The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

tiers" all around. Whitewaters are
the foamy patches made by the
whales. The starboard and larboard
boats lowered. The starboard boat
struck a male whale, only seven bar
rels. The larboard boat struck a big
fellow and while towing, the line was
suddenly parted by being cut by one
of the keen killing-lances. Mate Syf-
via lowered a boat. struck him and got
smashed by the maddened whale al
most at once. The starboard boat
then struck a small whale and got
him. That day there were many small
whale Cblackfish) around the boat and
a great many of the fierce swift killer
whales that attack the huge right
whales with more ferocity than
sharks.
A few days afterward there came
another 'uneventful day" The bark
lowered four boats to chase. The star
board boat struck very small whale
and capszed." The next boat darted
in and fastened to the whale and got
him. The larboard boat struck an
other whale, got caught by MS flukes
and was badly smashed -. The
log gives a line to the episode and re-
marks mournfully. with a pc of
fiuke, lost whale"
Six days afterward the bark lower
ed at $40 a. m. and chased a lone
whale until 1920 p. m. without getting
near enough to strike. The boats
then started in with the crews dis
gusted, when they found themselves
suddenly in the midst of a school of
big sperm whale. The starboard boat
at once struck large hull. The lar
board boat struck a cow. Both whale
were fastened alongside by p. IN.
The next day the bark got four big
IL g.
The Hundred Barrel Fish.
long days work was when the
lookout raised a huge whale at a.
m. one day. The boats were lowered
at Z a. m, the larboard boat struck
at $50 a. m, the whale was in his
furry by a. M, he was alongside
and chained by his tail and fast to
blocks and falls by 10 a. M, by IL a.
m. the cutting stages We're rugged and
the "cutting-in" was began. at p.
m. the last strip of blubber had been
ripped off with the tackle and the
ease had been cut out, and at IL p.
m. the fire were flaring, under the
try-works amdship. But no one kick
ed at the labor for this whale was the
whalers prize, hundred barrel fish.
On Feb the log briefly describes
another uneVentful day by saying,
Lost whale by third mate getting
kicked overheard" They got three
others that day. The third mate APP
parently survived his rude treatment
by the whale, for later entry in the
log records that he enjoyed another Sc.
rene and placid day by striking o.
whale in the morning and getting cap
sized on the whales back. The second
mates boat took the line and killed
the fish. The third mate tried to re-
turn the favor afterward by taking
the line from tn second mate when
that mans boat struck a whale and
got badly stove" But the line part
ed. Seeing the whale escaping, the
captain himself lowered, but the beast
got clear before the boat reached him,
The literary mate ornamented this en-
try in the log with an extra large pic
ture of a fluke.
The third mate had another piece of
hard luck when he struck a very large
whale and killed him almost at once,
| the big fellow taking the harpoons and
/ the lance thrusts almost as quietly as
a COW. But hardly had he been kill
| ed before the weather became so wick
ed that even the daring whalers could
not hold on and the monster was lost
| after all their work.
Storm Swept.
While the United States was waiting
| in anxiety as never before in twenty
years, watching the bulletins from
Buffalo, where the President lay dying,
| the Canton, with her crew all ignor-
ant of the tragedy, was fighting a ire
mendous gale between the Azores and
the Cape Verde Islands Even the
self-restrained log records it as a ter
rible gale from the south with tremen-
dous seas. The vessel" says the chron-
icle, was on her beam ends. Bored
holes in two of the oil casks and let oil
run out to smooth the sea as much as
possible Called watches all down be-
low and kept all hands in steerage.
Battened down forecastle scuttle. At
II: 80 the fore-top mast stay sail blew
out of bolt ropes. Soon after starboard
boat was blown from davits. The sea
took forward davit and bearer with it,.
Bread cask was torn from lashings and
gangway board and rail was washed
on deck. Bread caSk went through
gangway. Decks were continually
swept by seas making it dangerous to
move about decks. At 1 p. m. star
board boat was carried away and after
davits also. Only a little piece of stem
and gunwale was left hanging by the
hook on forward davit. Cooks slush
barrel washed overheard at a. m.
Vessel was in trough of the sea all the
time. So ends this day"
Holidays went unmarked on the
whaler July was celebrated by re-
pairing boat stove in by a big fish.
Last Christmas was marked by swift
work on the part of the crew of the
larboard boat. Fifteen minutes before
shutdown she was lowered and struck
and killed a whale before dark. He
was alongside by p. M, and while
folk on shore all over the world were
making merry around cosy fires the
whalers on the rolling Canton were
passing great chains around the fukes
of forty-five barrel "sparm."
All these things and more, how they
buried two shipmates at sea in the
evening, with the tryworks flames for
funeral fires and the roaring waves for
funeral bells, how the great sharks
swan all around the ship to wrest
their share of the killed whales from
man, how waterspout-maker a
whirlwind, arose in the deep right
where the Canton was and in mo-
ment had stripped her clean of main
sail, foresail and main staysail with
all their ropes-all these tales of the
beauty and mystery of the ships
were told. haltingly and briefly by
| Nicholas p Vieira captain of the Cam