, 1870-05-15

i. j nm. Cd OF rthe Elapd orer ri sinee, zd h.d
kecu ship after dip, yosael afics Josssl, pass
bin tohta1y rock kdefepdad PRISON, sotno OF
them. within two' .or three miles, bat
seemingly alxays wiahing to avoid oommuni-
tttion With he saore, until tho arrival Of our
calculate. he had been about twenty-five ye.ra
oeean lis eentinul; ths enasines
!, u guilty eonseienes hin companion, the
9ults and = srs azising fsem the uncertainty
d Of orer being rescued from it. And now
! deliYeraEce Ind indeed coma He could 1t
I4.st confess the csimc, the remembrance Of
which hAd eaten h. heart aor 20 many wealy,
ssts o e s.sgsn .pa hoped s1 h. h,' s,s b.
| t seemed that he had found no
oT subsistence On IT, island, s tha1s
1 being abundance Of fab In The water, md Wild
fruits on ahors- Be managed to sare from
| though il damaged condition .1nsng witch
| were fish hooks in abundance, but no tools Of
any kind, their weight having sunk them BE-
fore they could be reached Tho boets werp
81 stone, and even had he bad the materials,
and the necessary tools to do the work, his
eumpsases and chazts, together with al othes
Instruments, were forever lost 80 he would
| not hxve known what direction to steer could
ha have gotten aloat. This ended tho mar
| rative Of tho old man.
Captain Cotton had determined on doubling
the southern end OF tho island and finding N
! anchorage On tho weete1n Eide, N he had been
tod By the old man that there WIS good har~
| br there. We accordingly kept sail on the
eldp to keep clear Of the land. tic wind being
light, aud on the ne1t morning we're
about to haul up, close to the wind,
miles, when, al Of i sudden, VIC saw 3 black
black cloud rising over tho ielsnd and, almost
in less time than am taking to pen thcsa
lines, . most terrific tornado burst over
the ship. 1ts sudden onset nearly threw Us
On our beam ends. carried aHay our Tnai1aa'!a !
clean out Of The bolt ropes before We could
get it clowod down. In tho meantime heav-
en'e artillery opened. Peal On peal Of tbs
most awful thunder ever heard, ahook orr
ship from keel 10 truck The forked Nshtning
dssa s sk3 from vas psln5 sa.he1sa to Ron ps' paa
Of inky blackuess.. Amid tho bowling Of thu
tempest, the crnsh Of thunder and futtcring
Ut canvas, tho tottering Of Bpars and straiuins
Of co.dage, sh1iek fr0m the bunk OF the old
man areee, high, clear, distinct, and shriu AZ
human effort Of despairns natuse.--the
terrible strugghngB Of a Bon1 condemned te
| cternsl torture the last deapairinK effort OF The
| drowning mariner, and with this Shrek in thu
mad confusion Of seA, tempest; cload, ant
! wreck the sou OK the "febenoa man Iook ~
flight.
1haprcned to be in TalcohuAno, Chill, abon
two yours afterward, nnd in conversation viii
au old resident repealed to him the Incidents
I 1mye JUS. rela.od. Ho told mo TINT he has
no doubt The story was in tho main s1ne
hy tho namo Of Yankec Jim while on ehora il
| TaIcotuano, and remembered, too, that b
Ead sailed il the odd Martha," which shil
haa mover been heard from since leaving port
Az far as regards his participation
to, be an open question, alighuy,, !
must be confessed, incNning TO A
doubtful side. But one thing an cortain o.
were bo angel or devil, honest man Or yslAs
! no human being ever had more tar1iflc honor
| raid his exit from this world Of trouble thA
Lad tho old man Of " Eicon."
| HA8ny r. FASS1Ha