The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-22


sailors have ever entertained natural
contempt. He describes. with the wealth
Of detail peculiar to sailors, measures taxi
en- to claw the ship off a lee shore how
helm and sails were worked, what the pas
| sengers did and what he said. one pun
gent phrase-to be rendered later into:
What care these brawlers for the name
of king ?'-Strikes the managers ear. and
he stands behind the takers. Perhaps
| only one-tenth of the earnestly delivered,
hand-on-shoulder sea talk was actually
used of all that was automatically and I'M
/ consciously stored by the inland man who
knew all inland arts and crafts. Nor II
is too fanciful to imagine a halfturn TO
| the second listener as the mariner, ban
ming his luck as mariners Will, says there
are those who would not give a dot 10
poor man while they win Gay out ten TO see
a raree-shoy-a dead Indian. Were he in
foreign parts, as now he is in England. he
| could show people something in the way of
| strange fish. Is II to consider too curl
ously TO see a drink ensue on this mint
Ohe manager dealt but little in his plays
| with the sea at first hand, and his instinct
| for new words would have been walked by
| what he had already caughD, and Wich the
drink a sailors minute description of how
| he went across through the reefs to the
| island of his clamity-or islands rather, for
there were many? Some you Could al
most carry away In your pocket. They
were sown broadcast like-like the nut
| shell on the stage there. MANY islands,
| in truth" says the manager patiently,
| and afterward his Sebastian says to An
tonic: Il think he will carry the island
| home I'm his pocket and give it TO his son
| for an apple" To which Antonio answers:
And sowing the kernels of it in the sea
| bring forth more islands,"
but what was the land like SAYS the
| manager. The sailor tries to explain 1T
" wifi 4raII q 81
| ored Countrywide color, that is 10 say Of
| the coral beached, cedar-coVered Bermuda
| of to-day-"and the air made one sleepy,
and the place was fun of noises the NUT
| tering and roaring of the sea among the
| islands and between the reefs-'and there
was southwest wind that bstered one
| all over" The Elizabethan mariner would
| not distinguish finely between bsters and
! priclSly heat; but the Bermudan of to-day
| viii tell you that the SOU west or light
! house. wind in summer brings that plague
| and general discomfort That the coral
rock, battered by the sea, rings hollow
with strange sounds, answered by the
winds in the lttle cramped valleys, Is a
| matter of common knowledge
| The man, refreshed with more drink,
! then describes the geography of his land
| ing place-the spot where Trinculo makes
! his first appearance. He insists and rein
! eists on details which TO him az one time
| meant life or death, and the manager fol-
| lows attentively. He can give his audi
| ence no more than a few hangings and a
! placard for scenery, but that his lines
! shall lift them beyond that bare show to
| the place he would have them, the mana
| ger needs for himself the clearest possi-
! BILE understandiug-the most ample detail.
! He must see the scene i'm the round-Solid
/ ere he peoples it, Much doubtless, he
| discarded, but so closely did he keep 10
| his original informations that those who
! go to-day to a certain beach some two
| miles from Hamilton will find the stage
| set for Act II, Scene ?, of ''The Tempest
! "a bare beach, with the wind singing
| through the scrub al the lands edge a
! gap in the reefs wide enough for the pas
| sage of Stephano's butt of sack and (these
! eyes have seen iO cave in the coral
| within easy reach of the tide, whereto
such a butt might be conveniently rolled
/ C'My cellar is in a rock by the seaside
| where my wine Is hid'0. There is no other
cave for some two miles. Here's neither
| brush nor shrub one is exposed 10 the
wrath of You'd same black cloud" and
| here the currents strand wreckage. II
was so well done that, after three hum
bred years, a stray ripper, and no Shake
| speare scholar, recognized In a flash that
old first set of all.
So far good Up to this point the man
ager has gained little except some sug-
| gestlons for an opening scene, and some
! nOtiOH OF an uFlCdHIy lSldili- MT hAdIihSi
Zone cannot believe that Shakespeare was
mean in these little things is dipping to a
! deeper drunkenness. Suddenly he launches
! into preposterous tale of himself and his
| fellows, flung ashore, separated from their
! officers, horribly afraid of the devil-haunt-
/ ed beach of noises, with their heads fun
/ of the fumes of preached liquor. One
castaway was found hiding under the
ribs of a dead whale, which smclt horri-
bly,. They hauled him OUT by the legs
/ he mistook them for imps-and gave him
drink. And now discipline beng melted,
! they would strike out FOR themselves, defy
| their officers, and take possession of the
! island. The narrator's mates in this en-
! terprise were probably described as fools.
! He was the only sober man in the COM
pany.
So they went inland faring badly as
/ they staggered up and down this pestienc
! country. They were pricked with palmet-
| toes, and the cedar branches rasped their
/ faces. Then they found and stole some Of
! their officers clothes which were hanging
4 up to dry But presently they fell into
swamp, and, what was worse, into the
/ hands of their officers and the great ex-
/ petition ended in muck and mIre. Truly
an island bewitched. Else why their
cramps and sickness? Sack never made
a man more than reasonably drunk. He
was prepared TO answer for unlimited
sack; but what befel his stomach and
head was the purest magic that honest
man ever met
A drunken sailor OF to-day wandering
about Bermuda would probably sympa-
thize with him; and to-day, as then, If
! one takes the easiest inland road from
7 TrInculo's beach, near Hamilton. the path
that a drunken man would infalibly fol-
low, It ends abruptly in swamp. The one
point that our mariner did not dwell up
on was that he and the others were suf-
farfrn frnT o. lem IA col
with The effects Of nerve-shattering peril
and exposure. Hence the magic That a
wizard should control such an island was
demanded by the beliefs Of all seafarers
of that date.
Accept this theory. and you will con
cede that 1.-THE Tempest" came to the
manager sanely and normally ia the course
of his daily life. He may have been cast
ing about for a new play; he may have
purposed to vamp an old one-Say Azure.
Ito and Isabella" or he may have been
merely waiting on his Demon But 1t Is
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