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Updated: June 23, 2025
They come to America either as stokers, sailors, stewards, or stowaways, and, while they can not get passports, it is surprising how lax the authorities are in permitting their escape. The spirit of the Italian law is willing enough, but its fleshly enforcement is curiously weak. Those who have money enough manage to reach France or Holland and come over first or second-class.
At last we heard some one trundling on the stairs again and the Doctor said, "Ah, here's Bumpo with the maps at last!" But to our great astonishment it was not Bumpo alone that appeared but THREE people. "Good Lord deliver us! Who are these?" cried John Dolittle. "Two more stowaways, Sir," said Bumpo stepping forward briskly. "I found them in your cabin hiding under the bunk.
Calhoun nodded politely and went back to what he'd been doing before she appeared. "Shall I have breakfast?" she asked uncertainly. "Murgatroyd and I have," he told her. "Why not?" Silently, she operated the food-readier. She ate. Calhoun gave a very good portrayal of a man who will respond politely when spoken to, but who was busy with activities remote from stowaways.
"There! there! there again! There she blows right ahead, boys! lay back!" "Never heed yonder yellow boys, Archy." "Oh, I don't mind'em, sir," said Archy; "I knew it all before now. Didn't I hear 'em in the hold? And didn't I tell Cabaco here of it? What say ye, Cabaco? They are stowaways, Mr. Flask."
He started and stared at her, but he had seen too many strange lands to be very much surprised at these queerly-dressed stowaways. 'Setting lines for the dye shell-fish, he said shortly. 'How did you get here? 'A sort of magic, said Robert carelessly. The Captain fingered an Amulet that hung round his neck. 'What is this place? asked Cyril. 'Tyre, of course, said the man.
In this way the consul had saved to Milwaukee a worthy but imprudent brewer, and to New York an excellent sausage butcher and possible alderman; but had returned to martial duty one or two tramps or journeymen who had never seen America except from the decks of the ships in which they were "stowaways," and on which they were returned, and thus the temper and peace of two great nations were preserved.
Captain Ringgold had not said anything to any person except Scott about the mysterious stranger with a veil over his face; but the ship and her consort had been well guarded over night, and a search for stowaways was made when the morning watch came on duty.
One evening, after a gale like this had blown over, the stowaways, who had not dared to show face all day, were told to come up on deck. What a sight! Why, the Valhalla was like a ghost-ship. The decks were white, and the bulwarks too. Every rope and stay seemed made of frosted silver, while great icicles hung everywhere around.
He gave Sweetwater a hammock and admitted him to the mess, but told him that as soon as his bruises allowed him to work he should show himself on deck or expect the rough treatment commonly bestowed on stowaways. It was a prospect to daunt some men, but not Sweetwater.
"It would have saved trouble to have hove him overboard before he came to himself," said the mate, with a careless laugh. "The captain doesn't allow of stowaways, and we don't want any aboard here." He said this, I suppose, to frighten me, indifferent to the consequences.
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