Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-12-21
THE sPU'YTEN
DUYVIL
By I: a. MICHEL

.AfPIdlr some a. vt,i men don't thiIb
| Mrr< <th n thin" aS the devil. said
! u nd 4H'S TIL who had weather.
| :, Elauy s:.!t'< thai they bad hown
| .raFig IA Ihr hair off his head and
! urrOut4i his rh,pk< Iihr the rtbi#d SEA
| anu- nv I'll. { Gaghi Thought SO.
IEt N 4 hltlut seen the folly o twin
| a TN. t.rvts's tatr T'hcfp waS II Dutch
| a;iH w-I,rn wits u yUIIEs:aer that was
| 4 iu,rlt,Fs. hand tn swear aud punish his
I nGn AMI hi:i<phpEI" ami all that. but
| very royagr paid him. and he got rich
| lie matte. nIulIey on the goods he tuk
| ,ut anil made ,uiu!ry ou the goods he
| brought hack.
':He w;ss ulIghiy proud o disap,
| poirtiH us all was the Cap'h Guaneek
! and after a wh:'p when he started un u
| voyage he changed tile uame OF his
| ship from the Maggie Bristow, which
WIS the name Of the cap'n'st grand
daushter-n little angel she was. too
/ to the Spuyten DuyVil. which in Amer.
| lean mems. In spite o the derit
Capn Gunneel intended by the name
| that he would sail his ship and succeed
I In spite O. Satan. 1t was the useless
est thing be could O. done. There's no
| use o. gittin' any one down on ye. and
| the devils the worst pussoH TO get
down on We there be. Besides the cap'n
had got all his luck by usin' the name
| of a good little gal. and he might q
left well enough alone. - ~ T.
| "WeiI, mates. he hadn't more'n got
out O. the harbor afore 1t begun to
| blow a gale from the noreast. that
| freshened to a howlin' hurricane. 1t
/ seemed = II the devil was In the wind
| n sayin': You'll saf your ship and
make money inl:spite o. me. VIII YET
| You fist plow ahead. Yen feel my
fists in your face with every wave
and every gust o wind go s7i*
! at blew three days, when the wind
/ went down. but NEXT thing 'noth'ard
i the sea filed with foattn' icebergs.
l and purity soon 1t closed In around the
/ Spuyten DuyviI. and the mercury went
/ down, down. till It registered 40 or 90
/ degrees below zero. And It didn't
warm up again neither. The crew
i WANT prepared for sich weather. and.
not haYin' any furs or sich% warm
4 cIothes-they swas intendin' to make
/ for the tropfcs-ore after the other
i froze stiff. One on 'em was at the
1 wheel. another had lashed himself to
4 the riggin' tryin' to unclew sail, an
4 other was Iayin' over the fo'castie.
and so on-alI dead. -..x - =~st
H "But the cap'n, instead o. ,dyin', his
i brain froze, and It made him crazy.
AFTER that the cold let up, the ship
got out o. the ice. and there was plain
sailfn', but the ship had got clear out
of her course. bein' somewhere of the
coast o. Nova Scotia. headin' for the
eastern coast o. Africa. was ship
| ned on the brig General Jackson then.
i and we run across the Spuytens Dnyyil
i sota' west o. Madeira. When we came
i near enough to see what was goin' on
i aboard her We seen the man at the
wheel. the one In the riggin' and the
felier leanin' over the fo'castle. while
the cap'n was goin' about givin' 'em
orders. fist IS If they was Twin mcu.
1--WE thort ut first they was Twin
men. but our cap'n. who was a-lookin'
at 'em through glass. said they
! wasn't -... .~,., -
| when we come within speakin' dis.
lance we hailed the only live man on
deck, the capn. and asked him If we
could do anything for him. he said
no: he didn't ask any odds o. any
body. He was maxim a cruise IN his
ship. the SpnyteD Duyvii. aud he
didn't care for the devil and all his
inns. Our cap'n tried to argue with
him into comm aboard. but he
wouldn't He said he had a. fine crew.
plenty o water and provisions and he
! was goin' to make more money on that
cruise than any he'd ever sailed on.
"There was a good deal O. sea on.
maxim. It dangerous to try to board
| the Spnyten Duyvil, and our cap .
didn't think 1t woth while to risk the
lives Of his able men to save that Of a
iunatfc. so we parted company. and the
4 we w IOtHcI SuIi' nGI
was tryin' to knock down the body
leania' over the fo'castle rail with a
capstan bar. But the clothes was froze
so stiff to the rail that they held: the
corpse up. .,..s:
! r'Fhat was when the Spuyten DuyEil
was real ship. Arterward we heered
I of her as phantom. She was seen
down of Cape Horn and another time
in Boring sea- Bat nobody who saw
her reported that she was real. One
report was that she doomed mp In a
break in a fog. but it closed over her
at once. aud ademonacaI laugh was
heard comm from where she'd been
seen. So far as could git at what
she was on these appearances she was
the same ship with the body at the
wheel. the man in the riggin' and the
one on the fo'castle. only they'd al;
come to he skeletons, The cHp'n was
reported THROWN bis arms about wild.
I,ie nrin his thrpa