The Florida star., 1905-04-28

driven By th- typhooa Swept sboard
we're exhausted. and. some of fhe crew
say. TIE wstrr was 80 scarce that the
making Of soHp was saspendesi pending
tne fan Of rain sais water also had
found IN way into the bread casks.
Just before the Falkland islands werr
reaehed the crew went forward aud
asked fhe captain 20 put IN there for
provisions. He Informed the men that
was what he intended 10 do.
On the wsy aerc~s from New Tork
60 Hcngkong On the outward voyage"
said one Of the ssilors. -we caught two
sharks. each fourteen feet long Moth
ing Of special interest was found In
sice them. and 50 we cooked them and
ate them. Coming through the China
sea. we found it covered with snakes
They were brown and white. black and
white and gray and white The water
was alive with them. and we had fun
scooping them mp In nets and killing
them. OF the fifteen members Of the
crew who sailed from New York on the
Johanna nine left her at HongkoDg-
The Johanna sailed from Kobe on
Aug. IL last with q cargo Of bamboo
and Japanese art goods and curloS.
Ten days out the typhoon struck her
it rsged throughout Aug "a. - and %
and came from the east-n0rtheast
The copper eolored sky seemed TO be
right down on u.s." said Edward Taub-
man, the mate. a Manxman. who knows
Hall Game The seas were Ike noun
tainS-"
How high we're they
well. you know the twenty 60 thir-
~ story buildings In New York;
Taubman replied Just imagine your
selves beirs at the bottom Of one of
them on this ship and looking UP NJ
the roof That's how high they were
We were then about forty miles south
90 the Rorodino Islands, In the straits
Of Formosa. aud for forty eight hours
We were hove 10.
she didn't take any heavy seas un-
Gil we got n sudden shift Of the wind
on the 9th. and after that things were
confused On Aug. - we had squalls
fast and furious AMI Increasing In vio-
ience all the time. The barometer was
falling constantly. and the sky seemed
TO be right down around the ship.
AT 3 o'clock In the morning the situ-
alton WAS so critical all hands were
called ON deck TO stand by. At $50
O'Clock that same day the wind shifted
from northwest To west southwest. and
Il was blowing hard. The Johanna
knocked down until her scuppers were
awash. and we cut away the foresaIl
and the main iopsail 10 keep the ship
from turning turtle Other sails were
torn loose aud whipped TO ribbons by
the wind
"On the morning Of Aug - the wind
was blowing ficrcely frum the south
west. and the seas were higher than
ever. The decks were swept fore and
aft One boat WAS carried away and
another was smashed Everything
Iop~e on the deck also was swept
away
Finally after the typhoon had subsid
ell AMI repairs had been made Captain
McIvor figured out that he had been
| delayed so long ne would encounter
head winds all the way To- the Cape oi
Good Hope and that there Was nothing
for him 60 do but To round the Horn
| He laid the course OF the Johanna ~
tween the PeIew islands and Zap T.
land. along to the south az the Caro-
line islands. passed the Gilbert group
the solomon islands. New Caledonia
Australia and the northeriy end OF
New Zealand
Port Stanley. in the FalklRnds. Was
reached on Jan Ia. and the fam.u'
stricken crew there found r,.l=-f Ia the
new and fresh stores obtained am
newspapers were reviewed which toll
something - thu happenings ga ~,
world AZ large during all ia" months
the Johanna hal h,eu atinat In On,
We,-k the shiP made only 80 mile