Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-08-30
IN THE BAY OF FUNDY.
Life Of IN Untamed Variety on the
Island OF Grand Manan.

| ASe OF an Untamed Variety on the
Island OF Grand Manan.
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GRAND MASAS, NIB, August Is
inns u sde widest island on the Atlantic
sesooard south Of Newfoundland. Indeed.
between the Florida reefs and the heights Of
Mount Desert there is scarcely hill Of re-
Spectacle size in sight from the ocean. And
she promontories Of Blaine's summer homo
Dear no comparison in grandeur 10 the over
hanging cliffs Of this sea-girt rock.
4" SHORES are perpendicular It's seas are
sumuituous and uproarious. Eagles poise over
| H. Seals swathe themselves in the sunshine
on liz lodges. Whales float in the otfins and
eye 1t, suspectlng that it may be some colossal
brother. A few deer are still found in the
woods. 1t is even cooler than Campobello.
where / stayed for a fortnight in a most
delicious summer retreat There we needed
nres night and morning, but here they blaze
gratefully at midday. There We used two
blankets at night; here We require three. There
we had strawberries ali through August; here
they are not yet ripe, but are coming on.
Grand Manau has been called 1.-The throne Of
the majestic" That. indeed, it is II seems az
II ten miles square Of stormy, stony Labrador
had been floated out Of sight OF land and
anchored in the sea, and crowned and smbsl-
lished with a tangled mass Of green foliage
Under the sharp cornice Of the island. on
midget islsts moored beyond gunshot the
stormy petreis breed, and in the turbulent
waves where surf flies high seals turn up to the
day their startling faces, and bark and new TO
each other, and the air above is vociferous with
the cry OF the gull and the roaring heron.
There are cliffs here along the southeastern
beach on which the visitor Tor the native, for
the matter Of that) can SIT and gaze down
SOo feet sheer to the foam below--twice 40 high
| - Niagara
INVISIBLE TREAsUREa
The beggarly revenue Of this solemn and
solitary island is mostly derived from Ash.
There is little farming and no commerce or
Manufactured There are two possible sources
OF revenue yet to be developed-ths buried
treasures OF Capt Kidd, who seems to have
had enough riches to plant the shores thick
with doubloons oil the way from Greenland to
CUBA. and the lapis-lazuli mine Just Of shore
Inc whereabouts OF the former are not def
nitely known, but good many deep holes have
peen dug by enterprising parties and aban-
doned, thus limiting and diminishing the area
IN which the doubloons may be hopefully
sought.
The old traveller, Charlevoix, nrst called at
tention to the mines as follows: 1t 10 asserted
that three-fourths of league of Isle Menane
which serves as q guide to vessels to enter 81.
johns river, there is a rock, almost always
covered by the sea, which is OF lspis-lazuli IL
10 added that Commander de Razilh broke Of
piece, which he sent to France, and sieur
Denys, who had seen IL, says that it was valued
at ten crowns an ounce"
never go out sailing now without looking
down through the water for this blue rock.
II can find it l am pretty well fixed II the
stun is worth even less than Lord Denys es-
amated, say e1.000 q pound, or o., 100000 Q
ton, . few ship loads Of Il would make me com.
paratively well of. As soon as End it shall
stop writing for newspapers and good many
dear readers can find tranquility.
UNTAMED AND ILL FED.
There Is no decent hotel on Grand Manan.
and the traveller has to trough it" among the
hospitable and amiable but badly equipped
citizens. wrote to the proprietor Of the only
hotel at North Head and asked if he could
give me a bed with Q hair mattress and hs
wrote regretting that he could not
This island is the most untsmed and nm.
kempt thing on our whole Atlantic coast 1t ID
like one of the Hebrides, that Black pratt,es OF
In THE Princess Of Thule" or like Walter Be-
found ArmoreL There 10 no hay fever here,
no consumption, and even govt lifts up its
agile feet and flies, and dyspepsia ceases from
| troubling here-because the visitor can get 30
little that is good to eat (Don't send any
copies Of this paper 10 your subscribers a
| Yesterday vent out sword fishing, and this
| table rocks and reels like porpoise when
think of it and my stomach heaves sigh. I
had longed to 20 sword fishing all my life. I
good, for ! had eaten savory bits Of him
broiled. knew that he carried on his pug.
nacious snout q sword OF polished ivory q
lively as an Italians stilletto and Is heavy a.
King Arthur's Excaliber. knew he would
fght like . cowboy, and was from eight to az.
or foolishly thought did I was talking in
this way on the pile Of stone they call wharf,
when a skipper spoke up and says: "Yon goes
Teller after EN-. wy don't you 60 along 'er
He pointed at a sloop bowling along undsr a
| stiff breeze straight out to sea.
Get bim," said !, "and I'll give you Q shil-
ling" Owe are in New Brunswick now.)
And him two Nv emp"
"Yes, quickT'
He GOES ALONG.
He blew on his fingers shrill pipe--ons long
blast and two shorts Q signal, and received a
similar answering horn. The sails lufYed, the
sloop hove to and came around. and my whis-
Ting agent put me aboard from his dory.
The sloOp tackled again and laid herself right
down before the wind. 1t seemed NICE Each
wave was about as long as the sloop and
rolled up from toward Spain. 1t seemed
like the corduroy toboggan slide at Coney
Island. 1t suggested going to heaven in q
hammock. We introduced ourselves. The
shippers name I had been told
was Hallibut, but after I had called hum by il
about hundred times found out it was Hurl-
but. He was at the helm and held the reins.
Another man stood on q little platform about
thirty feet up the mast, and il was his business
to discover the fish and tell the captain which
way to steer. third man was standing right
out on the end Of the bowsprit, with a harpoou
In his right hand-a sharp, ugly-lookinR steel
weapon six or seven feet long
"This 10 glorious" shouted.
"Hey?" sang out the skipper above the vhis-
Ting wind
"Gloriousw I repeated.
Tail Of q STORM" he shouted back. ''Shan't
git no fish,"
I went over where he stood. There were two
vessels like our own q little distance OF. With
men in the cross-trees and on the bow.
a GENTLE STREAK OF PROFANITY.
The captain tackled and - the boom came
around yelled: "K'out fer yer headr' Hooked
out for it, and then observed for the first time
that he seemed in trouble. He was swearing
in Q low, gentle baritone voice, uninterrupt-
eddy, mildly, with quite q surprising range Of
spithet and Of metaphor. It WAS the most
serene profanity had ever heard II had
whsedling and even pathetic accents, like q
Newfoundland dog that 10 being petted-