Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-08-10

Frintas says; we dent have any luck.
can't pay so much money
well, they talk about terms for
long tam. At last the commandante
he is impatient and asks:
How much you give anyway
THE captain he talk some time
with mate and then he answers
Wal, / geev you $50, anyhow;
dats all geeV; am poor man.
All right, say the commandante.
He smile some more Give me $50
and you go whalin' in de Golf
"Vir well, de captain give de money
and de gunboat waddles off toward
shore. De schooner fills off, and we
go pushing into de Golf. Well, OATS
fine place. Big, smooth waters. We
are scarcely dere an hour before look
out call: Oar blows and de waist
boat is lowered and gets a small
sperm whale. Deres Il big time
aboard den. Everybody is slngin'
and nobody talkin' bout de cock
reaches. Before we get through cut
tim in de mex day we take another
sperm whale, and de men is feelin'
better yet. BY dis way Wen be high
llOOheu A. - g.. dow" oDd hound FOR
Saint Eustache. Our luck was turn
at las.
well, about the third night we're
in de. Golfo We are. cruisin' along
when a big breeze o. wind comes
down out OF de hills to south ard. 1t
freshens, booms up, tears along the
surfaces and pretty soon we're reef
ing down. Along after sunset we're
rushing along bout tree mile off
shore, when bang! crash! the schoon-
er strikes and commences to FILL
" 'Hola!' yell the captain. She is
on unchartered rock. Sapristl, she is
gone
well, the Cohannet sort o. slid
of de first rock and commence to
settle into deep water. She fill so
fas' dat we only. have time to throw
some grub in de boats and get off.
We work over toward shore and land
under lee of high bluff There is
nothing only trees, thick jungles and
high rocks. What can we do? Capt.
Frlntas say, '"Wcll, we will have to
sail pretty soon for de mouth of bay,
where is de gunboat. The captain he
Is brave fellow. Well, we are all
discourage. all our hopes gone. Pretty
soon storm blow over next morning
and we put off in the two boats. De
other boats we leave aboard schooner
when she founders.
''In twelve hour we're maxim de
mouth of de bay. Here comes de
smoky gunboat like before.
'Wot's de mattsr?' says the COM
mandante
~ lose my ship says Captain
Frintas, very solemn. She struck an
unchartered rock. Your Government
no good-they have not chart de bay
right =.
We'll, what you going to do
about?' asks the commandante.
us, We'll go home, some tam
when we get chance answer Captain
Frintas.
I tell you what the command
ante said, 4 take you up to Rio
Blanco, where you can get steamer
for Barbados
"'All right say de captain. 4
guess dots best thing we can do
$50 we go up for Rio Blanco, such
a hot place, ON de river, an wait for
steamer. Pretty soon she come. We
go out to 'Bridgetown and so on home.
Dat was tam we pay for get sh !p-
wreck, Dat was bad tam"
The. other whalemen in. the pm, ty
agreed that the Cohannets accident
had been Unfortunate: 1t was pecul-
lar too, they said, that Rrfntas
.shoultd, have had to meet the financial
demands Of the eommandante before
he could take his vessel into the
Gulf, where she foundered.
THAT was very bad for FrintaS,"
commented Captain Edwards, but
next tam he have YER good luck
weeth de schooner Amethyst. He
never tried de Golfo Curiaco again.
OATS bad place for him"
There was. general move among
the whalemen toward the door.
Where did you say the gulf was
exactly?" asked Captain Potter.
Captain Edwards gave the location
of Curiaco.
Some time 1 will communicate
with their government and have them
take steps to have the place charter ed
properly and furnished with protect
ing lights"
Capt. Potter spoke assertively.
Three years ago he went to The
Hague to be consulted as an author
lty during a whaling dispute between
Russia and. the United States. Con
sequently he feels his position. The
shippers called CHEEKY good night to
Brown and moved off toward PUr-
chase street.