Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — A Woman’s Courage at Sea. [ARTICLE]

A Woman’s Courage at Sea.

Capt. Wallace's niece, a-young Bhglish girl, married a sea captain and went in his sailing vessel with her husband, visiting many countries with. him. bln her first trip, when she was yet a young bride,-there was a mutiny, and her husband was wounded or knocked senseless in his cabin. The sailors were a|iout to spring down the companionway into the cabin, when the young woman barred the way, pistol in hand, and promised to shoot the first man who moved toward her. She held them thus at l ay till their wrath burned out, and the mutiny was at an end. On the next voyage they were shipwrecked, and this brave-hearted girl, with her young baby. wos lashed in the rigging, and remained there for several days before they were rescued. They had nothing to eat, and the mother’s natural food for her child was exhausted. By some means a can of meat was fished up from- the ship, and the child fed cn this until it was alt gone and the little one about to starve. But the mother put her teeth into her hind, between the thumb and forefinger, and bit a gash into her own flesh, ftoni whieb the blood flowed. The child sucked this, and that night the almost dying crew and the brave sailor-\\ ife were rescued.— New Orleans Picayune. To refer all. pleasures to association is to acknowledge no sound but echo.