The Springdale news., 1909-03-12
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CHAPTER XIII.

tCAME on deck one moFHlHS dt
 about 1 bells to find the entire
 ships company afoot. Even
 the doctor was there Every body was gazing eagerly at narrow, mountainous island lying slate colofed across the early morning.
 We were as yet some twenty miles distant from 1t and could make out nothing but its general outline. The latter was sharply defined. rising and falling to highest point one side of the middle. Over the island and rag gedly elasping its sides hung cloud. the only one visible in the sky.
 I joined the afterguard.
 You seet' the doctor was exclaim- ing. Tt iss as 1 haf said. The island iss there. Everything iss us il should be- He was quite excited.
 Percy Darrow. too, was shaken out Of his ordinary calm.
 s.The volcano is actiye,e was his on ly comment. but 1t explained the rag ged cloud.
 You say there's harbor?" inquired Captain Seloyer.
 Tt should be on the west end said Dr. Schermerhorn.
 Captain seloYer drew me one side. He. too. was little aroused.
 "Now. wouldn't that get youF he squeaked Doctor runs up against a Norwegian bum who tells him about a volcanic Island and gives its bear ings. The island ain't on the map at all Doctor believes it and makes me lay my course for those bearings. And here's the island. So the buns story was true I'd like to know what the rest of it was" His eyes were shin ing
 Do we anchor or stand off and onY l asked
 Captain Selover turned to grip me by the shoulder
 .I have orders from Darrow to get to good berth, to land. te build shore quarters and to snug down for stay of year at least"
 We stared at each other.
 Joyous prospect" muttered. Hope there's something to do there.'
 The morning wore. and We rapidly approached the island. II proved to be utterly precipitous. The high rounded hills sloped easily to within T hundred feet or SD of the water and then fell away abruptly. Where the earth ended WIS fantastic filigree border. like the fancy paper with which our mothers used to line the pantry shelves Below the white snrges flung themselves against the cliffs with wild abandon. Thousands of sea birds wheeled in the eddies of the wind, thousands of ravens perch ed on the slopes. With our glasses We could make out the heads of seals fishing outside the surf and Il ragged belt of kelp.
 When within a mile We put the helm up and ran for the west end A bold point we avoided far out lest there should be outlying lodges. Then we came in sight of Il broad beach and pounding surf.
 I was ordered to take q surf boat and investigate for landing and an anchorage. The swell was running high. We rowed back and forth. pug Fled as to how to get ashore with all the freight it would be necessary to land The ship would lie well enough, for the only open exposure was bro ken by long reef over which we could make out the sens tumbIing. But inshere the great waves rolled smoothly, swiftly, then suddenly fell rJ d with roar across the yellow sands. The fresh winds blew the spume back to us. We conyersed in shouts.
 I've can surf the boat.@ yelled Thrackles, but we can't land load"
 That was my opinion We rowed slowly along, parallel to the shore and just outside the line Of breakers
 I don't know exactly how to tell you the manner in which We became aware of the cove. 1t was as nearly the in stantaneoas as can be imagined One minute I looked ahead on cliff as unbroken as the side of a cabin. the very next I peered down the length of cove fifty fathoms long by about ten wide. at the end of which was a gray el beach. cried out sharply to the men. They were quite as much aston. ished as I. We backed water. watch ing closely. At given point the cove and all trace of its entrance dsap- peared. We could only just make ont the line where the headlands dissolved Into the background of the cliffs and that merely because we knew of its existence The blending was perfect.
 We rowed in. The water was still A faint ebb and flow whispered against the tiny gravel beach at the end l noted practicable way from 1t to the top of the cliff and from the cliff down again to the sand beach. Everything was perfect The water was beautiful light green, like semi opaque glass, and from the indistinct- ness of its depths waved and beck oned, rose and disappeared with inde- seribable grace and deliberation long feathery sea growths. In a moment the bottom abruptly shallowed. The motion of the boat toward the beach permitted us to catch nasty glimpse of little fish darting. of big fish turn ing. of yellow sand and some vivid color. Then came the grate of gravel and the seraping of the boats bottom on the beach.
 We jumped ashore eagerly. I left the men very reluctant and aseended a natural traf. to q high sloping down over which blew the great trades. Grass sprung knee high. A low hill rose at the back. From below the fall of the cliff came the pounding of surf.
 walked to tue edge. Various lodges sloping toward me ran down to the