Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-03-27
CHAPTER XI.
I MAKE FURTHER DISCOVERIES.

MAKE FURTHER DISCOVERIES.
 So long I moved about and worked did not feel the cold, but if stood or sat a couple of minutes felt the nip of it in my very marrow. Yet, fierce as the cold was here, it was impossible it could be compara- ble with the rigors of the parts in which this schooner had originally got locked up in the ice. No doubt if I died on deck my body would be frozen as stiff as the figure on the rocks; but, though it was very conceivable that might perish of cold in the cabin by sitting still, was sure the temperature be- low had not the severity to stonify me to the granite of the men at the table.
 Still, though greater degree of cold cold as killing as if the world had fallen sum- less-did unquestionably exist in those lati- tudes whence this ice with the schooner in it's hug had floated, it was so bitterly bleak in this interior that twas scarce imaginable it could be colder elsewhere; and as I rose from the cask, shuddering to the heart with the frosty, motionless atmosphere, my mind naturally went to the consideration of fire by which might sit and toast myself.
 put a bunch of candles in my pocket they were as hard as parcel of marline spikes-and took the lantern into the passage and inspected the next room. Here was a cot hung up by hooks, and a large black chest stood in cleats upon the deck; some clothes dangled from pins in the bulkhead, and upon a kind of tray fixed upon short legs and serving as shelf were a miscellaneous bundle of boots laced waistcoats, three corner hats, couple of swords three or four pistols, and other objects not very readily distinguishable by the candle light. There was port which tried to open, but found it so hard frozen should need a handspike to start it. There were three cabins besides kl. lac< bof ic f1,o in, fI<, stern, being the biggest of the lot. Each had its cot, and each also had its own special muddle and litter of boxes, clothes, firearms, swords and the like.
 Indeed, by this time was beginning to see how it was. The suspicion that the watches and jewelry had discovered on the bodies of the men had excited was now confirmed, and I was satisfied that this schooner had been pirate or buccaneer, of what nationality could not yet divine methought Spanish from the costume of. the first figure had encountered; and was also convinced, by the brief glance directed at the things in the cabin, particularly the wear ing apparel, and the make and appearance of the firearms, that she must have been in this position for upward of fifty years.
 The thought awed me greatly-twenty wears before was born those two men were sitting dead in the cabin He on deck was keeping his blind and silent lookout; he on the rocks, with his hands locked upon his knees, sat sunk in blank and frozen contem- plationl
 Every cabin had it's port, and there were ports in the vessels side opposite; but on re- flection considered that the cabin would bo the warmer for their remaining closed, and so came away and entered the great cabin afresh, bent on exploring the forward part
 must tell you that the mainmast, pierc- ing tho upper deck, came down close against the bulkhead that formed the forwasd wall dk tho cabin. and on approaching this partf- TO BE CONTINUED.