Connecticut western news., 1875-07-30

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 | Laa '.jilI9W ! 5I7775 I=TF =-7=-=;',aaqqa ap.5 A DIVERS lADVENTU RES.D sone of the sdb-Ma.lrrine E., Experiences erien ceesa of l. .3u5 si rgsesfs Rnul Boynton. P "j ia8 . Aycorrespondent who has interviewed Capt. Boynton sends 8 report of the cap tain's statements to the GeaHlensGpIs Magazine Soon, afterward I worked down into the Gulf of Mexico. The first coral I raised was at Catoche.
 Knocking round about there, I heard of the loss of the schooner Foam. The first mate and three men got saved, but the captain, his daughter, and three men got lost. I slung round to see if she could be raised. After we'd spent the best part of week. we sailed over and dropped anchor. asItwas a,lovely Sunday morning when we struck her. She lay in sixty feet, of water; on 8 bottom as white as the moon. Looking down I could see her leaning over on one side upon the coral reef When got down to her I saw she'd torn great gap in the reef when she ran-against 1t. The main mast was gone and hung by the fore. I clambered up; I saw whole shoals of fish playing in and out of the hatches. First I went to look for the bodies, for never like to work while there's any of them about. Finding the fo'castle empty, I went to the two little state cabins. It was rather dark, and I had to feel in the lower hunks. There was nothing in the first, and in the other the. door was locked pried it open and shot back the lock with my oadze. It flew open, and out something fell right against me.
 I felt at oneeSitwas the woman's body.
 was not exactly ghtened, butit shook me rather, I slung it from me, and went out into the light q bit until I got hold of myself. ThenI turned back and brought her outApoor thingi She'd been very pretty, and as carried her in my arms with her white face nesting against my shoulder, she seemed ias if she was only sleeping. I made her fast to the line, as carefully as r could, to send her up,
 and the fish played about her as if they were sorry she 'was going. AtJlast I gave the signal, andsshe went slowly up,
 her hair floating round her head like 8 pillow of golden sea weed. That was the only body found there, and I man aged after to raise consid derabIe of the cargo. aiT1i 9I!dH S7isSug Etsfes a@& ! 1lj Only one fmy expeditions was among the silver banks of. the Antilles the loveliest place I eyer saw, where the white coral grows into curious tree-ike shape. As stepped along the bottom | it seemed as if it was a frosted forest.
 Here and there itrailed long fronds Iot green and crimson seaweed. i lSilver-bel- lied fish flashed about among the deep brown and purple sea ferns, which rose as high as my head. Far as I could see all around in the transparent waters were different Solofed leaves, and on the floor piles of shells so bright in color that it tseemedras if X had stumbled in a place where they kept ga stock of broken rainbows. :, I could not work for 8 bit,
 and had a quarter. determination to sit I down for awhile and wait for the 1ner- maid I guess if those sea- girls live anywhere, they select this spot. After walking the inside out of half an1 hour, I thought T had better go to work and blast for treasure. A little bit on, from where sat were the remains of a treas ure ship It was a aiBritisher, F think,
 and lcorals had formed all about her, or rather about what was left of her, The coral on the bottom and round her show
 ed black. spots. That meant a deposit 1 of either iron or silver. ]: made fairly 1 good hatlls every time went down. and
 sold one piece found to Barntln, of New York. k.Ggs1gao2 gtF sta'sL.-T ,5f3
 .o After I left there I had curious ad
 venture with a shark. " was down on a Atf
 comfo fortable on them he can t tell what big creature may be hiding under the huge quarterdeck sealeaves which grow there. The first part of the time I was visited by g porcppine fsh, which kept sticking it's aquills up and bobbing in front of my helmet. Soon after I saw 9 big. shadow fall across me,s and looking up, there was an internal shark playin g about my atubingJ It makes you feel chilly in the ee back when they're about.
 He came to me slick as looked up. I made at him, and@ho sheered off. For near an hour he worked at'it, till could stand cit1 no longer If you can. keep your head. level, it's all right, and yoq are pretty, safe if they not on you sharp. This ugly brute was twenty feet long I should think, for when lay down tSA4 Su1yN 10AlSO1 OA buo UQbOOLla A0 SbE0bCu0Cl a considerable way ahead of me, and could see him beyond my feet. 8 Then I
 They They must turn niqos@gFf1tao51bit over to bite, and ,d my lying down Bothered him. a9y He swan over me threeaor1 four times, and then lskulked offto aa big tnicket, of seaweed to consider. I knew held come back when he'd settled his mind. It seemed a long time waiting for him. At last he came viciously over me, but, like the time before, too far from my arms The next time I had my chance, and ripped him with my knifen as neatly as could. A shark always remembers he's got busi. ness somewhere else when he's cut, SC
 of this fellow goes. It is a curious thing, too, that all the sharks about will
 follow in the blood trail he leaves. got on my hands and knees, and as he
 swam off I noticed four dark shadows slip after him: T saw no more that time
 They did not like my company. a. .-s
 After short period of, experience it fpearf diving, the next the loss of nearly feverything that he possessed, including fhis diving apparatus, in nflagration
 Capt. lBoynton; in sortlof desperation
 took, service ip the Mexican war, and le{ an exciting life till, growing tired of tn.
 semi barbarian mode of warfare, he de
 serted, crossing from Matarnoras at mid night in an old tub of "a boat, in wllicl he expected every minute to go to thI
 bottcrn. sit Arriving at Brownsville, h
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