The San Francisco call., 1906-11-04
.LEYLAND BROTHERS
SAFE IN PORT.
Storms and Sickness Add to
Hardships of British Sail
ing Vessels Long Voyage
PRAISE FOR CAPTAIN

The British ship Leyland Brothers,
Captain David j. Morgan, which left
! Antwerp two weeks before this city
was burned last April, arrived here
yesterday after a long. weary and
eventful voyage. The vessel sustained
| damage in a pampero in the South At
lantic and vainly tried for two weeks
to run into Montevideo for repairs She
encountered terrific weather Off Cape
Horn, where most of the crew suffered
painfully from the cold. Later in the
voyage scurvy broke out among the
crew, caused, Captain Morgan believes,
! by the use of infected rain water
caught in the South Pacific.
With the exception of the mate and
the ships boy. who are convalescent.
the scurvy patients are in fair health,
and all hands credit their restoration
to the fruit and vegetables given them
by the American schooner Mindora,
Captain Larsen, which was spoken off
! this coast October %. The Leyland
Brothers also spoke the liner Hong
kong Maru and requested that the liner
take into San Francisco the mate,
whose condition then appeared to be
very serious. This request was not
granted and the people on the Leyland
Brothers feel just little hostile
toward the surgeon of the steamship.
The Leyland Brothers left Antwerp
April with a cargo which included
a large shipment of cement. She was
caught in pampero May "a. The squall
smote the vessel with awful suddenness
and terrific force. The fore lower top
sail yard was carried away and fell with
a crash to the deck, doing considerable
damage. In cutting the yard adrift
Antoine Mendoza, able seaman,
tumbled overheard. but saved himself
by grabbing a trailing line by means
ioh hi 1,{n fac hot ttla i'm n
board.
TRIES TO RUN INTO PORT.
Captain Morgan decided to run into
Montevideo for a new yard, but the
elements prevented. For sixteen days
the wind seemed to blow straight out
from the port they were trying to
make. and as nothing promised an
early change. the attempt was aban-
doned and the ship was hauled off on
her course again.
The Leyland Brothers was sixty days
going from 40 in the Atlantic TO 40 in
the Pacific. She was off Cape Horn for
| thirty-five days The weather was fear
| fully cold. Several icebergs were seen,
and for two days all hands were busy
| beating the ice off the ropes with
handspikes. The fingers of one whole
watch We're frostbitten from trying to
! take in sail during the most severe of
] the cold weather.
/ Things went fairly well then until
i September 20. when r. Runge. able sea-
man, fell i'll. The quarantine doctors
i here say II was scurvy. Captain Nor
gan, guided by his mate. who said he
had previous experience, diagnosed the
trouble as beri-beri. The next victim
was J. Bryan, the ships boy, whose
gums and limbs began to swell on Oc-
tober 6 and who is still in pretty bad
shape On October II. Trotman, the
II steward, died, a victim of consumption.
Trotman was negro, and the follow
ing day his body was consigned to the
deep.
N Bilsbrough, the mate. was taken
sick October IA, and within the next
few days Able Seaman E. Mangen, Car
penter NJ Leman, Able Seaman Charles
Helstrom and Able Seaman Antoine
Mendoza all took to their bunks. Cap
tain Morgan nursed his men tenderly
. and used all the means within reach to
restore them to health. There was
plenty of food on the Leyland Brothers
but not much of the kind to tempt sick
men. The allowance of lime juice was
increased and canned meats were sup
piled freely for forecastle consumption
SUPPLIES FRESH FOOD.
The schooner Mindora, bound from
San Pedro for Puget Sound, was sight
ed October %. Captain Morgan launched
a boat and boarded the Mindora, whose
master, Captain Larsen, invited him to
help himself to anything on the Min
dora that he thought might help his
men,
Captain Morgan returned to his shir
with several sacks of potatoes and
onions, fruit and vegetables and some
kerosene ell, of which the Leylanc
Brothers supply was exhausted. The
Mindora's potatoes and onions seemed
to supply the elements lacking in the
British ships bill of fare, for from the
first meal of fresh food the invalids be.
gan to improve.
The Hongkong Maru was sighted las,