Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-01-20

~"hso river ohe missed stays and
got sternway, so you see, sir. it was
soon all over with her after that"
Howl do not understand"
Don't you know what sternway is?
what do they teach folks ashore? She
was taken aback in the hnrricane-the
most dangerous thing that can happen
TO any yessel-a sudden shift OF wind
threw her on her broadside In the
trough OF the sea. and with her deck
toward the storm, SO her matches were
soon beaten in-all the sooner that
she was driven on a coral reef near
the Sharks Nose, where the sea was
like a sheet OF foam around her.
Five poor fellows were washed
away and drowned: but when day
broke. and the storm abated little,
the captain, six men and ] got ashore
In the long boat. Just as the poor Ar
row began to break up, for we could
see the waves beating into her and
rendlng asunder the decks, the inner
and outer sheathing. as II they couldn't
scatter the cargo fast enough far and
wide.
We'll. there We were, shipwrecked
In wild place on the west coast OF
Africa, at part of the Congo river
where the mangroye trees grow into
the water, and have their lower
branches covered with oysters and bar
naeles.
I'VE could see high blue hills In the
distance when the sun came up from
the cane swamps and the wild woods
which bordered the river. and We sat
on the beach for a while looking rue
fully a, the wreck. OF which little now
remained bu, few timbers. TIL the
increase Of the morning heat drove US
for shelter into grove Of oil-palms,
and there, Master Rodney, We found
tulips. lilies and hyaoinths growing
, wild, and six times larger than you
ever saw in England.
Some OF our men proposed that we
, should repair the longboat-she was
partly stove inland put to sea, or
/ creep In along the coast until We were
, picked up We were without carpen-
|. ter's tools: but the captain had case
of surgical instruments, and the frs'
use we made OF the saw was TO cut into
{ halves an iron buoy which had hoatee
: ashore from the wreck.
G THUS we had two kettles, In which
y We boiled some seabirds and theil
eggs. and made mess whereupon We
y breakfasted. Exhausted by the late
: storm. the birds were easily knocked
L down by stones as they sat with droop
ing wings upon the rocks near the sea
hut scarcely was our miserable mea
over when we heard loud yells. and
attracted by the smoke of our fire
: down came n whole gang of ugly dar
E. lies all Musgolongos. wild and naked
II with rings or fishbones in their loni
s ears and fat noses-all streaked wit
II war-patnt and shouting like madmel
e as they brandishad their muskets an
IS spears.
5. "They fired volley. which stretche
Is IN the earth the poor captain and a
d nv shipmates. dead or dying. The la'
., ter they soon dispatched with thei
IS knives and spears. and left them to 0
t. eaten by wild animals, but on findin
that I had escaped their bullets. the
II supposed that their fetish had pre-
lie ,ected me. and so for time was SAT-
"For 4 whole week | was forced
N help these savages in The work OF tai
lg ing all that remained of the wreck
ID nieces. though hundreds came frol
rs The interior. and they wrought har'
az some men using even their filed teet
nj IN get all the iron and copper bolt
lie which they priced more than the ca
so sails or spars. as they could fasf
l, ion them Into weapons and the heat
~ spears and arrows. But with ever!
er thing they could lay their dingy hant
anon. myself included, they made o
"a ,pland. tust as vessel, which prove
ne 10 be a kings ship. came round II
l. sharks Nose. and thus, with he'll
s. nroteetion and liberty at hand, / WI
10 more than ever prisoner
st 81 was in very low spirits, you ma
a he sure. fearing they only intended
" fatten me up. like Stalled OK, or
turtle in a tub. before cooking an
le, eating me, or making me sacrifice
q" some idol carved oi Wopu, toa bi"i
times saw the whole 'tarnal tribe G
nj their knees before the figure-head
ne the Arrow. which had been wash'
rs ashore. and was pronounced to be
:, fetish.
Id "For three days We travelled amor
w. deem and simy-green swamps, THO
10 wild woods and immense pathle
re canehrakes. where in an hour sa
al more tree leopards and xebras, how
49, ing iackals and antelopes, GRIMM
>" monkeys and chattering paroque'
o' ,han ever we're seen in all the shov
y. at Greenwich fair, till we arrived at
~ rraal Of hundred huts, for all u
=. world like plcsties, surrounded by
"' b,eh pallsade OF bamboos, and situate
a. In a forest of palms
y, "J was now the Rlave OF chi'
,s whose rigging was RI her queer, for
an consisted only of deep fringe or XII
I'd NJ upplaited grass, necklace OF liof
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