have succeeded, but that a sauaH
came mp as We were edging down Oh the
bark, and the squall ended in stiff
breeze, which set heavy Sea running.
and socn lost US sight of the ship.
All night long VT ran before the gale
which car.e from the westward, ana Capt
Gordon slept tile hours away until th.
sun came up. He was then for making
for the Azores, to the southwark, but
Shields announced his determination to
follow the stip to the cuast OF Prazn, II
need he, t. recover possession. His nautical
Instruments, clothing, books, and quite a
sun, of m"rey-everytiing he was Dos
sessed os-had been left behind. and he
cared more tc regain his own than to re-
co-er the HopeweIl for her captain. For a
quarter Of an hour Capt. Gordou Iectured
him On the siu Of profanity in-te,nrer.
desiie for rer-nge- etc, aud was stll at it
when Mr.. Shields jumped UP and began
raving and cursing in an awful way. He
ca:ieG this captain coward. imhecil-,
IDIOT, and ether names, and wound up by
Threatening tc drown him if Re inter
fer-d further.
This cnrsing seemed to wake the man
out of dream. and it wasn't ali hour
before he was berating his oft-heart-.,-
ness and Expressing desire To get aboard
the 5ars and teach the nutin-ers u lesson.
We carried the gale for twenty. ..nr
hours, and then for the next da Y and nigh:
we mad light airs. This fact enabled us
L. Come up with the "IIOpewell," though
a> IL having folio W ed n her Wa K tiI..r. ua>
one chance in fifty, she had altered her
conr eb, many paints. Wesighted her sn6n
after sunrise. and our plan was to sail b..l.l
ly ON AMI beard her. In this Capt. ,inrdcn
was asteei, and we might have pussessed
her heIUTe noon had not one of the StraJr
est things happened to defeat our Plans
We were within five miles of the bark,
and stealing along on a dying breeze, when
a whale suddenly rose under he boat and
sent her d dozen feet int. the air.
All three 81 us came down amidst TIL.
length. and as We flcated beside HIN, he
turned on nis side and died. The fish was
about sixtyfive feet long and Rad two
last to him Our boat was complete
wreck. and nc sooner did we realize that
the monster was dead han we taught hold
Of the lilies and scrambled to his broad
lack We We're safe there for th,. tiu:t.
being. but our position WAS desperateone
We we're without food or water, lnd even
f TIE weathr- held fine and the big BODY
lid not sink, We must he cspied by some
passing ship within three or four days OF
the end wpu,l come. We were scarcely
inoard of the whale when the bfaeze lied
out altogether and the sea became as
Iuiet a. pond. By the use of 4 knife
To cut holes in the hide OF the leviathiIa
We stretched the life-lines along lis bark
{ a considerable sea got up. Wren that
ras finished we Could only wait.
Tie bark was in plain sight of Us, lying
,cca]msd. ahd IT was . o'clocE in the
'fterEOoE before we discovered that We
we're drawing nearer. / can't tell you
whether the ''IIopewell'' drfted down upon
he whale or vice versa. but the distance
ertainly decreased aud continued to lie
rcas-s, and when we saw this We lay down
Il full length for fear W. would be seen.
by 4 O'Clock in the afte rnoon the ship and
rhal- Were only h;lf mile apart. II
urhe'l out that about half the crew, taking
dvantage of the calIn had drunk them
Gives stupid, and the remainder were by no
means watchful. Thus it came about tnat
y" were not seeh until we could have
urled u stone across the strip OF water re
aeen. We were drifting together broadsiae