The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-29
HOW TO MAKE
THE DOCTOR"
Shipmaster Has a Novel Drink
and a Story to
Tell.

When two old sea dogs get together
there's bound to be something doing.
Captain Borreson of the Norwegian
! bark Aeolus has been skipper for
twenty-eight years and during that
time has been to almost every hole and
corner of the earth, while Captain Mol
Iestead of the American schooner Jane
L. Stanford has visited nearly every
part of the globe. Therefore when this
pair foregathered in the cabin of the
AeoIus for afternoon tea on Saturday
there was a good bit of EARNING done.
Captain Borreson first initiated his
friend into a novel style of drink. He
offered to bring along what is termed
1.-The doctor" among Norwegian men
of the sea This was made in the fol-
two cups of hot coffee A liberal sup
ply of sugar was put in each cup and
then a nobbler of French cognac was
poured into each. This Norwegian
cocktail is probably the incest little
drink that a worthy skipper could
drink. and Captain Mollestead said so.
Each man had only one drink. but this
is a particularly wet drink.
The skipper of the Jane L. Stanford
told a fish story-or rather "a story
about fish He was at Santiago de
Cuba in 1874 and in little bay there
saw a queer method of fishing. Two
niggers would get in a large boat out
i in the bay and by humping on the bot
tom of the boat with their feet induce
all manner of fish to come around and
hear the music. AS the music" got
faster the fish tried a substitute for
dancing by jumping right over the boat
and, as they jumped over were knocked
, into the bottom of the boat by the ne
groes. In this way. they secured a boat
load.
You may not believe it, captain"
said Skipper Molestead, but it's as
true as a Dutch Bible"
Captain Borreson rolled back his big
blue eyes and tugged away at his trou-
ser braces. In a moment he had got
his bark into the wind and he told of
some exciting adventures in a Haytian
! port. 1t was in 1872 and the negroes
on Hayti seemed TO be a rather fanatic
lot The captain took a cargo out to
: the West Indies, discharging ii at 4
| small port on Hayti. Just as he had
! finished discharging his stevedores re-
! fused to work any longer as the fete
days were approaching and during
these times the niggers did no work,
| but spent their time drinking rum and
! induIging in religious rites. The cap
! tain knew nothing of these religious
practices and commenced taking in bal
+ last, using his own crew for the work
; in hand They had not been working
| long when the niggerS appeared with
a dummy rag man which they called
| Judas. They were all drunk and de-
clared that they would put an end to
Judas because he had offended the
Lord-at least the ''scripters sed So"
They put the dummy up on the dock
and commenced shooting at it. Bullets
of ali sizes swept over Captain Bor-
10 the hold for safety The natives kept
up the shooting all day long and the
ships crew had to remain below. When
night came over the scene the captain
returned to the deck of his vessel and
found all quiet. But his ship had been
riddled with bullets. 4 short time later
the natives returned and said it didn't
do mo good to shoot as they couldn't
destroy rag man Judas that way.
SO they set fire to the rags and re-
nrained dancing and singing hymns
about this fire all night. We got
away the next day. said the skipper,
and | have never had any desire to re-
turn there"
Both shippers went out clambered
over the side of the Aeolus and went up
town for a walk.