El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-19
CONTINUED from last SATURDAY.
CHAPTER vi.

Forum
ate Isles.
Some days after this we passed ,
carraca, as the Portuguese name thos,
large and round built vessels which
they send to Brazil and the Indies. an6
. which are alike adapted for burden
fighting and sailing
On exchanging the bearfngs-which
when vessels pass each other, are usu-
ally chalked on a blackboard hung
over the quarter-Weston and Hislor
found considerable difference be-
tween the Portuguese and ours; but
never doubling that we were correct
they bore On without hailing the car
raca, as we passed each other on oppo-
Site tacks under press of sail.
The weather continued cloudy, and
an increased difference was found on
exchanging the latitude and longitude
with another vessel next morning.
Then, after an observation at noon,
Weston found that for more than fifty
hours the Eugene had been going sew
eral miles to the southeast of her due
course
The compass was Immediately over
hauled by Hislop, who found that the
standard Of the needle was loose.
On that night there commenced a
long course of head winds and foul
weather, during which the COMPASS
never worked properly, and the CAP
tain and mate found, by the solar OBJ
servation, that we had drifted so far
70 1eeward as to be somewhere between
the parallels Of % degrees and % de-
grees 35 minutes north
Tattooed Tom and old Roberts the
enough to give me the entire blame of
all this, in consequence of having fired
one day at some of Mother Cary's
chickens; an action, they averred
which never failed to give the craft of
the perpetrator a head wind for the
remainder Of her voyage-if she ever
finished it at all.
IF this foul weather holds for an
other day." said Weston, as he trod the
deck with a sulkiness quite profession
al under the circumstances, 1--WE shall
see land sooner than I wished"
Land!' l reiterated, Frightening at
the idea more than he relished
Yes, some part of the Canaries-
santa Cruz de la Palma, most likely;
but we shall have very rough weather
before another sun rises. 1 know well |
the signs, Mr.. Rodney. Don't you see
what is brewing yonder, Hislop?" he |
said In low voice to his mate
GU say just what old Roberts, Tat |
tooed Tom, and 1 were observing for |
ward, replied Hislop. I'VE have not |
all OF us seen hurricane off the west |
coast OF Africa, a tornado in the
Wlndward Is'es, and a REGULAR roaring
pampero off the Rio de la Plata. with
put learning something-eh captain ?"
Il hope not! so remember that this
gloomy weather, with the wind lulling
away and then coming again in. hot
gusts with a moaning sound-in my
part OF England we name it the call
'ng of the sea'-are always signs of a
coming squalI.''
AS the night closed in, the canvas on
ne brig was reduced, the royals were
struck and the yards sent on deck:
he dead lights were shipped on the
tern windows; the quarter boat was
loisted within the taffrail, and there
ashed hard and fast, for there were in
reas1ng tokens of coming tempest.
md ere midnight it came with a ven
'eance.
The sky at first was all a deep. dark
Iue, wonderfully dark for that region.
nd the stars, especially the planets.
hone with singular cIearness and
eauty; but in the northwest quarter
the heavens we could see the coming
last {
From the horizon to the zenith. there
rose with terrible rapidity a mighty
ank of sable cloud, forming a vast {
nd gloomy arch, at the base of which
pale and phosphorescent light SEEM
to play upon the heaving sea.
Ibis light frightened and sunk al
Now it would shoot down q
ara with lurid glare, steadily and I
rlII1antly, under the flying vapor. and j
len 1t died away with an opal tint. y
Sheet lightning of pale and CHASTITY
reen, extending over ten or twelve :
o1nts of the horizon, flashed and plav- b
upon 1t. Then we heard the rush
rain, as If great lake had been b
Ill1ng from a vast hight into the sea. e
Id the next the roar of the mighty
asst; while furrowing up the ocean in a
passage, the tempest came swoop-
g down upon us and around us in a .
'ec1es of whirlwind.
BraVely the Eugene met it, for her F
ptain and men handled her nobly.
she had her topgallant sails furled 7
II courses up, the topsai1s lowered
ION the cap, and the reef tackles close v
IT, but she swayed fearfully when
reen1ng beneath the hot breath of
e mighty blast and riding over those e:
ack mountains of water, which in r.
rec succession it impelled toward "
II. High she went over a sloping g
eet or foam one moment, and the
At saw her plunging into a deep,
ack valley of that midnight sea; SO
ep that the wind seemed to pass over