Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-18

Fate and Green Sea Took Him Down Channel.

last brandy aud soda, Barnard Neither
inc unusual nature or the drink nor The
refined accent OF the muddled men sur
rriscd me discovered afterwards that
BERNARD, the ordinary seaman hnd beuii
% year on The naval engineering shin
at Portsmouth as cadet ! stood aside
10 Rive then searoom. when the pas-
a.nRer tWho had been behind mel said
70 them with shake -down-nltogethcr ia
nlluilty. very condescrnding ln such "a
learned man; III IL be only a drink
you want you follows, here! tnkng out
"a punt bottle " cognac from his over
cost pockeU Have some OF my medic
AZ stores He then entered .he Fore
casiie'-as the deck house was mis-
named lie had no right there, but I
was called away by the chief mate, and
left them drinking cognac together.
AN INCIDENT OF DEPARTURE.
In 20 minutes We were under way:
and the learned passenger had defeated
The economical design OF the muster
The ordinary sehmang now quite
drunken companion attempted a. pier
head jump OF H. and the passengers
kindness had nearly sent him and his
tail hat into the deep dock had not n
tide-waitGr clutched part OF them; and
this part was the man himself. who
lost his hat Such incidents at leave
taklngs used to be as common as mag
gots IN bread barge His brother
was snoring dead drunk. In the deck
house: no relative. | afterwards was
told by Bernard himself
Two days later, down Channel Il blow
hard Then harder. We thought the
masts would 80 by the board when the
deep-lLden ship rolled. weather rail un-
der in every mighty and shcltering
trough, and lee rail under when her
lower topsalls felt the full strength of
the gale. The lanyards Of the lower
shrouds were quite slack. and It was
Impossible to set them up, and we were
all up to our necks IN water rigging
up pieventer haWserS for backstays.
Pigstyes and stunsail boOms and small
Ter spars and harness casks were naU-
eating themselves up ana down Inc
decks and through the cuddy bulkhead
where the passenger lived. There were
80 many acts TO perform, 50 many ar
ferent things to- catch, at risk Of brok-
en- limbs or death; IL WAS not quite so
amusing as water polo in swimming
bath; and I don't think that the pale
passenger, dashed TO the skyight on
tho poop felt altogether happy as he
watched the crew toling below him.
was ordered by the mate to see the
bower anchors ON the topgallant fore
castle more securely lashed. | took
with me, and we first dashed ourselves
10 lifeline. ana then passed some
chnin-shectmg across the deck and
round the crowns Of the anchors unit
ing them thus. Bernard was quite sober
after three days, and he was also IN
missed the ship said nothing;
heard him say to the other man Just
as we finished and We all rose from our
Cruuching, spray-swcpt position and
"A
life If it had not been for that Jonah
on the poop I'd have gone ashore and
missed the ship" | said morning; |
wanted TO get down on the forecastle'
The able seaman and myself swung
ourselves down amidships, but Ber-
nara fingered behind, holding the life
line and looking to leeward, presum-
ably in the direction of the invisible
land This is to be may lifei" he
Curse the sea, curse the
seal curse IT, All! this shall be my last
voyage! Curse the seal
BERNARD TO w1NDwARD.
At that moment aud the other sea
meme were thrown down by the trem-
ndous lurching dive that tho ship
made, and then a green sea broke over
he forward part from bows to main
latch Ny leg was wounded by u
plinter of bulwsrk, but | managed.
ike all the rest, to float about safe on
,oard. All except - Man over
,oard," roared somebody presently.
Bernard had gone straight down. heavy
With his ollskins, right under the |
hips bottom and up TO windward, |
here he was sighted by the Channel |
Hot ON the poop. The weather may be
est understood from two things-we
)ok the pilot to Madeira as we could
OF disembark him before, and life 4
10Y which he himself attempted to |
hroW to windward Travelled through |
ne air across the deck and fell
hips length TO leeward.
He seems to be swimming away"
'rled the passenger. who had now |
ashcd himself to the miazen-topsan |
sheets at the mast. Nobody Needed his !
words, leaving the bobbing sou-wester |
Of the drowning man far to windward. |