Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-08-10

nador placed the entire menage a my
disposal with a courtesy as charming
a. II WAS rare. II chose Ia stroll by
nlvsclf l might have owned the island,
SO entirely was left to my own free
but to clap my hands and the coloners
orderly, repe, would appear some
where in the near distance, with the
information that | would find the
colonel or the senorita in such place.
u seems. as | look back upon il. that
! must have idled away u great deal of
precious time; but this was really not
the ease. When they asked me what |
would like 10 do, that first Monday
morning, I mentioned being very fond
of sailing, and i'm a few moments we
were in one of the proas. with native
who sailed the thing like an arrow
across the smooth water and along the
coast Ia Orotc.
Ii was rather a primitive affair. as
far as construction went, but strong
enough Ia stand pretty heavy weather.
The hull had been followed out Of a
tree trunk and Was pointed at each
end. On the lee side il was rounded
like any other boat, but To windward
il Was perpendicularly Hat. dashed
across the gunwales about four feet
from each end were two straight limbs
Of tree that looked like teak, eight
feet long; and these at the outer e>-
tremity were dashed Ia a rounded and
sharpened boom of the same wood.
The sail, of cocoa mating, Was tri-
angular one. which seemed out Of all
proportion Ia the narrow hull beneath
IL. There was a stout bamboo mast in
the middle. and from this hung n
smaller and longer pole which
formed the upper side of the sails tri-
angle. NEE ling the lower one in n point
at the bow. where they were secursl
like iib. The immense spread of sail
pulled us through the water AT such a
rate that ] feared we might upset, but
the colonel laughed at me.
''Eet ecs impossible Ia upset him,
Senior Stefans." he said. 81 hat seen
the Wind lift him clear out of the
water, even the outrigCer also. but he
does come down every time upon his
feet. The hull so light is that the out
riggcr booms cannot tear of them
selves loose"
"But isn't il very difficult TO sail in
anything like straight line? |
should think she'd make an awful lot
OF leeway."
"Not so. senior; Get ees not so. Turn
YOU Yourself around and watch the top
Of Santa Rosa mountain. You will see
a piece Of yellow rock on Punta de los
Amanirs. Just below. Pedro will sal:
him ten miles into the sea. yet the
peak and that rock shall he exactly in
line all OF the time. DO you but watch
him vera close"
For half an hour ] did watch. and
am bound 10 say tie two points didn't
bulge an Iucn Ia the right or left of the
vertical line. This settled the leeway
question in my mind. and | took such
liking TO the craft that determined
to own one. I asked the colonel what
they we're worth.
what. oue like this? But n few
pesos. senior. But l never have heard
of one being sold. Ecch man builds
his own"
"Hmpf. Did you ever build one,
colonel:"
"l-el gobcrnador! Por Dios. YOU do
but laugh al me! Pedro, how many OF
the proas have ] at Agana?"
"All are the gobernador's, excel
encia."
And nov many has el Senior Stefans
while he remains at Agana?"
"All ofShe gobernador's. excelen.
cia."
"Por Dios. IL Is true, senor."
well. that is exceeding kind, must
say. But. you see, colonel, I am very
| fond of sailing and ] should like tc