The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-28


clothes had become so tight that h
could hardly move in them; his sc
boots seemed few sizes too small, an
the sleeves Of his knitted jacket wer
up to his elbows. STOPPING to pick ii
his rife, he found that too had shrunk
or rather that he himself had stretche,
and grown under the influence of tn
wonderful food, and that his physica
powers had increased with his bulk
While testing the latter by f1inQinI
pieces of rock into the sea, Jorgenso,
beheld the White Wave bearing dow
upon the coast, and signaling with tn,
small brass piece she carried. He re-
piled with his rifle, and after filing hi,
pockets with the mysterious pebbles
made for the beach and was soon wei
coined by his puzzled messmates.
Should our readers discredit thi,
strange tale, which reads like a fore
castle yarn IL must be confessed, hers
is tho sad end OF it, literally trans.
cribed." says the San Francisco Chro,,.
icle, from the log Of the White Wave
"October 8, 1879-Latitude 57.47 N:
Longitude 14410 W. Joreenson Il
dead. and I don't know what to make
OF it. Ever since he came on board
from the island his health has been
good, but the remarkable swellin' have
gone on till yesterday we were obliged
to bring him up on deck, as he had
crowd SO that I was afeared we should
not be able TO get through the CON-
panion-way. 1 was sitting beside him
when he died, and had just asked him
how do you feel now. He said all over
pins and needles like. said, no pains
besides? He said no, but 1 feel like as
II everything was stretching and grow.
ing inside me. Guess I'm poisoned.
said 1 guess so, too. just then hear
crack inside OF him. then another. and
another, three in oil. He clasped his
hands to his heart, his chest, and his
stomach, gave one groan and died. For
curiosity measured him, and find he Is
nine feet five inches long and big in
Involuntary Crusoes have mostly be-
come so from pure accident, but there
ore some instances to the contrary.
Seaman jeffrey, of II. NJ. 8. Recruit
venturing to help himself to the cap
talns spruce beer, was punished by
being sent on shore on the uninhabited
island of Sombrero. Doubtless Cap.
tain Lake repented .he deed, when on
his return to tho saue latitude some
TWO months afterwarJ, the boat sent to
bring the offender on board again re-
turned with tho report that he was no.
where to be found. At any rate the
captain had good cause to repent 1t q
little later on. for upon the matter CON-
ing to the knowledge OF the Admiral on
the West Indian station, Lake was tried
by court martial and dismissed the ser
vice. At home Sir Francis Burlett
brought the case before parliament, and
, search was instituted for the missing
man. resulting in his being brought TO
England In October 1909. He had
lived on the rock OF Sombrero for nine
years. subsisting upon limpets and
birds eggs, when. luckily for all con-
,erned, he was taken of by ali American
schooner, and landed at Marblehead,
ADusch skipper once thought to get
i'd of bad bargain in the same way.
Putting into st. Helena, then min
aabited, to Lnry dead officer, he left
here seaman who had been condemned
70 death. Disinclined to accept the
tho criminal unearthed the
,offin, and, after, turning out its occu-
pant, launched it on the water, and,
hanks to cplm falling, succeeded in
,vertaking the ship. The captain,
his pluck deserving Of recog-
milton, receive him on deck pardoned
man.
It might be- Supposed that castawsy
would receive brother unfortunate
with open arms. 1t was not so with
Peter Seranno, v hen he caught sight Of
q man boating toward the island still
bearing his nam D., of which he had been
lord for nearly four. years.
He jumped to the conclusion that Sa-
tan had found him at last; while the
was not whit less Mortified
at seeing q creature as naked as Adam
before the fall, with beard reaching to
his waist, and body covered with
bristles. When both had recovered
their fire. :ght, Seranno, awakening to
the duties of hospitality, placed the best
food his limited larder afforded before his
unlimited guest. For little while the
pair lived smicably together, but only
for o little while. Then they dissolved
partnership, and avoided each other |;
becoming reconciled again to embark
rs friends on board ship attracted to
the island by their signal fire. Pedro
reached Spain, was presented TO Charles
the Fifth, pensioned by that monarch,
and passed the remainder of his days in
ease and comfort at Panama. His COM
panion, less fortunate, died on the voy-
age.
Captain Barnard, q victim of migrate
full mistrust, found companionship in
misery more troublesome than comfort
ing. He commanded an American ship
in 1914, and happened to be at New Is
land, in the Falklands, when an English
ship was wrecked there; the crew and
passengers. numbering thirty, getting
safely to land. Captain Barnard took
them all on board, intending to leave
them at Brazilian port, and to obtain
sufficient supplies, went on u shore with
four of his men on a hunting excursion.
While he was SO engaged, the English
sailors, fearful OF being carried to Amer
ica as prisoners of war. cut the cable
and made oil with the ship. The aston
ished skipper took the matter philo-
sophically. He set his men to work at
once to build = hanse of stone, strong
enough tn wiiA-ta':,i ii- storms of win
ter. A small rii,i"n'inn Of potatpes
supplied the party wilh1 fair Substitute
for bread ani by storing np aibailuss
eggs, aud catching ri, nuN aA,i then,
they contrived 10 live tol-ruhis we'll. all