Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1911-12-28

bark. l!c SAYS Batavia was ful. Of
malarial fever and that It was hard to
get crews strong enough to man n sailing
vessel YIc had ACQUIRED the habit Of
taking liberal doaHs OF Glnlne. dropping
the bitter powder in - glass of schnapps
lie thinks the schnapps may have helped
some
ONE MAN MALARIA PROOF.
When the bark sailed from Batavia.
at any rate. at least one man was malaria
proof. Disease breeding mosquitoes that
swarmed In batavia followed the Freidg
to sea. The skipper had a cargo OF qui-
nine in his cabin pounds and pounds OF
it. Howard said. ana Tor days all hands
| ate it, The mosquitoes stuck tn the ship
| ana multiplied. Day and night It was
| Impossible 20 get away from them. For
! eVAry hundred killed sevral hlndred
seemed to come into being. or Pedang.
| Sumatra where she TOUGHER after leaving
| batavia. Torwnld lrpnns. n young Nor
| WeGian. " III with malaria fever threw
| himself into the sea and was lost Three
| Dutch soldiers who had. according to
! their own story, been shanghaied at
! Batavia Went down with nal ria, hut one
! recovered enough 10 DO hi stunt and ne
| was the stout f.i! NV who arrl~ed here
The ships serious troubles began on the
way to CaletoWn. where she stopped for
provisions. Wate" she took on at Pa
dang wa@ not fit to drink. the men say
but as !; was the only water aboard there
vas no getting away from It. A week
after leaving PadanG there was not
man aboard hui Howard and the Norwe-
gian-A American mate able to work except
at irfreGucnt intervals The skipper sue
cumbed completely. of cape .Agulhas
eastward of stormy Good Hope. the little
bark ran into dirty weather. Ten days of
stress followed and the only men capable
OF handling sail or hauling on sheet or
ballard or going aloft we're Howard and
the mate The mosquitoes were every
where below. breeding perhaps in the
staggnant water Of the bilges The skip
per. the mate ana the second mate knew
that the mosquitoes were the cause of the
sickness but they could do nothing ex-
! cept eat quinne which finally made some
Of them queer in tho head. otd when on
the ofIays Of the fever they staggered
ont on deck they had visions Of phantom
ships coming % nelp them.
SEAS :, FEET HIGH.
The worst Of the gales. in which tho
mate declare the seas rose to height of
% zee laS'e" t"ooaNS' Twas a io'o"ing
blast and the ship was thrown on her
beams ends half dozen times. The skip
per was then below in his hare narrow
, cabin, hardly able to move Two OF the
Dutch soldiers and the cook we're like
the mere spectres 81 men, thcir clothing
hanging TO them ike the tatters OF a
scarecrow
IN these two days OF tumultuous seas
! the mat" ana the second mate worked the
! harK' she plunged do"n'i INTO Inc rearsome
hollows as If she never might rise again
10 the crested mis- fut sh" rode them
l'E" swan as rule, the Philade'phian
says once on going down a frothy m
cline she poked her clipper stem under
ana snapped or her fore-royal mast
which is the reason she did not show any
when she got here. All the canvas she
carried was two lower topsails and the
mates Just kept before the gale. The
! skipper staggered u3 the companonway
TO the deck at times to encourage the
I mates fhey were getting along CALAMITY
'' " " - ~" ~ "''''
| her malhEaro Spit AT the sings the
| halNes hanging ny me mis- me mates
| iashed' 'he "heei ana ran forward the
nallhke ends or the broken spar threaten
| lns the very H'e II ire barH.
IheE swiftly secured one end and
| lasHen II 10 inc mast lheN cut the other
| away II was 'he SW'tteSt Nlt OF WORK
howard says mat ne ever did aboard
snip lheF ran osck' nut the little ship