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6 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 ■ ■ 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 lars. LEMON ELIXIR- A Pleasant Lemon Tonic. I For billiousness, constipation, malaria, loids and the grip. 1 For indigestion, sick and nervous head- Hche. I For sleeplessness, nervoutntss and ■cart disease. ■ For fever, chills, debility and kidney Bieoasc, take Lemon Elixir. ■ Ladies, for natural and thorough or- Bttiic regulation, take Lem n Elixir. ’Dr. Mczlcy’s Lemon Elixir is prepared from the fresh juice of lemons, combined with other vegetable liver tonics, and Will not fail you in any of tho above named diseases. 50c. and $1 bottles at druggists. Prepared only by Dr. 11. M< zley, At lanta. At the Capitol, I have just takeu the last of two bot tles of Dr. H. 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