Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-05-03
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Conclusion.

! have but little more to add, for
with this last episode the course OF
wild adventures upon which ! had
been so strangely hurried, nearly
closes.
few hours after the death of An
tonic, when Hislop and |, with Lam
bourne, Carlton and other survivors OF
the Eugene were waiting in the office
of the British consul, to make some ar
rangements for rewarding Jose Estre-
mera for his great kindness to us all
we met Captain the Hon. Egerton B.
of her majesty's ship Active, who was
so struck with our story that he offer
ed us all passage to England, an Of
fer we accepted with gratitude.
His ship was leaving the African
squadron, and returning home to be
repaired.
Rodney-Rodney," said he, ponder
ingly, when the consul introduced me.
you ought to have been a sailor, for
your name is well known in the SER
vice" and his words brought the mem
DRY of my poor mothers ambition
back to me, and / thought of the old
/ picture which hung In the dining room
at home.
After a brief conference with his
shipmates. Tattooed Tom now came
forward, and twirling his fragment of
a hat, said that "if the noble captain
had no objection, as he, Ned Carlton,
Probart and the other poor fellows of
h. 10 af-f nf hnrtb and
at uncommon low water they would
gladly ship aboard the Active and en-
ter her majesty's service.
Capt B., who saw at a glance that
they were all frst-class seamen, read
lily accepted the offer and promised
them the usual bounty, for which they
gave three loud cheers for the queen,
and it came from their Threats not the
less heartily that they were far away
from her and in a foreign land, all tat
tered as they were. with scarcely
shirt to their backs.
Heaven bless you, my lads" said
Hislop; this is the best thing you can
do; and believe me, Capt B, you
will find my old shipmates neither
waisters nor green hands, but thorough
A. BIS"
AS they all loved him, another cheer
for Hislop followed, and while the
captain went off to the Active in his I
gig, we all adjourned to a posado TO
have a friendly glass together.
Soon after, as the war steamer was
to sail that evening, a boat under a
came off for us, and then T
we babe farewell to Jose Estremera, /
to his mate, Manuel Gautier, to Fra T
Anselmo and the old governor OF Sura-
baya.
Come, Dick, We have no time TO
lose" said Hislop; let US be off to the
ship while daylight lasts"
| shall never forget my emotions of
Joy when the boat with Hislop and the
rest Of us came steering alongside the
Active
She was so clean, so trig so square
lloft; with the bright copper cleaning
n the water below; her black bulwarks
md red portfolios, through which her
;ixty-eights and thirty-twos peered
lbove the brine; the snow-white ham
mock cloths, with the gold epaulets of
he lieutenant of the watch glittering
above them; the relocated marines
IN the poop and forecastle; the great
icarlet ensign Of "Old England" float
ng at the gaff-peak, and that no part
If the Illusion might be wanting, a
little marine ffer. playing shrilly but
sweetly Home, Sweet Home" in one
# the boats that lay alongside, by the
suess-warp boom.
She was so thoroughly British In her
lspeet so unlike anything we had seen
n the seas We had traversed, that we
'elt at home the moment our feet
we're on the deck of good old English +
'ak-aye, as much at home as n we
stood upon the chalky South Foreland.
md saw the great hop fields of fertile
Kent at our feet, with the gray towers
# Dover and the white spires OF Deal
n the distance. Old Lambourne Ut
cred shout, and pointed to the Union
lack.
One must be abroad and far away to
'eel to the full the emotions that are
excited, and the confidence which is {
inspired on seeing the old flag, that has {
iWept every sea and shore. waving in
is pride from the gaff-peak of a Brit
sh man-of-war. /