May 6, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Escape Escape Tonight with the China Seeds In Typhoon.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
A Columbia Broadcasting System and it's affiliated stations presents Escape,
a new series of programs, of which this the fourth
is Typhoon by Joseph Conrad, produced and directed by William N.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Robson.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Of all the great authors who wrote of the sea,
none so captured the wonder and the horror of it
as did Joseph Conrad. Tonight we escaped to the China
Seas in his great story Typhoon, told in the words
of a certain mister Jukes, chief mate of the China
Coast steamer Nan Shan, a young man of very remarkable person.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I've been sailing the China so long enough to see
some strange and terrible things, but nothing as bad as
that was. By God himself forgot us in the whole
Lincoln universe set out to do us in that night.
It was the but that comes later. I guess you
can't really understand what happened on board the Nam Shan
without knowing something about our skipper, Captain mc whirr. Stupid mcquirr,
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I called him, and after sailing with him for three years,
I ought to know what I'm talking about my eye
tagged him right off first day he came aboard to
take command in Liverpool it was and mister Sikes, who
was one of the owners, were showing him around the day.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
No more modern sheep of flute.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
I might say again that you've come to us very
highly recommended, captain, where we've a great deal of confidence
in you.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Thank you, mister Siggs.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
She's a brand new ship and a good ship. There
is no reason why you shouldn't continue in command of
her as.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Long as you like.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, that's that's fine.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
She'll be the smartest thing afloat in the Chinese trade.
Why if she's put together like a Swiss watch, precision
built from stem to stern.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Just a minute, mister Sings. What is it that luck lock?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
What lock?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Here on the cabin door?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You'll notice how it's been set in the frame somewhat
cocked at an angle. The ship starts rolling a bit
and the first thing you know, it snaps open and
leaves the door swinging. It really should be fixed, mister Siggs.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
That's Captain mcquirr, the best birth he'd ever had, new command,
a brand new ship. But instead of pinching himself to
see if he's awake. He complains about a lock on
the cabin door. See what I mean, I.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
See what you mean.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'll have it attended to right away. I think you
will do all right now, Thanks you, mister Simmons.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well everybody knows what the China coast is. You haul
out of Bangkok for a quick run up to Singapore
and then shove off for Hong Kong. Two days ashore.
You do it all over again, three years of it,
three years of heat, smells, weather, copra, silk and tea
along in there somewhere. The owners decided to transfer the
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ship's registry to the Siamese flag. Don't ask me why
they just did, that's all. Anyway, I can tell you
I didn't like it. When you grow up under the
Union jack you figure to go on sailing under it.
Not that the skipper, of course, could understand that kind
of a feeling. No, no, not all stupidly work.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Hi, what is that, mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
They just sent the new flag out from shore, sir.
Here it is.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh fine, fine, unbroiled it. Let's have a look. Ah.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yes, in my opinion, sir, it's a queer kind of
flag for man to sail on here.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Oh, and what's the matter with it?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Well, it just looks queer to me, that's all.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well. Now, let's see a white elephant on a red field.
Just a minute, I'll look it up in the book.
Here we are, Siam, white elephant on the field of
bright red, length exactly twice the bread. So well, there's
nothing wrong with this flag, mister Jewkes. Oh, isn't there
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not a thing? I hardly thought that could be. After all,
these people ought to know how to make their own flag.
It stands to reason, does it.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You must have it confused with some other flagged mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well, all I can say is.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Because you'll have to take care of the seamen, don't
hoist the elephant upside down. That is before that are
quite used to. I presume it might be taken for
a signal of distress. And in that case, the way
I see it, that the elephant stands for something like
the nature of a union jack in the British.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Oh you think so, well, it's like a bloom and
Noah's art. That's what it is, mister Jukes.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm sorry, sir, I can't see where the color of
a flag could anywise affects the navigation of the ship.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
All right, sir, I'll instruct the hands it Wou'd certainly
be a most distressful sight to see that elephant hoisted
upside down. Well that was Captain mcquurn. Couldn't get a
thing through his head if you drew him a picture.
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And that's the skipper we had to sail under on
the maddest, wildest trip than any coaster ever took. We
were loading out in Singapore. Half the cargo had already
come aboard. The sun was blazing, and the smoke from
our stacks hung over the decks like a blanket. The
nan Chan's winches puffed away aft the cargo. Chains creaked
and clattered across the coomans. I was in the ways
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supervising the loading, when mister Rout, the chief engineer, came
up in there.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Jukes, what's going on down there on the dock looked
like a bloomin army.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I don't know, mister round. There must be a marb
of coolies in the moon. Here comes a captain, would
be some of his door.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Sir, keep between get cleared of cargo. There'll be two
hundred coolies coming aboard, and we'd plant to bank them
down there.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Good lord, where are they bound?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Chow? We'll have to put in there at this trip.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah, but we're not fixed to handle passengers, sir.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That'll bring supplies aboard with them. Every man's got a
comfort wood chest, so you'll have to nail dick buttons
down there to keep them from sliding.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Yes, sir, I'll see to it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I've all been working on a plantation, not somewhere, two
year contract. They're dying to get home. It wouldn't have
been quite right to turn them down. You may as
well start them coming aboard.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Mister Jukes, All right, say all I number one boy,
all the same, lessen you saving huh? Only fellow catch
him here touth side, catch him stad step farther side
only time, shot chap single file now, one fellow, one time,
all the time. What do you suppose they carry on
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those boxes?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I suppose they're personal belongings with the Jewkes and the
coast there two years paying silver.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Dollars there as vicious a looking bunch of murderers as
I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh, come now, mister Jewkes, one or two of them maybe,
But in the main I'd say they're on his workmen
have to be to stick out a two year contract
on one of these plantations.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Just the same, sir. We better not take any chances.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh, I checked the lading weights care let, mister Jukes.
We didn't care of them without any overloading at all.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I mean that, all right, sir, I better go hide
the silverware in the officer's mess He's.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
A hard lab to understand.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Sometimes I can say I had a premonition right then,
and I wouldn't be lying anyway. That's how it started.
At the hottest time of the year, two hundred and
half civilized coolies aboard a captain with no more imagination
than you could stick in your ear, we steamed out
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from Singapore and Laiter course for the port of food Chow.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I tell you, Jukes, I don't like it.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I don't like it a bit.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
And what don't you like about Itim miss around.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
With the looks of things.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Something ominous about it. Oh, there's a bit of a
swell running, all right. There's not a breath of wind.
It's uncommonly hot. That's all gives a man the jumps.
You're as bad as the second mate. He's been growing
around like the voice of doom all day. That's the
old man. I'll see you later. Hit your steam up
(09:22):
the round? Are you calling me? Catain?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I was, mister Jewkes. But with all the long conversation
with mister.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Rout, find nothing much, sir. I didn't see any harm
in talking a bit. I'm not on watch, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No, no, nothing wrong with it, nothing at all. I
just wondered what you could find to talk about.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Well, different things. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I've seen people on shore sit around the table and
talk for two or three hours. I never could understand it.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
It's just conversation that's all about nothing in particular.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Seems pretty silly. Well you've noticed the barometer.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
No doubt, yes, sir, it's draping all in fast, quite low.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Now take a look.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I'll say it's draving.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Bad time of the year for that sort of thing,
very bad.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Anything you want me to do, sir?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh no, No, must be some uncommonly that the weather
knocking about somewhere, hey, mister Jewkes, Yes, sir, well that's all.
Just thought you ought to know about it. That's all.
Carry on, sir, carry on.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Oh, there's a heavy one all right night, and coolies
must be having a time of it down below. Lucky
for them, the old Girl rolls easier than any ship
I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Hey, you just wait?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Oh you think we may be in for it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
No, I don't think anything. You're not going to make
a lot of me that way, mister Jewkes. I didn't
say a word.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
What's the matter with you? Second, why shouldn't you say
what you think? If you're a minder of herna?
Speaker 6 (11:07):
You don't catch me?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Whoa, there's another that's pretty rough? Now? Whatever is about?
We're steaming right into it.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Pack You just try telling the old man nade?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
And why shouldn't I? Matter of fact, I think I'll
ask him about this cross swell. It's getting worse all
the time.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I've known skippers to break some right good men for
saying her whole long left?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Uh, Captain mcquirth, Yes, mister Jewkes, what is it? The
swell is getting a good deal worser?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yes? I noticed that in here? Anything wrong?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Well? I I was thinking about the passengers.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
What passengers?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Why the coolies, sir?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And if you mean coolst say cool is mister Jewkes.
A man ought to say what he means what about
the coolies.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
She's rolling her decks full of water, Sir, I thought
you might want to put her head at the swell
for a bit until this goes down.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Of course, that sit there, put a head at the
swell four points off the corpse.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Well, it's just for a while, sir, as well as
high as this can't last long. That stands to reason,
mister Jewkes.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Take a look at the barometer, good lord, Yes, exactly.
It's a dead calm outside, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
He's got a breath of air stirring, sir, Only that
cross swell.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I've been reading in the book here about storms. Its
funny thing. If a man believed everything written down here,
he'd spend half his life running to get behind the weather.
If I was to go by what this fellow says,
I'd all to my course and come booming into food
shout from the north, four days late, three hundred extra
miles in distance, and a pretty bill for coal on
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top of it. I'll tell you, mister Jewkes, if I
knew every word in here was gospel true, I couldn't
bring myself.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
To do that now, sir, I guess, And how's.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
A man to know the book is right. If you
dodge around the spot of death the weather, how do
you ever find out it was there in the first place?
Answer me that, no, mister Jewkes. There's things that a
man can't get from books. I've thought it all out
this afternoon. We'll hold her steady as she goes.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Whatever you say, sir, you're the captain. I guess i'd
better ride up the log I'm going on watch good
Death said. We're heading into something you've bit out of
the ordinary. Call me at once if anything you show
us up in the night.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
All right, sir, I'll say to it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
And mister Jewkes, yes, sir. If you're going into the
chart room, please close that blinking door. I can't stand
here the door bag.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
It, yes, sir. Eight pm. Swell increasing ship laboring heavily
and taking water in all decks. Still a dead calm
and very hot. Batten down the coolies for the night.
The barometer is still falling. All appearances indicate an approaching typhoon.
(14:12):
All right, Hager, hold a steady as she goes.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
It's all we can do. Why, sir, I'll shall try
to do the best you can.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Hi, I sir, mister Jones, mister Jukes, I caretain, I'm
coming say over here. The dukes stop wanting the trail, right, sir,
coming over.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Mister Jukes. Why didn't you call me?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
But there was no warning, sir. It is all of
a sudden, about five minutes ago, blasted right out of
a dead calm. The book was writ in some parts. Anyhow,
how's it going? The wheelhouse hagar is look answer him?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Oh what about hacking? He's on the wheel.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Second is putting up shutters to win the glass will go.
She starts breaking any higher?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Oh do you break higher?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Mister Jukes, what's the higher?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It's a happy thought. I haven't ordered a a saucer
heading straight.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
In the wild. Good something else we had no mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Understand yes, sir, something the man can't find in books.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Just keep her at it, that's all.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Captain.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
That fox trying to back away, that's all right.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
But the fox and to of a god. Now that
can't be helped, mister Jewkes. I'm gonna do a this
like this. They're bound to leave something behind, help to
leave old hard.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Ah. She's still rising, all right. At one broke over
the wheelhouse. B don't fork for sure?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
What's that? Mister Jewkes, you would say something I said?
Is there any chance an answer?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Did she live through it?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Jim?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
May?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
We can so low least jee a good ship. That's
all a man can ask. What's that subbody yelling? Follow
us on the bird accent? I'm here starving red man
shouldn't be on that deck. This he has to that's
a bit dangerous.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Listen over here. What's the trouble? Boson in Chinese?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Surnay?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Hey, hang on.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
The Chinese? What about them? You all'll fetched away, sir?
One big lump.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
It's horrible.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Now what do you mean? Fetched away?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Rolling around him?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
A hold in, one big lump, screaming like brooming maniaccer
all the trip.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Mister Jukes. Yes, I can't make head the taylor this.
I guess you better go. We'll all see to it.
Put things in order. But what shall I do, sir?
I can't tell you up here? Find out what's wrong?
Streighten it out, that's all, that's all. Take the motion
with him. I'm going to try for the wheel.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
House, all right? Come on, shall just straighten it out?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well? How's the wheel stand? Hacket?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yes? Head here she goes sir, do you.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Realize of course we've hit the typhoon? Sir, Sorry, I
can't give you a relief. Can you manage a way longer?
I'll hold it to.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
The course as long as there's a ship my knife.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
That won't be long.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, anything wrong, second wrong?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
We're always going to statement this. What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh? Now, I wouldn't say that is still a floater
and we've got it lucky here on deck, plenty of
chance to see what's coming.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Before it hits us. A man always feels better when
you can see what's coming.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's a different story down below there, not having knowledge
of what's going on, not knowing if we're a bloat
of thinking.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Now there's the lads that's got it tough.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The one's down there in the engine room.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Swinging even going.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
No time now for the steam.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
To drop here right that battlefield and let her ripper
shaft down when she breaks pare of those wells. Hello, bridge, Hello, bridge,
count Why don't the answer the speaking to him? I
can't tell if they're dead or alive up there?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Hello captain?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
How is it on day?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
On you?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
So far, so good?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
We're holding a full head of steam. Good we don't
let me drive her under sir?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
What you beat up here? To keep moving it off
the ski? I understand, sir, count on us.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Along the wheel. Wait wait, all gone? Hello, hello, said
the captain, mister Round.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I've got to talk to him right away.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Wait a minute, Jukes, something's happened up there. Hello, hello, rich,
don't throw there the right anything wrongs here?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Oh not now?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
A second mate's houff though over one?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Oh no, puffed love awk with fucking top to fuck
him up?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
To do back here that Jukes? Yes, let me talk
to him, Captain Jukes. Here the boson and I just
took a look at the tween day. It's them blooming boxes, sir.
They've all broke loose and smashed the bits, and the
coolies are fighting like crazy men for them silver dollars
that's rolling around.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
We're done on board.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
They're two hundred of them, sir. They're all trying to
kill each other.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
What a stop doing?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
What you got to stop to it? How they're crazy man,
they'll kill anybody that came on that deck.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Come on, you're get off out of me. I get
here to them, make it clear to them. Oh yeah,
after that, but the money I can't have it about
on the deck? Wat it come?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Gee as a fat here's the one that does it?
That that must have swept the deck from stem to stern. Hello, hello,
Captain MacGuire, you are right up there.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
All right, with the right all about and half of
star more quail cut it away to nothing to worry
about the come out.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Harry on, nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Carry on, Hey, you're all right, Captain, as you say, sir,
carry on, carry on?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Hey, now, hey, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Where are you going?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Eh? Where do you think I'm going? Your loud mouth,
don't win bank out on that deck to get myself murdered.
Ha ha ha ha ha nothing serious, jukes, nothing to
worry about. The whole blooming world's falling apart, and I'm
out picking up silver dollars. Captain's orders. Come on, polls,
don't visually old jukes, Gury, old boy gury all Why
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look the dorm hummy, and I'll help rid our gallant
skipper sister to stop the fighting. Where's our fire? All right?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
That quiet down?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Come on, boss, show it there your pools. Cut it
on down to your haary airy huh, they're clean out
of their heads. You gotta drive him to the bullhead
back up though, Hey, none of that can't show its
You gotta show him what for?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Nothing else to do?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Back up there, Captain's orders, you all follow me post.
It was just thinking, what about back there? Don't fight
the last his orders? We can put one of the
old lady and see me now, she'd say, Oh you,
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charlie sailor leg cheap moving cham on my posting in
the basket, captain? Where are you, captain?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Or were here? Mister jukes h you got everything cleared
up down below?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Oh? Oh, yes, we we took care of everything, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I thought you would. The wind fell all at once,
stopped cold. It's been like this for ten minutes now.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
If you think it was an easy job to bring
that mob under control.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Of the coolies, oh say it wasn't. I had to
do what's fair by them, though, mister Jewkes, that barometer
in there stands at the lowest point I've ever seen
a glass in my light.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
He may never be more of it.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
The worst yet, according to the book, it'll break sudden
now any minute. Up for two win and then it hits.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
She's taken a horrible beating, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
She has indeed, and she's in for a worse one.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
We haven't much chance.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
She may come through it. She's a good chip.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Here's the first puff.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It'll hit us hard when it comes. You left them pretty, sife,
did you the coolies?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
We strong lifelines. Gives them something to hold on to
them good.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I'd like to give them all the chance we can.
Whatever happens.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Ah, they'll be all right, sir. I broke out rifles,
parade of the crew. Put them the garding, all the
companion ways leading off the teen deck.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You arm the crew, mister Jukes.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Oh sure, we won't have any trouble with them.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Now, says to the dukes. Please have those rifles return
to the magazines at once, Sile, there'll be work for
every man aboard in a few minutes. I can't spare
seemun to stand around and hold rifles when it isn't necessary.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Isn't necessary? Don't you realize those savages A think we
stole our money, But they'll tear us to bits if
they ever get out.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Of that deck.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I think they'll understand we're dealing their by them. Collect
the rifles.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Captain. It's suicide. The best thing we can do is
turn the whole mess over to your parodies in food show.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
If we have a get there, well, I don't know.
I figured that when anything happens on shipboard, it's up
to me to settle it on shipboard, part of the
duties of commanding a vessel, mister Jewkes. I have no
doubt I'll be able to reach an understanding with these
men later.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Understanding You want to have seen him a while ago,
and me and the person was down.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
There lost their heads a bit. I guess no wonder
at that when here she comes. Pick up those rifles,
mister Jewkes, and something else. Yes, Captain. If anything happens
to be europe in charge, only advice keep her facing it.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Just wait to get through facing it. That sun up for.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Any man, all right, Captain, I'll remember.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
One, don't they more, mister Jewkes, Yes, sir. Something that
always helps the tea is to keep a cool head.
Just keep a cool.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Oh no, keep a cool head.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Stitch in time, say night a rolling. What in the
name I haven't even doing with a man like that?
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There was a clear blue sky and bright sunshine in
the morning. We steamed in the food owl harbor. Mister
Rout was leaning on a hatch combing smoking a pipe,
and the boatswain lounged on the four deck waiting to
pick up a line from the wharf. And the captain, well,
he was engaged in the most unusual occupation. He was
sitting at the table on the four deck handing out
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silver dollars to them, blinking coolies, all divided up even
the same amount to each one. Craziest thing you ever
heard of in your life. You see the way the
captain figured it, since those blighters had all worked for
two years at the same rate of pay, and their
savings ought to all be about equal. As you can see.
Of course, it wasn't necessary, only true by any means,
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wasn't even legal. But you couldn't tell him anything. Well, uh,
mister Jewkes, Yes, sir, coming captain.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Well, mister Jewkes, I've disposed of our little collection of
silver dollars.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
That's great. Only way those boys get a sure and
file claims against them.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Oh, no, they won't do that. As a matter of fact,
they we're quite pleased at having it arranged that way.
I figured it might avoid a lot of arguments later,
they said the spokesman to thank me. Well, I'll be
mister Jewkes. You may as well give all the hands
six hours leave before we start working the cargo. Whatever
you say, Oh yes, and before the carpenter leaves. I
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wis should have him fixed the lock on that cabin door,
But that seems to got broken somehow during the storm.
I suppose I can't stand.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
To hear the door bang, mister Jewkes, I say, I,
I don't suppose it matters that the ship is battered
from stem to stern, half her topside carried away and smashed,
so she looks like a blowing tins.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
And I don't understand me.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
You don't understand me, sir. Do you understand that we've
come through the worst typhoon in the China season twenty years.
We're the only ship that got through.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
It's true. I suppose we were a bit lucky.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Lucky, sir, with two hundred murder and cutthroats running loose
supporting the very Heaven's doing their worst.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We had a job to do and we did it.
That's all, mister Jewkes. That's the important thing.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yes, sir, that's that's all. That's all, he says, A
job to do, a bit lucky? What can you do
with a man as thick as that. But then as
I started to turn away, Captain mclurus had something else.
It surprised me. With emotion wrung from the very bottom
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of his soul. He he uttered words, I never thought
I'd hear it coming from something so stupid a man.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
But I'm glad we brought her through, mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Truly I am.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
She's a good ship, mister Jewkes, a good ship. I
should have hated to losen, I should hate Producer.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Iyphoon by Joseph Conrad was adapted for radio by Less
Crutchfield and produced and directed by William N. Robson, with
Branke Lovejoy as Jukes, Raymond Lawrence as Captain mcquirr, and
Cy Kendall as Ralph the Engineer. A special musical score
was conceived and conducted by Cy Fewer. Escape is presented
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by the Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations each
week at this time next week, we invite you to
escape to Paris five hundred years ago in Robert Louis
Stephenson's story of a fascinating adventure the Sire de Montoise
Door and so good night until next week at this
time when again it will be time to escape. This
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is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Escape Escape Tonight with the China Seeds In Typhoon.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
A Columbia Broadcasting System and it's affiliated stations presents Escape,
a new series of programs, of which this the fourth
is Typhoon by Joseph Conrad, produced and directed by William N.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Robson.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
Of all the great authors who wrote of the sea,
none so captured the wonder and the horror of it
as did Joseph Conrad. Tonight we escaped to the China
Seas in his great story Typhoon, told in the words
of a certain mister Jukes, chief mate of the China
Coast steamer Nan Shan, a young man of very remarkable person.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I've been sailing the China so long enough to see
some strange and terrible things, but nothing as bad as
that was. By God himself forgot us in the whole
Lincoln universe set out to do us in that night.
It was the but that comes later. I guess you
can't really understand what happened on board the Nam Shan
without knowing something about our skipper, Captain mc whirr. Stupid mcquirr,
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I called him, and after sailing with him for three years,
I ought to know what I'm talking about my eye
tagged him right off first day he came aboard to
take command in Liverpool it was and mister Sikes, who
was one of the owners, were showing him around the day.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
No more modern sheep of flute.
Speaker 7 (01:55):
I might say again that you've come to us very
highly recommended, captain, where we've a great deal of confidence
in you.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Thank you, mister Siggs.
Speaker 7 (02:05):
She's a brand new ship and a good ship. There
is no reason why you shouldn't continue in command of
her as.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Long as you like.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well, that's that's fine.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
She'll be the smartest thing afloat in the Chinese trade.
Why if she's put together like a Swiss watch, precision
built from stem to stern.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Just a minute, mister Sings. What is it that luck lock?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
What lock?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Here on the cabin door?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
What about it?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
You'll notice how it's been set in the frame somewhat
cocked at an angle. The ship starts rolling a bit
and the first thing you know, it snaps open and
leaves the door swinging. It really should be fixed, mister Siggs.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
That's Captain mcquirr, the best birth he'd ever had, new command,
a brand new ship. But instead of pinching himself to
see if he's awake. He complains about a lock on
the cabin door. See what I mean, I.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
See what you mean.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I'll have it attended to right away. I think you
will do all right now, Thanks you, mister Simmons.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well everybody knows what the China coast is. You haul
out of Bangkok for a quick run up to Singapore
and then shove off for Hong Kong. Two days ashore.
You do it all over again, three years of it,
three years of heat, smells, weather, copra, silk and tea
along in there somewhere. The owners decided to transfer the
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ship's registry to the Siamese flag. Don't ask me why
they just did, that's all. Anyway, I can tell you
I didn't like it. When you grow up under the
Union jack you figure to go on sailing under it.
Not that the skipper, of course, could understand that kind
of a feeling. No, no, not all stupidly work.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Hi, what is that, mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
They just sent the new flag out from shore, sir.
Here it is.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh fine, fine, unbroiled it. Let's have a look. Ah.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yes, in my opinion, sir, it's a queer kind of
flag for man to sail on here.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Oh, and what's the matter with it?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Well, it just looks queer to me, that's all.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Well. Now, let's see a white elephant on a red field.
Just a minute, I'll look it up in the book.
Here we are, Siam, white elephant on the field of
bright red, length exactly twice the bread. So well, there's
nothing wrong with this flag, mister Jewkes. Oh, isn't there
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not a thing? I hardly thought that could be. After all,
these people ought to know how to make their own flag.
It stands to reason, does it.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
You must have it confused with some other flagged mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well, all I can say is.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Because you'll have to take care of the seamen, don't
hoist the elephant upside down. That is before that are
quite used to. I presume it might be taken for
a signal of distress. And in that case, the way
I see it, that the elephant stands for something like
the nature of a union jack in the British.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Oh you think so, well, it's like a bloom and
Noah's art. That's what it is, mister Jukes.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm sorry, sir, I can't see where the color of
a flag could anywise affects the navigation of the ship.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
All right, sir, I'll instruct the hands it Wou'd certainly
be a most distressful sight to see that elephant hoisted
upside down. Well that was Captain mcquurn. Couldn't get a
thing through his head if you drew him a picture.
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And that's the skipper we had to sail under on
the maddest, wildest trip than any coaster ever took. We
were loading out in Singapore. Half the cargo had already
come aboard. The sun was blazing, and the smoke from
our stacks hung over the decks like a blanket. The
nan Chan's winches puffed away aft the cargo. Chains creaked
and clattered across the coomans. I was in the ways
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supervising the loading, when mister Rout, the chief engineer, came
up in there.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Jukes, what's going on down there on the dock looked
like a bloomin army.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I don't know, mister round. There must be a marb
of coolies in the moon. Here comes a captain, would
be some of his door.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Sir, keep between get cleared of cargo. There'll be two
hundred coolies coming aboard, and we'd plant to bank them
down there.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Good lord, where are they bound?
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Chow? We'll have to put in there at this trip.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah, but we're not fixed to handle passengers, sir.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That'll bring supplies aboard with them. Every man's got a
comfort wood chest, so you'll have to nail dick buttons
down there to keep them from sliding.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Yes, sir, I'll see to it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I've all been working on a plantation, not somewhere, two
year contract. They're dying to get home. It wouldn't have
been quite right to turn them down. You may as
well start them coming aboard.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Mister Jukes, All right, say all I number one boy,
all the same, lessen you saving huh? Only fellow catch
him here touth side, catch him stad step farther side
only time, shot chap single file now, one fellow, one time,
all the time. What do you suppose they carry on
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those boxes?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I suppose they're personal belongings with the Jewkes and the
coast there two years paying silver.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Dollars there as vicious a looking bunch of murderers as
I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh, come now, mister Jewkes, one or two of them maybe,
But in the main I'd say they're on his workmen
have to be to stick out a two year contract
on one of these plantations.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Just the same, sir. We better not take any chances.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh, I checked the lading weights care let, mister Jukes.
We didn't care of them without any overloading at all.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
I mean that, all right, sir, I better go hide
the silverware in the officer's mess He's.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
A hard lab to understand.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Sometimes I can say I had a premonition right then,
and I wouldn't be lying anyway. That's how it started.
At the hottest time of the year, two hundred and
half civilized coolies aboard a captain with no more imagination
than you could stick in your ear, we steamed out
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from Singapore and Laiter course for the port of food Chow.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I tell you, Jukes, I don't like it.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I don't like it a bit.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
And what don't you like about Itim miss around.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
With the looks of things.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Something ominous about it. Oh, there's a bit of a
swell running, all right. There's not a breath of wind.
It's uncommonly hot. That's all gives a man the jumps.
You're as bad as the second mate. He's been growing
around like the voice of doom all day. That's the
old man. I'll see you later. Hit your steam up
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the round? Are you calling me? Catain?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
I was, mister Jewkes. But with all the long conversation
with mister.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Rout, find nothing much, sir. I didn't see any harm
in talking a bit. I'm not on watch, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
No, no, nothing wrong with it, nothing at all. I
just wondered what you could find to talk about.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
Well, different things. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I've seen people on shore sit around the table and
talk for two or three hours. I never could understand it.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
It's just conversation that's all about nothing in particular.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Seems pretty silly. Well you've noticed the barometer.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
No doubt, yes, sir, it's draping all in fast, quite low.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Now take a look.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I'll say it's draving.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Bad time of the year for that sort of thing,
very bad.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Anything you want me to do, sir?
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh no, No, must be some uncommonly that the weather
knocking about somewhere, hey, mister Jewkes, Yes, sir, well that's all.
Just thought you ought to know about it. That's all.
Carry on, sir, carry on.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Oh, there's a heavy one all right night, and coolies
must be having a time of it down below. Lucky
for them, the old Girl rolls easier than any ship
I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
Hey, you just wait?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Oh you think we may be in for it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
No, I don't think anything. You're not going to make
a lot of me that way, mister Jewkes. I didn't
say a word.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
What's the matter with you? Second, why shouldn't you say
what you think? If you're a minder of herna?
Speaker 6 (11:07):
You don't catch me?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Whoa, there's another that's pretty rough? Now? Whatever is about?
We're steaming right into it.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Pack You just try telling the old man nade?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
And why shouldn't I? Matter of fact, I think I'll
ask him about this cross swell. It's getting worse all
the time.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I've known skippers to break some right good men for
saying her whole long left?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Uh, Captain mcquirth, Yes, mister Jewkes, what is it? The
swell is getting a good deal worser?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yes? I noticed that in here? Anything wrong?
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Well? I I was thinking about the passengers.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
What passengers?
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Why the coolies, sir?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And if you mean coolst say cool is mister Jewkes.
A man ought to say what he means what about
the coolies.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
She's rolling her decks full of water, Sir, I thought
you might want to put her head at the swell
for a bit until this goes down.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Of course, that sit there, put a head at the
swell four points off the corpse.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
Well, it's just for a while, sir, as well as
high as this can't last long. That stands to reason,
mister Jewkes.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Take a look at the barometer, good lord, Yes, exactly.
It's a dead calm outside, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
He's got a breath of air stirring, sir, Only that
cross swell.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I've been reading in the book here about storms. Its
funny thing. If a man believed everything written down here,
he'd spend half his life running to get behind the weather.
If I was to go by what this fellow says,
I'd all to my course and come booming into food
shout from the north, four days late, three hundred extra
miles in distance, and a pretty bill for coal on
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top of it. I'll tell you, mister Jewkes, if I
knew every word in here was gospel true, I couldn't
bring myself.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
To do that now, sir, I guess, And how's.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
A man to know the book is right. If you
dodge around the spot of death the weather, how do
you ever find out it was there in the first place?
Answer me that, no, mister Jewkes. There's things that a
man can't get from books. I've thought it all out
this afternoon. We'll hold her steady as she goes.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Whatever you say, sir, you're the captain. I guess i'd
better ride up the log I'm going on watch good
Death said. We're heading into something you've bit out of
the ordinary. Call me at once if anything you show
us up in the night.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
All right, sir, I'll say to it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
And mister Jewkes, yes, sir. If you're going into the
chart room, please close that blinking door. I can't stand
here the door bag.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
It, yes, sir. Eight pm. Swell increasing ship laboring heavily
and taking water in all decks. Still a dead calm
and very hot. Batten down the coolies for the night.
The barometer is still falling. All appearances indicate an approaching typhoon.
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All right, Hager, hold a steady as she goes.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
It's all we can do. Why, sir, I'll shall try
to do the best you can.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Hi, I sir, mister Jones, mister Jukes, I caretain, I'm
coming say over here. The dukes stop wanting the trail, right, sir,
coming over.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Mister Jukes. Why didn't you call me?
Speaker 5 (14:33):
But there was no warning, sir. It is all of
a sudden, about five minutes ago, blasted right out of
a dead calm. The book was writ in some parts. Anyhow,
how's it going? The wheelhouse hagar is look answer him?
Speaker 6 (14:46):
Oh what about hacking? He's on the wheel.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Second is putting up shutters to win the glass will go.
She starts breaking any higher?
Speaker 6 (14:54):
Oh do you break higher?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Mister Jukes, what's the higher?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
It's a happy thought. I haven't ordered a a saucer
heading straight.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
In the wild. Good something else we had no mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Understand yes, sir, something the man can't find in books.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Just keep her at it, that's all.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Captain.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
That fox trying to back away, that's all right.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
But the fox and to of a god. Now that
can't be helped, mister Jewkes. I'm gonna do a this
like this. They're bound to leave something behind, help to
leave old hard.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Ah. She's still rising, all right. At one broke over
the wheelhouse. B don't fork for sure?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
What's that? Mister Jewkes, you would say something I said?
Is there any chance an answer?
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Did she live through it?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Jim?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
May?
Speaker 3 (15:59):
We can so low least jee a good ship. That's
all a man can ask. What's that subbody yelling? Follow
us on the bird accent? I'm here starving red man
shouldn't be on that deck. This he has to that's
a bit dangerous.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Listen over here. What's the trouble? Boson in Chinese?
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Surnay?
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Hey, hang on.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
The Chinese? What about them? You all'll fetched away, sir?
One big lump.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
It's horrible.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Now what do you mean? Fetched away?
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Rolling around him?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
A hold in, one big lump, screaming like brooming maniaccer
all the trip.
Speaker 6 (16:41):
Mister Jukes. Yes, I can't make head the taylor this.
I guess you better go. We'll all see to it.
Put things in order. But what shall I do, sir?
I can't tell you up here? Find out what's wrong?
Streighten it out, that's all, that's all. Take the motion
with him. I'm going to try for the wheel.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
House, all right? Come on, shall just straighten it out?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Well? How's the wheel stand? Hacket?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Yes? Head here she goes sir, do you.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Realize of course we've hit the typhoon? Sir, Sorry, I
can't give you a relief. Can you manage a way longer?
I'll hold it to.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
The course as long as there's a ship my knife.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
That won't be long.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Oh, anything wrong, second wrong?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
We're always going to statement this. What's wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Oh? Now, I wouldn't say that is still a floater
and we've got it lucky here on deck, plenty of
chance to see what's coming.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Before it hits us. A man always feels better when
you can see what's coming.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
It's a different story down below there, not having knowledge
of what's going on, not knowing if we're a bloat
of thinking.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
Now there's the lads that's got it tough.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The one's down there in the engine room.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Swinging even going.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
No time now for the steam.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
To drop here right that battlefield and let her ripper
shaft down when she breaks pare of those wells. Hello, bridge, Hello, bridge,
count Why don't the answer the speaking to him? I
can't tell if they're dead or alive up there?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Hello?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Hello captain?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
How is it on day?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
On you?
Speaker 5 (18:38):
So far, so good?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
We're holding a full head of steam. Good we don't
let me drive her under sir?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
What you beat up here? To keep moving it off
the ski? I understand, sir, count on us.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Along the wheel. Wait wait, all gone? Hello, hello, said
the captain, mister Round.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I've got to talk to him right away.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Wait a minute, Jukes, something's happened up there. Hello, hello, rich,
don't throw there the right anything wrongs here?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Oh not now?
Speaker 5 (19:15):
A second mate's houff though over one?
Speaker 6 (19:18):
Oh no, puffed love awk with fucking top to fuck
him up?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
To do back here that Jukes? Yes, let me talk
to him, Captain Jukes. Here the boson and I just
took a look at the tween day. It's them blooming boxes, sir.
They've all broke loose and smashed the bits, and the
coolies are fighting like crazy men for them silver dollars
that's rolling around.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
We're done on board.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
They're two hundred of them, sir. They're all trying to
kill each other.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
What a stop doing?
Speaker 5 (19:46):
What you got to stop to it? How they're crazy man,
they'll kill anybody that came on that deck.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Come on, you're get off out of me. I get
here to them, make it clear to them. Oh yeah,
after that, but the money I can't have it about
on the deck? Wat it come?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Gee as a fat here's the one that does it?
That that must have swept the deck from stem to stern. Hello, hello,
Captain MacGuire, you are right up there.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
All right, with the right all about and half of
star more quail cut it away to nothing to worry
about the come out.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Harry on, nothing to worry about.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Carry on, Hey, you're all right, Captain, as you say, sir,
carry on, carry on?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Hey, now, hey, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Where are you going?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Eh? Where do you think I'm going? Your loud mouth,
don't win bank out on that deck to get myself murdered.
Ha ha ha ha ha nothing serious, jukes, nothing to
worry about. The whole blooming world's falling apart, and I'm
out picking up silver dollars. Captain's orders. Come on, polls,
don't visually old jukes, Gury, old boy gury all Why
(21:15):
look the dorm hummy, and I'll help rid our gallant
skipper sister to stop the fighting. Where's our fire? All right?
Speaker 6 (21:23):
That quiet down?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Come on, boss, show it there your pools. Cut it
on down to your haary airy huh, they're clean out
of their heads. You gotta drive him to the bullhead
back up though, Hey, none of that can't show its
You gotta show him what for?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Nothing else to do?
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Back up there, Captain's orders, you all follow me post.
It was just thinking, what about back there? Don't fight
the last his orders? We can put one of the
old lady and see me now, she'd say, Oh you,
(22:05):
charlie sailor leg cheap moving cham on my posting in
the basket, captain? Where are you, captain?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Or were here? Mister jukes h you got everything cleared
up down below?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Oh? Oh, yes, we we took care of everything, sir.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
I thought you would. The wind fell all at once,
stopped cold. It's been like this for ten minutes now.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
If you think it was an easy job to bring
that mob under control.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Of the coolies, oh say it wasn't. I had to
do what's fair by them, though, mister Jewkes, that barometer
in there stands at the lowest point I've ever seen
a glass in my light.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
He may never be more of it.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
The worst yet, according to the book, it'll break sudden
now any minute. Up for two win and then it hits.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
She's taken a horrible beating, sir.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
She has indeed, and she's in for a worse one.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
We haven't much chance.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
She may come through it. She's a good chip.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Here's the first puff.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
It'll hit us hard when it comes. You left them pretty, sife,
did you the coolies?
Speaker 5 (23:19):
We strong lifelines. Gives them something to hold on to
them good.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I'd like to give them all the chance we can.
Whatever happens.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Ah, they'll be all right, sir. I broke out rifles,
parade of the crew. Put them the garding, all the
companion ways leading off the teen deck.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
You arm the crew, mister Jukes.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Oh sure, we won't have any trouble with them.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Now, says to the dukes. Please have those rifles return
to the magazines at once, Sile, there'll be work for
every man aboard in a few minutes. I can't spare
seemun to stand around and hold rifles when it isn't necessary.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Isn't necessary? Don't you realize those savages A think we
stole our money, But they'll tear us to bits if
they ever get out.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Of that deck.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I think they'll understand we're dealing their by them. Collect
the rifles.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Captain. It's suicide. The best thing we can do is
turn the whole mess over to your parodies in food show.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
If we have a get there, well, I don't know.
I figured that when anything happens on shipboard, it's up
to me to settle it on shipboard, part of the
duties of commanding a vessel, mister Jewkes. I have no
doubt I'll be able to reach an understanding with these
men later.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Understanding You want to have seen him a while ago,
and me and the person was down.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
There lost their heads a bit. I guess no wonder
at that when here she comes. Pick up those rifles,
mister Jewkes, and something else. Yes, Captain. If anything happens
to be europe in charge, only advice keep her facing it.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Just wait to get through facing it. That sun up for.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Any man, all right, Captain, I'll remember.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
One, don't they more, mister Jewkes, Yes, sir. Something that
always helps the tea is to keep a cool head.
Just keep a cool.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Oh no, keep a cool head.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Stitch in time, say night a rolling. What in the
name I haven't even doing with a man like that?
(25:18):
There was a clear blue sky and bright sunshine in
the morning. We steamed in the food owl harbor. Mister
Rout was leaning on a hatch combing smoking a pipe,
and the boatswain lounged on the four deck waiting to
pick up a line from the wharf. And the captain, well,
he was engaged in the most unusual occupation. He was
sitting at the table on the four deck handing out
(25:39):
silver dollars to them, blinking coolies, all divided up even
the same amount to each one. Craziest thing you ever
heard of in your life. You see the way the
captain figured it, since those blighters had all worked for
two years at the same rate of pay, and their
savings ought to all be about equal. As you can see.
Of course, it wasn't necessary, only true by any means,
(26:01):
wasn't even legal. But you couldn't tell him anything. Well, uh,
mister Jewkes, Yes, sir, coming captain.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
Well, mister Jewkes, I've disposed of our little collection of
silver dollars.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
That's great. Only way those boys get a sure and
file claims against them.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Oh, no, they won't do that. As a matter of fact,
they we're quite pleased at having it arranged that way.
I figured it might avoid a lot of arguments later,
they said the spokesman to thank me. Well, I'll be
mister Jewkes. You may as well give all the hands
six hours leave before we start working the cargo. Whatever
you say, Oh yes, and before the carpenter leaves. I
(26:41):
wis should have him fixed the lock on that cabin door,
But that seems to got broken somehow during the storm.
I suppose I can't stand.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
To hear the door bang, mister Jewkes, I say, I,
I don't suppose it matters that the ship is battered
from stem to stern, half her topside carried away and smashed,
so she looks like a blowing tins.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
And I don't understand me.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
You don't understand me, sir. Do you understand that we've
come through the worst typhoon in the China season twenty years.
We're the only ship that got through.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
It's true. I suppose we were a bit lucky.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Lucky, sir, with two hundred murder and cutthroats running loose
supporting the very Heaven's doing their worst.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
We had a job to do and we did it.
That's all, mister Jewkes. That's the important thing.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yes, sir, that's that's all. That's all, he says, A
job to do, a bit lucky? What can you do
with a man as thick as that. But then as
I started to turn away, Captain mclurus had something else.
It surprised me. With emotion wrung from the very bottom
(27:43):
of his soul. He he uttered words, I never thought
I'd hear it coming from something so stupid a man.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
But I'm glad we brought her through, mister Jewkes.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Truly I am.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
She's a good ship, mister Jewkes, a good ship. I
should have hated to losen, I should hate Producer.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Iyphoon by Joseph Conrad was adapted for radio by Less
Crutchfield and produced and directed by William N. Robson, with
Branke Lovejoy as Jukes, Raymond Lawrence as Captain mcquirr, and
Cy Kendall as Ralph the Engineer. A special musical score
was conceived and conducted by Cy Fewer. Escape is presented
(28:49):
by the Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations each
week at this time next week, we invite you to
escape to Paris five hundred years ago in Robert Louis
Stephenson's story of a fascinating adventure the Sire de Montoise
Door and so good night until next week at this
time when again it will be time to escape. This
(29:14):
is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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