A MEMORABLE VOYAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2146, 10 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

A MEMORABLE VOYAGE.

Njewspaper render* will remember the long and interesting account of the thrilling voyage of the ill-fated ship Templar, something over leven years ago, and of the terribly tragic experiences of Captain G. N. Armstrong, bis family and crew ; of the heroic conduct of hit daughter Emma, which won for her admiration and a world* wid» reputation aa th* heroine of the 'Templar. The unlucky vessel waa ©aught in m Wett Indies hurricane in the South Atlantic, and put into Rio for repairs. Upon .continuing her voyage every soul on the retiiel— captain, wife, daughter, and crew, with the exception of a Chinaman,— was stricken down with the yellow fever, to which Mrs Armstrong, and many of the tictiaju.' 'Captain AWMaW6ft^'< daughter, while still convalescent, and while her father still lay writhing in the torture of the terrible disease, navigated the ship around Cape Horn and iijto the port of San Francisco, after a tempestuous aud never-to-be-forgotten voyage of 3GL days from Rio. The: San Francisco Board of Underwriters, at a meeting callod for the purpose, presented her with a set of resolutions complimenting her in the highest terms, and a purse of $500 in gold coin, Captain Armstrong receiving like testimonials, ' Captain Armstrong and his daughter went East, and the latter became the Wife of John A. Clark, manager of the clearinghouse of the Owen Board of Trade of Chicago. The caDtain engaged in the lumber business in Northern Michigan near Lake Superior, and something over three years ago -remarrU*d, thu tune taking to wife Mim H»ttte Ellsworth, Jthe daughter "of hit Kuperintendent. After an absence of seven years the captain has returned to Saa Francisco with his wife and her sister, Mus Edna" Ellsworth, to live, and die in California, whose shores he first touched in 1850. He is in splendid condition physically, taking into consideration the yellow fever ordeal he underwent seven years ago, looks twenty year* younger, and does not intead to remain idle if one of the shipowners will entrust him with the command of a ship.