The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-13

q told the fool afont 1t and be
imagined the rest AZ You did
Banks tuned.
"Lucltf You didn't run the Palem-
bane on my imagination. Slow as she
goes. she'd have slammed herself into
matchwood
Spller choked with rage.
1 COX here. I'll sail all over your
blooming rocks, as have done afore
You just made this up To get noto.
fiety and have Your ships name on
the chart. and be put in the Directory
know you Banks. and | don't think
much of YOU and never did. To get
yourself talked about you'd report
that you'd seen the Flying Dutchman
Vigias indeed! A disagreement on
any chart, You'll have the chart of
the Indian Ocean as big a disgrace
as The North Atlantic ii you have
your way Didn't you find nothing
new to report this time?"
Banks rose up in a towering rage.
You're no gentleman, Captain Spill
Ter. and I'll speak no more with YOU.
Rocks are real. And may you never
have occasion to rue fading them out
as such. I'll let you know I've as
great respect for the chart as you
have. and if You ever run your old
tub on my rocks. you can call em
Spiders Reef, for all | care. so there
and he perspired off To his vessel.
In shipping circles opinion was di-
Vided between the master OF the 81
NOON and the master OF the Paem-
bang. And it being the fashion of
the sailorman, or, for that matter of
humankind in general to decide mat
tiers thai admit of doubt according To
personal prejudice and ancient opln-
ion, there We're more on Spillers side
than on Banks. For one thing, il is
the perpetual ambition of all true
sons OF the ocean to discover some
thing new and have his ships name
tagged ON to it, and every one was
jealous of Banks. When the Amphion
looked for the rocks without success.
they threw out dark hints about
dead whale or tree stump having
been seen, and some said Rum, just
as others said Rats, contemptuous
ly.
Others, with a very fine contempt
for the navy were of opinion that
Captain Melville of II. NJ S Amphion
considered he owned half the Indian
Ocean and all the Arabian Sea. and
would be as much put Out al finding
AN unmarked rock or shoal in either
as if he slipped upon an old chew on
his own quarterback These were ON
Banks side, of course And some
who dislil,ed Spiller said they be-
lieved in this new set OF rocks to
any him. ending very naturally in
holding the opinion they argued for.
When old Banks got on The high
horse and swore he would not speak
again 10 the disbeieyer In the yigia
he meant it. and added details TO his
statement.
MOI II | found him in a boat in the
middle of the Indian Ocean he
swore exeitr y
The quarrel was as bitter as polem-
ic theology. Spiller was a rank athe.
list. "A scorner, a scoffer. a pagan, a
heather If Banks had written a new
creed he would have begun it; Il be
lieye in the Simeon Rocks to the
west of the Maldiyhs He chung to
their existence pathetieally and when
an impeeunious skipper of storm
diseruntled tramp wanted 10 borrow
a couple Of hundred rn"ees from him.
and remarked incidental, that he had
seen broken water in the supposed
position OF the discredited reel, Banks
forked out with enthusi SIN and took
down a lying statement ioyfully.
But when the Simeon was ready
for sea again that same tramp skip
per. who Yves a wild disgrace to the
respectable mystery of the sea, exc
cuted a few rlaneuyers which let the
Palembang got ahead of her. For the
tramp Julius Caesar was her name)
had engines of an obstinate and &C.
centric character. Sometimes they
worked, and sometimes they didn't,
and on this particular 3casion they
refused to be reversed at any price
As the julius Caesar wouldn't go
astern, her c. tain showed her at the
crowded shippi-ig ahead and put her
through, whooping on [. 2 bridge like
maniac He erazed three other
steamers took pumpkin off a sailing
vessel Slip i between two others,
and in one | Il complicated evolution
smashed the jibboom of the Simeon,
brought down her foretopgall'n mast.
and escaped to sea in IA cyclone of
curses of which the calm center was
the Palemb7 g.
"I'll report you. said Spiller to
Banks, when he left Bombay.
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