The sun., 1918-10-27

WnlSkey, my JOHNNY;
Oh, whiskey's what keeps me afoat,
Oh, whiskey for my JOHNNY"
Mr.. ROSENBERG reports rendition of this ia
nous chantey in which even Capt. NICHOLS of the
Fuller joined Sin a funny, squeaky voice-but
none of us dared laugh at him. The American
ship had just passed Staten Island, heading south.
There was sunshine fair wind and moderate
sea- Every one was thrilled with the possibility
that after all the passage of Cape Horn (alas
"Cape Stiff ,; alias "the corner'') might be made
In record time-the westward passage, mind you
which means prevailing head winds. This was not
accomplished. The great moment came, however,
the next morning, when Capt. NICHOLS, stumping
back and forth on the poop, suddenly stopped and
held out pair of binoculars, saying:
That's Cape Horn over there, FELIX Take a
good look at it. You may never see it again, if you
were born lucky"
Naturally FELIX was staggered by this piece of
good fortune. What he saw was a cold blue knob
rising out of the Later he saw the gaunt rocks
of Diego Ramirez, lying about sixty sea miles S. W.
by W. from Cape Stiff. 'Ten days after fetching
away from the Cape we beat south and sighted this
grim sentinel, the outpost of the tempest and the
gale-ten days of such seagoing as seldom falls to
the men who nowadays go down to the sea in steam
ers''
Rounding Cape Horn.
Making the much easier eastward passage of the
Horn In the spring of the year, September, DAVID
MARTIN of the Wayfarer had none of the extreme
hardships to endure that befel FELIX of the A. j.
Fuller For matter Of five weeks perhaps DAVID
was also wet through and through day and night
with never an opportunity to dry himself or his
clothing. In the swift change from tropical
weather to the horse ATTITUDES he had caught cramps
which pretty well tested his powers of endurance
especially as he stood four hours lookout every
night on the foc's'le head from the latitude of
Valparaiso in the Pacific to the same latitude in
the Atlantic the first two weeks he stood six hours
lookout every night, but this was cut down. As he
could not take trick at the wheel it was intended
that he should stand all the lookouts of the port
watch. The explanation of the mate was that this
would keep him, unskilful sailor that he was from
going aloft most of the time at night in bad weather
1t was remarked by some one that the Board of
Trade regulations required that an able seaman man
the lookout, but whether this was so DAVID MARTIN
does not know to this day. An able seaman did
man the lookout-in the tropics and fine weather.
So little of the external happenings of that pas
sage remain in the recollection after nine years that
it will be source of satisfaction to DAVID if we set
down the few facts pencilled in the back of volume
OF PREscoTT's Conquest of Merico, a transcription
of the scanty notes he made in certain books that
went with him round the Horn.
Notes of a Wayfarer.
British ship Wayfarer sailed from San Fran
cisco to Leth Scotland, July "a, 1909 Saturday
Docked at Leth, December II, 1909, at 80 A. M,
140 days out.
''Around the Horn in a LimejMicer [Contem-
plated title of a never written book
"a longing for adventure a la STEVENSON. TUn-
truthful romantic explanation of the passagel