Year: 1873

, the sea, the only dry spot being the to] of the cabin, where the people had as sembled.

 II walked aft and found five mel

 and woman near the stump of tn,

 mizzenmast, and all so exhausted as t.

 be entirely helpless. I never saw sucl

 thankfulness in any beings eyes a.

 came into those of that poor, weak wo

 man as lifted her in my arms and car

 ried her to our boat, where I~laid he

 in the stern sheets, and covered hel

 with coat. Then, taking four of my

 boats crew, we went back for the five men and got them into the boat After that we went into the cabin of the Cherub to try and find something o

 the ladies clothes, for we had nothing on board of the White Swallow to dress her in but mans rig. In state-room on the port side of the cabin we found a large trunk containing women g wear. ing apparel, and from the captain room we took the chronometer, baro- meter, charts, and quantity of cloth ing. These were placed in the boat, while two of us took down the spar from which the signal of distress was flying, after which the boat was manned, and we pulled away for our ship. After getting alongside the White Swallow the boat was hooked on to the davits with the rescued people in, and so hoisted, because the sufferers were too much exhausted to climb up the ships side on ladder. They were carried to the cabin and their clothes removed then they were wrapped in blankets; and after wine and water had been given to them in small quantities, they were snugly slowed away in state-room berths, where they fell almost instantly into sound sleep.

 When the people from the wreck had been got on board, the White Swal- low was put upon her course, and went reeling off eleven knots an hour after her detention of almost four hours. In two days the rescued people had recov- cred sufficient strength to walk about a little and be much interested in the time for meals to be served, and at the dinner-table the captain of the lost Cherub told his story. His ship was bound from Honolulu to New Bedford, laden with oil and whalebone. When eight days out she had been dismasted in gale, and became SO strained that the pumps had to be kept going con- stantly, which, together with the loss by salt water of all but small amount of provisions, so exhausted the crew that, out of twenty-six people who left Honolulu in the ship, all but six had died from exposure, hunger, and thirst combined. The lady was the daughter of a merchant in Honolulu, going to the States to visit her fathers relatives. They had been on the wreck twenty seven days, drifting helplessly about, when we picked them up.

 "Our fine fortune in fair weather con- tinued, and we went booming around Cape Horn in terribly cold weather, up through the southeast trades, across the line in the Atlantic, through the northeast trades up St. Georges chan nel, and into dock at Liverpool on the one hundredth day after leaving San Francisco. The Sea Horse had not yet arrived, and as day after day passed and still she did not come, we began to lose all interest in ship we had beaten so badly. After we had been three weeks in Liverpool, one morning the papers reported the arrival of steamer from Fayall, and among the passengers were the officers and crew of the ship Sea Horse, wrecked on Flores, one of the western islands, From the newspaper accounts it seemed the Sea Horse had experienced continuation of thick weather after losing the northeast trades, and consequently tho ship had been navigated by ead-reckoning. Judging themselves clear of the western islands, the ship had been kept away two or three points, and brought up ashore, about midnight, with south westerly gale blowing, on Flores. All hands had been saved excepting Capt. Daily, who was drowned by the capsizing of boat in which himself and thirteen others were leaving the wreck at day light on the morning after the Sea Horse had gone ashore.

 The survivors were sent to Fayall, and from there the British Consul sent them to Liverpool by steamer. We on board the White Swallow learned that after Capt. Adams heard of the loss of the Sea Horse and her captain, he got the draft for the money on the bet cashed, carried the thousand dollars to the owners of the lost ship, and had them invest the money for the benefit of the widow of Capt. Daly.

 The people whom we rescued from the wreck left the White Swallow in Liverpool. The captain of the lost Cherub and the young lady took steamer for New York, but never knew what became of the four.men.

 ''There, boys," said I, that's the end of that twister you don't often have two wrecks in one night. Now vamose this rancho"

 "All right p cried the youngsters in chorus "and goodnight, MT. Blue Jacket"