The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-20
M'PHERSON'S VOYAGE.
HE VAS WRECKED BY 4
 WHALE
And Returned Via Brazil aud West

| ladies.
 Arthur P. McPherson returned to hi!
 home in Framingnam after a nove and thrilling experience in the last few months, In October he decided to talks a long sea voyage for his health and for the purpose of roughing it for 6 while. He shipped aboard whalei sailing from New Bedford. The first few days were very rough and stormy and the bark Kathlene aboard of whict he was, laid to for some days off the 1 Virginia capes buffeted by the storms
 As soon as the weather permitted she sailed for the west coast of Africa | touching at Cape de Verde Islands | from which he sent letter home to his brother, which was received in January From there the bark shaped it's course for Patagonia, not far north of Cape Horn, and gradually worked up toward the river Plate, Montevideo and the Brazilian coast and off again into the middle of the Atlantic, where upon March 17, the bark and all her crew came near finding a watery grave.
 Four of the boats were out catching whales and one of them commanded by the first mate, had just returned to the bark when the captain, who was in the rigging, esped large whale about half mile away. The whale which the mates crew already had, was secured to the side of the bark and the mate and his crew immediately started for the big fellow which they reached and bumped into, and the harpoon was thrown, but failed to fasten itself in the whale. Aggravated by the assault, he made a bee line for the bark
 It is the custom on the whalers, while the boats are out in different di- rections doing their work, for a small crew to stay aboard and sail the ship and to signal the boats from time to time In pursuance of what had been their custom MT. McPherson was not in one of the boats. but was at the wheel of the vessel tending wheel. He watched the operation of the first mates boat and then saw whale mak- ing toward the vessel.
 
 in a few feet of the ship turned and made for it, diving immediately under where MT. McPherson stood at the wheel, striking the bark with his head and diving under. The shock was so violent that it threw the captains wife who stood in the cabin, to the floor. Very soon after it was found that water was rushing in and the cabin, the fore castle and the hold of the bark were flooded As soon as the mates boat reached the side of the vessel water and provisions were hastily put aboard the boat, while the captain hastily col lected his charts and a few valuables, and the captin's wife took her parrot and got into the boat and they pushed off just before the bark keeled over and sank, twenty minutes after the acci- dent.
 This was in the early evening, Just about dusk and the captain lighted a torch to collect the other three boats around him, and when they had thus gathered he capitalized their cerws and divided among them the provisions and water. Each boat had a compass and a sail, and it was agreed they would start for Barbadoes in the West Indies which was 900 miles away, they being l.000 miles off the coast of Brazil in the middle of the Atlantic. The crew lost everything except the scanty apparel they wore at the time.
 Shaping their course for the West In- lies, they sailed away with a disheart- ening prospect before them. The next t,th; NJ,, NTo oherson was, found itself alone and. out of sight of all the others, not knowing whether it was in advance or behind. Some time after the men deserted moke upon the horizon, and calculat- ng the course of the steamer, altered l heir course to intercept her which, l liter some time they were fortunately | ble to do The atttention of the steam 1T was attracted to them and changing ts course to meet them picked them ID.
 Upon telling the story of their wreck l md the fact that the other boats were | lot far away, the captain of this Brit sh steamship, calculating the course which the other boats had taken and he spot where they ought to be, spent
  n finding two of them, including that pon which was the captain and his | rife They were unable to find the l ourth boat. which finally landed in the Vest Indies. after nine days of terrible xposure and deprivation
 The steamer was bound for Chili on he western coast of South America nd proceeded with the thirty men it !! ad thus rescued and landed them at Brazil Here MT Me 'herson tarried for over a month, lying l in the hospital for two weeks with ever, the rest of the crew in the mean me having gone home and aboard vO different vessels.
 The American consul was very kind the shipwrecked men, and gave them ach a suit of clothes and provided for 1em al the hotel and found them pas age back to their own country. Tn due me, MT. McPherson sailed for the nited States, stopping at St Lucia. Vest Indies. for coal. The island was ut few miles from Martinique, where