Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-01-27

day bold fair, and that so the ship
asked not much working
"But comrades all a.sitting round
this good sea coal fire. knowed ye ever
the time, specially in them seas, IL so
be as how some on ye hiss ever sailed SO
far" and here he cooked wicked eye
upon the kings marines and also on Sho
drinking with them-"1
say knowed ye ever the time when such
good fortune lastedH My lads all, we
was. us well rs we could make 1t, in
latitude 10 and 10 minutes, or about
1870 miles east of Cape Cumbodia, where
all that good fortune with that breeze
left us. by sundOwn the southwest
wind was gone, and i'm its place there
fell npon Ms Il northern wind, sweeping
down from Huinau and past the Para.
tals and making MS to bout ship and
run before il. for any part of Borneo we
rnuld reach And yet 1t was not thus
that our course was TO be determined.
for before the morning broke once more
the wind had changed again and was
ALLOWING southeast by east of the Ma
layan coast And shipmates, this here
were such storm as cut our sails to
ribhons--nay, in one event sending our
mainsail down the wind as easy as this
| silken ncckcrChcr | wear would go
down our English March wind, and we
could not even hope that our ship could
hold together much longer, but feared
that she must break to pieces. Like
| wise, too, we was in much distress, for
our longhoat was gone, and our other
boats must he dashed to bits against
the ships sides ere we could get them
| off
"'Will IL avail ms, Bunce, says our
captain to me, to fire the carronade,
think your Or are we ont of the line OF
commerce nowT
"'I think not, your honor, says j,
but there are in these seas but few
larger ships than ours. Even though
there should he Others near to rs, 1t
must be that they are in the same plight
as MS and but little able to give assist.
ance Yet, in the hopes that there
might he some Christian vessel near
unto ms, the captain babe the gunner
/ to fire signals Of distress.
"lf indeed there had been other vessels
near unto us, which we knowed AFTER
wards there was not, and they had been
in as bad case as was the Loving
Friend, II would have been hut little
help they could have given us, for,
mateys. ours We're sorry plight. Our
mainsail was, as | have related, gone.
G.. Nd L., .
was the worst evil of all, we had sprung
a leak, though as yet no one among the
sailors could find out where II was.
"But as the morning wore on the
wind did somewhat abate Of its fierce.
ness, and the clouds began to clear. and
at last the captain tried to take an oh
servation, which. however, he failed in
for still was the sun ohscured. Yet evei
was it noticeable to us that the storm
was past or passing, that indeed it
fury was spent. and that the wave
were becoming calmer and the ship No
rolling so In the sea. -4t..
"And now the captain, who was Civ
ing orders to the sailors to bring VI
some spare sails and loose canvas from
the hold. with which. II God was good
we might yet make the mainland
provided that the leak could be found
calls to me and says, 'Bos'n, come here.
And. going up to him, see that h
was alooking careful through his per
spective glass. .... .. .
I" 1t is still a haZy morn, says he
What do you make that ont to be
about, he goes on, two points off o,
our quarterr
~ takes myself long look. ship
mates. and sees something about tw
miles off. but what with the haze an
the mist ecoolar to them seas after
storm-and the still rolling of the shi
| could not at first make anything Z
II. But at last the captain il able t
see more clear, and then he says to me
"'By Gods grace. II is an island
though small one and bare Their
, Is nothing on it that can See excer
one tree. The rest Is sand.
"'Yet good enough, captain, says
! to lie by in and to refit. II we ca
make 1t. We can find the leak and sto
1t and so make for the mainland
81 doubt not that we shall max
it, replies the captain, but fortunat
indeed it is that we are well found wit
both water and provisions. for, so "a
rs l can see. on that island there
nothing but that one tree, and to me
locks not like fruit bearing one. An
: then he gives orders from the poo
where we was a.standing to give way
bit and to bear up gently for that II
land.
Friends all, we made that island
and being, as 1t were, half tide. "
gently beached our ship, Thus "
shorid at low tide be able to discov'
= where was the leak she had spruni
and to calk and repair it and at hig
: tide to float her off again.