Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-03-17

How do not understand.
Don't you know what sternway Is?
What do they teach folks ashore? She
was taken aback in the hurricane-the
most dangerous thing that can happen
10 any vesSel-a sudden shift of wind
threw her on her broadside in the
trough of the sea. and with her deck
toward the storm. SO her matches were
soon beaten in-all the sooner that
she was driven on coral reef near
the Sharks Nose. where the sea was
like sheet of foam around her.
Five poor fellows were washed
away ana drowned; but when day
! broke. and the storm abated little.
the captain. six men and | got ashore
in the long boat. just as the poor Ar
TOW began 10 break up. for we could
see the waves beating into her and
rendins asunder the decks. the inner
/ and outer sheathing. as il they couldn't
scatter the cargo fast enough far and
wide.
We'll. there We We're. shipwrecked
in a wild place on the west coast of
Africa, at a part of the Congo river
where the mangrove trees grow into
the water. and have their lower
/ branches covered with oysters and bar
nacles.
We could see high blue hills in the
: distance when the sun came up from
the cane swamps and the wild woods
which bordered the river and We sat
on the beach for while looking rue
I fully at the wreck of which little now
remained but d few timbers. till the
I increase of the morning heat drove us
for shelter into a grove Of oil-palms.
and there Master Rodney. we found
tulips. lilies and Eyacinths growing
/ wild, and six times larger than you
ever saw in England.
/ Some of our men proposed that we
should repair the lOIgDOat-she was
partly stove in-and put 10 sea. or
} creep in along the coast until We were
! picked up We were without carpen-
ter's tools: but the captain had case
/ of surgical instruments, and the inst
/ use we made of the saw was to cut into
i halves an iron buoy which had tioated
! ashore from the wreck.
Thus we had two kettles. in which
we boiled some seabirds and their
eggs. and made Il mess whereupon We
breakfasted. Exhausted by the late
storm. the birds were easily knocked
down by stones as they sat with droop-
ing wings upon the rocks near the sea;
I but scarcely was our miserable meal
/ over when We heard loud yells, and,
attracted by the smoke Of our fire,
down came Il whole sang of ugly dar-
kies. all MussolongOs. wild and naked.
with rings or fshbones in their long
ears and fiat noses-all Streaked with
war-paint and shouting like madmen
as they brandished their muskets and
spears.
They fired a volley. which stretched
on the earth the poor captain and all
my shipmates. dead or dying. The lat
ter they soon dispatched with their
knives and spears. and left them 10 be
eaten by wild animals: but on finding
that | had escaped their bullets, they
supposed that their fetish had pro-
For whole week was forced to
help these savages in the work of tax
ing all that remained of the wreck to
pieces. though hundreds came from
the interior. and they wrought hard
some men using even their filed teeth
TO get all the iron and copper bolts
which they priced more than the car
go. sails or sparS. as they could fash
ion them into weapons and the heads
of spears and arrows But with every.
thing they could lay their dingy hand.
upon. myself included, they made of
inland, just as a vessel. which proved
10 he a kings ship. came round tn,
Sharks Nose, and thus, with help
protection and liberty at hand, | wa.
more than ever prisoner.
Il was in very low spirits. YOU ma,
he sure fearing they only intended I,
fatten me up. like a stalled OK. or
turtle in tub before cooking an,
eating me. or making me sacrifice t.
some idol carved of wood; for man.
times | saw the whole tarnal tribe OIL
their knees before the figure-head o
the Arrow. which had been washe
ashore and was pronounced to be
fetish
For three days We travelled anon
, deep and slimy-green swampS, thicl
wild woods and immense pathles
= canebrakes. where in an hour ! sa,
more tree leopards and zebras. howl
v ing jackals and antelOpes. GRIMM
Z monkeys and chatterng paroquet:
8 than ever were seen in. all the show
{ ut Greenwich fair. till we arrived at
: kraal Of "A hundred huts. for all tn
t world like pissties. surrounded by
high paIisade of bamboOs, and situate
: in forest of palms.
~ was now the slave of chic
II whose rigging was rather queer, for
n consisted only of deep fringe. or Kill
d of unplaited grass. a necklace OF lion
teeth and fshbones. and a cap Of leoI
d ards skin. on which lowered IL plum
It of feathers. above row OF huma
1t teeth and sea shells.
r. Being rope-ended by an inch-ant
e a-haf collage or keelhauled once
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