The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-06-05
monlioruof pilot.
SAVED FROM The SHARKS.
A Grim Tale of Shipwreck and the Ter
rible Suferincs of Castavay.

a remarkable story of the sea comes
from st. Malo, the narrator being an
ancient mariner named Bauche, whose
painful experiences in a small boat on
the ocean ought to be Il warrant for the
truth of his tale Bauche had signed
articles with the captain of a vessel
called the Mathilde, in which he sailed
to Martinique. While in the harbor of
St Pierre in boat with the cabin boy
one day he was driven oceanward by u
gale of wind. and was knocked about
for week on the waves before he was
rescued by Norwegian bark.
After the first night ut sea Bauchc
says that the cabin boy became partly
delirious; water was filling the boat
every instant, and in order to prevent
the dying lad from being drowned in it
the old sailor made pals of the legs of
his pantaloons, and was thus enabled
to keep the bottom of the little craft
tolerably dry. He had also to deprive
himself of his shirt. which he utilized
as a flag of distress. On the third day
the cabin boy died. and hardly was the
breath out of his body before seven or
eight ferociou5 black sharks began to
circle around the boat, which they
sometimes almost touched. Rather
than deliver up the dead body To the
monsters of the deep, Bauche kept it
until it became decomposed.
Being afraid of illness, he at length
threw it overheard, after having said
his prayers over it, and the prey was
speedily seized by the sharks, who dis
appeared with it, and did not show up
again for twenty-four hours or so.
Bauche now felt SO utterly miserable
that he was thinking OF throwing HIM
self overheard, when lie was dissuaded
from his intention by the reappear-
ance Of the sharks who. after eycing him
rayenouSly for sometime. actually be-
gan 10 gamboi before him, us if III an
ticipation OF good feed of his body.
Il did not want to be en- Ell alive.
remarked Bauche. in his narration of
his perlous adventures, 80 | remained
where was and awaited assistance. :
On the seventh day the sailor lost con-
seriousness, fell down in the boat and
was rescued in all insenible condition
bv Captain Paterson. of the Vladimir.
In his mouth the 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 Bauche was crunching to
stave off hunger when he became I'M
conscious The rescued sailor, after
having been taken to New Orleans, OBJ
tanned passage home to st. Malo.
Only the other day he went down to
the port to meet his old shipmates of
the Mathilde, who had been wrecked
off the coast of Newfoundland, whittier
they had made another voyage since
Bauche disappeared at Martinique,
the crew of the Mathildc had been res
cued off the banks of Labrador by an
English vessel. They had long, of
course, given up Bauche and the cabin
boy as lost in mdocean, and great was
their surprise when they beheld the
former in the flesh. and hale and hearty
us if he had never been without food
on the deep for full seven days in an
open boat, and in perilous coutiguity
to the teeth of the tigers of the ocean.
London Telegraph.