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too weak to work ship and a good deal or the labor had fallen on the shippers vigorous wife, who is a lineal descend- ant of the revolutionary heroine, Mol lie Stark. She did almost everything except go aloft. Her chief duty was at the wheel. The Kasbeck's men were made sick by the spectacle in the Cakes forcastle. Twelve utterly help less men lay in their hunks in various stages of delirium. Some had lost all their teeth. They were nursed by the sailors of the Kasbek until the ship got into Sandy Hook. The Kasbek's able searnen furled the old clippers sails and he was taken in tow. After she got into quarantine, Capt. Rect, nis wife, and those of hls men who were able to talk spun the yarn of rhe hap less ships protracted voyage. When she sailed from Hong Kong her crew were in goo1 health. The skipper was recovering from a paTalytic stroke. This affected his tongue and he was unable to talk so his men could readily understand him. He gave his orders to his wife, who has a good, deep sea voice, and She in turn gave '.hem to the men. In the China sea the ship was struck by two typhoons, which blew her out of her course. Capt, Reed had intended to sail by way of the Cape of Good Hope, but he was so for off his course that he decided to make for the Horn. He had very little lime juice and vegetables, but plenty of salt horse He had expected to make the whole voyage inside of the time it took him to reach Cape Horn. Light airs and calms held him back. He lost his Chinese cook by pneumonia. and in De- cecnbcr 1896. scurvy broke out in the forecast!e. Seaman Thomas King died of it on December 26. Thomas Olsen succumbed in January. Thomas Judge died on February IT. He wrote 2 letter in his delirium in which he said he be- lieved the captain was giving the sea- men something to make them swell up. and that he believed that the mate and the young Chinaman aft knew some thing about it. Mate Steven G. Bun ker and Seaman George King died in February. On March 1 only the skip per. his wife and the second and third mates were able to work. The wife kept the log. as neither of the mates were able to write because of swollen hands. A brisk gale sprung up, and the
 
 main topsail. Captain Reeds wife said that ab this period of the voyage she began her hardest work. The captain came to me- she said, in telling the ma rine reporters her experience, and asked me to take the wheel while he helped those on deck. I did so. It was bitter cold and I was not prepared for the weather, but I stuck to the wheel until my husband came aft and re- lieved me until I could go below and get big ulster of his to wrap myself in. I was steadily at it that day from ' o'clock until noon. I was pretty tired before I was relieved. I went back to the wheel after I had a little rest and something to eat
 Mrs. Reed worked gallantly for the helpless sailors, making broths and grueIs of oatmeal for them. They beg ged fer salt meat, but, as that would have added to their illness, they were not allowed to have it.
 'Lloyd's agent in New York read Of the heroism of the shippers wife and found that the story was not eXagg2r- ated. Lloyds decided that the heroism was worthy of recognition, so they au- thorized Capt. Clark to send her a med l al-S. A. Wood in Ainslees.