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VOYAGE OF THE JUNO.
_ By OHARLES B. LEWIS (M. QUAD)
_ [Gopyright, 1804, by Charles B. Lewis.]
~ Captain David Stout had been a sea~
faring man for 30 years, Good and bad
luck had come to him in such equal pro
{ortions that at the age of 50 he owned
hardly more than the clothes he stood in.
Then a relative died and left him §lO,OOO,
and he bought an old ship called the
Juno, which was ready for the boneyard.
~Captain Stout was also a shipwright as
well as a sailor, and( the repairs were
made under his own eye and with his
help. Long enough before the ship was
ready for sea his money was gone, and
he was in debt, and this fact led him to
plan a desperate deed. He got what is
called a “trading cargo” from London
to Monrovia and Trade Town, on the Li
berian coast.
" A captain on a trading voyage, if
known to be shrewd and honest, can get
credit for a large amount of goods to sell
on commission.. When the Juno left
‘London, her captain had $lO,OOO worth
of goods to his credit in the hold. In re
fitting the ship, as afterward came out,
“he used secondhand and cheap materials,
and in placing his insurance he gave in
a long list of articles which were never
seen aboard. The idea was to get as
muech insurance as possible, and the sum
was placed at about $20.000. He had
$lO,OOO insurance on his part of the cargo,
and that belonging to the two firms whe
had chartered him wasnot only insured
far above its value, but was short in
weight and count. While it was mot
clearly proved in law, few people had a
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“THERE HAS BEEN AN FXPLOSION CF SOME
SORT.” ;
doubt but that Captain Stout and both
the shippers were in league to get a big
haul out of the insurance companies.
I had made the voyage from Boston to
Mobile as cabin boy on a coaster and
been cuffed so hard and so often by the
captain that I ran away and joined the
brig Wild Wave, bound for Charleston.
Kicks were added to cuffs on this voy
age, and I ran away again and shipped
on.the English bark Endeavor, bound for
Lonidon, I was *‘ship’s boy” on this trip.
whiech mneans being ship's dog. Instead
of being kicked and cuffed by one man.
who sometimes got tired of the labor in
volved, I was knocked around by 15 dif
ferent men, none of whom ever display
ed any signs of weariness in connection
with my movements. As a natural con
sequence I deserted the Endeavor at Loun
don, and I had been knocked about for
‘two weeks, hungry and penniless most
of the time. when something happened
to turn the scale in my favor.
The keeper of a sailors’ boarding
house had offered to board and lodge me
for a week if ‘I would act as a waiter in
the dining room at mealtime and make
up the beds of eight lodgers each morn
ing, It was while I was making up a bed
in one of thé rooms one morning that 1
caught on toa conversation between two
_Junen in a roomn adjoining. One had been
third mate and the othercarpenter aboard
of a craft in which a Mr. Smiley had been
first mate. Both wanted revenge on him
for some reason, and while I listened
they arranged- to get it. Hewasto be
waylaid that night in a dark and parrow
street which they named and which was
“not far away. Theyspoke the name of
. the boarding house at which he lodged,
- and also mentioned the Juno.
1 was free to go ont and hunt for a
_berth after doing my morning’s work,
*.and the first move I made was to go
" gboard the Juno, which was then loading
in dock half a mileaway. I had been
aboard of her four days before, but a
man whom I took to be second mate had
_treated me very roughly. I found tI :
¢hip about ready tobatten daown hatches,
the last of her cargo being on deck, and
- as luck would have it the first man ]
~ came across was Mr. Smiley himself, who
_ had just come aboard that mornirz. He
was a kind faced man, with a pleasant
. yoice, and though having a thousand
thingB to sée to he patiently listened to
what I had to'say. When I had finished,
he replied:
~ “Aye, boy, I know those two men very
* well indeed, and two greater rascals do
“not go to sea from this port. They
- would have caught me off my guard, as
- I.did not know they were in port, and 1
_ghould have got a bad drubbing or
~ worse.. Here's a bit of money foriyou,
~ and I thank you very kindly besides.”
- Irefused to take his money, thongh 1
“wt seen a farthing for a week. He
_ gaid the Juno wounld gail next day about
- midafterncon, but I did not ask him for
_a berth, nor did the matter come up in
’5" ny way. That evening, *however, he
f ame to my lodgingsand said that he had
' bad a talk with Captain Stout, and that
i£ 7 wanted a berth as ship’s how I could
haveit. ¥When I hung in the wina ao,
he added that he felt under obligations
tome and would see that I had decent
treatment from both ends of the ship.
That decided meé, and I ywas aboard of
her at 6 o’clock the next morning:
Things went very well with us as we
ran to the south, but a mystery had set
tled down over the fo’castle which deep
ened day by day. Our provisions were
too good; there was too little work to be
done; the captain’s whole makeup show
ed him to be a rough old bear, and yet
he was trying to be a father to us. :
We were well down to Cape Blanco,
and no voyage had ever run smoother,
when in the afternoon watch one day we
got a bit of a scare. It was Mr. Smiley’s
watch, and I had been drafted into his
watch at the ontset. The Juno was
slipping along under a light breeze, and
the men of the watch were engaged in
light jobs about the deck when the mid- 1
ships hatch cover, which was battened
down before we left London, was sud
:denly blown off, and a cloud of what
looked like steam poured out of the open
ing, I said blown off, but it was not so
violent as that. The cover was lifted up
and thrown over as if by human hands,
and after one great puff of steam noth
ing followed. |
“There has been an explosion of some
gort,” said Mr. Smiley as we gathered
about the opening, ““but there is nodire
and no damage, as I can makeout. Some
of you jump down and see what there is
to it.”
Had the explosion been more violent,
or had the cloud of steam continued, an
alarm would have b-en given and all
hands aroused up. As it was, there was
no excitement. After two of the sailors
bad gone down I slipped affer them.
There was a smell of ammonia in the
hold, doubtless the result of the explo
sion, but we conld make no further dis
covery—that is, we could find no box,
bale or barrel which had been shattered,
and as for fire there was not even the
smell of it. While the two men worked
forward I worked aft. On the port side
of the keel and within two feet of the
cabin bulkhead I made a curious discov
ery.
gfound the planks wet and traced the
water to a certain spot where I found a
heavy iron rod with its Jower end hooked
into an evebolt and its upper connecting
with a lever which passed through the
bulkhead into the captain’s stateroom.
This lever passed over a stindard firmly
get np, and as I had never seen such a
thing in a ship’s hold before I was curious
about it. It wasn’t light enough for me
to make out all the details, but I was
positive that the eyebolt was the center
of a trapdoor about 8 inches square, and
it was around this trap that the water
oozed in. Mr. Smiley called us out of the
hold before I had investigated further,
1 was curious about the queer object
below, thinking it to be some appliance
I ought to learn the use of, but it was 30
hours before I mentioned it to Mr. Smi
ley. Westill had a light breeze, and I
was at the wheel when he spoke to me
so kindly that I plucked up courage to
ask him if the object I had seen was a
pump and how it was worked. When I
came to describe it in detail as near as 1
could, his face turned as white as a wom
an’s, and it was plain that he was npset.
He asked me a score of questions, and
when he realized that I was sure of my
details he came a step nearer and whis
pered in my ear:
“Boy, if you want to put your feet on
land again, don’t mention this matter to
another soul!” .
“But what is it for, Mr. Smiley? 1
queried. '
“No matter now, but remember what
I've told you.”
Next day we all noticed that a change
had taken place in the demeanor of the
three officers aft. It was asif Mr, Smi
ley liad Mad a ““tiff” with the captain and
second mate. Asa matter of fact, gs I
came to know afterward, he had asa)(ed
the captain about the value of the ship
and cargo, thtramount of insurance and
other questions which were fair enough
in their way, but avhich led Captain
Stout to believe that his secret was sus
pected; hence his change of demeanor to
ward Mr. Smiley, and his change wasre
flected by his fellow conspirator.
We had left the Cape Verde islands 200
miles behind us when we got a white
squall one morning and had three or four
gails blown to ribbons and lost fore and
main topgallant masts. The damage
had not yet been made good when it was
discovered that the Juno had sprung a
leak. Mr. Smiley was for taking off the
hatehes and trying to get at the leak, but
Cantain Stout qoposed him. At the end
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of an hour, when the water nau gaiuca
six inches on the pumps. Captain Stout
ordered the boats to be provisioned and
got alongsi‘e. The squall had then
passed, and there was no sea on to speak
“'wu be saw by the looks of the MJ
that they were astonistiea at mis giving |
up so quickly, he said he believed the
leak was under the ballast, where it
could not be got at, and as the water
was rapidly gaining on the pumps he
saw no reason to exhaust themselves in
a useless struggle. There was no sail in
sight, and at the rate of gain the ship
could not float over five hours. We
would get away before a change of
weather and while the wind was fair for
the boats to run for Bathurst, at the
mouth of the Gambia river,
The long and short of it was that we
got away from the Juno when she had
24 feet of water in her hold, and Captain
Stout called on every man to witness
that we were driven to abandon her to
gsave our lives. I was in Mr. Smiley’s
boat, as were all others of his watch,
and he took an early opportunity to cau
tion me against talking to the men about
what I had seen in the hold. I knew he
was satisfied that the ship had been scut
tled, and though everything had seemed
regular enough the mew appeared to sus
pect something wrong. While we sailed
to the east the shipdrifted to the south,
and after awkile we lost sight of her.
The next morning we were picked up
by H. M. corvette Rescue, which was
cothing out of the Grambia, bound for
Sierre Leone. Both boats were in com
pany, you understand. Captain Stout
no doubt gave the commander the full
particulars of the loss of the Juno, but
as wo had undergone no suffering the
matter did not excite much comment
among the corvette’s crew. Mr. Smiley
again cautioned me not to talk, and when
I asked him if anything was to be done
to Captain Stout he did not answer me,
~ The corvette made a long run to the .
- west before heading down the coast, and
as night came down the wind fell light,
and curious phenomena were witnessed
It was bright moonlight, but here and
there were banks of vapor of the color o
hot steam. There would be lanes o
moonlight between these banks, making
islands of them, and when the corvette
drove into one she would be in darkues
for from one to five minntes. Af jus
midnight, when the moon was brightest,
the lookouts on the corvette got a sud
den scare. They saw a ship sail across a
lane of moonlight between two banks of
va%)r and gradually disappear.
e fact was reported to the officer of
the deck, with the additional informa
tion that she was wrecked aloft and de
serted below. Instead of reprimanding
them for sightifg the Flying Dutchman,
he sent a man aloft to look over the
vapor banks and called the captain. Ten
minutes later the specter ship was sight
ed again, and as she seemed to be aban
doned a boat’s crew was sent off fo beard
her, ; :
You have guesed what craft it was—
the Juno. She hadn’t driven above 20
miles from where we abandoned her.
We left her with 30 inches of water in
her hold. She now had three feet and
no more, as a sailor’s coat which had
somehow dropped overboard had been
sucked into the leak and stopped the in
flow. The curious pump.d had discov
ered in the hold was an affair rigged up
by Captain Stout to scuttle the ship at
pleasure. It was arranged to press out
the loose end of a plank and let the.sea
rush in, and but for the most trifling ac
cident the ship must have filled and
foundered. e
Stout and the second mate were sent
home in irons, while Mr. Smiley was
giygp charge of the Juno, and when the
trial came off the two men and one of
the shippers were sent to prison for life.
I was the main witness at the trial,
which, as I told you at the beginning.
created great excitement, and the Juno
was such an object of curiosity that she
was visited by no less than 17,000 per
sons in the space of eight weeks.
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