The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-05

and lockers for spare sails and stays
and halyards, so that repairs can be
made should any OF her canvas blow
away. The Spray left Boston April "A.
1895, and steeTed for Gloucester. where
a quantity Of fish OIL was secured for the
trip. 1t is recorded In the log book that
this oil was never once used, but was
poured on the ground at F~airhaven,
Conn, at the end of the long voyage.
After leaving Gloucester the Spray sail
ed for Cape Sable and then made "A
quick voyage to Fayal. in the Azores. 1t
was not until he reached Gibraltar that
the captain began TO have adventures.
The first thing I ran against on
reaching the rock was a British health
officer said the captain, "and my eX-
perience with him taught me that the
only way to get along with some en-
glishmen is to quarrel with them first.
1 had no bill OF health and that was
what the officer objected to. He said /
had come from Fayal. where a lot OF
measley Italians lived, n he pre-
stunned / had brought along a lot OF dis
ease germs.
II asked him IL I didn't look healthy
enough and IL his own common sense
didn't tell him that / had been long
enough on the trip to catch any old dis
ease that had wandered abroad. He
had to admit IL and | made "A landing.
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baronets. including Lord Brassey, n
we all went over and visited Ceuta.
They warned me not to attempt the
Mediterranean for fear of the Rif pi-
rates, who are always on the lookout
to attack any small craft. So after
leaving Gibraltar | sailed for Pernam-
buco and from there ran down the coast
To Rio Janeiro. Then | sailed for Mon
tevideo. l stranded on a sandbar of
that port. OF course | foated of all
right, and II was a lucky accident. for
a dry dock man in Montevideo offered
TO dry dock my boat and repair her and
give me 800 for the privilege. 1t was
the first chance | had To make any
money line / left Boston. He made
money On It, too. for he charged every
one for looking at the o
From Montev1deo I sailed for Sandy
Point, a Gillian settlement in Pata-
gonna. A trader / met there told me to
look out for the pirates in the Straits
OF Magellan. 1t took me five days 10
get through the strits. | saw the pi-
rates. or people ] took for pirates. They
looked savage enough. ] Changed my
clothes frequently at this time 10 max
them think there was more than one
man In the Sprays crew. When off
Cape Pillar, at the western end OF the
passage. ] met a Northwestern that drove
me back 10 Terre del Fuego. and | had
TO make the trip through the straits
again. This time l was caught in "A
gale and had TO heave to near one Of
the Islands. Then / saw the pirate with
the black beard that / had been warned
against. He came out to the Spray I'm
"A canoe with two squaws. The squaws
asked for food and | went into the cabin
and returned with some jerked beef.
They ate II r~avenously. The pirate in
the meantime had come aboard and j
RanOht him lnnEtnU af my rita with
longing eyes.
He wanted to know how many line
II woul shoot. and ] told him he could
not count the times-whfch was true.
He wanted to handle 1t, but ! picked It
up, r%emarking that 1t might go of. He
then wanted TO see the cook and asked
about the rest Of the crew. I told him
they were below. but barred his way to
the cabin. He made as II to walk to-
ward me and over his shoulder / caught
sight OF the squaws making significant
gestures TO me. They were winking
and g~esticulating toward Black Beard
as IL to say, Look out for him ] took
the hint and told the man IL was time
TO start and that he must get aboard his
canoe. He looked at me and then left
reluctantly.
once through the straits | headed
for Juan Fernandez, where Robinson
and his man Friday held forth.
| found IS natives there and the island
in a prosperous condition. One OF the
was a Portuguese whaler,
who had settled on the island. He rails
ed produce and took IL 300 miles i'm his
little sloop to a market.
"Apia, in the Samoan Islands. where
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevens lives. was
my mex port. l had a very pleasant
visit from Mrs. Stevens, who gave me
the volume Of Sailing Directions I'm the
Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean.
from the library Of her late husband.
See. here IL is"
on the fly leaf Mrs. Stevenson had
These books have been read
and reread by my husband. and | feel
sure that he would be pleased to have
them passed on to the sort of seafaring
man whom he loved above all others"
Mrs. Stevenson conferred a great ia
vor on me-" continued the captain. "by
permitting me TO cut down one of the
trees on her place To make a
boom for the flying jib, az | had dis
covered that the Spray would carry one
ease.
1T would take too long TO give you
detailed account of all my wanderings
after leaving Samoa. ! visited Sydney
and Melbourne. Australia, and Tas-
and the Keeling islands. / visit
"a Port Natal and Cape Town, then
from St. Helena. and from there
made a fair passage for Grenada. From
Grenada | sailed TO Newport. X. L.. then
o Fair Haven and New York."-New
York sun.