, 1872-12-18

climbed the rocks:- L #as q Wild, lonely spot.
There were no signs OF vegetation" Both were
exhausted from climbing s, and Smith crawled On
his hcnds and feet on the rocks looking for
found SOME crabs Che calls them: spider orabs')
and q few prickly. pears! He ate some Of the
crabs; tile first. food he had tasted for
eight days: He brought the pears to Stewart,
Who said he would ett them; even though they.
were filed With poson: "Never. IN my Life
Smith, after he had eaten the first pe0r: Smith
alto some. too, and thought they we're delicious:
A dozen Of these pickIy pears lasted them three
days. They built thernBelvesa small hut out OF
one or and 1naat Of weeds which Smith had
Stewart hff suffered terribly from hunger:
He said, ST knosFI shall .starve to-: death. I
hn7e been saved from: the 6harks to. die OF
starvation Alright he rayed. The hunger
had driven him 70 madnosa. He-rared' abgub his
hugged Smith tt hts heaEt in the belief that hs
was his sol, D.o night they were sleeping to-
gether in their miserable tent and sll Of & sud-
den Stewards breath seer:od to ceasa. Smith
felt his body It was warm. But IN the next
moment his friends pulse had stopped, md
that trne and kind heart had ceased to beat.
Not q BREATH It WIS still as death in the
hht. Smith .elt his friends body again. It was
cold. Smith rushed out into the night. '"-&s Ny
hed bedt 65 6Eo9gh$ aisd ststyagn m
rocks all night He could not boar to s1eep in
the hut whae lay the corpse Of his best, trnest
friend: but next morning, after & aIeepless
night, he 1ad to fulfil his last duty toward his
dead comrlde: He went into the hut and looked
at the failures which had once. shone with
friendshi, and goodness. No bright smile Of
recognition, no. kindly; pleasant glance of
the eye, but q horrible expression Of agony
and the grim, CHASTITY leer of Death!
He shudlered a. be sat before the body Of his
~ frto13 Hal frnE hnY1 an1
cIammy the grip Of friendship could not revive.
him Smith buried him: He. dragged him to
the rocEs: There WAS no egrth-aH wgs solid
rock, de took some seaweed and some sand,
and Inler this he buried big dead friend. As
hs nut the gaud and seaweed over his face, he
remembered many q kind word the dead man had:
spoken many o favor. -he had done him who,
now was bnrying his benefactor; many pleas
ant hour they had spent TALKING Of their dear
Smith I'D given up all hope Of ever Seeing =
humsn face again. His feet we're sore from
walking on the rocks. He had tied pieces-of
corkout Of the ife-presdryer to his feet and.
therope with which he bound them chafed terri.
BY He found some q; oil III n the s5abs, go it.
pr.tty hard to, be left there and die alone," he
sud yesterday to q. Herald reporter. He had
become 20 weak that he WAS unable to craWTon
tie rocks, and still there was no sign Of saliva
ton. '
Fifteen days he had passed on the rocks. on
t1a sixteenth day schooner came in sight. He
rlised a-signal, using the pantaloona which, the
6ead friend. had left. He saw The. schooner !:
twenty-fonr hours before anybody noticed his
signal: What. agony he suffered thinking every.
moment that the schooner would sail away and :
ieage. him. to die. 7 heard voice, Smith said
10 the reporter; "it appeared. to me almost like
= dream.' !, 4. human voice! He had not heard
3 human voice since his friend had died: He.
1as lying on the rock, sick, unable to move,
!" Here' IS man, u the voice said, but I don't
know whether he is dead or alive. Smith heard
dead, L Laee him move"
No, he.w not dead. The words he had heard
had revived him. He jumped up and tainted IL
20 the arms. Of the Captain and the mate, who
had COME to take him on board the schooner.
Yesterday his brother and his 1fereceiyed the
brave freman at his home hera in New, York
While. on the dreary rocks Of .Abaco he had
sitting before a, bright, blazing fire, hugggging
them to his heart. -