The Republican journal., 1899-01-19

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l had not done for eight years. Anyone
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will help them and do tor them what 1t
has done for me-
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which no ship may sail, and if attempted
she might be held and helplessly drift
about in the weird mass. / have been
questioned about it a number of times,
and once by A lawyer, who was quite sur
prised when told that navigators do not
avoid that locality where the maps 90
into mourning shades and mark it '.SaI-
gossa sea, with implied advice to keep
oil the grass The facts OF the matter are
that there is d great deal of floating weed
between the parallels OF twenty and thir-
ty degrees, and from the longitude of
about thirty-fve westward .owards the
Gulf Strea m. The heaviest bodies Of it.
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said to be, but much further westward
just outside of the Gulf Stream, between
Bermuda and the Bahamas In that To-
cality, particularly in the spring, the
weed lays in RATS for miles and miles,
and someti mes looks to be foot deep,
but | do not think it ever retarded YES
sell S speed-it PARTS away at the bow ap-
parently as easily as the water. 1t is not
much like shore weed of any kind it is
finer and prettier, more dry and crispy,
more of golden color, and entirely lacks
the slippery slime Of rock weed
Any small and simple occurrence at sea
is more or less interesting, and what may
hardly be noticed on shore, or what at
best might be considered nuisance, be-
comes of importance in mid ocean Until
seventeen days out we had but one cat ;
she was very nice in her habits and was
fully believed to be of irreproachahle
character. The next day we had whole
family of handsome young cats on our
hands and no COW to furnish them with
food. 1t took a great deal of canned
milk, fish and meats to sustain the base
of supply for the younger ones, though
we caught many fish, from those that fly
to porpoises, the former catch them
selves by blindly flying on board, while
taking in a porpose is the liveliest and
most exciting catch that we ever have.
Altogether, on this passage, we caught
more fish than | ever before saw taken on
any one voyage. 1t is very rare that a
good fish is taken from tropical surface
waters; they are nearly all very dry and
have rank taste. Dolphin are abomn-
able; flying fish are rather better than a
fresh herring and much resemble them in
looks and size. When a boy, with
healthy boys appetite, was ratherlfond
of porpoise, and especially SO after long
time on sea fare. They weigh three or
four hundred pounds, the meat looks
much like the coarse and leaner parts of
beef, only in color it is much darker.
One morning, many years ago, | struck
porpoise from the martingale and after
nearly being dro wned myself we got him
aboard. As dinner time came near, and
the cook was preparing lot of the meat
in different ways, my hunger almost got
away with me and my anticipations of
Thanksgiving dinner for that day were
most keen | was the second mate, and
always had what was left from the cap
tain S table. There was Spanish pas
senger on board and he was disagreeably
laxative. When he came up from dinner,
and it was just coming my turn to go
down, he remarked 81 don't like that
porpoise, it tastes like fish OIL" 1t no
doubt shows weakness on my part, but
| ate no dinner that day and have never
eaten porpoise since.
After sailing from Portland on the pres
ent voyage l reviewed all the newspapers
of the month or so that had passed, with
their frightful head lines and stirring
war-news, and then made them into a
nice bundle ready to give to some home
ward bounderjif roml a long voyage, or
perhaps to some cruising whaler, in case
we should fall in with either. The very
first vessel that we came within speaking
distance of was Spanish clipper bark
entine, just at the very hour of crossing
the Line. We were close hauled, with
light sails in, while the Spaniard, being
light loaded, with wind on the starboard
quarter and all sail set, was making good
time to the nOrthWard and for one of his