The evening world., 1890-07-28
MS SEVEN DAYS OF TERROR.
Adrift on the Ocean With a Corpse
in the Boat.
Followed by Ferocious Black Sharks
Waiting for Their Prey.

| A remarkable story Of the sea comes
! from st. Malo. the narrator being an an.
! cieut mariner named Blanche. whose pain.
| ful experience in small boat on the
! uccnn. ns related i'll the London Telegram,
| ought to he Il warrant for the truth Of his
! tale.
! Eauche had signed articles with the
captain of vessel called the Mathilde, i'll
which he sailed to Martinique.
While in the harhor OF st. Pierre in a
! boat with the cabin boy one day he was
driven oceanwnrd by gale of wind. and
was knocking about for a week on the
waves Icfure he was rescued by a Nor
wegian bark.
After the first night at sea Bauche says
that the cabin hoy became partly deliri-
Gus. NG'cr was filling the boat every in
stant. and in order to prevent tho dying
lad from drowning in IL the old sailor
made rails uf the legs of his pnntaloons
and was thus enabled to keep the bottom
OF the little craft tolerablv dry lie had
also to deprive himself Of his shirt, which
he utilized as tag of distress.
ON the third day the cabin boy died.
and hardly was the breath out Of his
body before seven or eight ferUcious
black sharks began to circle round tho
ioat, which they sometimes almost
touched. Rather than deliver up the
dead body to the monsters Of the deep
l'aucho kept It until 1t became decon!-
posed.
leing afraid of illness he at length
threw II overheard, after having snid his
prayers over it. and the prey was speedily
seized by the sharks. which disappeared
with it. and did not show UP again for
about twenty four hours or so.
Ilut sh.at falN ,tNN N.r1,. Ia
that ho was thinking of throwing himself
overheard when he was dissuaded from
his intention by the temperance of the
sharks, which, after cying him raven
ously for some time. actually began to
gainbol before him Rs If in anticipation of
II good feed Of his body.
:" did not want to he eaten alive, y" re-
marked Bauche. III his narrative of his
perllous adventures, SO | remained
where | was and awaited assistance" On
the seventh dny the sailor lost conscious
ness, fell down i'll the boat and was res
Cucd III an inScnsillo condition by Capt.
Paterson, of the vladimir.
In his mouth tho Norwegian sailors
found what they first thought was an old
quid of tobacco. but which proved to be
part of the horn handle of his knife,
which Rnuche was crunching 10 stave off
hunger when he became unconscious.
The rescued sailor, after having been
taken to New Orleans, obta ned a passage
homo to st. Malu.
Only the other day he went down to the
port to meet his old shpmates of the
Mathilde. who had been wrecked off the
coast of Newfoundland. whittier they had
made another VOYAGE since Bauche dis
appeared at artnique.
The crew of the Slathilde had been res
cued off the banks of Labrador by an
English vessel. They had. of course,
long given up Bauche and the cabin bov
as lost in midocean. and great was their
surprise when they beheld the former in
the flesh and as hale and hearty as il he
had never been without food on the deep
for full seven days in an open bont and in
perilous contiguity to the teeth of the
tigers of the ocean.