Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-10-15

,1HutS i>ttOn tSlt.Hd. " remember
word in ten Of all s. "Manana we
find rich. plenty toe n.uch rich. God
save queen!"
.'rhose Canary fishing schooners land
on the Salvages sometimes" said Nc
Todd. $50 / heard once in Las Pal
mas"
"Then there'n be feas OH the islands,
whatever else there is" said Kettle. Il
guess we've got to take our chances,
Mac. If the old wrecks been overhaul
ed before we get there, it's our bad
luck. If she hasn't been skinned clean,
we'll take what there is, and fancy
we shall be men enough to stick to it. 1
1t isn't as if she was piled UP on some
civilized beach, with coast guards to
take possession and all the rest of it.
The islands are either Spanish or Por-
tugee. They belong to pack of
thieves anyway. and we've just as
much right to help ourselves as any
one else has. What we've got to do at
present Is to shove this old ruin of a
lifeboat along as though she were a
racing yacht. AT the shortest, we've
got TOO miles of blue water ahead Of
u.s."
Open boat voyaging in the broad At
lantic may have its pleasures, but
these, such MS they were, did not appeal
to either Kettle or his companions.
They were thoroughgoi steamer sail
ors. They despised sails, and the
smallness of their craft gave them
qualms both mental and physical. By
day the sun scorched them with intol-
cradle glare and violence; by night the
clammy sea mists drenched them to the
bone. For a larger vessel the weather
would have been accounted favorable;
for their cockleshell it was once or
twice terrific. In two squalls that they
ran into, breaking combers filled the
lifeboat to the thwarts, and they had
to bale for their bare lives. They We're
cramped and sore from their constrain-
ed position and want of exercise, they
got sea sores on their wrists and salt
CRIME on every inch of their persons,
they were growing gaunt on the scanty
rations, and, in fact, better presenta-
ton of boat full of desperate casta-
ways 1t would be hard to hit upon.
Flotillas of iridescent pink sailed maui
titus scudded constantly beside them,
dropping as constantly astern, and
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