The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-16

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10 the equator in the Atlantic ard we
| took the S. E. trades well to the SOUTH
ward, which, with the strong westerly
| current caused fall to leewa1d to
the coast of Brazil. Off the river l..
| Plata we encountered a Pampero,
something of a hurricane, the wind
blowing with terrific force for &c hours.
| The day after the blow was over we
came across a four-masted ship with
all the yards gone from her main and
mizzen masts. She was hound for
Rio Janeiro or Montevideo in distress.
From that point to- so S. we encoun-
| tered a succession of hard gales from
W. N. W. to s. w From so S. to the
South of Staten Island (east of Cape
Horn), We had comparatively fire
weather for about three days. Then
we encountered another spell of bad
| weather lasting almost without cessl-
4 ton for fifteen Gays. One heavy gale
/ succeeded another always from the
westward
During this time we shipped i'm
mense quantities of water, one Of our
boats being smashed to atoms, AMI two
others being stove in, washing away
| the top of the pinnacle on top of the
midship house; washing away the gall
Hey stove-pipe and engine room smoke
stack; the sky light on the forward
house; in short, breaking up and
washing overheard everything movable
On the decks Otherwise the ship sus-
tanned no serious damage.
"On July Is, in Lat. IS S., Long. 6
w. at p. M, just after wearing ship,
we shipped an immense sea which
swept the whole forward part of the
ship. This sea caught, and more or
less injured, ten men. all Of whom were
laid up for periods of from week TO
fourteen days. This seriously Grip
pied fully a half Of my crew, one man
having his leg broken. Several hal
| sprained arms and legs. so that we
had, to work ship for the next ten days
| them not sailors.
1--WE kept up steam day and right
and did most of the rope pulling with
the engine, otherwise we would have
had to put back.
On July % gale was blowing N. n.
w. The ship was under foresail and
three lower top-sails and stormsails.
The barometer began falling fast fast
er than I had ever before seen it. 1t
fell as much as 10 1-2 in one hour, and
kept on it's downward course until it
considered $3.50 was low even off Cape
Horn. never saw the barometer so
low. Realizing that something I'M
usual was approaching I called all
hands. what few we had able-bodied,
and shortened sail to a conserving and
lower topsail and hove to on the port
tack. We had not been hove to more
than an hour when the wind changed
TO W. s. w. and blew with terrific
force. This was accompanied by hail,
sleet and snow. No canvas could
,have withstood such terrific blasts, and
we We're almost under hare poles.
ION July 81 we crossed so S. in the
Pacific, twenty-five days from the
same latitude in the Atlantic. That,
consider, was making splendid time
with the gales we had. That ended our
bad weather. From then until arriv-
ing in Honolulu harbor we experienced
moderate weather.
ION August s, in Lat. 80 S. found
the coal in the fore hatch to have a
temperature of III degrees. I had
the hatch dug out and scattered on
the deck The heat did not extend
beyond the square of the hatch. The
next day we began digging in No.
hatch so as 10 get into the lower hold.
We drove a piTe down and found the
temperature to be $50 degrees, six feet
from the bottom. That looked very
serious. 1t was then a question of
whether to stand on or to start for
Valparaiso. / concluded to stand on
and trust to digging. AT daylight the
following morning I started everybody
to digging coal and hosting it on deck.
We dug out a whole square of No.
hatCD and three OF TOUR IeeI Oh eetch
side. On digging down to within six
feet of the bottom we found the coal to
be 15S degrees. The No. hatch
showed 14S degrees. We hoisted that
out also. We then put it back and
trimmed the cargo away out to the
ends of the ship. We handled about
! 900 tons of coal and shoveled for three
weeks.
This heating was caused entirely by
the fine coal not packing in the matches.
Where it was packed tight it did not
heat"
Captain Graham is accompanied by
Mrs Graham. who has been at sea. for
about ten years, and their daughter.
who has rounded Cape Horn fourteen
times Little Miss Graham is attired
in a natty sailor costume during the
long voyages and presents picture
of youth and health in her togs.
The Phelps viii begin dfscharging
| her cargo of $500 tons of coal this
morning. She is under charter to load
sugar for Castle & Cooke and c. Brew
er & Co., for Delaware Breakwater