Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-03-27

W 20 over the Slue IN canvas SACK,
weighted with gore. He began to
wish me "good morning." when /
took him his coffee, and he seemed a
changed man. told the captain the
whole affair, and in conclusion l in
formed him l did not propose to be
driven by any nigger-driver; that
would do my duty and do it we'll. The
commander listened with closed eyes
at my explanation OF the knife WELD
ing, and stated at the close that he
would hang me at the yard-arm if 7
ever used knife on the mate again.
The captain and mate never spoke
to each other, save when they had to
in line of duty, and the mate never
spoke to sailor but he cursed him
from head to heels. The sailors-there
were twenty of them-were of all ma
tionalities on the face of the globe,
Danes, Greeks, Dutchmen. Chilians,
Swedes, etc. In the evening, in the
dog-watch, these sailors would all talk
at once and in different languages; in
fact, a perfect babel of tongues. These
sailors were fed in big pan; that is,
a big pan was used to carry their food
from the galley to the forecastle.
The menu was cracker hash for break
fast, with bootleg coffee to wash the
hash down. If it had not been for the
coffee, fear they would not have been
able to dispose of the hash. Dinner,
salt horse and hard tack. Supper,
what was left from dinner, made into
cracker hash. Once a week they had
soft bread and plum duff. This plum
duff had never seen q plum; it was
simply dried apples and dough biled
When the pan of salt meat reached
the forecas,le it was set on the floor,
which was the table. Then the Greeks,
Danes and Swedes, and other sailors
would reach into the pan with their
dirty, tarry hands and each would fish
out his particular kind OF meat. The
Dane liked fat, the Greek lean, and so
on until each had his pan full. This
salt meat would be taken out of bar
rel and soaked over night in salt sea-
water before it was cooked, for lear it
would be too fresh. As these sailors
got the magnificent sum of $40 q
month, it is safe to say that if they
saved their wages for say 200 years
they could afford to retire and live
very nicely on the interest OF their
money, in the evening Of their lives.
to say, all the old sailors l
ever met were on their last voyage, so
they said. They intended to quit the
sea and settle down; but they never
do, as long as they can get q berth on
a ship. They sail on as hard life as
there is on the globe; poorly fed,
treated like dogs, swindled and robbed
by the boarding master, and smiled on
by the painted hags who infest every
large seaport. That is a sailors life,
or was in the time write OF. I had
often thought how nice it would be to
sail around the world on a fine big
ship. Now was. in reality. Was en-.
joying it! Well, I guess nit.
Our ship was now in the gulf stream,
a river that boils right out of the
ocean, and the water is warm. When
the ship had ice-clad decks in this
stream, We met terrible gale of wind.
A big Finn sailor was up aloft taking
in sail in this storm and lit blew so
hard that it changed the day of the
weekly when he came down his hair
and whiskers were snow white. They
wore cosl-black before he went aloft.
The wind had blown so hard il had
pulled his whiskers out and replaced
them with whiskers that were not due
for about ten years yet.
This was our last storm. One day,
not long after, we came in sight of
land and day or two later we were
off the mouth OF the Kennebec river.
Here a noisy, putting tug took us in
tow, and pulled US up the river fifteen
miles, to Bath, and our long voyage
was at end. The first sight of Bath
did not impress me as being much of a
place. There were two or three un-
finished ships in the ship yards. The
town is on avery hilly place. The main
street was called Candy Atreet. 1t did
not look like taffy to me. 1t was very
cold weather. There was ice in the
river and sprinkling of snow on the
low bare hill, across the river. The first
time went ashore in Bath 1 created
a sensation. You see my hair when
combed out came to my knees. I had
been guyed about my hair on the ship
q great deal, but here in Bath l was
a wonder. People crowded around me
and followed me wherever 1 went.
They did not know whether was the
real show, or just the advance agent.
They took me for Buffalo Bill.
After staying in Bath q few days, l
took the train one morning, and at
3 80 in the afternoon 1 was in the Old
Colony depot. in the classic city Of
Boston, Mass. 1 did not see much ol
Boston, as l intended to start for New
York at 6 o'clock. In wandering
around the depot, l came across fruit
stand where come tempting pears were
displayed. l asked the old lady in
charge what her pears we're worth
She said q penny apiece. Now did
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