The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-19
A MODERN STORY OF THE SEA.

Barrels of Sea Elecphant Oil.
 The brig Daisy Capt B. D. cleve- land, arrived in port yesterday after- noon and dropped anchor at quaran- tine, after an absence of Il months and IS days, during which she took 2,45O barrels of sea elephant oil at Kerguelen or Desolation Island, in the Indian Ocean. The brig passed through some rather sensational scenes during the voyage Once the vessel was nearly crushed by icebergs, and again she nar- rowly escaped being blown ashore in a severe gale, There was one death on board.
 The cargo represents Capt. Cleye- lands record catch. as he only took 1,8OO barrels during the voyage in the bark Swallow He states that he could have taken 500 barrels more on the trip just ended had it not been for terrible gales.
 The Daisy left this port June 6 last year and, making a quick run across the, Atlantic Ocean to Cape Verde Is lands, she recruited few Cape Verders and then started on her long passage to Desolation, and made fairly good run of it down tothe island. She aE- rived at Table Bay, where all of her hunting for the sea elephants was done, on September IT, Capt. Cleveland Is worker and his men fell into the spirit of the business under the good example set by their commander and they went tO y,rO,1r rTbo uao fc were found in abundance and it was no trouble in knocking them over and getting a fair catch each day. The officers with Capt. Cleveland were old sea elephant hunters and they soon coached the men how to do the work of killing and skinning and cutting up the blubber The work was new to many of the men, who had been sperm whaling voyagers and knew all about getting bubber from the whale, but had to be taught to get the sea ele- phant bluber
 When the crew shipped at this port it was expected that the heavy work of rowing the whale boats from the vessel to and from the elephant ground, pull of some 10 miles or more, would be done away with by the use of a powerful motor boat that was shipped on the Daisy The motor boat worked all right while in this harbor before the Daisy sailed, and an engineer, James Parr, was shipped to run the boat But when the boat was taken out on the arrival of the Daisy at Table Fay, it was found that the engineer could not get the motor to working, and as nobody else on the vessel knew any, thing about motor boats, the attempt had to be given up and the boat was not used The men had the old long, tiresome pull from the anchorage ground of the brig, near the head of the harbor, to the end, every doy when the weather allowed. Engineer Parr was sick after the Daisy arrived in Table Bay, and on October 15 he had a para lytic shock and died a short time after ward and was buried ashore. This was the only death during the cruise.
 The Daisy was anchored near the head of the harbor, and while Capt, Cleveland felt pretty sure of his an- chors, the heavy and hard weather made him take all the precautions pos sible, Besides his two large anchors he ran four heavy lines ashore and made them fast around large powders, but the force of the wind was so strong that all the lines were parted one after the other.
 Frhh nof few hn hog. y77, raEf on January S1 On the morning of that day the wind began to blow early, and by a. m. it was fairly bowling. All the crew were on deck expecting that something was going to happen, and it did shortly after the gale was at it's height. It was blowing with hurricane force, and the force of the wind proved to be too much for the starboard cable, which parted 35 fathoms from the an- chor. The port anchor held for awhile, and then the ship began to drag toward the shore It was a rocky coast line and the crew all knew that if the Daisy once struck she would be ground to pieces, like so much kindling wood The Daisy surely but slowly, dragged across the end of the harbor, the an- chor allowing her to move slowly. but. rot bringing up. It was a terrible half hour for the crew, with their vessel seemingly blown to her destruction, but when within 200 yards of the rocks on the lee shore the Daisy got into a kelp bed, and the port anchor brought the vessel up.
 On January 1T the Daisy had been threathened with destruction of an- other kind, The constant and hard southwest winds had brought a quan- tity of icebergs up from the south into the waters surrounding Kerguelen Is- land, and three very large bergs were blown directly into the harbor. On they came before the southerly winds, and some smaller bergs were chasing them up. Capt. Cleveland had never seen any of the icebergs before in his four years at the island, and the crew thought the brig was doomed to be crushed by the bergs, which looked lmenacingly large to the inexperienced sailors. But the shaIlowness of the harbor entrance saved the brig, for the bergs grounded and were broken to pieces by the smaller bergs blown into 1 them, before they had a chance to se- ricusly menace the Daisy.
 Early in the season, while the three
 boats of the brig were bound up in
 the harbor to the grounds where the
 sea elephants pod, a sudden gale of