Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-28

her treasure hunting. looked about
 good deal in order t0 get just what 1 wanted Finally from merchant of 1 Plymouth l purchased a stout little
 ship of three hundred and fifty tons burden called the Rose of Devon.
 which had been engaged In the West
 Indian and the American colonial
 trade
 1 It was my first design to have gone
 as master of her myself. and my lady
 would fain Have had 1t 50. but after
 reflection l decided 1t were better to
 have a much older man than l to com.
 mand so long as she went as a pas senger. and so l engaged worthy i seaman, one Samuel Matthews. old
 enough to Ds my father. with whom 1 ! had often sailed: in fact. the man | under whom 1 made my first cruise. l did engage myself as mate. however. and l even tried in vain to induce
 Master Ficklin and his sister to go with us.
 IL seemed proper in yenturing among l islands filed according to common re- port with savage peoples to provide for fighting Therefore. after consulting with Captain Matthews, whom 1 fully acquainted with the entire project in
 all its details. shipped crew of thirty men and provided in the equip
 ment plenty of muskets. pistols and
 cutlasses. with the necessary powder and ball, and in addition a small brass
 cannon which I mounted on the fore l neil
 for friendly trading and barter should
 such be found practicable.
 Naturally the unusualness of these preparations attracted attention, and Captain Matthews and l were over
 whelmed with applications from ad- venturous men who desired to make ihe voyage, surmising that it was after treasure of some sort
 l left the work of engaging the crew
 10 Captain Matthews. He had as boat.
 swain a seaman named Pimban. in
 whom ho placed great confidence. He was yillainous looking man with a
 white scar running from his left eye across his cheek. caused by a cut he
 had received in some fight. and the line of white showing against the bronZed, weather beaten cheek he sported did not improve his appear. ance. But that he was a prime sea man was evident. Captain Matthews seemed to have great confidence in him.
 To anticipate. when we boarded the ship l liked the crew not much better than the boatswain. 1 will say this for them, however. that a smarter. quicker set Of seamen never hauled on brace or laid on yardarm. IL was not their l skill or strength or courage that l did l not Ike, but they were not the kind of ] men would have sought for a ship of | my own, and the presence of my lady l and her maid, worthy woman. a long 1 time servant at the castle. who had | elected to follow her fortunes, made | ue tfmid, Yet l was not unusually sp- 1 prehensiye- l had a sublime conf {! dence in my own ability to deal with i any man or any group Of men.
 I did not stint the outfitting Of the | ship, and when l finished. having leTt | uothing out that either my own or |. Captain Matthews experience or iru- | agination would suggest, there was l left of our joint funds enough to pay | the wages of the officers and Of the men out and back and no more-that I is, allowing a year for the round voy. age The lines of the Rose of Devon were unusually good She had a repu- tation for being speedy boat, and that was more time than enough IL was my purpose to go around the world with her rather than retrace our course about Cape Horn after we reached the island. if We ever reached t. so we staked everything We had on tue future. If my lady had had the least knowledge of the value q saips she would have seen how littie way ser f2,000 had gone, but she was as gnileless as any other woman on that subject, and Master Ficklin was not much better. 1 lied to them both with g good grace and with an easy con science It was for her sake.