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“GRIPPING. . . . Rogers’s gritty, atmospheric
tale is skillfully told.”
—Publishers Weekly
$24.95
MOTOO EETEE
Shipwrecked at the
Edge of the World
IRV C. ROGERS
MCBOOKS PRESS
ITHACA, NEW YORK
Published by McBooks Press 2002
Copyright © I.C. Rogers 2001
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VII
VIII M OTOO E ETEE
THE MANY PEOPLE who helped this book reach print are scattered
from New England to California, and across the Pacific to Guam, New
Zealand, and Tasmania.
Foremost among them are Barbara Manning, John Wylie, and the
late George Seng, who supplied an unfailing optimism and proffered
valuable suggestions for years. Andrea Sim of Auckland located and
provided the key history of sealing that shaped the adventure. Frank
Conley, a friend of long standing, gave expert advice on the weapons
of the period. Descriptive material regarding the appearance of Ston-
ington in the early 19th century was kindly sent to me by Mary
Thacher of the Stonington Historical Society. Pam Eastlick of the Uni-
versity of Guam ferreted out obscure information about constellations
that I was unable to locate in hours of searching. Judie Swartz, my
daughter, printed out reams of copy and explained the quirks of com-
puters to me. Others of my family gave encouragement and tolerated
the books, papers, maps, and equipment that took over space in the
house.
—I.C.R.
SALINAS, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 2001
IX
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the amount of sperm and black oil rendered. Even a recital of those
well-known tales made the watches seem shorter.
The old sailor kept his hand on the brace and lowered his gaze to
the horizon. His head tilted a little to his left as he made the effort to
recall his trips at sea. “Let me see. . . . First, three times after the whale.
That was Greenland and the Brazils. Then it was to Masy Foora for
skins and on to Canton for a China cargo.” He let go of the line and
counted on his fingers as he enumerated his voyages. “Then a year in
privateers and coasters during the war. To the South Georgias twice
for seal. Now, this time again for fur and oil. That will be seven times
after the seal and whale, ’bout fifteen . . . sixteen year when we make
Stonington again. Afore that it was the sugar trade.”
“That was to Jamaica,” Thomas prompted.
“Aye, Jamaica and Matanzas,” Will answered. “Molasses, sugar, rum,
and the fever.”
“And pirates,” the lad put in.
“Pirates, oh yes, pirates. Off Santiagy where you’d expect ’em for
sure. I told you that tale.”
“Yes, how they came up on you in the night.”
“Aye, we suspicioned when we saw them with no light. We loaded
our guns with bar and chain shot and carried away her rigging. Left
the Spaniard in a trice. Hee, hee, hee. That was something we learned
well from them.” Will’s laugh died away as he looked aloft again. He
eyed the studding sail and tugged at the brace and warned, “Mark me,
lad, something will part soon.”
The wind driving the barque on her northerly course came from
the west-southwest and struck the barque on her larboard quarter.
Thomas began coiling and stowing the extra line of the running
gear. He looked over the rail as he worked and watched the white-
capped swells rolling toward the ship from the same direction as the
wind. On the leeward side of the vessel, their receding backs at any
given instant appeared to be surfaces of chipped, smoke-hued glass.
When the subdued colors of dawn had spread over the sea that
morning, scattered clouds had become visible drifting northeast and
M OTOO E ETEE 5
had grown in bulk and height from midday on, boiling up higher and
higher.
The barque heaved forward into the troughs until the horizon could
not be seen from the deck. She bore up sluggishly as each crest came
under her keel, but the heavy press of canvas kept her heeled over.
Across the sternboard of the vessel were the words: “Dove, Ston-
ington” carved out in raised letters and painted white. Below these
was the figure of a bird also carved in relief. Its wings were spread as
if in flight, and its head was turned to its right, showing a single eye.
The eye was just a cavity in the wood that, at one time, might have
been set with a bit of glass. Now, the bird stared blankly astern. The
paint on it and on the names was weathered and peeling, especially
on the harder grain. The sternboard was split in its entire length, and
the wing tips of the bird had fallen off or had been knocked loose,
making it appear dumpy and incapable of a soaring flight.
Thomas watched the stunsail again for any weakness, then his gaze
moved up to the topgallant yard. He remembered he was up there
standing on the horse the day they left Stonington Port. A chill wind
was blowing out of the northeast when the newly painted Dove was
cast loose and warped out. It had made his eyes water, and, in its
crisp, icy feel on the skin of his face and hands, he felt the cold and
severity of another coming winter or perhaps another strange year like
1816. In his ignorance he thought he was evading the harsh season,
but many months later he had been plunged into worse weather far
below the equinoctial line. From the height of that yard he had been
able to see from a different perspective the town he had known since
he was four years old. He had picked out the ropewalks, the shops,
the churches, the kiln dock and the marshland beyond it. The trees
in and to the northeast of Stonington were fast losing their leaves then.
The blustering wind had stripped them from the branches and swirled
them around the weathered houses and over rickety fences. In short
lulls they had settled to the ground, only to be scooped again from
the derelict garden plots, pig pens, and rutted roads, and carried
toward the harbor. When they reached the dock, the leaves had sailed
6 M OTOO E ETEE
around and over the score of people gathered there to watch the Dove
depart for the southern fishery. Then they had lost their momentum
over the inlet and fluttered down onto the water. Between the wharf
and the moving stern of the barque, hundreds of scarlet leaves pat-
terned the dark surface of the harbor. More and more had fallen each
minute in zigzagging descents to the water. The Dove, responding to
the warp and nudged by the same wind that scattered the leaves,
moved away from the land. In the eddies of her wake, the reddened
bits of flotsam gyred into the murk.
Thomas had known nearly all the people who stood on the wharf
that day, yet only his father and Isabel drew his eyes and held them.
Father was taller than most of the others there and, unlike any of
them, he had not waved to the departing crew. Thomas was puzzled,
even piqued by that omission then, having thought they had come to
an agreement. Or had Father changed his mind? Had the old melan-
choly taken him again? The men of both watches except those turning
the windlass and tending the running gear had spread out on the yards
to loose the sails and wave a hearty farewell to their shore-bound kin.
They shouted hurrahs, fired with their prospects yet laden with good-
byes, over and over. Thomas didn’t feel like such a display, but when
he saw Isabel’s face framed in the circle of her bonnet and saw her
shake a handkerchief, he joined in. His right hand gripped his tar-
paulin hat, and he waved it port to starboard in a wide arc over his
head.
Ned, the smaller boy aboard, had overheard Mr. Morgen say it
would be a two-year voyage. Jack guessed two and a half or three
years, saying it would take that long to fill the hold. Seals had been
scarce of late. No one knew for sure, not even the older hands who
had been out for seal and train oil before. It would all depend on their
fortune in the rookeries. Thomas remembered thinking he would not
see Stonington again until late 1820 or even 1821. He had reasoned
with Father that it was not too long a time to be away. He was almost
sure to make more than wages in that time and might gain a small
fortune. Many other lads had left for the grounds and had done far
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