Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-07-05

she'll 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 Guardia and had no difficulty in dis
posing of my arms and ammunition, which
exchanged for a cargo of coffee.
With the cargo of coffee we headed Cor New
Orleans, where sold it.
While the coffee coming out storTs were
swiftly going in, and we were out of thu river
again and on our way to Hayti in record
breaking time. Though l had good cat4se to
remember Santo Domingo never had been in
the BLACK Republic" and, as had heard there
was a probability of some lively times there
I determined to visit it before I 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 amidshirs
but we could not even imagine what might
have caused it, 1t unexpected that st
had good start before we discovered It. We
fought it, Of course, but We might as we'll have
tried to quench volcano in eruption. The
strange craft had made up her mind to go I'M
der, and there was nothing for to do but
take to the whaleboat, which large enough
for all of us, as had only small crew.
After we had showed off we returned at con-
siderable risk to rescue a big black cat which
was on the ship when l bought her. We had
christened him John Croix"
Our humanity was we'll rewarded for John
saved our lives, or at least saved us from
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 running we made a bad
mess of the landing. Our boat was overturned
and stove in, the bung came out of the water
cask and all of supplies and most OF our
instruments were lost.
Early in the morning the cat awakened me
by rubbing against my face. At first l
thought he was only depressed, like the rest
Of u.s. 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 cump 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 I got down on all tours again and
followed him I crawled along for ten or
twelve feet until found John standing over a
rivulet of fresh water about as hig my
finger.
| drank my fill from it and then awakened
the others and told them of Johns discovery
They hailed him as our savior, and when he
came trotting into camp couple of hours later
with an oyster in his mouth they we're ready
to beatty him.
Strengthened and encouraged, we patched ap
our boat and, when the storm had blown Itself
out put to sea again, and encountered little
schooner from st. Johns, Fla, which took us
to Key West, where We soon got ship for
New York.
| returned to Melbourne in 1885, after an
absence of about four years, and went to Men
zes' Hotel, which was not the one | had
stopped at before-when | was James Stuart
Henderson.
When Nourse and Wilson were released
from prison the former scurried across Bass
Strait to his old Tasmanian home with the
money had paid him for so successfully i'm.
personating me. He considered that he had
been we'll compensated and expected to invest
his capital in some small business to which af.
fluent position, under ordinary conditions, he
never could have aspired with any degree OF
confidence