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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN OCTOBRR 11, 1898
A CHOLERA FIGHT |
(Continned.) The moon rose about 10° that night.
She came up hot, distorted, with a sullen |
face of belted vapor, but was soon clear of the dewy thickness over the horizon
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and showering a pure greenish silver | upon the sea She made the night | lovely and cool; her reflection spark-
led in the dew along the rails, and her beam whitened out the canvas into the ten- der softness of wreath: of cloud motionless upon the summit of some dark heap of mountain. I looked for the raft and saw it plainly, and it is not in language to as er how the sight of that frail cradle of death deepened the universal silence and expand. ed the prodigious distances defined by the stars, and accentuated the tremendous spirit of loneliness that slept like a pres- ence in that wide region of sea and air. There had not been a stir of wind all day;
not the faintest breathing af bree ze had tarnished the sea down to the hour of mid- night, when, feeling weary, 1 withdrew to my cabin. I slept well, spite of the heat and the cockroaches, and rose at 7. [I
found the steward in the cabin. wore a look of concern, and en seeing me he instantly exclaimed : ?
**The captain seems very ill, sir. Might ’ Neither Mr. Perkins or me can make out what’s the matter.”
‘*T know nothing of physic,” I answered, **but Pll look in on him.”
| stepped to his door, knocked and enter- ed. Captain Cayzer lay in a bunk under a middling sized porthole ; the cabin was full of the morning light. I started and stood at gaze, scarce crediting my sight, so shock- ed and astonished was I by the dreadful change which had happened in the night in the poor man’s appearance. His face
His face |
the brigiit hot morning sky and the burnish ed surface of sea, sheeting into dimmess in the mists junction of heaven and water.
‘I shouldn’t be surprised,” said I, *‘to discover that we brought the cholera aboard with us yesterday from the dead man’s raft youder.”
‘‘How is cholera to be caucht in that fashion?” exclaimed Mr. Perkins, pale anda
| bit wild in his way of staring at me.
‘We may have brought the poison aboard in the parcel of books.”
“*Is cholera to be caught so %”
“Undoubtedly. The disease may be pro pageted by human intercourse. Vohy not then by books which have been handled by cholera poisoned people ?”
“No man among us 1s safe, then, cried the mate.
“Tm no doctor,”
99 now :
said I; ‘‘but I know
this, that poisons such as scarlet tever, glanders and so on may retain their a in a dormant state for years. ‘ve heard tell of scores of instances of
cholera being propagated through articles
of dress. Depend upon it,” said I, ‘‘that we brought the poison aboard with us yesterday from the accursed deaths raft
vonder.”
*“*Aren’t the books in the Captain’s cabin?” said the mate.
**Are they ?”
**He took them below yesterday, sir.”
‘The sooner they’re overboard the better,” I exclaimed, and returned to the cabin.
[ went to the captain and found the steward rubbing him. to be doing its work with horrible rapidity ; the eyes were de “ply sunk and red; every feature had grown sharp and pinched as after a long, wasting illness ; the complexion was thick and muddy. Those who have watch- ed beside cholera know that terrific changes may take placeina few minutes. I cast
The disease appeared
my eyes about for the parcel of books, and,
was |
blue, and I remarked a cadaverous siaking |
in of the eyeballs ; the lips were livid, the hands likewise blue, but strangely wrinkled like a washerwoman’s. had asked, in a husky, whispering voice for a drink of water. [ handed him a full
On seeing me he |
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pannikin, which he drained feverishly, and | then began to moan and cry out, making | some weak, miserable efforts torub first one |
arm, then the other, then his legs.
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The steward steod in the doorway. turned to him seasible that my face was | ashen, and asked some question. I then
said: *‘Where is Mr. Perkins?’
He was on deck I bade the steward at- tend to the captain and passed through the hatch te the quarter deck, where I found the mate.
‘‘Do vou know that the captain is very tll?” said I.
‘Dod know it, sir? Why, yes. I've been sitting by him chafing his limbs and giving him water to drink, and attending to him in other ways. What is it, d’ye know, sir?”
*‘Cholera!” said I. ‘
“Oh, my God, I hope not!” he exclaimed. ‘How could it be cholera? How could cholera eome aboard?”
‘A friend of mize died of cholera at Ran- goon when I was there,” said L ‘I recog- nize the looks and will swear to the symp- toms.”
‘But how could it have come aboard?” he exclaimed in a voice low but agitated.
My eyes, as he asked the question, were upon the raft. I started and cried, ‘‘h that thing still there?”
“Ay,” said the mate, ‘‘we haven't. budged a foot all night.”
The suspicion rushed upon me while I looked at the raft. and run mv eves over
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spying it, took a stick from a corner of the berth, hooked up the parcel, and, pass- ing \t through the open porthole, shook it rboard.
The captain folloyed my movements with a Janguid rolling of his eyes, but spoke not, he groaned often and frequently cried out. I could not in the least imagine what was propor to be done. His was the most important life on board the ship, and yet I could only look on and helplessly watch him expire.
He lived till the evening, and seldom spoke save to call upon God to release him. I had found an opportunity to tell him that he was ill of the cholera, and explained how it happened that the horrible distemper was on board, for I was absolutely sure we had brought it with us in that parcel of books; but his anguish was so keen, his death so close to him, that I cannot be sure he understood me. He died shortly after 7 o'clock, and I have since learned that that time is one of the critical hours in cholera.
When the captain was dead I went to the mate and advised him to cast the body overboard at once. Hecalled to some of the hands. They brought the body out just as the poor fellow had died, and, secur- ing a weight to the feet, they lifted the corpse over the rail and dropped it. No burial service was read. We were all toc panic stricken for reverence. We got rid of the body quickly, the men handling the thing as though they felt the death in it stealing into them through their fingers— hoping and praying that with it the chelera would go. It was almost dark when this hurried funeral was ended. I stood beside the mate looking round the sea for the shadow of wind in any quarter. The boat- swain, who had been one of the men that handled the body, came up to us.
‘*Ain’t there nothing to be done with the corpus out there?” he exclaimed, pointing with a square hand to the raft. ‘‘The men are agreed that there'll come no wind whilst that there dead blackie keeps afloat. And ain’t he enough to make a Taheabe of the hatmosphere itself from horizon te hori- zon?”
I waited for the mate to answer. He said, gloomily: ‘I’m of the poor captain’s mind. You'll need to make something fast to the body to sink it. Who's to han- die it? Til ask no man to do what I wouldn’t do myself, and rat me if I'd do that !”’
‘*We brought the poison aboard by visit- ing the raft, bo’sun” said I. ‘‘Best leave the thing alone. The corpse cannot corrupt the air, as you suppose, though the imagin- ation’s nigh as bad as the reality,” said I, spitting.
‘If there’s any of them game to sink the thing may they do it,” said the boatswain, ‘‘For if there’sne’er a breeze of wind tocome while it’s there”
“Chaw !” said the mate. ‘But try ’em, if you will. They may take the boat when the moon’s up, should there come no wind first.”
An bour later the steward told me that two of the sailors were seized with cramps and convulsions. Afterthis nJ more was said about takingthe boat and sinking the body. The mate went into the forecastle. On his return he begged me to go and look at the men.
‘‘Better make sure that it’s cholera with them too, sir,” said he. ‘‘You know the signs ;”’ and folding his arms, he leaned against the bulwarks in a posture of pro- found dejection.
I went forward and descended the fore- scuttle, and found myself in a simall cave. The heat was overpowering. There was no air to pass’ through the little hatch ; the place was dimly lighted by an evil smelling lamp hanging upon 4 beam ; but, poor as the illumination was, I could see by it, and when I looked at the two men and spoke to them I saw how it was, anu came away sick at heart and half dead with the hot, foui afr of the forecastle, and fn deepest distress of mind, inoredsver, though perceiving that the two men had formed a part of the crew of the boat when we visited the raft.
One died at 6 o'clock next morning and the other at noon, but before this second man was dead three others had been attack- ed and one of them was the mate. And still never a breath of air stirred the silver surface of the sea.
The mate was a strong man, and his fear of death made the conflict dreadful to be- hold. 1 was paralyzed at first by the sud- denness of the thing and the tremendous character of our calamity, and, never doubting that I must speedily prove a _ vie- tim as being one who had gone in the boat, I cast myself down upon the sofa in the cabin and there sat, watching for the first signal of pain, sometimes prayine- or striv- ing to pray, and seeking hard to accustom my mind tothe fate I regarded as inevi- table. Buta keen and biting sense of my cowardice came to my rescue. I sprang to my feet and went to the mate’s berth, and
pursed him till he died, which was shortiy
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difficulty, but Iam pretty sure that ¥y the .
morning of the fourth day of our falling in
with the accursed raft the ship’s company |
had been reduced to the boatswain and five men, making, with myself, sevensurvivors of the fifteen souls who had sailed from Calcutta.
It was some time about the middle of the fifth day—two men were tien lying stricken in the forecastle--tne boatswain and a couple of seamen came ait to the quartee deck where I was standing. The wreel was deserted; no man had grasped it since the captain’s death; indeed, there was noth- ing to be done atthe helm. The ocean floated in liquid glass; the smell of frying paint, bubbled into cinders by the roasting rays, rose ‘tike the stench of a second Eo to the nostrils. The bostswain and us companions had been drinkivg: :«)» doubt they had broacheé the rum casxs below. They had never entered the cavin to my knowledge, nor do I believe thty sot their liquor from there. The boatswain carried a heavy weight of some sort, bound im canvas, with a long laniard attached to it. He flun the parcel into the quarter boat and slau out:
“If that don’t drag the blistered cuss out of sight I'll show the fired carcass the -oad myself. Cholera or no cholera, here zoes !”
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