The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1900-07-17

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"hite or dusky specks according - ~
position of the sun.
Inc captain Of the San Idefonso nor
ceiVlng that Marc Hislop and were
sreat friends kindly placed us in the
same watch. 10 - 'n0
AS. AS Tor Antonio the Cubano, we never
w - near him if we could helm if
So vas placed in the cable tier. and
,ol more complete security. in the bill
ooeS' winch are iron shackles that com
He tne feet. However, we daily
a from the surgeon and from Fra
Anselmo' who was somewhat skilled in
Sursery, and who undertook his cure
D'uhy and mentally, that the wound
unuer the right armpit had proved
oiisnt' through the lungs had ESCAPED
"a o"iy but that the other in the
breast mad penetrated the feshv nor
ZION OF the heart, and was a very dan
serous one. The friar added that "the
NuDano 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 Ojeda, a most viii
famous looking, beetle browed and
squat little Californian, who seemed TO
De the worst character on board, and
was engaged in perpetual quarrels
a few days after crossing the tropic
OF Cancer on lovely afternoon. we
AGAIN saw the peak of Teneriffe light
ed up by the western sunshine and
rising Ike a cone Of red fame from the
blue sea.
The clouds seemed to rise with it,
and ere long we saw its base spread
ing out beneath them.
"Ternyreef aga'n!" l heard old Tom
Lambourne muttering, as he leaned
over the lee bow, with a short pipe in
his mouth. Dash my wig! / have
had a spell enough Of Tennyreef before
this!'
Manuel Gautier and Hlslop now came
with a party of seamen to get the an
chors off the forecastle to her bows.
This was no light task the reader may
be assured, for they were each about
forty-five hundred weight; and now
the ponderous cables ratified along the
deck as they were bent to the iron
rings.
We approached this singular island
from a point that was new to me; but
still its great and most familiar fea-
lures were the same as when l first
saw them from the deck of the Eu-
genie.
Estremera now reminded us that
when at Teneriife we should not fail to
visit the two great sights Of the island
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 starboard beam it almost died
away. As we crept 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-save
where girdled in midair by. light
floating vapor-seemed all of deep
violet tint dotted at its base by the
white walls of houses, or Of sugar mills
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.
By midnight we we're abreast of it,
and all was darkness at last save
where the millions of stars were spar
king in the wide blue dome of the
sky.
Hislop and l were in the morning
watch when the ship arrived off the
mouth of the harbor of Santa Cruz
that pretty town which Humboldt
termed the most beautiful between
Spain and the Indies.
A fash that broke the darkness, with
a light puff Of smoke floating away
from the old castle walls, indicated the
morning gun, and that dawn was Wis
ible.
II seemed as if it were but yesterday
when the Eugene and the Costa Rican
brig had worked out of the same har-
bor together, in the same species OF
dull twilight, and that all which had
passed since that time had been
dream.
We beat in with the breeze ahead.
The light of another day was rapidly
descending from the summit OF the
peak. and already that green girale
named the Region of Laurels was
shining in the sunbeam; so ere long we
saw the windows of the custom house,
which stands above the long mole, ana
all the shaded lattices of the terraceu
streets of Santa Cruz, glittering IN gold.
and purple sheen.
The anchors were ready to be let go;
tbe chain cables were ranged upon
deck in long coils that ran fore ana
~. we tackled repeatedly, and eacn
A.ooD,a cbnrtpT ana