Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1912-12-11

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was alive.
l had brought flask OF liquor with
me In case OF such an emergency and
poured little down her throat She
opened her eyes. bur soon closed them
again.
We had brought some broth in a bot.
tie. which one OF the mea carried.
called for him to come down to me and
| fed the woman a little OF the broth,
She opened her eyes again and this
time looked for the child Seeing him.
she looked again at u men and NUT
tered what took to be thanks that the
boy would be saved We fed her tea
spoonful of broth at time till she was
| able to articulate. She was so low
that | dared not move her. and yet
would net leave her. We remained
| near the vessel all day. and before dark
/ determined to take her and her boy
on. to our own ship. Wrapping her In
blankets, we carried her on deck The
most difficult part OF 1t was to get her
into the boat. but we accomplished this
by tying her in hammock and with a
rome at each end lowered her. The ba-
by | carried down In my arms. In the
same way we took her aboard the Mac
Avoy.
The derelict was In such good condi-
ton that concluded to put prize
crew aboard of her and send her to
Honolulu. not many days sail to the
north OF us There would be nothing
to do but provision and water her.
though 1t would be safer to do some
pumping. so sent half n dozen men
aboard Of her with what they would
need and had The pleasure Of seeing
them hoist her sails and move away
northward
The woman we had rescued was
ready the next morning to give the
main points of her experience, The
ship was commanded bs her husband.
They had sailed from san Francisco
for the Hawaiian Islands. Blown Ell
their course by bad weather. they had
come upon an island Their stores
and water being pretty nearly exhaust
| ed from being out longer than they
had expected. the captain had taken
the main part of the crew ashore to
see IL he could replenish both. leaving
only three men aboard While they
were gone hurricane sprang up from
off shore. parted the cable by which
| the ship was anchored. and she was
blown out to sea. The captains wife
helped the men to get down the
ahnflf ell they
could do to keep the vessel aaoat
The men remained on deck trying to
get her under control. but every one
of them was washed overheard.
When the storm abated the captains
wife found herself at sea on dere-
lict. Most of the food left aboard had
been damaged. The mother. fearing
| that before they would be rescued the
supply of food necessary TO keep them
both alive would be exhausted, kept
| II for her child She thought over
possible ways TO attract attention OF
other vessels, but could devise no way
except to loosen the bell rope and let
the clapper swing with the waves
| This done. she remained In her cabin
with her child awaiting such fate as
Providence might have for them.
She had no idea how many days she
had been afoat Her little larder
grew less and less every day. and.
| while at first she ate what was abso-
lutely necessary to keep sufficient
strength In her to take care of her
child, at last. that the little one might
live as long as possible to get the ben
eft of rescue. she refralned from
food entirely. 1t Is probable that had
our coming been delayed a few hours
she would have died.
got what information could from
her as to the island on which her hus-
band and his crew had been marooned
and judged that 1t was one of the Spor-
AIDES on the Polynesian groups l was
| bound for the Philippines. so that both
these groups lay In my course. II be-
only to reunite this family. but take of
the marooned men. A few days sail
brought us TO the first of the groups,
but we heard nothing of the men we
searched for But when we struck the
Polynesians we had better success
The rescued woman was on deck when
we passed one of them and recognized
| 1t as the island from which she had
been blown. We circled il and on a
bit OF high ground saw with a glass
something white fiuttering We turn
ed our course toward it and struck the
marooned men
As we approached we saw them
standing on the shore watching us. and
presently We heard the cheer, but
when we came near enough to make
them hear that we had the captains
wife and boy on board they went wild
| with delight and | saw one Of them
drop on his knees | was sure 1t was
the captain himself.
shall never forget the meeting be-
| tween the captain and his wife. TO say
nothing at his having his boy restored