The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-06-09
GARD Tom had tbe ilr,t vhe.l l. N, mia.

BOARD Tom had the frst wheel In the mid
| watch, and all the rest OF us lay aslee1
fofrad. The second mate had the dcoh
and was leaning over the weather rail
asleep, and the captain was below In the
cabin. About three bells Tom thought be
saw something moving on the weather
gangway, walking fore and aft, Hike q
man on watch. But as 1t was dark be
could not make out what IL was. So he
stood watching 1t, and as IL grew palmer
1t looked like man dressed In white, and
he was 30 scared that when 1t was four
bells he did not dare to call bic relief, but
stood looking to see what would happen.
About FIVE bells 1t disappeared, and Tom
was getting ready to hail for his relief
when up oame man out Of the cabin,
dressed In white flannel drawers and shirt
/ and white nightcap, and Tom thought 1t
was the skipper. It went to the weather
rail and looked into the face of the second
mate, who was leaning there asleep, and
| stood so for five minutes.
Now thought Tom, stand by for
squalls; the old man is goin to blow up
the second dickey for being asleep on
watch
"Just as he thought so the figure turned
looking after it, when suddenly the real
captain stuck his head up the companion
way and sang out:
Tom, how do you head therep'
ooh, the ghost! cried Tom, and fell
down in fit, and We had to work at him
o long time to bring him to. But things
got quiet again and the night passed of
without any more disturbance.
1.-The next day, about four bells In the
forenoon watch, the captain called for the
carpenter to bring small chisel into the
cabin, and ordered him to make two little
holes in the panels over the head of his
berth. Now, believe, he had spoken to
the ghost, and he had told him that was
what he haunted the brig for. At any
rate, we had no more trouble with the
ghost, and, as the captain was q wide
awake fellow for carrying sail, he cracked
away on her, SO that we made the River
Plate in fortnight We discharged our
cargo in Montevideo, and loaded again
with hides and horns and the forehold was
slowed with horns.
ave had been at Monteyideo about six
weeks, and were to sail in day or two,
when one day toward dusk was down in
the fo'oastl, and as I lay In my bunk I
heard the horns in the hold rattle as If
some one was tossing them about at q
great rate. Now we slowed them as tight
as they would wedge, and I thought the
demon himself eould not make them fetch
away; SO / determined to see what the
matter was. The next morning when the
matches were taken off l looked into the
forehold, and there the horns were wedged
Just as we had left themI
"That was enough for me, and I ran
away that day and went aboard q ship
bound for New York. Two days after the
Rising Sun sailed and in week we follow
ed her. We had been out to sea about three
weeks, and were just north of the line,
when one morning lookout aloft sang |
out, Sail, HOP We bore down on the craft
and about noon we got within speaking |
distance. She was brig, standing the |
same way we were, with all sail set, stun
sails on both sides, and yet she did not |
make much way.
"We hailed her, but she said nothing
We hailed again, but still she said not |
word, and we then saw that there were no |
men on her decks. So our captain spoke,
says he: They are all fast, keeping watch
below. Well turn them out before the
"a Is AhAip VIVA ponlu. huu Dd bGuU d UUHb
to board her, and I was one Of her crew.
AS soon as I got on her deck L knew her.
She was the Rising SUM- Everything on
the deck looked right and she was going
regular enough before the wind but there
was no living thing to be seen. Jackets
and shoes lay knocking about decks, as
they always do. The peoples chests were
all in the fo'castle, and the captains dun
mage was in the cabin, as If he had just
been writing Nothing was taken away
nor anything left adrift. Every rope was
Delayed right and coiled up regular, and
the decks were clear. The logbook lay
open in the first mates stateroom, and
pen with ink in it lay athwart 1t, and at
the end of the last days work, about q
week before, was this, "a strange man
seen on the forecastle' then mark,
as If he had begun to write something else.
That was enough for us. We hauled
of as quick as we could and got aboard
our own ship and made sail to get away,
when suddenly tall, black man appeared
IN the fo'castle Of the Rising Sun, walked
slowly aft, and then went down into the
,abin The brig gave heavy lurch to
1ort and went down head fo'most, and SO
'nded the voyage Of the haunted brig.
What became of her men nobody knew
They were never heard of to this day. -
New York News.