The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-02-03


head of epdive-stick Spanish liquo-
rice-threc pounds snuff"
what are your terms for the carrot
Carrot very dear out here, yod pecu-
liar old one. Carrot guinea
Hand it over
I gave her guinea and ate the CIR
| rot.
Now said she, Il go straight on in
that direction for shore. Come along,
old one!
Never ! said I; i will take the oppo-
site point Of the compass, and run my
chance. Good-by.'
And I struck out vigorously in tho
opposite direction.
After day and halfs tigo.ods
swimming, reached the point of low
sandy shore, which seemed to stretch for
miles in a direction due south, as /
Judged from the position OF the sun. l
was well satisfied to feel dry ground uu.
der my legs again, and landed with
much gratitude.
| was extremely hdngry, and I walk
cd f5f titles along the shore picking UP
mussels and periwinklcs, and eating
them raw. / saw no trace of human
being of any kind and as the sun went
down l began to wish myself in the sea
again. Night came on, and 1 was
hungry and alone. However, 1 still
wandered on in listless, purposeless
way until fell over something that 10y
across my path. To my intense joy L
found, on investigation, that it was n
sleeping, breathing human Seing. T
could not tell whether it was a man or a.
woman, as there was no moon, and the
clothes he or she wore might have suited
either sex equally we'll / endeavored
to awaken the figure, but in vain; so I
determined to sit by his or her side
until morning. Accordingly dropped
myself iuto d sitting position, when, to
my extreme s,nazement, an explosion of
fire took place Immediately under me
I File I'll TsarIaI frea hashed across me that
the island was mass of slumberng
fire, only waiting for accidental contact
with an exciting cause to blow itself and
every thing upon it miles into the mir
On Closer examination, however, found
that | had sat down npon box of vcsu
yians, aud that one Of them had explo-
ded. 1t suddenly occurred to me to use
these vcsuvans as n means of ideEfify
ing my companion. 1 isnitcd one, but
it was not a flaming vesuvian; it smoul-
ded, and fixed, aud smelt, but afforded
no assistance. lit another, and held
it close to the persons nose, but it only
Illuminated small circle as big as
halt-crown- | lit a third, and this time
the rcd hot end tumbled on to the sloe-
pcr's cheek. The sleeper started up.
1t was Dolly Fortcscue
was not bit surprised 1 had
brought myself to look upon Dolly as
my fate. Dolly was not bit surprised
She looked at mc--grinned and spoke.
That dash hot, you odd one 2
When mcrnang broke, We looked about
US The island we found was about
twenty-five miles long and seven broad,
principally rock = no vegetation = no
fresh water. The island was crescent
shaped, the two horns being twenty
miles asunder. | had landed on one
horn, she on the other, and we had met
n the middle. The only native iuhabi.
tants OF the place were periwinkles and
musscls. SO we set to work to make
ourselves comfortable.
The object of this narrative is not to
give detailed account of the highly
ingenit us manner in which we contrivcd
to live comfortably, and even luxuriously
ON our island, but rather to exhibit the
caprices of II determined destiny.
[ detcsted Dolly with all my heart,
and avoided her whenever practicable :;
but she paid me every attention, and,
notwithstanding her unpleasant appear
ance, she was really valuable to me
She christcned the island Fort escue, ;
and crowned me its monarch. Ny first
act as king was to try her br drawing
her knife onthr policeman in Bcmbridg ge
lookup, and by that means breaking out
of custody. She was found guilty by On
impartial jdry Of Me, and sentenced to
transportation for life on the other side
of the island. She went, meekly and
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