The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-01-26

the way Mr.. Kelly opens MS story.
Then he proceeds:
"At any rate by the first of last
May neither of US dared say we were
not going to do it. Our friends were
Mortified, and if there was one of them
so optimistic that he or she didn't have
a premOnition that this was the last of
US. | can't think who it was. A ply
sician friend of mine thought had no
right to go because | couldn't make a
neat amputation in case somebody car
ried away leg or something, and he
tried to cram me for the test of stop
ping bursting blood vessels. loaded
up, with instruments and remedies for
every eventuality. Unfortunately l
forgot the possibility of seasiCkness.
AT New London our professional
sailor logged it, and | suffered touch
of depression. Here | was with a 20
year old navigator, who was not feel
ing good over the loss of the profess
sional sailor, a man who hadn't the
slightest conception of the purposes of
ropes and a small and rather delicate
girl. But when | looked the thing in
the face realized that the boat was
80 per cent of the game, and knew
what | knew about that boat. At the
thought of the girl | frightened. /
had crused with her before. With
that boat and that girl | should pres
emily arrive at Cowles, Isle of Wight
no matter how the others developed.
-Four days after we started, when
we were all in the cockpit, Arens with
queer musical instrument. an Ha-
waiian ukeIele, and the rest of US hav-
ing supper, we noticed a cloud bank to
| the north of us. 1t became particular
! ly savage looking when snowy, mar
row white line of clouds appeared
along the edge of the black. i'm
medately ordered the topsail down.
| Without any preliminary notice of in
| tentions we we're struck by scream
ing gust of wind. | tried to run Dia-
blesse into it, in order to get down our
mainsail and jib. But we couldn't
manage it. 1t blew 80 hard that we
couldn't breathe when we looked to
windward. The evening went inky
| black. ordered every one to stay in
| the cockpit. for in that bowling blast |
didn't know what might carry away
| forward and | didn't want to run the
chance of losing any one overheard.
81 ran before the wind and Diablesse
seemed to rise and go over the water
like a surf board. With everything
else this speed was tremendously ex-
hilarating, and Arens began to bawl
out: It's always fair weather when
good fellows get together My wife,
Ann, afteTward told me that | joined
him. AT any rate about the middle of
the first verse the main boom jibed. 1t
went over my head nearly 70 feet in
the air and came down in the runners
with the main sail creased across the
middle and bellying with the wind. |
Why ! did not lose both my boom and
my sail | DO not know but after that
boom failed to carry away the runners
and mast this seemed merely an Incl |
dent. When that boom went over my |
head | felt that | had been turned to
ice. For nearly an hour we were ham |
mered by squall after squall. with no |
time between them. The instant the |
wind would drop we would all go for |
that mainsail. but the next instant an
other blast would sweep down upon us
and we would accomplish nothing.
The wind died as suddenly as it had |
come up, but we were drowned in a .
smother of rain. lowered all but the
foresail in order to overhaul the can
vas by daylight. We all turned in eX-
cept Arens, whose watch it was.
I'VE arranged the watches four
hours on and eight hours OFF, and this
worked extremely well, as each one of
us got one good long sleep and a nap,
in the "a hours"
Mr.. Kelly says that the little boat
was seldom out of the sight of ships
and icebergs caused grave alarm. He,
however, declares that his one serious
fear during the entire 80 days was of
being run down by some ship. On the
ninth day out 10 big vessels were
sighted, one Of them an ocean grey
hound racing past. A huge tramp
gave them a position, which was evl-
IDENTIFY misunderstood, for it threw the
crew and passengers of the schooner
into CONSERVATION until a better reck
0ning. received from another passing
vessel. conceded closer with the Dia-
blesse's youthful navigator. On this
ninth day. too, occurred events that
the members Of the party will always
hold as momentous. MIR. Kelly de-
scribes them as follows:
A shift in the wind was welcomed
al first. / was getting worried by the
tremendous traffic about US and wanted
TO work south. The slightly northerly
slant Of the enraged wind made this
easy. But Il was the strength Of the
wind which was deceptive, and before
We knew u the seas were breaking and
running very large and the wind was
blowing a full gale. I did not dare put
Diablesse into those seas. They had
terrific weight and were the largest
we had Yet seen. / tried 10 pull the
schooner Go the wiad and for a long
time ! could not manage it. Finally
made the cabin carpet fast 90 about
50 fathoms Of line and tralied it 10 lee
ward. and this did the trick
There was about an hour of that
afternoon which will hold a prominent
place IN the memories of the crew Of
the Diablesse. Our navigator was
nearly washed of the wheelbox by
cross seas during his watch. and then
took the wheel and steeTed for four
hours. We closed the lower half Of
he cabin doors. So that the water boz
he cockpit would not 20 below, and
Ann filled and lighted pipes for me and
handed them out o.
The DIabiesse was being dropped 5
utO the hollow Cf the sea from Is 90 q
ln feet time aFfar fru1a I .rnfHrff j q