I THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE-FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 30. 1894. THE DEAD SHIP. Tli following narrative in taken verba tim from n umuuacript left by the late Geof frey l'emlier, sometime master of tho let ter of niurqmt Misery, who ilied at the BgS of no iii 1 rus, and who Ilea buried in the ohnrobyardoi St. Mary's at Shrewsbury! la tho im nt li iif January, 1708, Mug then in my flfty-fonrth year ami having followed the sea all my life, l obtained coruniuud of tho letter of marque Misery, a ship of BOO tous burden, that mounted 16 KUns on the broadside and it long brass Wire) on the quarter dirk, and that bad been litted out by SOmO merchants of llri-e tol to cruiso against tho Spaniards iu the West lii.i -1 It was not without UTUOh labor that 1 Rot .. crew, all the better men having been pressed for the kind's service, and when I did get one I had no great cause to he pleased, for a more ruflianly and unruly Bet I never set eyes upou. Vut 1 had with me as muster au old and tried shipmate. Warren Hodges, and there was also w ith ma my dear son Humphrey, who 17 years later was killed, lieutenant of theRttby, at the galluut eupture of tho Froneli frig ate La Prudente oil QoualY. At the time of which I speuk ho was no morv thau 18, yet he was so brave ami determined a lad and so good a scimaii that with him and Warren Hodges I thought to makeshift to do my business and to manage my rabble in the forecastle. It was ou tho a 1st of tho mouth that we weighed anchor and dropped down tho riv r with the tide and with a pleasant bree.u from tho northeast. Them being thou n convoy coming down channel and bound for Jamaica, I lay to all the S2d and S8d to the southward of St. Mary's, and early ou the morning of tho 84th I lighted tho king's frigate Rainbow, which, with the liosport and Rlddeford, had uuder her charge not fewer than 60 Bail of merchant men. To my chagrin, the captain of tho Kainbow, it young buck who, 1 make no doubt, was morn at homo iu St. James park than ou his ow n quarter deck, and who was sa uted likn n French daueiug master, pressed nine of my best men. Vet, there being then many Spanish fri ;at. s Rt:d ships of the line off our cast, I could not disdain tho company of tho king's ships and was forced to lour With it, ewu though it cast me to dear. With them I sailed uutil Feb. 11, when, being as nearly as I could reckon in longi tude 40 degrees west and latitude 87 de grees 31 minutes south far, by cause of tho foul weather, wo had takeu no obser vation for two days a storm scattered the fleet, and we. with only three of the mer chautniea still iu sight, w ere driven by the force of the gale to the southward. Tho storm ubuted somewhat on the 1 Ith, and w e were enabled tj bear up again for Jamaica, but my meu, having now no fear of the king's ships, pnt on from that in stant a mutinous disposition ami soon be gSJ) to carry themselves so outrageously toward r.io that 1 perceived they werj minded to stick at uothing iu order to eeizo the Misery for their own cuds. Being plainly assured of this as w ell by my own sight and hearing its by tho re ports of my faithful servant, Richard White, u blackamoor w hom I had brought nine years before out of Guinea, I took counsel with my son aud Warren Hodges to prepare for the WOtat, I caused the arm chest to lie removed into the great cabin, the door of w hich I fortitird from within. I ordered the brass swivel ou tho quarter deck to bo k?pt loaded v. ith a keg of bul lets, so that I might be able to sweep all tho deck forward, and I made Richard White sleep every uight under thoj;uu. with a dark lauteru beside biiu and a match in his hand. But these and the other provisions that I took w ere of no avail against the treach ery of the crow, and to add to my uneasi ness I had the mortification of finding that we lost sight one by one of tho three re maining merchantmen, and that by tho middle of the month w e Lad but ourselves for company. One morning, hearing a noise upon the forecastle, I ran up on deck. Warren Hodges, who Lad the morning watch, was not to be seen, but I could hear his voice ra: d in anger and the voices of some of the c- i- threatening him, with oaths. Heturn- to the cabin for n pistol and a hanger, went forward and found that the muti neers bad seized both Warren Hodges and the blackamoor and had already bound them and thrown thern into tho chains, where they lay crying lustily for help. I whipped out my hanger to cut the ropes with which they were bound, where at a great man named Morton, the ring leader, as I now knew him to bo of the mutiny, stepped out from among the meu and declureu that if I dared to Interfere I should pay the penalty with my life; thut he and his friends had determined to seize the ship and to cruiso with her on their own account against the Spaniards, and that I might either stay whf:re I was and nerve uuder him or take the consequences. Angered at tho fellow's insolence, I rais ed my pistol with the Intention of shoot ing him as he stood, but tuu pow der flash ed in tho pan, and In au instant I was seized from behind, flung upon tho deck and bound as securely us Warren Hodges and the blackamoor, My first thought was for tho snfety of my dear son, I HOW had the mortification of seeing him led, hound, from the cabin, where during ull this time ho had biitii asleep, and with US ho was put under close guard in the bold. Mr a full week Morton came daily to ate us, seeking to persuads us to throw In our lot with Lis, but wo steadfastly refus ed, and on tho eighth day he came to us early w ith the news that ns we were but i.liern in the ship, and as he could not pare men for our guard, he would send us adrift that morning. At noon, therefore, having lowered the yuvl, they unbound us snd ordered ns over the side. So stiff were we from our long confinement and so weak from lack of food, for the villains bad gone neat to starve us, that we could not but do their bidding, HOT could wo all of us do that Without bejp from the mutineers, who nevertheless jeered at our had condition and mockingly wished us a pleasant voy age. In three hours we were out of sight of the ship in nn open boat, without either water, provisions, sails, oars or compass, Fitli a blajdi g sun above Ul und v.ith, as oVideout. not I CSS than 800 leagues be tween us mid the nearest land. Warm Hodges had received a blow on tnv bead at the first outbreak anil had over since lain half dosed, speaking little. In three) hours, maddened, ns I Supposed by the ran, be was a raving maniac, oalllng for water iud desiring to throw Limself overboard, ,tnd that night ho died. Nor were nny of us in much better plight, rnt by taking Off our shirts, fastening thorn together and dragging them iu our wakowo fortUnststly collected a few shell fish, with whieb we stilled the worst pangs of Lunger. By continually wett ing our clotLes also wo lessened our terrible thirst, Xevortlieless Richard White, disdaining my counsel, drank some of the sea Water on tho second day aud on tho roumiduy ..) ..: lib,. V'ri-..i. II,,.!,.,., Ull'll, 1(1,111 ,111..., . I.MtW h. Now were wo two indeed in it sorry way. Our strength Lad so diminished that we could barely raise ourselves iu the Ixnit, our throats wire so parched that we could i in i i i'nt as wen I'm mil, iiziii e.u l mm fr m tl. ulna nt Hi,, mm Unit Ufa ere all V :r sores. At night wo lay shlv- the night. bad lost all hope, of deliverance when on .fho ninth day I saw what I at first took for a bird's wing glisteulng in the sun light far 10 windward. Hut, ns I soon knew, It was a sail. My eyes ere so weak and so ch tfg.-d with aalt thut for a time I flared not tin V them, Vet as tho strange ship cauio drifting rattier than sailing right across our course I could doubt no longer, and with my heart almost burst ing I tried to tell the uows to my son. Hut I could not sneak. I could oulv touch him nnd Hiint, ami he for his part, as I niter ward lieunl from him, could neither speak nor see. With Infinite trouble I fashioned a little mast and sail from thu thwarts of the boat and my shirt. This sulliced to enable mo to steer tho boat, and In an hour, din ing which, thanks to tiod and fears that tho Strange ship might yet escape us struggled in my heart lei- mastery, wo ran alongside ami made last to a rope which was trailing over board. It was w ith much surprise that I found we were Buffered to approach without be ing hailed, for I could perceive that our ship was a Spaniard, but even had they hailed us we were iu nocondition to reply. Indeed tto sooner had I made fust than 1 fell buck senseless Iu tho bout, nor did 1 know more until darkness had net in, when the cold wind awoke me. At first 1 thought that I was dreaming, and not until 1 had touched the great Lull and watched It slowly rising ami falling beside mo on the moonlit witter did I rec ollect and rightly understand what had happened. liven then itwussoiuo time be fore, do w hat 1 would, I could climb ou board. When at length I did so tho hlp seemed to bo deserted. She was u big, high pooped craft, such as tho Spaniards term a galleon, and chiefly used for their rich truftio with the Indies, and although her masts were all Standing ami some of lur sail was set there w as not a man to be seen. l walked forward, making n groat noise with my feet, for I could not try out. Then I walked alt, noticing the lino guns of brass and the new cordage, until 1 put my baud on the handle of tbo door of tho great cabin and opened it. XbeU, from weakness, 1 sank dow u on the threshold. There was no light within and no sound. Even there 1 could hear the lap of tho wa ter against the ship's side. It w as as if tho whole gslleon wss asleep, save that could distinguish no breathing aud no motion of slumbering men. 1 had sunk down against a locker, and stretching forth my hand found that It whs oeu. Within, to my great joy, was : bag of bread, which, with seme small flasks of w ine, 1 made no scrupleof taking, and as soon as 1 was again a little recovered 1 returned, even before I had ministered to my own crav ing, to my son, who still lay without life in tho boat alongside, lb' was so far gone that at first I could do no more than moisten uia tongue and lipa with the wine, but in it short space he revived and was able with my help to get ou board. By this time our voices were restored to us, and no sooner were we on deck than we knelt down to thank !od for tho deliv erance ho hail vouchsafed to us. Then, taring little w 1:. therwe had fallen into tho hands of friends or of to, ourselves umler tbesbelter quarter deck guns and there Ml asleep from heer weariness. The bUU was high When 1 ugaiu awoke, but the decks were us before. No one was at the helm, the sails flapped iu tho light air against ti:. masts, and the ship drifted whither she would. 1 was still very weak, but some bread and u draft of wine strengthened me, and then I set nbout ex ploring tho gnat Vessel. Leaving my sou Humphrey, who Jet slept, I went to thu door of the cabin in which I Lad found tho provisions. It was open us I had left it the uight before, and us I drew near I perceived that a smell as of a charnel house Issued forth from it. Even before I enter ed I could see that on tho deck within lay several bodies of dead men. Not knowing what to do aud stricken With Lorror, 1 halted. Tho nearest body to. me, that of n tall aud elderly man, had fallen from the bed in which it had lain and moved from sido to side with the slow roll of the ship. Close to it on a kind of com h w as the body of a boy. Farther aft were thu bodies of three meu, ono of which w as dressed in menial fashion, yet richly w ithal, as if its owner in lit-! might have been servant to some great lord. Sick at heart, I entered gently and reverently at last. It was vain to tearch for any spark of life there. In cer tain of the other cabins were other bod ies and in the for. castle and on the lower deck a great store of them, iu uii, but there was not ono living soul on board save us. When I returned to my son Humphrey. I awoke him, and finding him much re freshed I told him, yet not w ithout cau tion, of all thnt I had seen. The ship, I said, was stout and strong and well found, but of the crew some were clearly depart ed -for certain of the boats were lacking and all that remained were dead. And while we sat cleansing our sores and wash ing ourselves hy the gun wo debuted what Were best to be done. Humphrey, w ho hud seen but little of death mi l was fall of terror of it, was all for loading our own boat with what wo could tind and for Intrusting ourselves once more to tl.e mercy of the sea. Nor did I at first tieel to dissuade tho tad, fur I feared lest tho sickness w hich Lad, as it appeared, stricken down the crew might now seize upon us. Vet, seeing that we both were WSsk DD( unuble, I was minded, if only fir a day or two, to stay by the ship that we might properly recover our selves i i;-; we Ventured abroad anew. And lu this opinion he at length agreed. But iu the evening, feeling wonderfully Strong again, I renewed my search about tho ship, and fo fine und beautiful a craft did aim then t.how herself to mo that I fell to doubting whether I could bring myself to leave her again. And w hen bwiesth the floor of the great cabin 1 foCnd some chests of pieces of eight half broken open- I doubt not by those w ho had gone away in tho boats--1 determined that so long us there might be hope of bringing ho ValUS bleu prile Into port I would remuln iu ner, in this opinion also, w hen I had given u handful of pieenof eight Into his keeping, my son agreed, and next day, aft-r having passed t ii o aoosnd night on dec for fear of the evil emanations from the dead, we s, t to work to rid the ship Of tho bodies and to cleanse the cabins and lower deck. That day I was able to tako an observa tion and to determine that we were then in longitude 61 degress 8 west and latitude 4') degrees :j i ortli -that Is to say, lu tho full course of that current which is called tho great gulf Stream, und which, running round the point r-f Florida, crosses the As lor those WttO Hod, they were never again heard of, nnd I doubt not they per ished either of tho sickness or of hunger und privation. Tho whip carried when wo found her only her forest ay-sail, mhuwu und foro mid main topsails, uud 1 dared not hoist more, knowing not what might befall us if the lino weather should fall. Wo did not, therefore-, mako much progress, and it WSJ seven weeks ero w-o were iu the longitude of Cape Clear. During all that time the weather held, und although the wind shifted many times It never blew hard, it thing Which in these hit it odes and iu the early part of tho year seemed to me so marvelous that I could not but look upon it us thu work of Providence, for bud a gale sprung up we could have done noth ing to save tlieHiiip. My sou Humphrey and 1 never were together in tho cabin or below. Wo kept watch in turn, wo ato our food alone, and wo made shift to do with so little sleep thut I have often since w ondered that men so weak did uot sink under tho load of deprivation aud anxiety. Oil tho Old Head of Kimutle wo sighted a Biniick, tho master of w hich ran uloug side, niter we had put out our colors, and asked for the news. Persuading him to COmOOO board, I learned that he belonged to Castletown, a flablng lliage in the bay of Dantry, In the kingdom of Ireland, and being taken by the honesty of his counte nance 1 concluded with him and his men to iliip with uio us fur as Plymouth, whither l hud made up my mind to take tho galleon, for I would not trust myself in the channel us w e were, seeing thnt even if 1 hud not chanced upon bad weather I should have been at the mercy of the first king's cruiser thut might choose to taks luo ill tow, upon tho plea that I could not manage the ship, and 1 i . i no uiimi to shore my prise With all the world. The Irishmen, therefore, to tho number of six, came ou board upon my engage ment that upon arriving at Plymouth 1 would paytoeach of them 100 guineas and to tho master 800 for his pains, w hich en gagement 1 must faithfully observed. And so, with their smack lu tow , we made our way up channel and without further ad venture dropped anchor on April 'Jl iu Plymouth sound, very weary of our voy age, yet happy withal in Laving come so well out of it Upon anchoring we caused no small OOmmoliou iu the port, no ship of so great it burden having yet been taken since the beginning of the war. Nor Were there man) finer ships even in the king s navy. llul the commotion grew greatly when, the officers of tho pott bavlug boarded us and made nn examjuatlon of the galleon, It was known Which 1 myself had not till thai mument suspected that we bad in her bullion nnd pieces of eight to the value of 388,000, besides it cosily cargo of tobacco and other products of the West Indies. Bear Admiral his Royal Highness the Duke of York himself paid me the honor We dragged of a Visit, coming in his barge from the f oaeof the ' moess Amelia, and it Week later I was c immauded to attend upon King George, wiio was pleased most graciously to oiler my son Humphrey a commission iu tho navy nnd mo the honor f a knighthood for what h I deigned to call our uuequaled exploit of taking and bringing home the galleon. Aa tor thu knighthood, I bad no mind for it, although the ST. Senora del Carmen provided me with money enough worthily to support that dignity. As for the commission, Humphrey thankfully accept-d it ami afterward! as I have said, fell honorably in Lis country's service. Poor lad I 1 have often wished sincoth.it he Lad refused the commission and I bad accepted the knighthood, for then it might have happened thut he would have lived to inherit tho w ealth which is but it sorry burden to a childless old mail. The Misery never again anchored in an Knglisli port after getting rid of us. Mor ton, the leader of the mutineers. CrUUNM with s tin; success fortwo or three months among tho Islands, Ho took a Spanish brig, the S. Isidro, and several smaller vessels, but w as at last chased by the Span ish frigate Thetis, and to avoid capture ran ashore. The crew, being unable to reach the land by reason of the surf, were taken oil' by tho frigate boats aud made prison ers. A fortnight Inter, on June 2, the Thetis, after a sharp uction, was captured by tho English frigate Alarm, Captain James Alms, which formed part of Admiral S:r George Pooock'a fleet destined for the re duction of the Havana. The English prison ers on board the Tin t is endeavored to prove that I as Well us they had beeu engaged w ith the Spaniard, hut the affair of the Mi-i ry having by this time been reported to Sir George from England be, on the day after the capitulation of the tow n, hanged evi ry one of the pirates on board his flag ship, the Mamur, This I luirutd from Captain tho Hon. A. J. Hervey, w ho was sent home in the Dragon with dispatches, und who on his passage had the good fortune to take a French ship valued at 80,000. He was so polite ns to bring the intelligence In per SOU, ami lam notashumed to say that I was very pleased to know that the rascals Lad got their deserts. William Laird Oowrs. Nut a Pupil, but u Master. Dcwpite "a nipping und an eager air," that reddened tho nos-s nnd moistened tho cyej of tho loungers lu City Hall p.ek that aftemOOn, the bright sunshine und green gruaa had a singularly summer like .tp pearanc", und when a well grown, wheezy, grecu frog hopped from tho foot of a tree into the full glare of public observation, a farmer's boy, "doing" the city for a day, would not have considered him greatly out of place; but to the army of bootblacks, many of whom hud never seen n frog be fore, In- was it curiosity of the first water. Some of them said he wits it leggi-d snake, and others, who had read mythological literature with more seal than discretion, were inclined to think that he was it very yotrng dragon. A sparrow poliosman pro tested that he was only n frog, and taking hi mi In Lis gloved band, he announced his Intention of dropping him' Into tho full I basin of the fountain behind the Hstofllee. "He's a going to drow n him:'' yelled a boy, and exclamations of pity and dismay were beard On all sides. Tim policeman was Inexorable, and tho I frog wus plunged into the water. Merrily i he swam around with the due old fashion ed breast stroke and strong rear kick of j Lis kind, while the crowiLof boys looked at I him in Kim-piled amassment 7-omc h o .e's been ll-itehin' flint .)... western ocean toward Ireland and tho I Well, why didn't he show him th1 over Shetland!. Inst day also, finding that my SOU'S Stomach was too weak tcr tho work I of thu cul. in, I set the lad lit the helm and SO kept the ship before the wind, which blew from tbe SOUthwest, yet so gently as seanely to ruffle tbe bosom of tho sen. By degress oommltted the bodies to the deep, and when the ship was, u 1 1 thought, clear I burned tobacco, Inrbs and flowers of sulphur in all close plsoes and kept the portholes open to purify tbe foul air. Vet still for some days I found vet other I. oil Ks in divers holes and corners, whither, I suppose, the pour wretches had crept to die of the plague which hud seized upon tho vessel. The last Hint, I found was In tho lower hold among the bilge, but ho w it got there I never knew, nor could I guess, unless perchance the man in the teadm-ss of his fever hud wandered hither unwittingly ami hsd been unable to return, In nil then) were three and fltty dead lu the ship w hen wo boarded her. When, BS I afterward learned , sho left the Havana, she bad (11 souls In her, of whom 014 bad died nnd had been buried in the sea. Whereupon of tin-rest had lied in tho boats, leaving the residue to their fate. Those who re mained w-ere all SO sick and so weakly that they could bury hut II of their number as they died. The others staid wbi ro they v, tie until the ship wub us wo fouudit. bund tip while he was foout It?" replied another contemptuously. 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