The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-05-28
OFF CAPE HORN.
An ,C'DFNr From THE JOCl NAL or TFE
WRECKED BARK H'1"LTNE.

WRECKED BARK H'1"LTNE.
From the san Francisco journal
Thursday, 2S: This forenoon We rested Il
little and cooked musseS, and in the aftr-
noon we started row 'ng again Towar'4
p'ght, | was thinning Of locking out for
good camping place, and thought | hid
found Il very good one, although above the
beach on the hill there were two huts but
they looked de elled; so ran the boat into
the cave, and we commenced to haul her
up. | saw large cave AT the head of the
beach that looked like a good shelter; 50
sent John, or John.on MS ! call him, up
into it with the chronomctcr He
went up and looked in and anne
| running back With very white face. and
shouting out Come away, come away!
Mr. Hcriman plenty men, plcnt, men,
thought at first he had seen some natives,
50 told the boys to have the boat all ready
to shove Oft While had look into the
cave. | thought it queer - he had seen
slnd'ans that they did not come out of the
cave; SO took my revolver and looked ~,
and Il more horrible sight can't ima9 me
The cave was very large one, and the
walls were as black as possibc-lookcd as
though they We're blackened by fire. Right
at the entrance there lay two skeletons Of
men, y ING fiat on their backs, and side by
side The flesh appeared half shipped of
! them, and the bones had no clothing what
| ever on them. could see lot more bones
strcwed around, aud lots of clothes of all
sorts-bootS and caps and oilcloths, and
about halt a box of lbr co, also the bar
rel of a ships compass, with the card gone
the box Otthc compass looked bright. and
the varniSh al.o-also leaf of nautical
almanac wish had picked it up, as it
might have told me the date; but did not
think | hui. ed as fast as | could, and
took all the oilclothcs and boots and shoes,
with the tobacco about fifteen pounds.
There were also parts Of a boat lying on
! the beach, with some oars. We took two
oars with us | should have taken the
rest of the clothes, but the smell was So
Sickcning wanted to get away as soon rs
| possible. The oilcloths and boots were very
acceptable, as We had none, rrd the least
storm would wet Us through, took pair
of large sea boot and Il long oil cloth coat.
which had probably belonged to the officer
of the boat and felt much more
comfortable. washed the coat as we'll as
could, for it had tea. jul smell about it;
but in such times one cant be too particu-
lar. 1t Is mystery to me. The bodies
must have been eat n by the natives, else
ne bones would have had some clothing
on them, but there was not particle. But
if the Indians killed and ate them why
did they not take the clothes ond tobacco!
| cant understand it. | think from the
| looks OF the boat and oars that il must
have been the crew OF Il Dutch vessel AZ
ter such sight as this we did not tcel
much like stopping there all night, and as
it was then too dark to make another land
ing, we pulled along the coast all night,
and at daylight on Friday, March /, |
made out to land on our starboard bow,
which | calledStatcn Land and commenced
pulling for it. for | had heard that there
were no natives on that island. and we stand
very nearly as good achance of being taken
of as on the main land. There is a fearful
sea in these straits, caused by the tide, and
we almost got swamped by one large tidal
wave, but we have good sea-boat. We
got to the island about IL 80. and pulled
along the shore until We found splendid
little bay with no surf and good sand
beech with plenty of wood and water. We
hau' cd our boat up the beech and built II
roaring big fire, and got plenty of mussels
and limpet, celery, etc. We also got some
fine large crabs that were very nice. At
night we got two penguins. Forgot to
mention, just after We had landed here We
saw boat with large sail come out from
the other side of the strait and then 20
back again. We did not make any signal.
for we thought it might have been Indians,
stlll, 1t may have been one of the other
boats.