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lli‘l WIIEHSPUUI AT SEA. Thrilling; Experience. of a Ship's Grew in the Indian Ocean- The Captain of a. Steamship Indulgcs in Reminiscence. We were steaming through the Indian , Ocean, enduring as best we could the suffo- cating heat that prevailed through the day and long into the night. One afternoon I was standing by the binnacle watching the compass when I observed that the vessel’s course changed about four points in as many minutes. My curiosity was roused to know the cause of the change, and as the captain was just then descending from the bridge, I asked the reason of the sudden divergence. “ Don’t say anything about it to the rest of the passengers,” he answered, “ but just come to the bridge with me.” I accompanied him, and when we reached that point of observation he directed my at- tention to a series of dark clouds in the di- rection whence we had turned. The nearest of them was not more than four or five miles away ; it was a tall pillar of cloud extend- ing from the sea to thesky, and as I looked at it with a glass it was easy to observe that the sea at the end of the pillar was violently agitated. All around was a calm ; there was hardly a breath of air stirring, so that the appearance of the sea at the base of the pillar of cloud was rendered more noticeable than if a storm had been raging, or even a strong wind blowing. “ A waterspout I” I exclaimed, as my eye took in the scene. that.” “ No,” answered the Captain, “ and there’s more of them to keep that big fellow com- pany. We want to steer clear of ’em and that’s why I’ve changed our course.” .Then I asked the captain as to his theory of waterspouts and their origin. “ I’ve had a good many theories,” he re- plied, “but some of ’em have been knocked in the head and I’m not altogether sure about the rest. One thing I’m pretty cer- tain of, though, and that is that the water- spout at sea is just the same as the whirl- ‘ wind on land. There is a whirling wind, perhaps there are two winds blowing in opposite or nearly opposite directions com- ing together, and these make up the whirls and eddies that raise clouds of dust on land and sometimes do a vast deal of dain- age. 'A waterspout is caused by a whirl- wind, and that’s why the sea at the base of that pillar of cloud is agitated as you see it. “ There is a. popular belief,” he continu- ed, “ that the sea is sucked up by the cloud and great masses of it go hundreds of feet into the air. I used to believe so, and my belief was confirmed by the stories of sail- ors, who declared that large fishes had dropped from the clouds, where they had been carried by the waterspouts. They had seen them with their own eyes, and one sailor that I knew told me of being on a whale-ship, which was close to a water- spout, when a whale dropped from the clouds into the ocean. The creature was so stunned and astonished that he lay motion- less on the water after he struck. They] got out the boats and secured him, and he yielded eighty-nine barrels of oil.” “What led you to doubt the truth of the story that the sea. is sucked up by the waterspout ‘2" I asked. “My own observations, he answered, “ added to what I learned from scientific works on the subject, The water that falls from the sky, or from the cloud at the top of a waterspout, is always fresh which would not be the case if the sea. was drawn upon in the way the sailors describe. “ The whole that was taken up, according to the story of my old friend, could not live in fresh water, neither could the other fish- es that they tell about. A little of the spray from the broken waves may be taken up and that is all.” Then I asked the captain about his ex- periences with watcrspouts, and after a pause of a few moments ho narrated the following: “ I haven’t much fear of a waterspout as long as I’m in a steamer,’ he replied, “but in a sailing ship the case is different. I’ve H been becalmed with waterspouts all around P us, and- sometimes you‘ll see them coming directly towards you and there’s no chance of getting out of the may such as you have in a steamer. The old idea of getting rid of a waterspout was to fire a cannon at it and break it, ’but this isn’t much thought of at present, though I suppose it is done now and then. It takesa skilful gunner to send a shot through the centre of a water- spout, and it’s just possible that the thing breaks up of its own notion, without any regard to the shooting at it. The idea is that if anything touches the spout it breaks up and a deluge of water comes down. For that reason a ship that is touched by one is in danger of being swamped by the down- pour of water, which is the same as a cloud- burst on land. “Several times in my life I have been dangerously near to fellows like those we’re looking at, and once I was swamped by one of them. That’s the fellow I’ll tell you about. ' “ I was going from London to Calcutta in the ship Marguerite and she was as good a ship as ever sailed the sea. \Ve had turned the Cape of Good Hope and were stretch- ing away into the Indian Ocean : at the time we turned it we were in company with the Lucknow, also from London to Calcutta and somehow we kept in company from that time on. A week or so after we’d left the Cape out of sight we were becalmed one day, and'what’s more we had waterspouts all around us. The Lucknow was perhaps half a dozen miles from us and her sails were flapping just like ours ; she didn’t appear to be in as much danger from the waterspouts as we were, though she was by no means free from them. “ They approached us and then drew away and approached again, their move- ments being caused, I suppose, by the winds that created them. Every little while we could see one of them break up, but very soon- another would form and take its place, and so it went on for three or four hours. Then one formed perhaps half a mile away from us and slowly came down as if with the intention of swallowing up the Marguer- ite and all on board. “ The captain ordered a cannon fired at the enemy and the first mate (I was third officer} aimed and discharged the piece. It, may not be the proper thing to criticise my superior, but I don’t believe, between you and me, that he hit the mark at all, al- though it was quite large enough to hit with-ease. He fired two or three times, but certainly he didn’t break the waterspout. ' “There’s no mistaking ' u; an: ~~ :. ' a» m- ~ “ On it came and it took its own time for it, as though it wasn’t in any hurry. How we hoped and n ished for a wind that we might get out of the box we were in, but no wind came to us. We could see that there was plenty of wind in the waterspout, but it wasn’t any wind to sail with, as it was very much of a whirler and didn’t extend far. . - “ We could hear the roar of the wind that formed the waterspout, and now and then a puff of it would reach us. The sky was overspread with dark clouds, lightning flashed and thunder rolled, the sunlight was shut out and it seemed almost as though night had fallen and we were in the gathering gloom of twilight. So dark was it that we lostsightof the Lucknow,which down to that time had been distinctly visible; the clouds came so low that they narrowed our horizon very much, or, rather, I should say, they shut out the horizon altogether. The waterspout as it neared us was no long- er a pillar like the one we were just now looking at. The‘ cloud came so near the water that no pillar was necessary to unite should make the best of her way till she was out of the region swept by the cyclone and then wait for us to come up. If we failed to appear she would return on her track when the cyclone had passed and make a careful search for us. The captain decided that such would be the better course than for both to remain within the sweep of the storm. ’ ' “We had a narrow escape, as the wind at times was so strong as to threaten to carry away our jury masts and leave us helpless. But we managed to hold on, and in due time overtook the Lucknow and were all right. Perhaps you don’t know," he added, “that cyclones,typhoons and hurricanes are practically the same sort of thing and that they blow in circles. \thna captain finds himself in one of them and has plenty of sea room he tries to get as far as possible from the centre, where the wind is greatest and to do this he turns and runs at right angles to the wind. In the Southern hemi- sphere the course of rotation is like that of the hands of a watch, from left to right,but in the northern hemisphere it is in the other them, especially as the water, which was direction." set in motion by the violent whirlwind, seemed to be rising up in waves and-points ,You can Never T611 Where a Woman Will of spray to meet the cloud. “ The lightning and thunder was terrible, the lightning coming in vivid flashes, al- most instantly followed by deafening crashes that made most of the old sailors and all the young .ones look pale. Then the roar of the whirlwind made a sound that was anything but pleasant, and it seemed as though a volcano had broken out in the ocean and was just coming to the surface. Several of us thought we could smell the fumes of sulphur. I’m sure I did, but you know that is often the case during thunder storms. The first eflect We had of the waterspout was when we got into the whirling waters at its base. There the wind took us and turned us this way and that, bellying out' the sails first one way and then the other, and fun little while tearing them to rib- bons. It didn’t serve all our sails that way, as the captain had ordered most of them furled when the spouts began forming around us, but such of them as were spread didn’t last long. Our masts reached up into the low cloud above us, and as we rolled and tossed about like a cork on the water it seemed to me that the topmasts would punch and tear great holes in the cloud and let the water down in a deluge. “ Perhaps this is what actually happened and perhaps not. At all events it wasn’t long before the water came upon us, not in a shower of rain cither light or heavy, but in actual masses, or in rain that was so heavy it seemed to be a mass. Every man was obliged to cling to something to enable him to stand against the downpour; the heaviest rain I ever saw anywhere else was the merest sprinkle compared to it. All the hatches had to be fastened so that the water could not get below ; it came so fast that the scuppers could not carry it off, and with the tossing of the ship it washed from side to side as though the sea had been breaking over us. “ The wind and the tossing of the waves, not to mention the downpour of water, threw the ship on her beam ends. The captain had foreseen this and warned every man to cling fast, and it was well that he did so. Fortunately the water from the clouds was warm and so was the sea,so thatour wetting did not have the effect to chill and benumb us. But our predicament was a terrible one, as you may well believe. There we were in such a storm as I’ve told you about, with the lightning playing and the thunder crashing about us, the ship over- turned in the water and with the prospect of being whirled about till the waves had swallowed us Out of sight. We gave our- selves up for lost and some of the men re- laxed their hold on the rigging and disap- peared in the whirl of the elements about us. " With the breaking of the cloud, how- ever, the storm seemed to have spent its force, or rather there was less violence of wind and waves after the downpour of water than before it. The motion of the waters began to subside, and in loss than half an hour after the overturning of the ship the sea was comparatively calm. The all that hung over us lighted little by lit- tle ; after a time the sun appeared through the clouds and we found our spirits rapidly rising with the hope that we might be saved from our expected grave in the depths of the Indian Ocean. Out of our total of thirty-one officers and crew five were miss- ing, and though we looked carefully about us, no trace could be seen of any of the m. “ One of our boats was tangled up with the rigging, and we set about getting it free. \Ve felt sure that if the Lucknow had escaped injury she would notice the disap- pearance of the Marguerite and cruise about in search of us, and in this we were not dis- appointed. “ With agood deal of work we got the boat loose and floating free. The mate went into the boat, accompanied by some of the sailors, and held up a long staff with the Union jack floating from its top. Very soon we saw the Lucknow in about the same position as when the clouds hid her from View, and we also saw that a breeze had sprung up and her sails-were filled. And what was more, she was coming directly towards us ; inside of half an hour she sig- nalled that she saw our flag of distress, and then we knew that we were safe. She came up quite near and hove to and sent out her boats to pick up the men.” I remarked that I supposed they abandons ed the Marguerite and left her to float or sink according to circumstances. “That’s what I supposed we would do,” he replied, “but we didn’t. The two cap- tains held a consultation, and it was agreed to try and get her to port. The Lucknow was to stand by us till we reached land, and captain and crew were to have a good salvage for their services. lVe cut away the masts so as to fetch the ship on an even keel, and when we had done so we found that she had taken in very little water. She was splendidly built and had not sprung a leak, all the water that entered having gone in while she lay on her side. Then we rigged jury-masts on her and fitted sails to them and in this way we managed to get her in time to the mouth of the 1-100eg and safely up to Calcutta. She had a valuable cargo, so that the salvage for the Lucknow amounted to a handsome penny. “We came near havinganother adventure with the winds and waves before we got to port,” the captain continued. “\Ve were on the edge of a cyclone and changed our course to get out of it. The Lucknow could sail more than twice as fast as the Marguerite, and it was arranged that she Strike Next- “ Have you that dollar locket with you; the one with my picture in it ?” asked Mabel Moifat, as she leaned her head gently on her lover’s shoulder. “ Why, of course: I am never without it,” he replied, as he drew the talisman from his pocket and opened it. Whats. horrid picture of me. It looks worse every time I see it. I must get you a better one.” “ Oh, it isn’t so bad, if you make allow- ance for its not being so pretty as the orig- inal.” “ You dear boy I You shall have a bet- ter one after that pretty speech. Oh, I think that locket is the cutest thing I You could never tell it from a real dollar, could you.” ' “ No,” replied Charlie, with a little chuckle : “ none of the boys can. It’s been a regular mascot to me. I’ve had no end of luck Since I’ve carried that coin.” “ “’liat kind of luck?” “ Oh, I use it to match with, and I never lose. There’s something positively un- canny about it. Why, I believe I’ve stuck Jim Hickey for the drinks nearly ten times running.” “For the what?" asked Mabel, with a little catch in her voice. “ For the drinks, my dear, and Jim isn’t onto the racket, at all.” “ I should think not ‘2” cried the indig- nant girl. “ \Vho would suspect such a horrid thing? And you pretending to love me, too I Use my picture to match for the drinks, will you? 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