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THE MACON TELEGRAPH: WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1895
A P4V6TCPV V TMC /msttTlC*
[[Copyright, JEW, by nuUller, Johnson M
I We never knew his realn&me. Every-
one called him Capt. Georges and Oapt.
George he remained, from the first day
ho entered Landport harbor until the
night I parted from him In Plymouth
sound, about four years later. HU
arrival at Landport was announced In
the Northern Postand Shipping Gazette
In thU manner:
“Ltodport, Sunday. Steam Yacht Wanderer
arrived from Stockton, with machinery
I demised. Owner. Captain Georg.."
What was he like? Well, if you had
put the question to the gentry of tho
place some would have answered it
with a shrug of tho shoulders, as much
as to say they couldn’t well make him
out; others would have told you he
seemed a haughty, reserved, stand-off
sort of man. If you luid asked any of
the young ladles, you 'would-'very
likely' hear that he waa '‘charming,"
hut tlist they believed him to be a
pirate chief In disguise, or some non
sense of that kind. Among us divert
he was looked upon as a bold, gallant
sailor, who loved theseaand everything
connected with it, a man we all admired
and looked up to.
He frequently put into Landport
after that—at odd times, summer and
winter—but camo round regularly
every June. He never made friends in
the place, and few acquaintances
Peoplo still held pretty much tho same
opinion concerning him. On different
occasions, oa ho passed along by the
sea wall, I hove seen moro than one
lovely head turned to take a sly look at
his tall figure, and heard tho whisper;
“There’s that strange man, Capt.
George; isn’t ho hanilsomo?"
Towards the end of August I was em
gaged with two other divers to remove
cargo from the steamer Magellan,
which had run on an outlying reef
about twenty miles down tho coast.
•The surveyor of the Landport Salvage
association, Capt. Lorton, was in charge
of the wreck, and had ordors to make a
push to get her cleared out wlillo tho
weather held fine. Wo put up at a
neighboring villnge, a place called St.
Novin, a pretty little spot hidden away
at the top of a small landlocked bay.
On tho third morning it was blowing
rather fresh. While I was waiting In
•the llttlo parlor of tho Mariner’s Rest
—tho only thing In tho shape of a hotel
of which St. Novin could boast—Cnpt.
Lorton camo In. no went up to tho
baromoter on the wall, topped it, and
eald:
"Glass falling) this breeze will freshen
during tho day, and most likely run
up to a gale before night . If it docs,
thoro won’t bo much of the Magellan
left by morning, Lawroneeson. At any
rate it would bo too risky to venture
out with tho wind rising In this way."
About twolvo o’clock I noticed
considerable stir amongst tho fisher
men on the beach. Looking seaward, I
saw a large steam yacht entering the
bay. I recognized her at once. It was
tho Wanderer.
Capt. Georgo camo on shore during
,the afternoon, and looked in to tho
Mariner's Itest. It soemod ho had heard
of the wreck, and was anxious to visit
.the scene of the disaster.
"It's blowing hard outside," ho said,
"and very thlok, too. I saw tho fishing
boats running in for Widmouth this
“minus's that STiuxan has.*
|mornlng, a sure sign of dtrty weather
,at sea. Wo’ro in for a stiff sou’wester,
ll fancy, nnd I shouldn’t bo surprised if
<lt brought down tho rain before even-
He was right. As tho wind increased
|U thick mist crept up from tho Boa, and
presently a sudden squall drovo a tor-
jront of rain against tho window. There
j'were Just six of us present; myself, the
Itwo other divers, Moxly and Williams,
Capt. Lorton, Capt. Georgo and Capt.
;Llnklatcr, a retired master mariner
who lived In St. Nevin.
We had a cozy fire in tho room, for
tho wenthor was unusually odd, and
sat round it spinning yarns. The beat
inside, and the edd without, had dulltd
.the glass of the window, so that It al
most looked as If it had been muffed.
Wo could hear tho crash of tho billows
on the bench below, followed by a deep
.rumble, like distant thunder, as tho
backward rush of tho water tore tho
loose shingle from the beach.
. “ItVt well you wont bo at sea to
night, Copt. George," I remarked, In a
'pause of the conversation.
"I'm half sorry to miss it," he re
turned, getting up and approaching
tho window. lie cleared a space on tho
glass, and stood looking out over the
boy. “There's nothing I like better
than driving full speed through
■gale," ho went on, “provided I have a
good sea boat under me. and no fear
of a dangerous roast lying under my
Ice."
; "Ay, there's worse danger at sea than
storms," put In Capt. Llnlclater.
“I’m inclined to agree with yon
ithere," said Capt. Lorton. “When I
ihad command of a north Atlantic boat.
I'd rather have faced a three-day
gale than be walled np for ten hours in
a fog. A gale of wind is a straightfor
ward. honest kind of thing; you can
see at a glance how matters stand, and
know where the danger lies. But
'.Heaven defend me from a fog! I always
ifelt like a child out In a strange place
'on a dark night, groping my way along
and never knowing at what moment I
plight bump up against some obstruo-
Itlont;'
. “There're worse dangers than fogs,”
returned the old captain, blinking his
eyes at the fire, and smoking very liard.
“Icebergs?”
“Worse still."
“Derelicts?"
“Worse.”
"What then?"
"Bocks."
“Bocks!" exclaimed the surveyor.
“Why, you haye them plainly marked
on your chart, and know exactly where
to expect them." |
“Ay, but when they are not marked
on your chart, and you come across
them where you don't expect them," tho
other replied In a rather mysterious
manner.
I noticed that Capt. George had
turned from the window, and was lis
tening attentively to the conversation.
“I should like to know where such a
rock exists?” aeld Capt. Lorton, In a
way that showed plainly he hod very
little faith in anything of the kind.
“Well, I’ll tell you,” returned the old
skipper, knocking the ashes out of his
pipe, nnd laying it on the mantel-shelf.
“It exists In the brood Atlantic—out in
mid-ocean— somewhere between the
Azores and the coast of Nova Beotia.”
“A pretty wide range, that,
marked Capt. Lorton.
“Yea, but a dangerous one."
Linklater stood tip, turned his back to
the flrd, and seemed striving to recall
some half-forgotten facts. Every eye
was fixed upon his weather-beaten
face; wo saw he hod a strange stoJy to
toll.
"It Is a well-known fact,” he began,
"that every year three or four vessels
—sometimes more — disappear In tho
Atlantic, and their fate has olways re
mained a mystery. An fnr back as 1834,
the President sailed from Liverpool, In
charge of the most skillful navigators
of tho day, Capt. Roberts, the man who
commanded the Hlrius, the first steam
er that crossed the Atlantic. She
foundered In midocean with all hands.
In 184# the Savannah, an American
sailing ship, left New Orleans for Bris
tol. She was sighted off the Bahamas,
bnt from that day to this nothing more
wns heard of her. In 1850 tho South
ern Cross disappeared in the same man
ner. A few years later an emigrant
steamer — tho Nomad, I think — went
down with eight hundred souls, and
the cause of tho disaster was never
known. Between 1800 and 1870, no lesa
than eighteen vessels disappeared In
the same mysterious wey. Coming down
to a later date wo have the Crusader—
the old Crusader, I mean—tho Cleptie,
tho Whlto Slave, the Ontario, an Amer
ican liner, and a host of others. In 1890
wo have the Erin, of the National line,
tho Italian bark Silvio, which sailed
from Holyhead in January of that year
and was subsequently spoken In tho
North Atlantic, tho Thanemoro, a Brit
ish steamer, nnd tho Roman Empire, a
splendid Iron ship which was passed on
tho lltli of Juno by a homeward-bound
vessel, and reported ‘all well.’ But,
perhaps tho strangest case of all was
that of tho German ship, tho Maria
Rlckmcrs, about which there has been
so much talk lately in the skipping
world."
"I remember hearing of her," said
Capt. Lorton. “She wns a five-masted
bark, 1 think, and said to bo the largest
sailing ship afloat.”
“Well, this magnificent vessel, fully
manned, and In charga of experienced
officers, sailed from Saigon for Bremen
on tho 16th of July, (893. It wns only
her second voyage, mind you. Sho was
sighted in the Atlantic, about threo
hundred miles west of tho Azores, nnd
the total dtsappcaranca of such a ship,
in comparatively lino weather. Is one of
tho most romnrkublo of theso ocean
mystcrlos. Prom nil thoso vessels, not
oco soul escaped to toll of the disaster,
and save in one or two instances, not
even a boat or lifobuoy belonging to
them was picked up. How did they
disappear? You will say they foun
dered In b galo; possibly somo of them
might havo done so, but not all. How
do you account for the fact that dozens
of other vessels crossed tho Atlantic in
safoty at tho very samo time, often
without encountering unusually bad
weathor?”
“It seems strange, certainly," re
marked Moxly.
“It Just comes to this," continued the
skipper, In a rather excited way, for ho
was now thoroughly warmed Into the
subject. "It Just comes to this: An un
known danger lay In the path of thoso
vessels—or some of them, at any roto—
they come upon it suddenly, perhaps In
tho dead of night when they were least
prepared, nnd the result was un appal
ling disaster."
“But I don’t see how all this proves
the existence of a mld-Atlantlo rock,"
said Capt. Lorton,
"Walt a minute; I’m coming to that
presently,” replied Llnlclater. “In *78 I
was hound from Pensacola, In Plorida,
to Falmouth, with n cargo of grain.
My vessel—tho boric St. Hilda, of Suth
erland—afterwords wrecked, you may
remember, off Capo nattcras—wuswhat
you might call a clipper, though a good,
sjfo boat In a heavy soa. Her qualities
were well tested on that voyage, at any
rate; wo camo in for ono of tho stillest
gales I over encountered in tho Atlan
tic. After trying to hold her on her
course for somo hours, I had to give it
up as a had Job, nnd let her drive. Wo
ran awaj- before tho wind for tho best
part of two days tn a nor’westerly di
rection.
“When tho gale slackened a bit, I
got tho vessel round, and commenced to
beat hack to our former course. It was
still blowing fresh enough, tho sea
running high, and tho clouds showing
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"My first Impression was that the fel
low had got hold of a rum cask, and.
had been imbibing pretty freely. I
took no not ice of the warning, but as I
stood there, the man turned and shout
ed in more startling tones:
“ ‘Breakers ahead, airl'
“Now If he had said: ‘The sea-ser
pent ahead’ or ‘a mermaid ahead,’ I
mightn't havo been so surprised, but
•breakers ahead'—In mid-ocean, mind
yon—fairly took my breath away. I
rushed forward. As I stood in tho
hows, peering out over the tossing wa
ters, I could distinctly heur the roar of
breakers somewhere in front.
“The moon was showing out through
tho broken clonds, nnd Just then I
caught sight of a dark spot straight
ahead, round which the water swirled
and tossed. I had barely time to hol
loa out: ‘Hard a-poft!' to the' helms
men, la order to clear It. Without any
mistake it was a rock. I could see its
black top appear for a second or two,
nnd then it was covered in a Cloud of
foam. Sometimes a big wave swept
right over it, but generally they
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would havo struck terror to your
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[TO BE CONTINUED.] ’
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"All right," she tittered. “1 don’t
care what you call it. I know I had to
stew and boll to got tho money, to pay
It. S’loug.” And she pocketed tho
and sailed off.—Detroit Free
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