A FOOLHARDY VOYAGE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 138, 29 May 1880, Page 3

A FOOLHARDY VOYAGE.

I A terrible story or privation and cUngi - J has been revealed by tlie urrivnl at -Nu i York of two seamen who, in July bis ■ ersayed on the venturesome attempt ( • sail from Boston to Mulhourue. L'i; i names ot' the men are Herbert V. Uui nil, of rAilm.mth, Cnpe.Ood, ami Amlrer ■ Goon, of Nnutuokct. They were landi; at Now York by the steamer <.'ity ( Pn.ro, who picked them up at Babia. ] i >R stated that Bun-ill, who had been al most from childhood a seaman, had rca > ; with lively interest theaceountsof voyage '•in small boats on tho Atlantic, aml'i'mi those he conceived tho notion of nmkiii ' a voyage longer than had yet been in oonrplished by any other : person, anil i •a smaller boat than had yet cssayc • .ocean navigation. Accordingly he'biii! a leu :.-■■■ ■■ i i ton : : f,ird n ";rc m aft-rigged, ami changeable at ph-asmr from schooner to sloop, and on .July :-Kct sail from Boston with the iiitcuiio :of reaching Me! bourne. He named hi •j boat the Golden Gate, and engaged t!i 'man Coon to accompany him. "lie ca! ciliated upon reaching Melbourne befoi j the close- of Hih Exhibition in (hat cin [and thus being able to make money i showing his b at. t'rovisions find wa! Boston for a I ,nr month's voyage. ":"< | eiaft was dock -.1 over the forceastlo. Th J led was for only one man, as there Wev jonly two .hi hoard, one of whom won! bo occupied in the navigation. All up I pears to have gone w II for about tv ■ mouths, for on tho (ift.--ei»li!ii dav l!i | Golden Gate reached San .la;,, in lie tape de >"erdo Islands, win-!-. • ie w t ;on loani. an lon S-p-Vmh. v \;'•.]■■■ iitii I however, and the ; rovi-i.ir.s having go ; wet began lo ferment, and burst the fin jin .which they were stored. Most of then I v.vre, then-low, thrown ovcrboaid. Oi ! Dec •ni'oer il ii became evident that v.-ha ! was left of the provisions would not la- ■ until the Afi-ican const was ma 10, an. : the fro'den Gate was then headed for th ! near, si laud, which was St. Helena, but . light winds i-ni a strong current enrrie. :■-■ n- i;a '. .', ■■ el i ri!i : , ■ !sf,re)>g'.h i'/dl-d day by day for a i>;. IBilhia they were in such an c-.:haest.«! I condition a< 1.0 he u:ia->le to -land ev..-: i for the short til iu n-oi-ssiiry to ivadjiwl | their nautica! instruments and to i.iki observations, and t-iey afterwards suite-! by dead reckoning. At length, famish j ing and barely able to steer their cockleI shell, the two adventurous mariners ran into a small creek about 20 miles north phi'C which is nan ed As-w de Torre. that, they r-covered r'..\.aiglh. Tney i I'ara. their boat hj -in g a'-. > t:':.- i <-.\ |.hoard. L'.irrill is .'ii y.-..r- >!-l. ii:;.i I Coon '.' S.