The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-07-04

revolt that was being Matched had broken its
shell The Government was promptly turned
over TO him by Alcantara
The Costa Ricans were found. In the midst
OF one OF their periodical but always quite
futile efforts to depose their President. General
Tomaso Guardla and | had no difficulty in dis
posing OF my arms and ammunition. which
exchanged for n cargo Of coffee
With the cargo of coffee we headed for New
Orleans, where sold II,
While the coffee was coming out stores were
swiftly going in and we were out OF the river
again and on way to Hayu In record
breaking time Though | had good cause TO
remember Santo Domingo never had been in
the "Black Republic" and. as had heard there
was a probability of some lively times there,
| determined to visit It before | returned to
New York.
But the crankiness of the Richards inter.
fered with my plans. When we were about
one hundred miles west of Key West the old
ship committed suicide by burning herself to
death The fire started In the hold amidships,
but we could not even imagine what might
have caused It, II was so unexpected that Il
had n good start before We discovered IT, We
fought II, of course, but We might AZ well have
tried to queIch n volcano In eruption. The
strange craft had made up her mind to 20 I'M
der, and there was nothing for us to do but
take to the whaleboat, which was large enough
for all of u.s. as had only small crew
After wo had showed off we returned at con-
siderable risk TO rescue big black cat which
was on the ship when bought her. We had
chrstened him John Crox"
Our humanity was we'll rewarded for John
saved our lives or at least saved us from a
lot of suffering. Eventually We drifted among
the islands to the westward OF Key West and
we headed for the largest one In sight. In the
heavy sea that was running we made n bad
mess OF the landing. Our boat was overturned
and stove in. the bung came out of the water.
cask and all OF our supplies and most OF our
instruments were lost
Early in tho morning the cat awakened me
by rubbing against my face. At first I
thought he was only depressed. like the rest
OF us. and wanted company. but he pestered
around until got up and followed him Call.
ing to me over his shoulder. he led the way
to clump OF mangrove trees, whose roots
overhung the bank three feet above high tide,
John trotted under the mass of roots and be-
gan to purr loudly. | started to follow him
and then backed out, but the cat yowled so
loudly that got down on all fours again and
followed him. crawled along for ten or
twelve feet until found John standing over n
rivulet OF fresh water about as hig as my
finger
drank my fill from 1t and then awakened
the others and told them OF Johns discovery
They hailed him as our savior. and when he
came trottng into camp a couple OF hours later
with an oyster in his mouth they were ready
to beatty him.
Strengthened and encouraged. we patched W
our boat and. when the storm had blown itsel
out, put to sea again. and encountered little
schooner from st. Johns, Fla, which took III
to Key West. where We soon got ship 70,
New York
returned to Melbourne in 1885, after al
absence OF about four years and went to Men
zies' Hotel. which was not the one I hat
stopped at before-when I was James Stuar
Henderson.
When Nourse and Wilson were released
from prison the former scurried across Bias
Strait to his old Tasmanian home with tn
money had paid him for so successfully I'm
personating me. He considered that he ha'
been we'll compensated and expected to inves
his capital in some small business. to which al
fluent position under ordinary conditions. h
never could have asnired with any degree O
confidence.