The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-24
A T KS Ii
LANDLUBBER
Yarn of a Deep-Sea
Skipper.
GREEN HANDS ADVENTURE
Strange Meeting in Honolulu A
Mate Who Served in Sing
Sng--A Fight AIofr.

i've carried some mighty queer fell |
lows before tie mast in my time" sad |
-Le oeep-Mater captain as he made |
Iimsef comfortable in an easy chair at |
a sofI drink dIspensary along the wa
-er-front yesterday afternoon.
Il don't doubt it for minute" re-
Piled the SIX pper in the coasting trade
as he sat down beside his friend and !
allied for two glasses of butter-mlIk
I've SHIPPED some rum specimens my
self and I've been TO sea for going on
thirty years. But don't let me inter-
rupt what you were going to say, cap
tain"
AS was saying" continued the
| deep-water man, I've carried some
/ peculiar characters and / can tell you
1 cat l keep a sharp lookout these days
| Of the men / take aboard. It's no
4 pleasant matter, I assure you, when
| you are going to be five or six months
1t sea to have a blooming landlubber
1 the forecastle. Every man counts
aboard ship and when one fellows no
| recount be kind of demoralizes the rest
| IF the crew. 'Tisn't always the 'luo-
oer's fault that he's no good, he may
| De smarter'n Jupiter at figuring and
fishing up words and all that kind of
| hing and he may be the son of the
mayor of Boston or clergymans
| hopeful. but If he's no sailor and
worse'n that, don't want to learn how
| to be a sailor. why then deliver me
from sailing in the same ship with
him."
You're right, captain" put in the
| skipper in the coasting trade, land
that reminds me-
well! AS / was going to tell you"
went on the deep-water salt, ignoring
the interruption. II can spin you a
yarn that's true as Gospel. and the fell
lows right here in Honolulu who can
prove 1t. I saw him only this morn
ing and passed the time of day with
him. He didn't look as IL he'd ever
been to sea in his life and he shook
hands with me and offered me cigar
as polite and kindly like as il I'd never
cussed and swore at him aboard ship
in my life. / never was more surprised
IN my days than when / saw the young
, chap in Honolulu. Why Hello cap
n tain! says he, Guess you don't recog-
, nize me as the young fellow who ship
ped with you out of New York several
years ago?' But / did. by thunder, and
1 recoIlected his name, too.
That fellow came aboard my ship
in New York as a green hand. He was
!, all dressed up when he asked me for a
!, chance to work his way to Australia
laughed in his face and called him
a dude. He got mad and said he'd
show me whether or not he could work
and he went forward, pulled off his
\, dudes buds and borrowed a jumper
r and a pair of dungarees from one OF
the sailors Then he turned to and
worked with the next man getting VI
sails out of the sail-locker.
Well I took him. We were bound
for Rio de Janeiro with a general car
60 Ny green hand had a chance tC
a prove himself the second night out OF
Long Island Sound when we ran int
a 4 juicy gale. 1 saw he wasn't afraid o
!, work so thought I'd give him bette
chance and 1 put him to painting th'
cabin and doing fancy work He wa
all right on the fancy racket but I mus
al say he took his own time. In fact i
took him from New York to Rio q
I'D Janeiro to paint and decorate tn
a cabin.
,, when we put in at Rio at the en-
"a, of seven or eight weeks, we anchore
out in the stream so as not to let tn
ay men ashore. and unloaded in lighters
mi made my green hand the nigh
Waterman gave him a gun and tol
him to keep the crew aboard if he va
ued my good will. He did it for 81
.or weeks and had several lively SCRAP
with the men and with crimps VIII
used to come alongside and try to ste;
my crew. He shot the fingers off tt
!. hand of one crimp as he was climbin
26 over the side one night and anoth'
time he let the blooming anchor dow
2 with a rush on their boat and smashe
4 il all to splinters-we only had OF
10 mudhook in the stream at the time.
Is HE was in tight places sometime
Is but he held the crew until one night
o Russian-Finn got away, by cuttiI
% loose a fender and floating ashore,
found out afterwards, but / was
q mad as a pirate at the time and belle
1 ed my green hand had gone back
me. and 1 told him so. I also told hi
7 I'd get even for his trickery.
II Next day he tried To get ashore
II one of the lighters, but fell through
81 open hatchway between decks as
q was looking below for bundle he HI
% mid away He bruised himself up te
rbly, though he broke no bones. l W
ashore at the time and found him
his bunk all bandaged up when / /
| turned aDOdTu. L went 10 MS DUNK.
n =, really believed him to be shamming.
~, grabbed him by his leg to yank h
ma out of his bunk. 1t seemed that j 6
use hold of the bruised and battered lin
H. 1t must have hurt him, for he kick
ent' me in the jaw with his well leg a
rom tnocked mo over That made me ma
der with him than ever.
STA "On the voyage from Rio de Jane
eet, to Newcastle-we went in ballast 7
my green hand on the lookout. We
/. 2 pretty rough weather and ran amo
ing icebergs several hundred miles south
pai' the Cape of Good Hope. / guess
ing, didn't find il very comfortable forws
on the forecastle head on the look'
den in the cold weather. II was about
OF he could do to hold on in his batter
tory condition. When he recovered of
liha injuries he had no end of fights W
lam the crew, who hated him for havi
Iiv- stood guard over them In Rio.
liver "The Russian Finn-we recove
and him through the water police in Ri
10 swore to have his life. and tried to
To cut m