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M. QUAD’S STORY.
a Modern crusoe.
(Copyright, * \by Charles B. Lewis.)
Were asnikr to bo asked the question,
“What is an ocean?” he might truthfully
answer, “A large body of salt waterever
thirsty for a sailor's life.” Out of every
storm comes disaster—every calm is a
menace to his peace of mind.
Wo were holding up for Acheen Head
and the straits of Malacca in the bark
Briton, and the bay of Bengal was with
out a whitecap, when, at 5 o’clock one
afternoon in the year 1862, I was ordered
over the bows by the mate to clear the
flying jibdownhaui, which had become
jammed. I was a fairly grown boy in
the second year of my apprenticeship, and
an order to call the captain on deck
would seemingly have involved no more
peril. I scrambled out and was working
away with both hands when the bark sud
denly rose to a roller which came racing
at her from the north, with a crest as
smooth as if it had been oiled, and there
was an angry flirt of her head as she
came down, wliich broke my hold and
flung me far out on her starboard bow.
I was under water only a few seconds,
but yet when I came to tho surface the
ship seemed half a mile away, while a
sudden squall was giving the crew plenty
to do without looking after me. It had
come out of the east and out of a sky as
clear as a bell but a moment before, and
it had come with the swiftness of a bul
let. I was seen to fall, and as a shout
was raised the man at the wheel flung a
life preserver over the starboard quarter.
ATSri
A LAST SIGHT OF THE BARK.
This article was simply a block of cork
covered with canvas and a stout strap
made fast at either end. Two of them
always hung within reach of the man at
the wheel.
The life preserver must have fallen
close to me, for when I got the water out
of my eyes it was close at hand. I rec
ognized the squall as one of those sudden
puffs rightly named a “Bengal terror.”
They fly like an arrow discharged from
a mighty bow, and as their approach is
unseen and unheralded many a good ship
has been wrecked aloft while sailing
peacefuUxjjver A placid gea. I fully ex-1
pectedrto be picked up "after kite's quail*
—hhd passed and was not a bit worried, as ]
I got the life preserver under my chest
and made the straps fast. The squall
did not last three minutes, but it had no
sooner passed than the wind, which had
hitherto been from the north, whisked
into the west and began blowing a gale.
The sun was obscured, the sea got up
wonderfully quick, and the last I saw of
the bark everything was confusion
aboard, and both topgallant masts-were
gone. Five minutes after she was out
of sight I realized that I was doomed.
Had she suffered no damage by the
squall, she would never lower a boat in
the face of that piping gale and frothing
sea to hunt for a boy who might reason
ably be looked upon as drowned within
three minutes after striking the water.
I of course had no idea of tho position
of tho bark when the accident happened.
I simply knew, as did all tho other hands
forward, that we were pretty well up to ,
the coast of Sumatra and that two days
of fair sailing would see us around Ach- ]
eea Head. Indeed, I didn't bother about i
tho position, but as soon as the bark was j
out of sight I gave up all hope of being
saved. Why the sharks didn’t get me
"during the next 30 hours has always
been a matter of wonder, as the waters
of the bay of Bengal were swarming
with them at the time. I had been drift
ing an hour or more before I thought of
the monsters, and as night came on dark
and stormy 1 got so frightened at the
idea of being seized that I shouted for
help until hoarse and then became par
tially unconscious. I remember very
little about the events of that night or
the succeeding day.
Looking back to it is like recalling a
dream. Hunger, thirst, fright and ex
posure kept me in a semiconscious state
most of the time, and it was probably
better so. The gale lasted most of the
night, and as it fined down the next day
it still blew from the same quarter, so
that I droyo steadily to the east frem
the hour of falling overboard. I was
not fully conscious of my surroundings
when I heard the roar iff breakers, and
I did not realize that I was being drifted
ashore until I was carried in on a big
roller, left on a sandy beach for a mo
ment and then carried into the foam
again by the undertow.
The next time Helt the sand under iny
feet, however, I made a struggle for it,
and after I ing half drowned found my
self mi a sandy beach beyond the reach
of the waves. I was sick and weak and
threw myself down on the ground, and
when I finally awoke from what was like
a troubled sleep a full moon was shining
in my face and the night was half gone.
I sat up and looked around and dimly
realized that I bad drifted ashore, and
then crawling on hands and knees un
der tho trees I slept again and did not
open my eyes till the sun was an hour
high.
I had made a drift, as I afterward
learned, of about 60 miles, and waves
and tide had cast me ashore on the west
side of one of tho Dabil islands. There
are 13 islands in this i.-tout). which lies
I off the coast of Sumatra, distant about
10 miles. The largest island is about 30
miles long by' 10 broad, and none of them
is yet permanently inhabited. Most of
the smaller islands are seaward and
westward of the big one, and when 1
came to look around me I found I had
been cast ashore on a bit of land com
prising not over 200 acres. It did not
take me over an hour to walk around
it, and I discovered that it was entirely
covered with trees, contained two or
three fine springs, and that I was six or
seven miles from any other island. As
for eatables, there were oysters clinging
to tho rocks at low tide mark, wild fruits
and berries to be had for the picking,
and I made no doubt of finding edibie
roots in tho forest if I cared to look for
them.
Before night camo again I had con
structed a shelter of limbs and branches
under the trees, and I slept through the
night as soundly as if in my bunk aboard
the bark. lam not going to enter into
particulars of the life I led for several
weeks, for you can easily imagine there
was very little to interest an outsider. 1
got up a signal staff on the west shore,
spent much of my time in looking for a
sail and was cast down and elated by
turns over the situation. I had no means
of building a fire, and my food was con
sequently partaken of in a raw state.
The weather was warm and pleasant,
and after getting accustomed to the lone
liness of the situation I rather enjoyed
the Crusoe life.
I had been on the island 43 days when
I got up one morning to find the sun hid
den by- a haze which I knew portended a
storm. At about noon a typhoon came
out of tho southwest with such violence
that within an hour I was driven to seek
shelter at the center of the island, where
tho forest was thickest, and as the tide
was coming in at the same time there
was fear that the island would be sub
merged. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon
and again at about 8 tidal waves swept
up the beach and into the forest 200 feet
above high water mark, and between the
same hours the wind had such fury that
at least half tho island was denuded of
trees, bushes and plants and left as bare
as my hand.
For hours I lay flat on the ground,
clutching the'Tbots of a stout bush, and
a dozen times over I had all I could do to
keep from being blown away. The gale
began to blow out at sundown, and then
came a rainfall lasting till midnight, and
it was sunrise next morning before I
moved down to the beach to look around
and see what damage had been wrought.
About the first thing my eyes rested on
was the hulk of a vessel resting almost
on an even keel afar up the beach. Both
masts were gone a few feet above the
deck. Most of her bulwarks had been
swept away, and as I took a second look
at the hulk T madejier out to be an old
detelicf in place of aTrttft jast driven
ashore. She had probably been brig rig
ged, but masts, rigging, bowsprit and
rudder were gone.
As I went aldSer, my heart in my mouth
for fear I would find corpses on the
beach, I took notice of tho seaweed and
barnacles clinging to the wreck, and
when I got close up to her I found great
knots of shellfish sticking out here and
there along her sides. I could walk clear
around her, the tide being out, and it
was not until I had made the circuit
twice that I solved the puzzle of her be
ing there. One of those tremendous
waves of which I have spoken must have
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find the cause of her going
but the hull was perfectly sound
an 1 in good condition. I hesitated to
board her, and in fact it was nearly noon
before I did so. I had a fear, as I must
admit, of encountering the skeletons of
th ■ sailors who went down with her.
When I hud at last plucked up courage
to scramble over her bows, the spectacle
was not near as lonely as I had pictured.
Her deck was flush from stem to stern,
with no cabin skylight. The two win
dows at the stern had lighted the cabin.
There was a companion way, with a
slide to prefect it, and something of the
same sort forward. Though the decks
were covered with weeds and shells and
slime, I could make out that the craft
had carried six cannon on a side. There
had been a cookhouse or galley on deck,
but that had gone with other fittings and
bejtagings. She was fitted' with an an
eient windlass, and that was still intact,
with a dozen coils of rotten hempen ca
ble about it. On her port bow was an
odd looking thing of wood and iron
A BOATLOAD OF SAILORS PULLED ASHORE,
which the craft had evidently made use
of as an anchor, and the sight of it was
enough to satisfy me that the hulk be
longed to a period far remote.
She had but one hatch, and that was
amidships, with the covers firmlv se-
THE ROMRTttIHUNE, SOMUY MOHNINQ, NOVEMBER 26. 1895.
cured, or so tney seemed until 1 got a
pry under the rusty' iron bar and broke
It at the fir.it heave. That was the first
thing I did toward seeing what was be
low the decks. I expected to find the
hold full of water, and as there was none
to be seen I took another look around
and finally found her stern post smashed
aid twisted and room enough there for
;he water to pour in by the barrel. A
nodern steam pump could hardly have
saved the brig after that injury, which
was doubtless caused by her striking a
rock. She may have been dismasted be
fore the collision, but she certainly did
not float an hour after it.
About all I accomplished cn the first
day was getting the hatch open. The
mud was drying up rapidly and the wa
ter still draining out of her, and 1
thought the delay would be to my bene
fit. I doubt if I could have overhauled
her had I been so minded, as an odor
which was horribly’ nauseating arose
from tho hatch and drove me to give it
a wide berth. On the morning of the
second day I opened up both cabin and
fo’castle and met with the same odor,
though not so strong. Then I carefully
lowered myself into the main hold to
see what I could discover.
The craft had only about six feet depth
of hold, and though the slime and weeds
were abundant and far from pleasant I
knocked about down there for hours. I
found over a hundred barrels which were
full of liquor of some sort, and I cannot
tell you hove many bales and boxes, which
fell into a mass of mold at the slightest
kick. There were also water butts and
barrels of pork and beef, and it was from
these latter that I got the sickening odor.
I got nothing whatever out of the hold,
though I flattered myself that if the bar
rels of liquor were all right they would
bring me a pretty penny when I got them
to market.
On the third day I overhauled the cab
in and fo’castle. There had been a great
raffle of stuff in both places, but every
thing was mold as I touched it now. The
cabin was small, but the fo’castle was so
large that I figured on accommodations
for a crew of 60 or 70 men. Os some
things there was a great plenty. Mus
kets and cutlasses and boarding pikes
were to be found at every' step, but each
one so rusted and eaten that it would
hardly support its own weight.
I boarded the wreck on the fourth
morning with the intention of getting
into the run under the cabin, where any
thing in the shape of treasure would be
stored away, but I was hardly on her
decks before a boatload of sailors pulled
ashore from a Dutch ship bound down
the coast for Batavia. She w-as about
to pass the island two miles away when'
she sighted my signal and the hulfand
stopped to investigate. The men qt once
took possession of the wreck as a lawful
prize and carried me off to the ship. I
was not only treated with calm indiffer
ence by the officers, but some of the sail
ors were positively brutal in their con
duct.
The ship was sailed in as noar the
shore as they dared go, and,£l37 four days
every man waqJyuSy at the wreck. Th 7
took quM<Tj barrels of wine and brandy’
and a great amount of what I then
thought was pig lead, but which I after
ward knew to be silver. I was not car
ried to Batavia with the ship, but trans
ferred to a trader going up the coast,
and of all the treasure I never got a
penny. The claim which I filed wffli
the British consul at Batavia was pigeon
holed from the start, and the only satis
faction I have had up to date was the
information that my share of the plun
der, if justice had been done me, would
have amounted to several thousand dol
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