Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 13941, 1 November 1887 — THE WATER FRONT.—The Amethyst’s Whaleboats—The Guatemala Delayed. [ARTICLE]

THE WATER FRONT.

The Amethyst’s Whaleboats—The Guate-

mala Delayed.

The Bolivian bark Don Carlos sailed yesterday afternoon for Santa Rosalia. She had great difficulty in obtaining sailors, and was in consequence detained several days. On Sunday, however, she made up her complement by shipping two Italians, and sailed yesterday with the ebb tide. There is still a great scarcity of sailors, every ship that sails finding it harder and harder to obtain crews. The steamer Newbern arrived yesterday afternoon from Mexican ports with a general cargo, and the following coin and bullion for Well, Fargo & Co.: Six bags coin, valued at $6000; 3 boxes coin, $6000 ; 1 bag bullion, $800 ; 53 bars bullion, $55,195. Total, $67,995. The many friends of Captain Dougall of the British ship Silverhow will be sorry to hear he is lying dangerously ill of malarial fever at the Windsor Hotel, Market street. The Spanish Central-American steamer Guatemala was to have sailed for Panama Saturday afternoon, but did not sail until yesterday morning. The delay was caused by a difficulty with the chief engineer, and the prevalence of fog outside the Heads. The Costa Rica, which is said to be the finest vessel of the nine belonging to this company, is due to-day. The Honduras will follow her, and then the Salvador, a 5000-ton steamship, is expected. The mysterious loss of the whaler Amethyst will probably never be accounted for. The two hatches which were found on Copper Island were expected by the Russian steamer Alexander Ⅱ., which arrived from Petropaulovski Sunday. The master neglected, however, to bring the hatches along, and they cannot reach here before next year. From the description it is believed that they are those of the missing whaler. When the ice in Behring Sea broke up early in April last the natives on Copper Island found some pieces of wood, which had once been part of the stern of a whaleboat. On a piece of the gunwale it bore the name of M. Leonard, a well-known New Bedford boatbuilder. This is additional evidence that the Amethyst was crushed and broken to pieces by the ice, as she carried boats of Leonard’s make on board. Nothing whatever was found that would give rise to the hope that even part of her crew escaped. No one along the waterfront puts any credence in the story told by the sailor on the seized whaler Angel Dolly, to the effect that he had seen the hull of the Amethyst stranded on a beach on one of the Choumagin Islands.