Morning journal and courier., 1891-07-07

| be found, and, under the impression that he had been struck by the whales tail and | sunk to the bottom, the survivors rowed back to the ship. The whale was dead and in few hours the great body was ly- ing by the ships side and men were busy with axes and spades cutting through the flesh to secure the fat. They worked all day and part of the night. They resumed operations the next forenoon, and were soon down to the-stomach, which was to be hoisted to the deck. The workmen were startled while laboring to clear it and to fasten the chain about it to discover some thing doubled up in it that gave spasmodic signs of life.
 The vast pouch was hoisted to the deck and cut open, and inside was found the missing sailor doubled up and unconscious. He was laid out on the deck and treated to bath of sea water, which soon revived him, but his mind was not clear and he was placed in the captains quarters, where he remained two weeks, a raving lunatic. He was carefully treated by the captain and officers of the ship and he finally be- gan to get possession of his senses. At the end of the third week he had entirely re- covered from the shock and resumed his duties.
 During his brief sojourn in the whales belly Bartley's skin, where it was exposed to the action of the gastric juices, under went a striking change. His face and hands were blesched to a dea:hly wilderness and the skin was wrinkled, giving the man the appearance of having been parboiled.
 Bartley afirms that he would probably have lived inside this house of flesh until he starved, for he lost his senses through fright and not through lack of air He says that he remembers the sensation of being lifted into the air by the nose of the whale and of falling into. the water, then there was fearful rushing sound, which he believed to be the beating of the water by the whales tail; then he was encom- passed by fearful darkness, and he felt himself slipping along a smooth passage of some sort that seemed to move and carry him forward. This sensation lasted but an instant, then he felt that he had more room. He felt about him and his hands came in contract with yielding, slimy substance that seemed to shrink from his touch. It finally dawned upon him that be had been swallowed by whale, and he was over come with horror at the situation. He could breathe easily, but the heat was ter rlble. It was not of 8 stifiing, scorching nature, but it seemed to open the pores of his skin and to draw out his vitality He became very weak and grew sick at the stomach. He knew there was no hope of escape from his prison. Death stared him in the face, and he tried to look at it brave ly, but the awful quiet, the fearful dark ness, the horrible knowledge of his envir- onments and the terrible heat finally over came him, and he must have tainted, for he next remembered being in the captains cabin.
 Bartley is not man of timid nature but he says that it was many weeks before he could pass night without having his sleep disturbed with narrowing dreams of angry whales and the horrors of his fearful prison.
 The skin on the face and hands of Bart ley has never recovered its natural appear ance. It is yellow and wrinkled and looks like old parchment. The health of the man does not seem to have been affected by his terrible experience; he is in splendid spirits, and apparently fully enjoys all the bless ings of life that come his way.
 The whaling captains who sail from this port say that they never knew a parallal case to this before