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Friday, March 16, 2007

Another Story on the way

This story is another at sea enjoy!
This time the setting is at a port in India were a ship is sailing to Denmark with much cargo such as Silk, Jewellery, Spices and ivory.
But there is a problem with so much cargo they don’t have much room for supplies like food and water so they only have enough room for 20 days supplies. That is so not enough for a journey from India to Denmark so they would have to stop for supplies every now and then along the journey. Then there was the problem of going there and somehow standing through the storms they might encounter. Meanwhile the ship has set sail and is heading to Denmark, onboard all is going well and the sails are full and the ‘Sea Lion’ seemed to be gliding on the waves.

Then after 3 hours sailing they saw on the horizon instead of blue sky and white fluffy clouds they saw black and grey clouds, which were advancing as if the ‘Sea Lion’ was a fly they wanted to swat! The men onboard started to get to work doing things like getting the sails in and jobs like that, and then in 20 minutes the storm was upon them. There was chaos the masts creaked and groaned so much the crew thought that the ship would be sunk for sure, but as usual in most storys it didn’t.

Only kidding it sunk and they were left stranded in the middle of the sea with no islands for miles around (to tell the truth the were not very far away from an uncharted island but I cant tell you about that now because it will come into the story later)
all they had to suvive was 1 small barrel of water and another on salt pork these barrels were around the sise of a large book or coat sise XXL folded in to a barrel sise. And to float on all they had (crew of 30) was a raft made for the perpose wich it was now serving but the problem was the raft was made for 30 men with no room for passengers, it so happend that they were taking a few passengers to the same place were they were bound so the raft was carring 35 people in stead of 30 this is a problem in sailing ways because there wasn't enough room for them all so 5 people were alvays swiming along sid or pushing the raf† in any direction were they hoped that they would find an island (it so happend that they found the island i told you about a few lines back.

That night when they were all asleep but the mate who was on lookout duty, then all of a sudden there was a cry from the mate "WAKE UP EVERYONE, LAND IN SIGHT THERE ON THE STARBORD BOW, INHABITANTS HEADING TOWARDS US AT TREMENDUS SPEED!" Then it was all arms and legs for a moment with everyone trying to get up first to see the ship comming towards them, 30 seconds later the ship arrived with 10 people who reached out their hands to get thew ships crew of the raft and into the boat and back to the mainland were they were treated like kings and were feasted to the best meal they had ever had! Then the cheaf of the island came over to the captain and said "Well I hope that meal was to your satisfation!" then the captain said the the cheaf "It was the best meal I have ever had!!!!" "Good" said the cheaf. Now I will leave you to what evewr you are doing! See ya bye.

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