New-York tribune., 1884-02-17

a yigilant soul that iittl0 rOd-faCed chap carried
under his skim what an cyo for tho weather was
his how thorough hs knowledge of sailors characters
which furnished him with wonderful mastery
over his crew how trno WAS the understanding
bctvixt him and his mates. though the dignity Oi
his position rs master was never moro s'upDorhly
asserted by u mans behavior, and more fully ap-
preciatod by thosr under him. ,,.,.
was following him with my eyes, ana thinking Oh
him in this manner. when ono 0l the apprentices,
who was aOft on some job i'll tho nizzen-t0pmaSt
crossrees hailed the deck Mt ihortGm Th" nc wS S
the water away ont yOnder on tho port DOW, slr'
cried the youngster. at looks like tho hull OF a
CapsIcd ship
Everybody crossed the deck to take squint at
the thing whatever it might be. Pcrccying moth
ing diycd below for my little telescope. knowing
that. between Daniel and the chief mate and the
OF hers there was small chance of my getting the
loan of the ships glass, and loyellcd It at the soa
over the port bow. In moment the long blue
swell hove IN n black wet cleaning object INTO the
circumference of the lenses.
"What do you make of it, captain " said |.
@Why," answered Daniel, talking with his eye at
tho glass, il appears to me 60 bc ship upside
down"
That's what think" said |. "and big ship
tOO.'
Let. have a look" exclaimed the navy imam,
and he put himself into kind of cocked-hat and
lorl-high-admTal posture. rs he pointed the glass.
Florence Joined us, and held my telescope for her
TO look through; but of course she could see moth
ing. Somehow or other girls never do see anything
when they look through a telescope. Ihoy don I
seem 10 know how 10 shut one eye and keep the
other opcn Hows that now ? Ms vulgar TO wink.
Of course: but most girls do that by trying tof
course they never dOl; and yet they can't shut one,
eve to look through a telescope Florence managed
it by putting her hand over of her sweet peep
ers; and / watched the long lashe5 of the other
trembling against the brass rim OF the telescope;
and her lovely face, matchless for cOmpexiO full
of caTuc5ncSs shO poured the light OF her lott eyo
into the tube; but it was no good. II seems all
sky" said She 70 | handed the glass to Thompson
Tucker who got it ont Of focus, and sung out,
" Why hang me. there's n fog coming on "
No more horrors, h0pc| said Aunt DamariS,
@Theres \ fog coming on" said Thompson
"A fog in your eye" exclaimed Captain Jackson (;
" it's the hull of n thousand-ton ship capslzcd,
ma'am Another sample of steyed0rinG, captain.
The art of -towing is lost They load iron rails ON
bird,cagcs, and wonder That ships go a,nsaing. .;,
Daniel and he told the chief mate to keep the ship
away by Il couple of points. y,c., -,
By and by Mr.. Thornton said to me: II that
ship she must have been built n man-01 war Tor
the king of the Canuibal Islands; for, look your
hardest, Mr. ESerton. and you'll SEQ no shape Ill
her"
well" exclaimed Daniel coming up to us.
What does il look like now:
"Tl tell you what il looks like" replied work
inr away with the glass it looks like thousand
ton SLAYER. floating Oh her bilgo, with hundred or
two of negroes swimming around her Bnt what 1t
l. said / handing him the glass, ~ this: ltS a
tremendous dead whale. horribly swelled. with a
thousand mOllcmOkes or BIRDS oil that pattern
eating it' ,
And so it proved by evidence rs strong as the
was enough and the ship was hastily brought as
far to wlndw,rd Of her course as she would come
without touching the braces, IN orucL % 10 give u tnc
pntrrScont mountain wide berth. Wha' sort of a
whale II was ! couldn't tell you maybe lt was
what the Yankee whaleman called a crinknm-
cfankrm whale the meaning Of which is q " hal
that can't be cOtched"; but whatever tho right
name for ii was tell you. lads, 1t looked TO me 10
BE- the biggest thing whales that the sea had eyer
Heated. III not bo minute; If wcro To be gIaphic
you'd shout for cau-dc-cologno. There it SWING
upon the azirc folds of the swell such corpse that
the mind was awcd and oppressed by the lmmenslty
Of it, it cated high owing to IFS condition. ana IN
pIoceS thc oycr-lap,ng of the water made the skin
CLEAN like mirror for the sun to la5h IN IL was
fearful carcass and looked like IN island, and yet
not half of was exposed. lOn saw no head and no
tail. the portion visible was from tke hump to the
fiapprr or fin abalt the lower jaw.
~tiracious mercyp mumblcd Aunt Damaris be
hind her hct-handkorchci, "what an object 1t
would make . beach,
That's how ono should have seen il. no doubt, TO
understand the amazing magnltudo 01 TINS dca,i;
aud oh most evil smelling leylatlan; ROW coni.l
the cha~tc moon riso upon such loath3ome mass
One might have sworn it was cnoug TO polute the
gales and breezes of the whole of the Southern
Ocean ay from the Cape of Good u0po TO van
Demen's Land and from tho Antarctic Circle to the
Tropic of Capricorn. And tho next wonder was the
birds upon it, Wo slid past too far on to make sure
of them but If they were not mOllemOkcS they were
not albatrOssos-no. those kingly eagles OF tile
southern seas. let me hope. would diSclalm sucl
& iare and fnoy
sweeping out and around so rs tO resemble the
prongs Of n pitchfork: how many of hem there
were | cOud not tell you they swarncd upon the
huge dead block some rising high on the wing, and
swooping down with n rush as though to spear the
black rind with their bills, while scores tl0atcd III
tho water round.
Are they dncksw asked Mrs Marmaduko Nor
timer. .
Moro like carrion-crows Lore observed her
husband m
" Dmcksll cat snail7 and mucl." said Mr.. Thomp-
son Tucker " but hang mo if think an honest land
duck could be got to taste that whale
" And that's the thing people make umbrellas oi,
ami STAYS :" exclaimed Mrs O Bren, in the tone OF
u person upon whom a great truth dawns.
"The strangcst part is how wcrc doomed to mcot
nothing but Horrors" said Aunt Damars. walking
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