Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-02-13

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namely, by the break in the stern.
The method of raising the goods was
to lower down heavy hooks which
could be fastened into the tales after
they were pushed outside. Some of
these bales or cases would float and
some would rest lightly on the bottom
had selected large case, which
was about to move. when, happening
to turn my eyes, l saw outside a huge
creature moving toward the vessel.
had never seen anything like it be-
fore. Its body was four to five feet
high and about twice that length, and
| it had on each side an enormous arm.
There seemed to be an unlimited mum.
ber of legs attached to tho hideous
creature. It's color was q dun brown,
notified over with dark stops. Two
round. black, shining eyes were in its
forehead, and two supple horns, each
resembling an enormous whip. like.
wise came out of its head. All this
noticed with one glance. A numb ter
ror seized me. and moved for the out
let from the ship
But as if knowing what intended
this brute. looking straight at me with
its frightful eyes, walked, ~ rather
crawled, directly toward me. hurried
in the hope of being able to seize tho
hanging hook, now my only means OF
signaling the skiff; but it hurried, too,
and had barely put my foot upon =
rock outside VIXEN the two writing
horns of tho detestable creature were
twining about me and again untwin-
ing. Then he would touch mo with
these and sweep them up and down. ss
II feeling what description of prey ]
was. The round. frightful eyes seemed
to burn through and through me. In
my hand l held the crowbar which
used to loosen the cargo; in my belt l
carried q heavy sheath knife These
were my only weapons.
''Suddenly and without any warning
the monster threw out one of its arms
and seized me below the shoulder. I
feat as II my bones were being crushed
and that my arm would soon be sew
cred from my body. No soones had he
done this than he turned and began to
drag me into deeper corner of the
nook. The more l resisted the more
terrible was the pain, SO l had to 20,
turning over in my mind what should
do. still had the crowbar ic U,y right
hand, but it was Of no use to sne. So I
let it drop.
But the horror of that time; Well, l
knew why the awful thing was drag
ging me to this quiet place. He was
going to devour me.
His arm terminated in a claw which
opened and shut This horrible mouth
like thing had two rows of shining
white teeth. Several of these were
piercing my arm to the bone. Some
distance above this moufhlilSe hand
observed a Joint, ana then ! drew my
knife. But alas! the heavy shell so
overlapped the fcshy tissue that I
could not irjure my captor. Still he
dragged me on, on till at last the deep
est part of the sea nook was reached.
There he stopped and turned those ter
rifying eyes again upon me. The whip
like arms began to move and curl
about my body, and a hidcous motion
seemed to run through the body of the
terrible fish. What this meant l knew
His head was only about a foot dis
tant from my body, and drawing my
knife again l plunged it into the eye
nearest me, turning the blade round
and round. saw that had destroyed
the eye, for an inlly fluid issued out OF
the sock ct, darkcning the water about
it's head. This checked the aggressive
movements of the thing, but did not
seem to hurt it. waited, waited for
many seconds, I think, and then its
mead turned, so supposed. tndI IL
might be enabled to see its prey. This
was what I wanted, and with a sure,
swift thrust l sent my knife into his
other eye, down to the hcft. This time
it must have touched the brain, for the
beast reeled. and the grip on my arm
slightly relaxed. But though totally
blind my captor had no idea of releas-
ing me.
The agony of my arm soon grew un-
bearable and the waters around me