St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-11
SEVEN DAYS OF TERROR.
Adrift With Corpse---Sharks as
Unbidden Play-Fellows.

AurIft With a COrpSe---ShaPkS as
Unbidden Play-Fellows.
London Telegraph.
A remarkable story of the sea comes
from st. Malo, the narrator being an
ancient mariner named Blanche, whose
painful experience in small boat on
the ocean ought to be warrant for the
truth of his tale. Banche had signed
articles with the captain of vessel
called the MathiIde, In which he sailed
to Martinique. While in the harbor
of st. Pierre i'm boat with this cabin
boy one day he was driven oeeanward
by gale of wind, and was knocked
about for week on the waves before
he was rescued by Norwegian bark.
After the first night at sea Bauche
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 tOler-
ably dry. He had also to deprive him
self of his shirt, which he utilized as
flag of distress. On the third day the
cabin boy died, and hardly was the
breath out of his body before seven or
eight ferocious black sharks began to
circle round the boat. which they some
times almost touched. Rather than
deliver up the dead body to the mons
tiers 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, which
disappeared with it, and did not show
up again for about twenty four hours or
so. Bauche now felt so utterly miSera-
bic that he was thinking of throwing
himself overheard when he was dis
suaded from his intention by the reap
pearance of the sharks, which, after
eying him ravenOuSly for some time,
actually began to gamDol before him as
if in anticipation of good feed OFF his
body.
Il did not want to be eaten alive" re-
marked Bauche in his narrative of his
perilous adventures, $50 | remained
where was and awaited assistance"
On the seventh day the sailor lost con-
seriousness, fell down in the boat, and
was rescued in an inSenSible condition
by Capt. 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 Bouche was crunching to
Stave off hunger when he became un-
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 Mathilde had been rescued OFF
the banks of Labrador by an English
vessel. They had long,o course, given
up Bauche and the cabin boy as lost IN
midoceah, and great was their surprise
when they beheld the former in flesh,
and as hale and hearty as if he had
never been without food OH the deep
for full seven days in an open boat. and
in perilous cOntiguity to the teeth of
the tigers of the ocean.