The daily Alaskan., 1914-02-11
THE ONLY
 ONE LEFT By M. QUAD Copyright, 1913, by Associated Lit
 erUry Press.

 | Il Copyright, 1913, by Associated Lit | er0ry Press. . l was only fourteen years old when ] I made the voyage from London to . Rio on board the Duchess, having
 crew of fourteen. all told. At Rio We |, loaded green coffee for Australia. We got away with fair wind and every body imperfect health, and our run to . the casl. until we had sighted Inac- . cpssfbIp island and left it hundred 1 miles. astelu, was something to boast of Then came dead flat calm, which ! lasted for eleven days. On the uLJh day of the calm two men were sud 7 denly stricken with a strange ai.menL
 They were reported sick at s o'clock ! in the morning: by 9 D. m. both were l dead: at 6 o'clock a third man was l taken down and lived only two hours
 Gvgeu culac will sometimes breed . fever ou d long. hot voyage, but the srny.rms of these men were so . sjrauye thut some other explanation
 had to bc luukrl for. No one was at- ] tackled &l tlc sixth day, but on the
 seventh ..r captain. second mate and ] CORRIDOR sailor all came down at 1 once The first complaint was dryneSs ! of the tongue That was followed in ! half am noar by loss of sight and other 1 scusrs and before noon alI were dead. 1 On tap night of the seventh day a sailor whd had lain down on the deck 1 in perfect health and souUdly slum- 1 brrrd for three hours awokc with l puwb,d tongue. He did not wait to 1 die as others had done, but gropcd his l way .p the ships side and dropped from the rail into the sea. He was 1 the sixth wap ha.i died, and the living . were panic stricken.
 We h.d law lost nearly half ou ] crew. and tar ship lay hoayiu- on the . classy sea without sign that the calm ! WAS eyer Co ua broken. On the morn l .ug of the eighth day there was bet l ter GrpHg however. At noon every l w.9 atg a aearty dinner An hour a.ur four mcu were taken down at . almost the same moment, and the ] symptoms were more violent than iu any ur ,ns preceding cases. There ] was uo burial of the bodies: they were . simply thrown overheard as soon as ] H.c ulI G,mr.,i. When this had been accomplished. tue mate called the liv. ing around him and said there was no longer any hope that any man 1 would be spared The captains gi2
 c-u.d lr got at uaudily, and in cas, We wanted to take it and pull away 1 from thu saip he would help to get hel l in tro water The two sailors were eager to get or. but my mind was quickly made up to remain with Mr EIurw.a
 ! When the mate and l were lief, ! alone ac wrote up his log book and als9 prepared two statements, which l he sealed up and cast overheard. That l night when 1 went to sleep the bark - was neayiug about on the ground swell ] in ,le same lnUuotouous way, and MT 1 Nu-ww sHt at the table in the cabin ] reading book. slept the night 1 frr.rgn without break and it was . Sunrfs. when 1 turned out. looEed . into the mates statcroom, but saw
 tn.. a. had not been to bed. l ran on . ag.s. bat he was nowhere tO be seen ! l c-.m him and began a search, and
 fr was tHH hour before ] gave up
 .uf rca..z.I tuat he was not in the . srtr What had happened during the
 night 1 could only surmise. He hao n.t vakcucd me Eor left message.
 When | fully realized that ] waf' . .lrr. aboard of the ship ] was so ter
 rauI that ! hid away in the cabin for . sar.r. hours.
 wn.u-s were not at all clear to me
 ur--I rr, morning of the eleventh day ' ar m. calm Then awokc to ind my
 self ,..mgus well as ever in my life
 rnH ram u8 Gerk to find signs of change
 i'm rna weather. l knew how to make \ stuaI of distress of the English flag
 .rf a1inuu-u there was no wind, ran
 the bunting uloft.
 ii Was 8 o'clock in the afternoon be
 fore the first CatSpJ"S begun p"'9 NN7
 over the gIussy surface of the sea, but in fae course of half an hour a steady
 breeze s,t in from the north, and the bark went drifting away before It. 1 During tnc uext five days and nights
 -ae breeze blew from every point of | the compass except the east, but did |. not rise t3 a gale nor create a heavy |. Sea. | had u,tIc to do except to cook il mv meals aud go aIoft to look for sails, i nur ] made as much work for myself as ! could arI did not permit my mind | ., gwcH uu the present or future. On ! .,.. seventh or eighth day of my lone I illness at o'clock in the afternoon and while the bark was drifting to the east |. rr-Ear a light breeze l went aIolt and . mau. cut sail to the north, a second
 t1 the south and third to the west 1. The first two were too far away to hone for assistance. The third was . coming up and must pass me close. EH. was but a speck on the horizon
 when ] made her out but two hours later ] had her in plain sight, and at