, 1889-12-17
A SPECTER OF THE SEA.
THE BARK THAT SAILS BY THE
SHORES OF THE UNSHAPEN LAND.
Canvas Bet, but No One at the Helm.
skirting the Crushing Pack and Dodg-
ing the CrumblIng Bergs-How John
Hansen Was Shocked.

hAnsen WINS Shockcu.
Stout John Hansen, wrapped all in
furs, stood at the wheel of the bark Rein
deer, a whaler of the Arctic seas. 1t was
night, and the vessel was working along
the ice pack with Cape Smythe just
looming in the distance. The biting
wind twirled about Hansen's feet, catch
ing up the light snow and sending ii
swirling across the darkling water.
There was a brisk breeze and the night
was too cold for comfort by reason of
the proximity of the foe; but Hansen
cared little and cheerily whistled the
tune of a folk lore song he learned while
a child sporting on the shore of a Nor
wegian ford. He seemed as strong and
fearless as one of his Viking ancestors
when they faced the unknown Atlantic
until "cloudlike they saw the American
shore stretching to leeward."
THE PHANTOM OF THE NIGHT.
Suddenly, right out of the pack came
another bark, bow on. Her mizzen was
gone and she veered and waved strangely,
but her sails were set and she was making
fair Roadway. Hansen could hear the
swish of the wind in her shrouds and the
swash as she munched the bone in her
mouth. In an instant she tackled and bore
away. Then, before going 100 yards, she
came about and made straight for the
Reindeer again.
Hansen hailed her. There was no an
swering hail. His voice rang hollow and
strange as the wind took it up and seemed
to make of it a knocking echo. Then he
hailed again. No return.
Hansen's lips grew white. His knees
shook. He put his helm hard over and
made for the open sea. Then he muttered
a prayer which had not come to him since
a ship burned under his feet in the South
ern ocean way back in the COS.
He had seen the spectral ship, the Fly
ing Dutchman of the frozen ocean. The
phantom came so neal that he could see
the glisten of the salt spume frozen on
her rigging and the icioles which hung
from her spars. There was ice upon her
deck, and upon her wheel, and upon her
battened hatches-ice, and nothing more.
Her decks gave bach no echo of foot
steps. Her sailing lights were out. She
vas SO low in the water that she seemed
almost awash-but she kept on into the
darkness, Keeling, staggering, unsteady,
but on and on and out of sight.
John Hansen came into port. Death
sat watching by his bedside. He chat
s.roininn
~, ~ o,.am .LI..a1 "a.
THE WRATH OF THE YOUNG PHOENIX.
But what John Hansen saw in the
depths of that July night was not a spec
- So serioLo. -
thina far mnra darnarons - -
nhantor-. dara1;ot 81 a. - -
tha wrack .of a. Vo,na PHI IT.
sinca tho 5th 30 A. 1000 - -. III
~ throrsL 10 - - t-a.nS-u ~.
crnsbing nocL dodeinn a. tnnS,;no
baroa 9pided bv mi &c. - 80
.~o;i;nn g. ~ - -. NNa-
,,v sSa hoe ~ .o,ahoa a. ao~La~,
mole. No man NAV toll where sbe viii
he saen aaoin
On Auo a of that vaor tho uboliro
aaat vas riding batyean poirt RorroT
and Cane Smvtbe waiting for the ice
mack to clear. when down came the soutb.
west gale beating tba saa info r;dnas
and tossing the stout sbins Iika tba no9or
arcos;es Of cbiIdren Down vent tbo
baPk FleetyvinU tbat had outIived many
an arctic storm The Mar and SnaaI
strained nlnnlnn and fn11n1arn1 Tho
seas great nav took in the schooner.
Ino and lane GRAY.
LEFT TO THEIR FATE
Things were lively ON the Youno Pho.
nix then. Both anchor were Let 90 and
the men were ordered 10 the n,,mns Sbe
was leaking badly and tbe beavv seas
swent clear over her. with the nigbt
the wind shifted to the west and came
in STRONGER opsts Ono after Tho otbe,
the cables parted and the bark drifted
Then an effort was made 70 oct to sea
Int the vessel foulad tba Triton wben
irving to get over the bar. Her rudder
stern most and iibboom carried away and
the leaks were started freer.
The crew of tbirtv.seven men stuck Inv
the bark until Aup' a Rv that time the
water was at her lower deck Her miz.
zenmast had been cut away twas moi
thopgbt that sbe could Aoat mora +ban
an hour or two longer. The sails ON the
fore and main masts were set or nartiaIIv
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