The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-02-24
DIARY OF VOYAGE TO BRAZIL
[coNTINUEDl
BY PAUL REESE.
Tuesday. September 5ih.

BY PAU REESE
Tuesday, September 5ih.
| find nv ignorance of all things nautl-
cal 80 profound that | am becoming dim
dent about writin" anything, even IN tins
private diary, of which am not certain
beyond all doubt or peradventure. | have
| shiyered with A fear at things wherein
| there was not the slightest element OF dan
ger, and faced, the next minute, certain
and sudden death, smiling complacentiy,
Rut as the song saws 'It'S no bodies
business but my own. However this
NAV be, | cannot help thinking 1t unusual
to be at sea fifteen days without seeing
sail or, at night, the light of a passing
vessel. especially when one considers the
vast number aGoat Before day, during
the morning watch, steamer passed US
going West, giving Us the first evidence we
have had that we are not the sole poSSeSSors
of the North Atlantic
"Wednesday, September eth-
"Isn't Hart rather young to be before
the mast p asked the second mate, npro-
pos Of nothing at all while sitting on deck
with him last night after supper. nleSS
he is Younger than he looks, | should say
he has started in rather late in hte, he
answered. Most of us 20 to sea younger
than he seems to be did when | was
ten wears old. My father wanted to make
priest Of me. well, You certainly
have missed your calling, said; "a man
with your qualifications for the priesthood
would undoubtedly have been cardinal,
| at least. by this time | did not know
how he would take this, and did not par
ticularly care. but, to my surprise, he an
| swered in all seriousness that he was often
of the same opinion too. knowios that
all this was Introductory 70 a yarn, man
aged. somehow. to keep my face straight,
[ But If Mr.. C had come to me with
the assertion that he proposed becoming
/ Methodist preacher aud going as missionary
/ 10 the Canujhal Islands. It would not have
( seemed 10 me bii more ridiculous than
nv rnental picture Of Mr.. R IN a inter
and priestly robes. But, he continued,
a boy Of ten can hardly be supposed to
[ know always what Is bes, for him, and 80
7 ran away from school and went to sea
| I have no intention Of writing out all our
I conversation, or rather Mr. Rs, for
I be did al the talking after gui him start
I Ell. We, think the main points are oi sui.
/ fcicng Interest ;o record roughly. Vt ten
I he ran away from school and shipped oH a
vessel in the French African merchant scr
/ vice. Two years later be was sh'pWreckc'i
On the eoass Of Morocco and was the only
( one 1t the ships oomp4ny Who esctPsd
/ drowning. After being On the verge ot
starvation he was picked up by 'roop Of
wandering Arabs ~ho IN the ooarse uf time
found thcir way 70 Algiers, where be -.
cared and took refuge at the French con.
( sui $ At hotel IN Algiers we're many
/ Enr1peans. Here he Was taken by th,
osasul. who excited such sympathy am9ns
them hy a rehearsal q R story that,
a, dinner. be was made 10 stand IN the
erntTs nf the table while collection vas
taken up for him amounting 20 $50 francs
Next day he was a.ci cut With European
/ clothes frotu head to foc:-he had been
gearing up to this tine clothing given him
b, the Arahs-and finally be vas put
aboard ye-sel boand fOr honr.
/ Al the tnor,Ars and mo=s Of the aitcrnooa
has been rainy and stually Towards
evening the weather cleared and We are
now fairly fyinc along before the bcs, aud
mos, favorable Wind sc have had 80 far
Thar-day. s~Ps>ms-r 7th.
when went on deck this morning We
SEEMED To lie taking voyage oH a iar'n.
The sccpe lookei Ike 1t might be the stage
se,tiag Euv Quincy Adams Sawyer or
Piuaforo eithes one \ aock of chick
ems paradei the main deek a calarcd nan,
with buck saw. was sawiHg up 4 plle OF
cord wood the cook and the mess boy were
picking over barrel Of po,a o,si the mas
a, the wheel wore oyeralis aud biz straw
hat, while, to complete the picture, some
boly's ''wash was mcrriiy tapping away
over the forward deck house on a eloghes
hue. While | was enjoying this Composite
picture Of the truly rural aud the INA
rine, and wondering whether the inIroduc
Iion Of sone COWS, or perhaps hay stack
or pis or iwo might not add TO Its realism
the scene was shifted quite as ,addeuly a.
the scenes in spectacular stage production.
shift, and the dark sky, howliug wind
[ driving rain and the roaring waves, mount
s.z higher and higher A. the gale increased
, soot made ii necessary for all hands TO tax,
part Ia = performance Of The Tempest,
a drama which was decidedly too Realistic
aItose,her, A. Johnny Bull remarked
10 me 1t looked ike il were going L
, blow the bloody hoomiu sticks hout o
} er There were four of these squalk
this afternoon, all sudden, all severe, an,
each one gone in a hurry, leaving benin,
il sea aud sky as smiling and serene a
one could wish to look at
Friday, September sth.
Sailors have certainly either kind o
second sight or sixth sense, call it BY an
name we choose There is something 5
ineomprehensible to me in the way in whicl
they see, or somehow perceive things tha
are to me quite invisible that it savors o
the weird and supernatural. festerda
: afternoon took the prize, 50 far, for nasti
ness, but the night settled ia as beautiful