A Lively Time.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 11 December 1901, Page 4

A Lively Time.

New York, Oct. 27. “ Haul down jibs," “ let go starboard main braces,’’ “ let go forward and main braces,’’ 11 set spanker." Captain Davies, of the barque Eivion, of Carnarvon, was excited, and the mate, Mr Owens, ran in pyjamas. The Eivion, which arrived at Beard's Stores, South Brooklyn, from Trocopile Friday, had collided in mid-ocean in a calm with the three skysT-yarder Harvest Queen, from Philadelphia for Rio. The Harvest Queen set her spanker also. “We bad all set," said Sailor Apprentice Anderson, of the Eivion. “ It was seven bells of a morning watch, with a heavy swell on. Neither ship had steerage way. The Harvest Queen came up on the starboard quarter, drifted around and across our how, then we slewed and came together. She put a yard through our foretopgall’nls'i and we took a piece out of her starboard bumpkin. A hit of a breeze drifted us apart. “ One day the old mail’s thermometer dropped into an iron tube, rose from 60 degrees to I2U degrees, smoke curled from flip ventilator amt 1000 miles west of Capetown, Captain Davis fainted on the poop from coalgas. The hold was a furnace of (Uasgow coal. We dumped ten tons overboard a fc;might outside Cane Town, but it started to come on to rain and we battened down the main hatch. Drinking water became had from gas. 11 On a Friday night two days before Capo Town, while we were hove to, shipping heavy seas, thaee A. B.’s opened the lower hold hat h in the fore peak to hoist coal for the galley. All fell senseless from gas. Mr Owens dropped into the fore peak with a bow line and saved two men. A. B. Robinson of Broom street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn rescued the oUr;-.' It was three days before they went to work. Sailer Hughes was the longest coming round.

The hospital ship Avoca would pay no attention to our signal, 1 ship on fire,’ until the Government trooper Bavarian reproved her sharply. Then the Avoca sent a lug. Lower hold was a mass of cinder, stanchions were twisted and timbers burned.

“ The crane of the lower main topsail yard was carried away in Second uta-tu. Roberts’s., ..between Sydney and Tocopile. Westward of The 'Horn tho starboard foretopgallant and royal backstays were cut oil by a squall just above the deadeyes as if by a knife. 1 Seize stays above deadeyes ! Bend chains on lanyards !’ were the second mate’s orders. The foretopgallant mast was hanging at right angles to the topmast. “It was dirty weather. I started aft to strike the hell and was knocked senseless into the scuppers. A drink of whiskey in the cabin and 1 was all right. The starboard dingy was sent into galley kindlings, and the galley door and several ports were knocked in. The old man said it was the very worst storm he ever saw.

“ 1 was n n the look-out one night before the Horn, ami I beard in the fog the exhausts of a steamerjs engines, as I believed. Tho barque seemed to jump along as if riding over beer kegs. Next morning two ninetyfoot whales that had been rubbing off their barnacles under the keel spouted close alongside and followed for a hit. “ We let a bit of meat- on a shark hook over the stern after the Horn. A little shark chasing all (lie watch. A big shark grabbed the meat from the little one. Inside the big shark we lound a cuttle lish, and inside the cut-tle-fish there was a flying fish.’’