Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-09-25

Pernambuco he dropped down to Rio Janeiro, thus still following the coast to Buenos Ayres. Here he ran aground, his first mishap since setting sail, though even this in the end proved q fortunate chance, as the owner of the dry dock at Buenos Ayres offered to dock the Spray, make all necessary re- pairs and pay one hundred dollars for the privilege. This was Capt. Slo- cum's first opportunity to turn an hon. est dollar, and he promptly accepted the offer The dry dock man charged everyone who came to look at the won derful little craft that had twice crossed the Atlantic, and So made very good thing out of the transac- ton himself Leaving Buenos Ayres, the Spray sailed for Chilian settle ment; called at Sandy Point, in Pat agonia. Here Capt Sloeum was warned to keep a sharp lookout for the Indians who infeg& the Straits of Magellan and prey upon small traders or shipwrecked sailors. The little yawl was five days in making her way through the straits. She fell in with the piratically disposed sayages, and the captain adopted the trick of changing his clothes every few min utes to give the impression that she carried large crew. It was tick. fish situation, and he narrowly es- capped capture and probable assasina- tion.
 At Cape Pillar, the western end of the passage, hard blow from the northwest came on, and the Spray, after buffeting it in vain, was driven back to the eastern entrance of the straits. On attempting the passage second time Capt. Slocum was more fortunate. Ia the very teeth of heavy wind he crept out ofthe danger ous channel. and laid his course for the Island of Juan Fernandez, made famous by Alexander Selkirk, the original of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
 Reaching Juan Fernandez, he found very prosperous little community. .ot some 8 persons, who, before they would allow their visitor to climb the rocks that form by far the largest part of the island, had him eat goats flesh. This, they maintained, would give him immunity from danger on the eIiffs.
 The next land at which the Spray touched was in the Samoa group. The run from Juan Fernandez to Samoa took 6 days. In this time 5000 miles were covered.
 In all his long voyage, Capt siocum declares he was able to get what sleep he required. At night he would simply set the yawl on her course, lash the wheel and go below and turn in. He encountered but very little bad wealth CT, and it was this fact that made it possible for him to leave the Spray to herself.
 From Samoa, Capt. sloeum sailed for New South Wales. Sydney was his first port. Leaving sydney he ran down to Tasmania. From there he doubled back up the coast and around to Queensland, and then through the Inner Barrier Reefs. Torres straits and on into the Indian ocean. Cross ing the Indian ocean, he touched at Keeling, Rodiguez and Mauri1ius is- lands. From the latter place he sailed for Natal. on the African coast. Quit ting Natal he dropped around 10 Cape Town. It was while he was at Cape Town that he first heard of the blow ing up of the Maine in Havana harbor.
 He was now rapidly nearing the completion of his cruise, for he was once more in the Atlantic ocean. The Spray covered the distance between Cape Town and St. Helena, her next run, in IS days, and continued on to Ascension island.
 It was after the Spray had left As- tension. and was headed for Granada, that she fell in with q United States man-of-war which Capt slocum now supposes to have been the Oregon. The stranger signaled him and asked if he had seen any Spanish cruisers. Capt Slocum, in ignorance that we were at war with Spain, thought if was some joke, and being rather of a humorist himself, promptly signaled back: No, but let us keep together for mutual protection"
 The Spray arrived at Granada on the morning of May g, 1898, having made the circuit of the world in three years and two months. From Granada she sailed north to Newport, R. l., thence to Fair Haven, Conn.,, and down to New York, where she is at present. and looking none the worse for her long journey.
 Horrible Traffic in Children.
 The Paris authorities have at last in- terfered to put a stop to horrible traf- fic in Italian children which has beea carried on for a considerable time by tamily named Valsa, says a Paris cor respondent. The Valsas used to get the Italian embassy to send them back to Naples as paupers, and there they