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a 398 ~o-——o—o— THE) BOY) SOLDIERS OR, GARIBARDI'S | YOUNG/GARTAING OH HH the top-gallant sails furling, with a second reef taken in the top-sails. “10 A4.M.—The wind came in such hard squalls that the foresail could notbe reefed, and the fore- topsail was blown to pieces. “11 A.M.—Matters looked very serions ; ladies and most of the passengers below ; migent opsail blown. to ribbons ; ee hard squalls rapidly, im nereasing toa very heavy ga The atmosphere. a. round, to a landsman, even, looked yery. threa ening, with a kind of thick, hazy appearaneen 6 oak = Noon.—We are now. in a terrifie A shi very large quantities of water down | the sea washed off the battene é nf t he ears! role 5 the skid grating ; main tee! out -of the bolt ropes ; port ee away from the davits, and jolly-boat cha kek tom the stern... “The scene on. deck now was riking 5 the com- fortable steamer, with its a comfortable chairs everywhere on, 1 ¢ ad, as, if by the wand of a apie in © short two hours into a pe Cc been chan esolation—ropes stretched here and _th deck to enable the sailors to hold on, f HES fi s gone, after cracking themselves to, pieces an ne as. it were vollies over. their, ow a the. chairs and benches smashed to p es, md the noise, of the elements heightened. | b y th Be of crack ing sails and splitting m sae “The barometer 2 lurch- ing heavily and shipp ping tons, er over her lee gunwale and quarter ; i Mie ife. boat and quarter boats carried away ng the. qassive iron. stancheons with them ; 1 at mes | 10st buried by the sea and filling t wer grecas le, 4 nto a cyclone ; the captain, therefore, | ship to with her head Lt operation he performed very successh managed to lash and secure the rud _ dangerous , and also carried our captain completely off his legs, provi- dentially inboard, and a Chinaman caught him. 1,30,— Our jib- boom was, carried away, taking the foretopgallant mast with it. The sea was now tremendous, and, if anything, increasing. “‘ The scenes below in the cabins on the starboard side were not exhilarating to passengers. “The water.which had been poyring down for- ward on the main deck, found its way aft, and literally filled the cabins. ‘With each lurch of the vessel the water in the cabins ran up the sides, washing up the lower berths, upsetting the apparently heavy wash- hand stands with their marble tops, and sending all the _trunks and boxes with tremendous force backwards and forwards. It was not possible to stand in thesé cabins for an instant, without the greatest liability of getting 'a leg broken from something dashing against it. “The ladies were collected in the cabin on the port ‘side, and nothing could surpass their patient endurance at this alarming time, ‘‘On our upper deck the work of devastation still going on; the starboard cat-head was now washed. away, taking the :best; bower-anecbor off the, fore- castle ; the anchor remained hanging by the shank- . painter or chain, and beat against the side of the ship, knocking a hole, some eight inches in dia- meter, ‘The weather rendered all attempts to secure the. aochor utterly, useless, ‘2 P.M.—The barometer showing a tendency to rise a little ; wind veering round to the $.W. with the same force, and blowing inboard the weather ipping ay pauline from. to, round, the, er. The sea, which curled over her when she dipped. her stern. life-boat, bringing the forest iron dayit with it, and fetching up, again the funnel; the gig and quarter- boat turned over by the same ‘squall, ‘9 eM nmast-head carried away, the wreck han out.to leeward against the rigging. f it eincoumila went short off by the rigging ; water increasl st in the stoke- hole and engine- room. ; the. sh ouring heavily ;, all the deck gear washed i bh Spashed ; lee ‘bulwarks enn in many places a a ng: and ladders, Se made to overcome the ebween decks, and in the’ _ engine- fs ee Lstoh e-hole, by baling and pumping, and, to, keep. the. seas out by getting tar-. panlings stretched over the gr ° “Tn this last, a n the sec ried away to leeward, .and his” leg badly ae in. two. places bya hen- coop : «The passengers’ cae sond by this, time nearly; demolish their oe ontents 5 Jyith a Sas Ai In, AR oub cay thine, and - f pulp and. dai ies i e M.—We ha stoke hole soe i Pe : ere nd | ig learn in a steamer greatest power for control- rapidly increas Page psbarboard side were d, as to fittings and ch of the ship the Baw sweeping ina hurries ling the vel Me is g on “What. ould w. Ow, haye iven to have heard and felt tha a : oe ing screw Seer in ordinary occasions, ae pa nuisan Mi 2 REAL, ‘the Pay eee oe on for an instant left “con fs ae the steering), kept us eae up Pathe: torm, and, by his skill, effected as easy a position for the vessel as it was possible. *Not, a stitch of canvas could we show, but, by our yards, kept her head well up, all hands hard at work baling and pumping; but the best pump of all on the upper deck, called. the § ‘Dountons,’ could not be got to work at all for a long time. , ‘When dirt, bits of coal, &c,, are washing about down below in a gale, as must be often the case, it. seems these pumps are very liable to get the ‘ hose’ at the end of the pipe choked up, and as in our case the rose was seven feet under water, it. ae “at present inaccessible—the pipe \ was accordi ent. above the rose and corked well down fo tha Aa } Subsequently the second en gineer d the a penter did, though with that srea cpth of water, get down ‘and cleared the ‘hose , as eaifienlt and dangerous operation was most valuable to us, and they deserve preat credit for it. “From this time up to 7 o'clock ever ry effort was _ directed to getting the water under. “7 P.M.—Ship a complete ‘wreck, | Firés “had been out for some time, and daylight *s sea and wind still very high. “* 8) pw— Gale’ decreasing, but shippin quantities of water to leeward | opps la 0 tt ver Ly much from the water in her, 9 P.w.— Weather moderating, ut little im mpres- sion made on the water in the st ip ; ‘Aqualls still’ very heavy, but at long‘intetvals, «Satu DAY MORNING. How Jong and wea and anxious was that Friday night ; but ees fi af dawn of Saturday was chee ing for thou; was still very high the gale ‘Was “agcidedl pS we | rating, — ee ‘a EComichoo (E@)