The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-11-26
plouehing out in their lighters.

around the Horn she was apprised
of the outbreak of war in Europe in
very abrupt manner. During the
night. a shell screamed across her
and dropped ships length ahead.
She was hailed and boarded, her pa
pers examined by a British officer.
and her captain advised to keep his
lights out, as the German cruiser
Karlsruhe was known to be cruising
Just on the other side of the Straits
Of Magellan.
Warned by Monmouth.
The man-of-war which had thus
stopped the Harold was the Mon
mouth, the loss of which has prac-
tically been admitted by the British
admiralty as a result of the recent
naval action off Caronel, which ter
minated so disastrously for British
arms.
From the time of meeting the
Monmouth until her arrival here, for
more than 100 days, the Harold navi-
gated without lights. After round
ing the Horn in weather so frlgld
that ice had to be chopped from the
rigging with hatchets. the bark dodg-
ed all tunnels that hove into view
and steered far out of her course and
the usual lanes of South Atlantic
travel. Taking a course laid north
northeast, the Harold held it for al
most a month, before turning in to-
ward the shore of the United States.
Coming through the Mona Passage,
she made Barbados, where she was
compelled to drop anchor for the
sake of taking on provisions of which
she had run short.
Two of Crew Seized.
At Barbados, she was boarded by
the British authorities, and the stew
ard and second mate, who happened
to be German reservists, were taken
from the ship, to be 'interned" at
Barbados until the end of the war.
While at Barbados, native divers
were employed who went down and
scraped the hull of the Harold, which
had accumulated fine coating OF
marine animal culae and vegetable
matter. Peruvian waters are motor
ious throughout the world for the
rapidity with which stay in them
will foul the hull of vessel, so the
Harold was in sad need of a scrap
ing.
Leaving the Barbados, the pas
sage to Charleston was uneventful.
Between Barbados and Charleston,
we encountered nothing but Gains,
said the cheerful, bronzed captain Of
the Harold.
A second British bark, the Peri
cles, under charter to the same con-
Germ, is at present bound for Char
lesion from the Pescadores, with a
cargo of Peruvian guano, similar in
grade to that which the Harold is
now discharging at the Ashley river
plant.
Splendid Navigating.
The navigation of bark through
such a trip as that taken by the new
ly entered sailor from the Pescadores,
is regarded as masterful piece OF
work. The knowledge and training
requisite for the successful terminus
of such an undertaking has long
been recognized as the most desira-
BILE of trainings, and British young
men of the best families have for
time immemorial been apprenticed to
serve on barks. Invariably the crew
of some dozen and a half, which
would complete the complement Of
such a ship as the Harold, will in
clude two or three young apprentices
drawn from the best families of Eng
land.
And evidently it IS privilege to
serve such an apprenticeship under
Captain Jenkins. Just what the
sturdy Britisher will load on his way
out is not yet known.
First Here in Three Years.
While it is true that Peruvian qua
no is continually on hand locally, tn,
Harold brings the first cargo Of tina.
product directly imported into this
country through the port of Charles
ton for the past three years. For
some time now Peruvian guano has
come to ports of the United States
in extremely limited conslgnments,
and the stock that has heretofore
reached Charleston was all trans
shipped. Post.
CHINESE AND JAPANESE MILLS.
Demand for California Cotton Crop
a