The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-04


screaming in a torment of cramps.
AT that moment man in a white serge
cassock. which reached to his heels, came
out OF one of the forecastle doors, and
walked rapidly across to the new victim.
He was a long lean man, with a hawks
nose and bright. large eyes. The skin OF
his face was like baggy yellow leather,
and IT was dry with fever. AS he knelt
beside the writhing sailor / saw the metal
crucifix nearly fall from his thin hands
through biack-water fever (which Is own
brother to yellow Jack. j judged that
from human point of view he was be-
having with exquisite foolishness in med
ding with first-crop cholera patients.
But / respected him a good deal for all
that, and went and got opium and acetate
of lead and gave the man on the hatch
a swinging dose. 1t was useless thing
TO do, because the chap had got to die.
and one incurred ones own risk by go-
ing near him; but IL that bishop was
fool. / had got to be fool. too, and
there was en- end Of 1t.
Mark you. wasn't feeling bit fright
ened then. I'd been through cholera
cramp In India, and knew what my
chances WERE and was ready to face them
Without whimpering; though Of course
ia freely have given every farthing was
worth to have been snugly back In the
Kongo again. But the thing had got 20
be seen through. and L intended TO keep
my end somehow. I couldn't AFFORD to
die like a rat in a saualid hole like that.
had breakfast all to myself that morn
ing, because no one else turned up; and
afterward the captain did me the honor
to call me into consultation. My Portu-
guesc is off color. but speak enough to
get along with.
~You English know so much about these
things" he said.
I'VE keep clean ships" I answered,
|. "and when everything goes wrong on
them we do not lose our heads. Also we
try TO trace our way back to the root
of evils. How did this plague start?"
''You must have brought It on board at
Banana. We had none in the ship before
you came"
1--WE did not bring It, There Is no chol-
era In the Kongo now And, moreover.
| your passenger boys are none OF them
| sick We must try back further"
We did that together laboriousiy; and
| at last traced thu mischief TO that fatal
case Of baccalhao, which had been ship
| ped at Bahia. an infected port: and had
7, this essence OF pest promptly thrown to
| the sharks. Next we went into the dues-
| ton OF hands.
| II have not enough fremen and trim
| mers left to man a single watch" said
| the captain. THE cholera hit the stoke
| hold first. The fellows who are working
| there now have stood three watches on
| end. and they are hardly making enough
| steam to give her steerage way"
IF you let your old beast of a tramp stop
go. - :. 49,. t,,,rre,.a ,,,.,,.s
~. - -. ,er,t -. ~, I'm ,,,,a,ara
IN, stars ,rnrdertng ona another The
| niggers will begin"
Eyes, I know. wanted some of them
| to serve as hremen for good pay. But
/ they will not listen to me. do not think
! tbay undoretaoJ WIN Won coma ana trans
, ,.o,. a"ae'S'oou VIM YOU 'o'''' anu 'a'
W. too. r.vo,vers bo,a,ry than o.ten-
tat,a,s,v in o,,r nocksts Crossed me
d,vzv s,,,sh,ne ~ ths iovvsr ,nain dscis
| I'm, n.vrns. On ,ba foracas tls head xare
| ana ,tsrt,,sy tnyether ,ixs a fair Of moukeys
! h1r thay ceased when W.. came mn. ana
stared a. ia with faces working with ex-
! element.
| (Which be head manY' asked.
| A blg ss,lcv stood forward. hat In hand.
~ M for head man. sar.'
! tola him hands ware wanted for the
stoka hold. and that the GORGEOUS pay OF
four shillings English per diem was Of
| fered
/ .xya No ~ for stole sar Z" said ha ,syys
gen,lemen wild money sar' We passenger
| bows. sar.'.
/ "verv well daddy, sa,d I. '.Rut stoke
| vou,ve sot 10 And n YOU won't DO /,
| ciyiIly voutu do Il the other way. Now,
| INV frien'. pick me out twelve good. strong
| bovs N Won don't do II. IN shoot YOU
| dead. one time; II they won't work, IN
/ shoot them You quite sayvyg"
| w. vot tha men. ana they went of 70
/ the stoka-hold frightened and raging.
| poor Sretehes eight OF them toppIed over
| IN Inc uext twenty-four hours. and half q
| aav later tha engines stopped for the las,
| Tine I was smoking industriousiv under
| Ina allsvway. and Toriorr came ana ioafod
| nsar me
..I,m n bully ane engineer. aren't ~
| s.,a ha
| ..yyhat do vou neanYs
avail. rm tha best man that's Jeff OF
| an nur crowd that's all They're every
| s,n,,sr ~ thsr, ,s.,aa hiark msn. white ner
| ana portuxuese Where are we nowe''
| sssian hang under the equator. Thai
r.oun,sin ,oo ssickins out ~ the wate,
- sar Thnnas.
| .s,rhar T,,, ,sy ,hsre I. saB T>nraoer ,srhi.
1 ,,,s,st,a, sassr,,,s. ,,avss rst sbe 800
| s,.a,r ana sho vx-o,,ltn,t saIl N there v,as
| 90. vs,ca x.nJrh fb.ra isuit 4 shau tar,
| 80 a, ,na hoats ara skin You'd hette.
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