The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-12-21

sail and foretopmast staysail; terrific
sea; ship laboring heavily.
Nav 27-Wind hauled TO ESE. and
| moderating. but such heavy head sea
we can do nothing but pitch our jib-
boom under; Staten Island in sight to
the northward; so you can see that for
all our work since we passed out by
Cape st. Johns we have made nothing,
! Just six days.
! MAY 2s-Wind back to the west
ward again; made sail; p. m, wind to
| southwest, blowing heavy gale.
MAY 29-Heavy southwest gales; ship
under lower maintopsail; lee side com
pletely under water.
MAY 3O-Continued terrific gale from
the southwest. p. m.-MOderated;
made sail.
MAY 31-Throughout the day moder-
ate northerly winds and fine clear
weather. We are getting back what
we nave lost the last two weeks At 4
D. n. could just see Cape Horn from
the mizzen rigging, and my two pas
sengers went up to see it, and got their
only look at Hermit Island, which is
Cape Horn.
June Moderate breezes from west
northwest. + p. m. calm. Then came
out from the southwest. in full force
Reduced sail 10 lower tOpsails. a.
m. hove 10 under goose winged main
topsail, terrific gale, lee side under wa
ter. a. m. Just as daylight began
10 break large four masted ship came
up astern. She was carrying whole
main topsail and foresail We hung
light over the stern but they did not
see it. Then we got out the fog horn,
but still they came directly for us, !
straight for our stern. Called all |
hands, for we expected to be run down |
1t was awful to see that towering mass !
of iron coming on to us. We were |
helpless. Her great jibboom swinging |
through the air, rose up over our lower |
mast heads. We were laying down so
and l expected when it fell it would |
crush into our little vessel. So I |
dropped the fog horn (Which l had |
continued TO blow till they were upon
us), and throwing aside my oil coat,
was ready to jump on board if possible.
but the next sea, fortunately, hove her
head to. leeward, and those on board
her had Just discovered us. Their helm
was hard up, and just by accident she
cleared us, and went off to leeward.
Above the shrieking of the gale, we
could hear the yelling on board of
her 1t fairly makes me shudder now
to write of it. He no sooner cleared
us then he took in sail and remained
about a mile from us all day, perhaps
he thought we were sinking; we lay
so low down in the water.
June 2.-We are drifting back again,
the same gale continues.
June Same bowling gale, drift
ing back.
June 4.-Gale undertaking During
this night, l about made up my mind
to give it up and go round Australia
and got out my charts, but in the morn
ing it had moderated, and there was
our big ship, ten miles to the eastward
of us, and | thought, if we could hold
on as well as he, we could keep her
going. We were now in longitude six
ty-one west, eighty miles east of Cape
st. John, or eighty miles worse off
then we were fifteen days ago. How
much better to have remained under
the lee of Staten Island.
June 5.-Wind came out southeast,
made sail, p. m. hauled back to south
west; heavy gale, down to lower top
sails again.
June 6.-Heavy southwest gale and
snow squalls.
June IA. m. mOderating, made
sail, head winds continue.
June S.-MOderate breeze and fine
weather, s p. m. Heavy snow squalls,
from southwest.
June Snow squalls, wind hauling
10 west .
June lowest wind, thick snow
storm.
June l1.-Hurrah! Hurrah! Hip! Hip!
Hurrah! An east wind at last. Thick 7
NOW storm, but we made one hundred
md sixty miles on our course.
June 12.-SOutheast wind, hauling to
vest southwest, but we made one hun
Ired and ffty-seven miles on our
curse. We were now north and west
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