Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-20
A oAILoR's ApvEnr,,ere
"ioeN"e at Sea and hiracuIouslv sav.
from the shark. @'e


A remarkable story OF the sea cc,aa.
from ST. Malo, the narrator BEING AZ
An9ieht mariner named Bauche, whose
painful experiences in a small boat ON
'he ocean ought TO be warrant for tho
ruin OF his tale. Banche had sioned
artlcles with the captain Of vessel
,ailed tne Mathilde. l.. which he sailed
20 Martinique. While In the barbor q,
o~ rierre In boat with the cabin bow
one gay ne was driven oceanward bv a
gale OF wind and was knocked about for
week on the waves before he was res
cued BY Norwegian bark.
AFTER the first night at sea Rancho
says that the cabin boy became part1v
aellrous, water was filling the boat evarv
instant, and in order to prevent the DIV.
ing Lad from being drowned in It the old
sailor made pals OF the legs of his pant
aloons amt was thus enabled to keen the
bottom of the little craft tolerably drv.
ne mad also to deprive himself Of his
SHIRT, which he utilized as flag of dis
tress. On the third day the cabin bow
med, and hardly was the breath ont NJ
ms body before seven or eight ferocious
Dlack sharks began to circle round the
boat, which they sometimes almost
Touched. Rather than deliver IN the
1ead body to the monsters of the deem
Bauehe kept it until it became decon.
posed.
Being afraid of illness, he at length
threw it overheard after having said
MS prayers over it, and the prey was
speedily seized by the sharks. who dis
appeared with it, and did not show IN
again for about twenty-fogr hours or SO.
bauche now felt so utterly miserable
that he was thinking of throwing him
self overheard, when he was dissuaded
from his intention by the reappearance
Oh the sharks, who, after eyeing him
ravenously for some time, actually be-
gan to gambol before him, as if in an
tIcipation of a good feed off his body.
u did not want to be eaten alive" re-
marked Bauche, in his narration of his
perllous adventures, 80 | remained
where | was and waited assistance" On
the seventh day the sailor lost con-
seriousness, fell down in the boat and
"aS Ie5cucu III an lDSenSlDle condition
by 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 uncon-
scious. The rescued sailor. after hav-
ing been taken to New Orleans, OBJ
tanned a passage home to st. Malo.
Only the other dag he went down to the
port to meet his old shipmates of the
Mathilde, who had been wrecked off tho
coast of Newfoundland, whittier they
had made another voyage since Blanche
disappeared at Martinique. The crow
of the Mathilde had been rescued OF
the banks of Labrador by an English
vessel. They had long, of course, given
up Bauche and the cabin boy as lost in
midocean, and great was their surprise
when they beheld the former in the
flesh, and as hale and hearty as if he
had never been without food on the
deep for full seven days in an oper boat,
and in perilous contiguity to the teeth
Of the tigers of the oceaR.-Paris Letter.