The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-22
SAILOR CROSSES OCEAN
4AS ICEBERG'S PASSENGER

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'Incredblc as 1t may seem, did really
cross the ocean Oh M Iceberg, with h,,t
one. companion who had escaped VIII
Inc from n most mysterious shipwreck. 7 N
s So spoke MIR. llAm Gu Gonyen, OF
France, at present living in Boston to
n reporter FOR The Times Dlspntcll,l re-
Gently at Murphy's Hotel BIZ
II mn IL sailor myself.--thnt Is, was
formerly, till got into my present Inc Of
work. where the money comes in. more
easy than II rolls into the pocket OF the
ia ok tar. II left the sea III the autumn or
1885,, and have never had the slightest de-
sire to return. Tile bounding pillows roll
no more for me, you can wager yollr
sweet life on that. i am done With the
sea, being satisfied with a bonny career
ashore. EtESi
''ButR1 am depressing from the tale
was going to tell you for your paper. |
am a native of Normandy, In France. !
have been IN America six and half
years. and in that time have become
nntur;llizcd and am to all appearances
like n real America g
During the summer OF 1893, was
aboard coal ship running from Chris
tiansnnd, in Norway Along about Octo-
Der I had saved up some few hundred
dollars and was In position TO spend
the winter at my leisure refused to sal
at the next trip, and 80 was left IN Chris
tiansa nd with plenty OF money and no
cares In the world.
."rhe next spring was literally strand-
cd. The wine and other designations had
about run me out SO when the captain
Of the Valkyrie, a whaling ship. which
was only waiting the first favorable wind
TO set out for the Arctic came to me
with proposal to go out with him as
second mate Of course. was glad Of
the offer and accepted 1t Immediately.
EARLY in April. about the ninth. y
think, We set sail. and having fine wind
behind us, we logged along merrily. and
in a few hours we had passed the Maze,
80 called from its nosing Itself out Into
the waves. Thence we headed northwest,
and on the fifteenth day out from this
cape we found our bearings to be lati-
Jude Ga degrees 30 minutes, longitude o
degrees. west from Greenwich. This was
in the whaling grounds, and from this
time We were on the lookout for The
monster fish. III
'.,rhe morning of the disaster to the
ship remember we'll. 1t was In the
early morning, just after dawn. a re-
freshing, though friEid nor easter blew
up from our rear and the big sails
Eellied I'm the wind. We were going
at rapid rate, to the southwest 1t was
my turn on watch and eagerly + scanned
the seas for any whale that might be
sporting on the surface. ] was on the
larboard side.
with my glasses I was scanning the
water when my attention was arrested
by a minute speck floating up and down
with the swell In the brief moment
that ] considered It. I made it out to be
black log I glanced from 1t and
looked in another direction for while,
ana then the thing came into my per-
spective for the second time
Under the Cold Tide.
SIT was different now. and had ap-
preached much nearer the ship II looked
TO be a cigar-shaped log OF wood. hut
that was all ! could make out. The
bells sounded and my relief came on
deck, whereupon I descended to my
berth and was in for good sleep.
My next recollection came in being
conscious of a violent lifting of he ship
as by some giant wave. mountain high,
and being borne high Into the air.
was still half conscious. having not vet
walked fully from my sleep. l can seem
to remember falling again. 1t was a
delightful motion, being whizzed through
the air. II bit for brief moment
striking the cold salt water kind Of
restored me- and deep plunge under
the surface chilled me to the marrow.