The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-03-11

nave since neaTu OF santos, 40 NOT
suppose he was.
"Well, sir, my first mate was with
me, and he said he felt sick, and went
and got some run to keep his courage
up 1t Is a bad thing to drink rum in
Santos Next morning he and six of
our passengers We're dead. l wanted to
bury them decently on shore or in the
harbor; but the fools that called them
selves the government wounldn't allow
it-as if one dead body more or less
mattered then; so l made the engineer
get up steam, and we sewed the corpses
up in sailcloth, with plenty of scrap
iron, and dashed them out over the gum
wales and so we went out to sea. The
niggers we passed in the fishing boats
howled that we were death ship"
1" should think you were!" said l.
eve were afterwards. When we got
mile or so from land, read few
prayers the best could think of, and
then man went around and cut the
lashings, and we laid our course for
New York; but you bet we had time
of it before we got there. We took the
fever with us, and we had no doctor on
board and 1t would not have mattered
| much II we had had. The crew went
mad one after the other. 1t began with
the flremen; they dropped down dead
with the shovels in their hands. Then
one man with the fever on him jumped
overheard to get out of his misery. At
ter that they all did. I put some of
them in irons when they tried it, but
they just died raging mad in few
hours, so I gave it up. We only landed
M rf al tho
passengers we took on board at Santos,
and but for fine weather we would
never have reached port at all, we were
so short handed. Once we got out of
the tropics we lost no more, though
He thoughtfully expectorated into
spittoon at his feet and found it adj
visable to go on deck, whittier he soon
followed me.
| Carlisle Bay, with it's shipping, and
the hills of Barbados were fast disap-
pearing behind us as the little tramp,
with the strong trade wind behind her,
| plunged ahead through the sparkling
waves, blue tourmaline color in their
| depths, shading off to the green OF an
aquamarine where their tops grew thin
and transparent. Our bows were point
ed straight towards the setting sun,
and black cloud Of smoke poured
from the funnel, showing that the en-
gineer was firing UP. He had dined
with us, and I wondered what he felt
like in the engine room and how a
temperature of one hundred degrees or
so would agree with that cream sauce.
1--WE will be off Castries about four
O'clock tomorrow morning" said the
| "a nj in, tsT a M crofror n Of
The harbor master will take you ashore
! in his boat, but you will not find it easy
to pass away the time till daylight.
Your folks are all up on the Morne
Fortunee, and you can't get up there in
the dark. There is a sort Of hotel in
Castries where you might be able to
knock somebody up, but doubt it,
ooh, never mind said I; 81 can
rough 1t. 1t will not be like Santos,
anyhow"
you're right there, sir. I've seen Gu
rious things happen in these waters
too. dare say, now, you have been on
Pelican Island?"
THE quarantine station?" said T..
"Oh, yes, have seen it. Undressing
| little place it is, too"
well now, I'll tell you story about
that, that I'll venture to say you have
never heard before. 1t happened years
ago, and I do not think there ever
were many who knew the rights of it.
Light your pipe If you like sir. MOI
| Well maybe you're right. I should not
feel had had my dinner if didn't get
a smoke after 1t.
There was young fellow who came
ayJt 10 Do, <J-r, - L.
ager in one Of the firms that trade in
Bridgetown. They promised him a
good salary, for he belonged to their
London house, and I suppose he was a
smart business man. He knew he
would have a lonely time of it out here
and he could well afford wife so he
| brought one out with him-a little Eng
lish girl. I have heard from those who
saw her that she was real fond of him
and he of her, and they We're wonder
fully taken with the strangeness and
the newness of everything they saw.
You see, when one first comes out to
the tropics ones health is good, and
you have the cold climates energy in
you, and IL you do not take an interest
in things then-why, you never will.
Now, about that time a bark had
come in from Santos, forty-t three days
out, with clean bill of health for the
voyage, and so she had not been quar-
antined. When they began to unload
the ballast to fill UP with sugar, one of
the men fell i'll, and then another; so
the captain took them up to the town
hospital, and there they died of yellow
fever, and were buried in great hurry
and nothing said about it, for fear peo-
pie should be frightened.
'The health officer went on board the
bark and he soon found what was the
matter The ballast was all Santos
earth-full of fever, no doubt. He had
the matches of the hold battened down
and sealed, and then he telegraphed to
the owners asking for power to hire a
schooner and put the well men on
board of her, while the bark was taken
out to sea and the ballast jettisoned.
But the owners sent word back that 1t
was no business Of theirs, and the col
ony might do what it liked; they had
no money to waste in hiring schooners
because a lot of sailors were afraid of
yellow fever.
'By this time a lot of the men were
ill, so the government bought couple
of marques from the military and
pitched them on Pelican Island-one
for the sick men and one for the well
ones; and they sent q doctor to live
with them, and to see that no one left
| Il, Al. - H.