The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-04-06
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The Log of the Anemone
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June 1S-We have made ITS miles
the first seven days. AS the wind was
very light for three days in succession,
this seems to be very good showing.
When, last Thursday, we set the spin
maker, the wind was, of course, abeam;
it is off the quarter now; the spin
maker has never been taken in. It
seems remarkable to all of US that we
have, since leaving Catalina Island,
been able to run free on the same tack.
We are frequently amused, sometimes
a little annoyed, by the lack of dis
cipline aboard. Yesterday Tut asked
the captain to keep the men from
crowdfng through our party on the
weather side, and to take the lee side
when going aft. The captain said.
Yes, sir;''-and the men came around
the weather side as before. Today
have twice sent a man back when he
tried to crowd us-in each case it was
the ubiquitous, loud-voiced Louis who
offended. I fear he likes me not.
We bought our kippered behring's in
San Diego, six cans of them. Yester-
day Tut said: 'I feel like eating some
of those nice kippered herrings," and a
searching party was sent out for them
in vain. This morning the captain told
us that the crew had eaten them. They
have in similar manner made away
with our Edam cheese, scorning some
nice American cheese we had brought
along for them. Our chief of the COM
missary department had his hands full,
trying to stem the tide of depreciation.
1 have no doubt the cook would give
the men the last can of preserved food
and feed us on salt beef, if we'd let
him.
The wind is freshening a little. We
expect a nice record by noon tomor-
row. A heavy mist, almost rain, comes
upon us now and then. But it never
lasts long. The cruise is doing won
ders for us all. Our appetites are
good, everybody feels tip-top and en-
joys the rest. Thayer is eating two
mems rations; his rheumatism is en-
tirely gone. Our noses-but, as / have
said before, never mind noses. We put
no internal paint on them, no one
thinks of drinking, no one feels the
need of it, The fresh salt air is brac-
ing enough. We've even ceased feeling
virtuous because we abstain.
June 19-One hundred and ninety-six
knots reeled off, that's not bad. The
wind continues off the quarter, coming
from the n. E. Thayer mentions about
twenty-seven times an hour that 1--WE
are going pretty good now" He is
just passing me and observes to Slim
son: 1--WE are going pretty fast now"
Good or fast, we keep moving. A
spiteful little wave dashed over the
side just now, and wet my back and
the sheet on which I am writing. We
call these little waVelets 'Mermaids'
Kisses when they don't wet us, and
''Spiteful Splitting" when they go down
our backs. I borrowed Stimson's
handkerchief to dry my writing pad
thus familiarity breeds contempt.
A man before the mast, one of the
best we have. asked me. to look at his
foot. q am custodian of the medicine
chesD. tits yust a little swelled,' he
said alphabetically, from which I sus-
pected that he is a Swede. I made him
apply hot water and then .massaged the
ankle with witch hazel. There are no
virulent poisons in the medicine chest
that are not labeled, SO have no fear