Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1900-02-10


II remember" said L. "and that the
seamen OF Columbus thought ~ |
were sent by heaven to stay their |
course"
with an approving smile. 1T is pleas
ant to meet one like you, Rodney, who
has read that which is worth reading,
and remembers IT,"
THE Gulf Stream" said Weston,
joining in the conversation, is great
current about sixty miles broad,
caused by the trade winds, which al
ways blow from east to west 1t is
sues from the Gulf between Cape Flor
ida and Cuba, and runs at the rate OF
three knots an hour along the shores
OF South and North America, till the
Newfoundland bank turns 1t to the
southeast; SO everywhere its track is
known by that gulf-weed which you
now see floating past"
1t is by this mysterious current
this mighty river that trayerses the
ocean-that the timber logs Of the st.
Lawrence, the wrecks of the old plate
| argosies, and the carved idols OF older
Mexico and the Caribbean Isles, all
covered with the weeds and barnacles
OF long immersion, have been cast
upon the western shores of Scotland
and the Hebrides.
Every morning the weather became
warmer-the sea and sky more clear
| the atmosphere more rarefied. The
| wind was so steady that scarcely a
sheet or tack was altered. Thus for
several days we bore on with both
sheets aft, as the phrase is. when run
ming right before the wind.
Shoals of porpoises plunged across
the bows of the brig in the sapphire
colored sea, and when It was smooth
whole feet OF the little nautili
passed us with purple sails up; nor
were the dark and gliding sharks and
the silyery fying-fish wanting at times
TO keep my attention excited; and the
tiny petrels, as they came tripping
along, half in the water and half In
the air. kept pace with the Eugene
as she cracked ON under a press Of
SAIL dashing the waves around her
ploughing so freely and so fearlessly
the deep waters that hide finny worlS
and wash the dark and unknown base
ments of the earth.
One glorious morning, when We wer
within a few days sail of Hispaniola
there occurred circumstance whicl
was afterward source of the deepes
regret to us all; how and why, will b
shown during the progress Of my story
The day was fine. even for that re
E gion of fine days The Eugene wa
running smoothly before the wind, an
Hislop, with considerable animation
; was detailing to the captain and m
O the appearance of that rare phenome
r non, a lunar rainbow, which, by sir
: gular good fortune, he had once see
d In these ATTITUDES, and which Aristotl
i declares is never seen but at the tim
a OF the full moon-a declaration whic
a our learned Scotch mate treated wit
contempt: for he was strange fe
n low, this Marc Hislop, and could wit
q equal facility dilate on the Apology
Il Plato and the method of elub-haulir
2, a square-rigged vessel. or steering h
l. to her anchor in a gale of wind; c
AZ the Prometheus of Eschylus, or Il
IS proper mode of lying too in a hurT
n. cane. with everything struck aloft, al
~ topsail yards on the cap; and now,
10 the subject OF the lunar rainbow,
80 was proceeding to quote from q
A Portuguese Pilot of Ramusio, VIII,
.. Weston interrupted him by haiiii
al aloft:
,o "Fore-top-th there"
~ AYE, aye. sir" was the usual 7
Spouse from Ned Carlton, a seams
:. who was perched in the top.
" L. l,n nnrt tni,od L