The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-30

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has not beamed kindly in the matter Of
birth or environment, the life of Sol
Simpson, logger. stands forth bright,
exhilarating and worthy of emulation.
IA MODERN STORY OF THE SEA.
The brig Daisy, Capt B. D. Cleve-
land, arrived in port yesterday after
noon and dropped anchor at quarantine
after an absence of II months and IL
days, during which she took 2,450 bar
rels 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 cushed byr
icebergs, and again she narrowly es-
capped being blown ashore in a severe
gale. There was one death on board,
The cargo reprents Capt Cleveland's
record catch, as he only took 1900 barr
lrels during the voyage in the bark
Swallow. He states that he could have
800 barrels more on the trip just end
ed, ha dit not been for terrible gales
The Daisy left this port Jun last
year and, making a quick run across
the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Verde Is
lands, she recruited a few Cape Yer
ders and then started on her long pass
age to Desolation, and made a fairly
good run of 1t down to the island. She
arrived at Table Bay where all of her
hunting for the sea elephant was done,
on September II Capt Clevland is a
worker and his men fell into the spirit
of the business under the good example
set by their commander, and they went
10 work with a will The sea elephants
were found in abundance and 1t was
no trouble in knocking them over and
gettin g fair catch each day. The
officer with Capt Cleland were old sea
elephant hunters ard 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 whal-
ing voyagers and knew all about get
ting blubber from the whale, but had
to be taught to get the sea elephant
blubber.
When the crew shipped at this sort
it was expected that the heavy work
Of rowing the whale boats from the
vessel to and from the elephant ground
a pull of some 10 miles or more would
be done away with by the use Of
powerful motor boat that was shipped
on the Daisy. The motor worked all
right while in this harbor before the
Daisy sailed, and an engineer. James
Parr vas shipped to run the boat
But was taken out on the arrival Of the
Daisy at Table Bay it was found that
the engineer could not get the motor
to working, and as nobody else on the
vessel knew anything about motor
beats, the attempt had to be given and
the boat was not used The men had
the same old long, tiresome pull from
the anchorage ground Of the brig near
the head of the harbor, to the end, evey
day when the weathe allowed. Engieer
Parr was sick after the Daisy arrived
in Table Bay and on October Is he had
paralytic shock and died short time
afterward and was buried ashore. This
was the only death during the curuise.
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 their fast around large 'bowlders
but the force of the wind was so strong
that all the lines were parted one after
the other,
The Daisy had her narrowest es-
cape on January 81. 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 1t did shortly after the
gale was at its height 1t was blowing
with hurricane force, and the force Of
the wind roved to be too much for the
starboard cable, which parted 30 faith
orns from the anchor. The part anch-
or held for a while, and then the ship
began to drag toward the shore. 1t
was q rocky coast line and the crew
all knew that If the Daisy once struck
she would be ground to pieces, IKE so
much kindling wood. The Daisy sure
ly but slowly, dragged across the end
of the harbor, the anchor allowing her
to move slowly, but not bringing up
It was a terrible half-hour for the crew
with their vessel seemingly within 200
yards of the rocks on the lee shore the
Daisy got into kelp bed and the patr
anchor brought the vessel up.
On January II the Daisy had been
threatened with destruction of another
kind. The constant and hard south
west winds had brought a quantity of
icebergs up from the south into the
waters surrounding Kerguelen Island,
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 domed to be crushed by the
bergs, which looked menacingly large
to the inexperienced sailors But the
shallowness of the harbor entrance
saved the brig for the bergs grounded
and were broken to pieces by the
smaller bergs, blown into them, before
they had chance to seriously MANAGE
the Daisy.
Early in the season, while the three
boats of the brig were bound up in the