People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — Ship Passes Through Black Water. [ARTICLE]

Ship Passes Through Black Water.

New York, Feb, 28.—The American ship Idea; < r of Bath got here last night from Portland, Ore., after a voyage of b’9 days with 75,000 bushels of wheat. In the north Pacific, about 060 miles above the equator, a month after she ‘eft Portland, the Reaper passed through a strip of black water, about sixty feet wide, extending as far as the eye could see. ft din northwest to southeast, or parallel 'with the west coasts .•f Centfal A merit a and Mexico. Nov. in the south Pacific a squall carried away every stitch of canvas except the three lower sails.