Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-03-10
proceeded mrthodically to f,sh them

prOcccueo mcInOClcalIy 10 usn them
on board
We procured strong lines. baited tn.
hooks with pieces OF pork, lashing
thereto buoy formed OF common
cork, and lowered four OF them over
the stern.
They had scarcely touched the
water. when amid furious tapping
of heavy pinions, they were eagerly
swallowed; the hooks and lines began
to bear taughtly, and we soon had four
gigantic albatrosses splashing the
water into froth in their Intellectual
efforts to escape
We towed them in, hand over hand,
and after measurement found the
smallest to be eleven feet from the tip
OF one wing to the tip OF the other.
Though rank and fishy In flavor. the
flesh of these birds was made into
sea-pies, on which the crew were re-
called for two days after, and they par
took OF it with great apparent relish.
But Jack is not very particular, es-
pecially when at sea-
Though none OF the crew shared the
superstition connected with the de-
struction of an albatross, and probably
none, save Hislop and myself, knew
the splendid ballad written by Coler-
idge, 1t would seem as IL our misfor-
tunes commenced with that days wan
ton SPORT
The huge sea birds became shy and
left us. The sun set amid saffron-col-
ored waves, and the western sky was
ali afiame, when the sails began to
fill and collapse as the wind came in
heavy puffs. causing the masts to sway
from side to side, and the bellying
courses to crack and flap with a sound
like thunder.
At last there came steady breeze;
the courses were left fall. and with
both sheets aft. for the wind was fair,
the Eugene once more walked through
the shining waters.
| Full, round, and silvery the moon
arose. and tipped with liquid light
! every wave, that seemed to dance on
ward with the brig, which in half an
hour had the snow-white foam flying
I in sheets over her catheads.
II was about the hour of / in the
morning that the horrible events
which l am about to relate occurred.
! was in the middle watch, relieving
| Weston, who, as the tropical dews
were heavy. always ordered Billy the
J cabin boy to give me a glass of bran
| dy-and-water before going on deck, fol-
fear of ague, and then he turned in.
The sullen Spaniard Antonio was a,
the wheel. Tom Lambourne, Ned Carl
ton and ! were walking to and fro
lettering at times, and looking at the
| compass to see how she headed-now
| aloft to observe how the sails drew
anon over the side, where the water
bubbled merrily past. or ahead at the
patch OF blue and star-studded sky
which was visible under the leach Of
the fore-course, as the briggs bow filled
every now and then, and she rolled
heavily from side to side, as all yes.
sells do when running before the wind
All was very still, for, save the bub
BILE of the water In the wake astern
OF gurgle as it surged up in the rud
der case. the creaking of block, OF
the iron sings of the lower yards, no
a sound stole upon the first hour O
the silent morning.
Two of the albatrosses we has
caught were hanging by the legs from
the gallows-top abaft the foremost
where their great extended wing
swung somewhat mournfully to ant
fro In the wind and by the motion O
the ship.
(To be continued)