Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-04-26
DICK RODNEY: !
Or. The Adventures of
An Eton Boy.
RY JAMES GRANT.
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An Eton Boy.
ny JAMES, GRANT.

/ hull-doWn, appearing for time like
white or dusky specks. according to the
| position OF the sun
The captain Of the San Ildefonso per-
ceiving that Marc Hislop and | were
great friends kindly placed us In the
same watch
As FOR Antonio the Cuhano, we never
went near him If we could help 1t.
tie was placed In the cable tier, and
TOT more complete security in the bill
boes, which are iron shackles that con-
fine the feet. However, we daily
heard from the surgeon and from Fra
Anselmo, who was somewhat skilled in
surgery, and who undertook his cure
bodily and mentally, that the wound
under the right armpit had proved
slight, through the lungs had escaped
narrowly, but that the other In the
breast had penetrated the fieshy por-
tion of the heart, and was very dan
gerous one. The friar added that ''the
Cubano was not one of those men who
are easily killed and thus he would
recover rapidly"
We also heard that Antonio was well
cared for, as he had discovered one or
two friends among the crew, such as
the seaman Benito 0jeda, a most viii
famous looking, beetle browed and
squat little Catalonian, who seemed to
be the worst character on board, and
was engaged in perpetual quarrels.
few days after crossing the tropic
of Cancer, on a lovely afternoon, we
again saw the peak OF Teneriffe light
ed up by the western sunshine and
rising like a cone Of red flame from the
blue sea
The clouds seemed to rise with It,
and ere long we saw its base spread
Ing out beneath them.
Tennyreef aga'n!" | heard old Tom
Lambourne muttering, as he leaned
over the lee bow, with short pipe in
his mouth. Dash my wig! / have
had spell enough of Tennyreef before
this!"
Manuel Gautier and Hlslop now came
with party Of seamen to get the an
chors off the forecaste to her bows.
This was no light task, the reader may
be assured, for they were each about
forty-fye hundred weight; and now
the ponderous cables rattled along the
deck as they were bent to the iron
rings.
We approached this singular Island
from point that was new to me; but
still its great and most familiar fea-
lures were the same as when | first
saw them from the deck of the Eu-
genie.
Estremera now reminded us that
when at Teneriffe we should not fail to
the Valley of the Diamond and the
old Dragon tree of Caora
The wind was fresh and fair, but
felt light after sunset: and when the
high land of the Grand Canary was on
our starboafd beam 1t almost died
away. As We erept on we saw the
lighthouse at the base of La Montana
Rexo, which In the warm sunset seem
ed to have turned into blood or port
wine, so deeply crimson was the glow
} that fingered on the clouds and on the
/ shore; and then the vast peak-savt
4 where girdled in midair by a ligh
7 floating vapor-seemed all of a deeI
violet tint dotted at its base by thu
white walls of houses. or Of sugar mills
Z and by groves of cocoa and rosewood
trees
: Darkness was soon there, but still
) the sunset fingered in rays of fire up
: on the mighty peak OF Adam, on which
the eye never tired of gazing.
j BY midnight we were abreast of 1t
l and all was darkness at last saw,
! where the millions of stars were spar
e Killing in the wide blue dome of tn,
: sky
y Hislop and | were In the morning
Il watch when the ship arrived off tn
mouth of the harbor of Santa Cruz
e that pretty town which Humbold
J. termed the most beautiful between
@ Spain and the Indies.
g flash that broke the darkness, witt
IL light puff of smoke floating ava.
d from the old castle walls, indicated tn
!, morning gun, and that dawn was Wis
ible.
y 1t seemed as II 1t were but yesterda.
!? brig had worked out of the same har
It Dor together, in the same species o
Ii dull twilight. and that all which ha
passed since that time had been
e dream.
d We beat in with the breeze ahead
,e The light of another day was rapid
n descending from the summit of tn
e peak, and already that green grid
named the Region Of Laurels wa
shining in the sunbeam; SO ere long W
saw the windows Of the custom hous
which stands above the long mole, an
10 all the shaded lattices of the terrace
lie streets of Santa Cruz, glittering In gol
d. and purple sheen.
" The anchors were ready to be let g
the chain cables were ranged upo
st deck in long coils that ran fore an
n aft; we tackled repeatedly, and eac
n time the taeks became shorter an
lg more frequent
ne Ready about Presto! down wiz
N the helm-let fly the head-sheets
1e were the orders heard ineessant
TX from Estremera and Manuel Gautier.
1e The yards slowed around sharply ar
I the canvas tapped with sound Ill
Or the cracking of musketry; at last q
ps anchor was let go about half mi
el from the shore in thirty fathoms