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he knew all about it. So away we had to go for the port of Adelaide
Anyhow we knew that we was all free that month. So we got into the Boarding house at the port, it was kept by a man called Hanley
Anyhow the job was to get ships and get away as the most of the ships was laying in the Stream waiting for the Wool season. So
I stopped for a week or two. And a big ship came in from London loaded with Govnt stores, and I thought I would like to join her
as she was bound to Penang in the Mallaca Straits. So I enquired on board and I found I could Join her as an ordinary Seaman
so I signed on. And we got her already for sea and sailed for
for Penang. And while we was of Cape Leuin while we was furl-
ing the jib the footropes carried away, and one man fell over-board, and was drowned, the life boat was lowred But could
no pick him up. So poor Yorkie as that was his name was drowned
and to lower a life boat in those days in a heavy sea was
no Joke as there was none of the patents about in those days
as there is now in the steamers now a days, as there was nearly
nothing but windjammers in those days. Anyhow in a couple
of months we arrived outside Penang, then got ordered to go
to Madras. So we up anchor and sailed for Madras right across
the Indian Ocean. so in two and a half months arrived at
Madras roads which is the open Coromandel Coast as at that
time Madras had no protection, only mooring buoys laid down
in the open coast, and shackle both your cable chains on
to this buoy, then have your chains bouyed off and the fifteen
fathom shackles abaft the windlass for fear of a Hurricane, and
lay with your sails bent, and all ready to slip your cables
and get out to sea, and sure enough the Hurricane came
and all the ships laying at the bouys on the coast had to
leave, that was the Hurricane at the latter end of 1865, and all
the Ships that was in Ballast had to be the sufferers. So our
Ship was in Ballast and the Ballast shifted with the force
of the Hurricane on the one side of her, and hove her down on
her beam ends, her lee Bulwarks was all gone. And the order
came to cut away the Foremast, and in those days there
used to be several Tomy Hawks placed round the mainmast

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tully.barnett

I've written shakle as shackle here