The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-14
THE KNIGHT'SCRUISE
STEIN BRYAN TELLS OF TRIP TO
NOVA SCOTIA AND NEwFOUND-
LAND.
KNIGHT HOMEWARD BOUND.
WILL REACH SAVANNAH, 1T is Ex-
PECTED, NEXT WEEK.

The Trip n Most EnJOynble one.
Pleasant Social Attentions Paid
the Visitors by the People of Hall
fax-Mr. j. S. SchIey Gets n Caribou
But Breaks the demonstrating for
Cod Not Much SpOrt-knight's Ac-
cident in Newport HarbOr Due to
Absence of buoy.
Mr.. Stein Bryan, one of the party of
Savannahians who sailed from Savan-
nah July 20 on the Knight for a cruise
off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland,
arrived yesterday morning on the Tai
lahassee from New York. The remain
der of the party, DR.. and Mrs. j. G..
Van Martyr, Mr.. j. S. Schley. DR.. j.
N. Guerard, Capt. Usina. and Mr..
George w. Beckett are Savannah
bound and expected to reach home
about Sept. IS or 20.
Mr.. Bryan said that the whole party
has had most enjoyable trip, and has
lacked neither the pleasure nor the ex-
element that was anticipated. In tie
latter class can be placed the loss Ly
storm of a topmast off the Newfound-
land coast, a narrow escape from be-
ing cut in two by a huge steamer
which, despite a blanketing fog, at q
25-knot gait ploughed by the Knight,
and missed her by only thirty feet, and
the grounding of the schooner on the
rHcmme Dieu shoals while en- route
TO Newport on her return trip.
Lesser mishaps and experiences
didn't count, though in this class there
is peculiar one that deserves men
ton. 1t was while on the trip north
ward from Savannah that the Knight,
off the Delaware coast, 1870 miles from
land, became infested with swarm of
mosquitoes, that both sung and stung
in the orthodox mosquito fashion, and
made life burden to those aboard the
boat, until the following day, when
they disappeared as completely and
mysteriously as they had appeared.
Capt. Usina, though he has followed
the sea for nearly forty years, says
that he has never known of a similar
case before.
The Knight reached Halifax, her
first objective point. after being out
from Savannah thirteen days. Three
| days of this time was lost by the
schooner's getting $50 miles out of
her course, getting her bearings only
| after she had got into the Bay of
| Funday, and taking three days to beat
out of the fog that enVeloped her there
| At Halifax, said Mr. Bryan. the peo-
| pie were most hospitable. Almost be-
! fore the schooner had reached the dock
| invitations to innumerable social af-
| fairs were fairly showered upon the
visitors. Among these invitations
were those from the Royal Nova SEQ
| tia Yacht Squadron, the Halifax Club
| and the City Club, the chief social or
| CARNATIONS of the city. Many of these
invitations the Savannahians were
unable to accept. among them that of
the Sixty-third Rifles Band of eighty
seven pieces, which offered to come
| aboard and give a concert.
| Eight days were spent here, and then
| taking aboard a local pilot sail was
set for the Bay ST. George, $50 miles
| distant, to which the run was made
| in the record time of forty-four hours
Here some time was spent fishing for
trout in the Little Barachois and shoot
ing ducks until Mr.. Schley should re-
turn from a four-days' trip in the in
terror. where he went to hunt Carl
| bou. He returned in the specified time,
bringing with him the skin of a very
| handsome specimen of the animal that
| he had killed. He would have secured
! the head as well, but was so unfortu-
nate as to break one of the horns
| T.,
| head as a trophy.
| Mr.. Beckett went on a fishing trip to
| Flat Head bay, and the remainder of
! the party took a trip in the interior 10
| the Log Cabin. a beautiful retreat, sit
| uated on a lake fourteen miles long by
four wide and abounding in salmon and
trout. Because of the season the SAL
mon wouldn't bite, but many trout and
gilsse. as young salmon are called,
boat at Bay of Islands. where four
days We're spent in catching mackerel,
salmon, Holsters and other denizens of
the sea.
In this bay, said Mr.. Bryan, there
| are fifteen or twenty mountains of
which the smallest . is 1900 and the
largest 200 feet high. They rise
abruptly from the water which at
their base has a depth of twenty IA
thoms, and are covered with snow.
While in their vicinity the Knights
thermometer registered "a degrees. 1t
was here that a storm carried away
| the main topmast.
! 1t was in this vicinity, too, that the
party experienced the questionable de-
lights of cod fishing. The lines. the
very largest of their kind, to wehich
is attachd seven pound sinker. is
cast into water 60 fathoms, or three
hundred and sixty feet deep: the cod
takes hold of the bait and then the
fisher hauls in: there is no struggle. no
excitement, and the sport is too much
like real hard work to be attractive.
The cod. according to Mr. Bryan's
description, is a sort of ostrich of the
ocean, so far as his diet is concerned,
for in some of those captured were
discovered big crabs with unbroken
shell, nails. and in one. even a clock
| spring. The fish caught by the
knights party weighed from IA to IS
pounds, and bit so rapidly that in half
an hour three wash tubs had been fill
ed with them
After leaving this place n trip was
made through the Straits of Canso and
then the voyage was continued to Hal
flax where the people proved as hos
pitable as upon the first arrival Here
a new topmast was gotten. and after
a stay of four days the trip for New
port was begun. 1t was while trying
to reach that point that the Knight
went aground. This accident, said Mr.
| Bryan, was due to nobody's fault. 1t
happened through the fact that one of
the spar buoys that marked the chan
mel had been removed to be repaired,
or for some other purpose. and there
was, In consequence, nothing to show
the channel.
The Knight was to have gone on the
marine railway at Vineyard Haven and
| will caf1 for Il, ~ g..