in such a driving the to which he attached himself turned over and over in the and and it was only by holding on at times and waiting and at other times shifting his rapidly that he was able to get his head and s to the surface at intervals sufficiently near together to keep the breath in them but the air was mostly water the house of what with flying spray and rain that poured along at right angles to the perpendicular it was ten miles across the to the farther ring of sand here tossing m tree trunks of and of houses killed nine out of ten of the miserable beings who survived the passage of the half drowned exhausted they were hurled into this mad mortar of the elements and battered into flesh but was fortunate his chance was the one in ten it fell to him by the of fate he emerged upon the sand bleeding from a score of wounds s left arm was broken the fingers of her right hand were crushed and cheek and forehead were laid open to the bone he clutched a tree that yet stood and clung on holding the girl and sobbing for air while the waters of the washed by knee high and at times waist high at three in the morning the the house of of the broke by five no more than a stiff breeze was blowing and by six it was dead calm and the sun was shining the sea had gone down on the yet restless edge of the saw the broken bodies of those that had failed in the landing undoubtedly and were among them he went along the beach examining them and came upon his wife lying half in and half out of the water he sat down and wept making harsh animal noises after the manner of primitive grief then she stirred uneasily and groaned he looked more closely not only was she alive but she was she was merely sleeping hers also had been the one chance in ten of the twelve hundred alive the night before but three hundred remained the missionary and a made the the was with not a house nor a hut was standing in the whole not two stones remained one upon another one in fifty the house of of the palms still stood and they were while on not one of them remained a single nut there was no fresh water the shallow wells that caught the surface of the rain were filled with salt out of the a few soaked bags of flour were recovered the cut the hearts out of the fallen trees and ate them here and there they crawled into tiny made by out the sand and covering over with fragments of metal the missionary made a crude still but he could not water for three hundred persons by the end of the second day taking a bath in the discovered that his thirst was somewhat relieved he cried out the news and thereupon three hundred men women and children could have been seen standing up to their necks in the and trying to drink water in through their skins their dead floated about them or were stepped upon where they still lay upon the bottom on the third day the people the house of buried their dead and sat down to wait for the rescue in the meantime torn from her family by the had been swept away on an adventure of her own to a rough plank that wounded and bruised her and that filled her body with she was thrown clear over the and carried away to sea here under the amazing of mountains of water she lost her plank she was an old woman nearly sixty but she was and she had never been out of sight of the sea in her life swimming in the darkness fighting for air she was struck a heavy blow on the shoulder by a on the instant her plan was formed and she seized the nut in the next hour she captured seven more tied together they formed a that preserved her life while at the same time it threatened to pound her to a she was a fat woman and she bruised easily but she had had experience the house of of and while she prayed to her god for protection from she waited for the wind to break but at three o clock she was in such a stupor that she did not know nor did she know at six o clock when the dead calm settled down she was shocked into consciousness when she was thrown upon the sand she dug in with raw and bleeding hands and feet and against the until she was beyond the reach of the waves she knew where she was this land could be no other than the tiny of it had no no one lived upon it was fifteen miles away she could not see but she knew that it lay to the south the days went by and she lived on the that had kept her afloat they supplied her with drinking water and with food but she did not drink all she wanted nor eat all she wanted rescue was she saw the smoke of the rescue on the horizon but what steamer the house of could be expected to come to lonely from the first she was tormented the sea persisted in flinging them upon her bit of sand and she persisted until her strength failed in thrusting them back into the sea where the tore at them and devoured them when her strength failed the bodies her beach with ghastly horror and she withdrew from them as far as she could which was not far by the tenth day her last was gone and she was from thirst she dragged herself along the sand looking 