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che carried a asurehe.d the lik. Of which I

she carried haurehead the like OF which
the wreck. but 4 she had ever had her name
letters fiooked along her sides clear down
to Ss her keel to see Il SSad h Ard the cause q
seans and sooS sohaon ~
fore / did so. had fear as / must admit. Of
went down a. with iitS her When had at last
piucked up courage to scramble over
lonely as 1 bad pictured. Her deck was
ush from stem to segTn with no cabin
had rhted The " cabin, There was aG com
and %P'dI s9msthins Of the same soft forward
and shells and slime. / could make out that
the craft had carried six cannon, on side
but that had gone with other flttings and be.
longings. she was fitted with an ancient
dozen coils s1 OF rotten Rempen cabe about it.
wood and iron which the craft had evidently
tn, the, hulk bslSnGsd to a p period far re- re,
secured. or SO they seemed until | got pry
fus That Fo Was the s" rs StGf hps did
expected to find, the hold full Of, water; and as
smashed and twisted and room enough there
err seam ru3P hardly Rave saved
brig after that injury. which was doubtless
s% ny s S 5.Us s S' tc shs
certainly dig not float an hour after It.
About al accomplshed on the rst day was 8.
UP RAPIDLY and the water still draining out q
her and I though, the delay would 6e to my
her had been 80 minded. as an odor which
was horribly nauseatinE arose from the hatch
and drove me to give It = wide berth, On the
cabin and focastlo and met with the same
odor though not SO strong: Then l carefully
could discover. The craft had only 1s' about
six, feet depth OF hold: and though the slime
ant Knocked about down there for hours. I
found over.a hundred barrels which wore full
OF LIQUOR Of some sort and cannot tell you
mass of mould at tho slightest kick There
were also water butts and barrels Of pork and
the sickenipE odor. | got nothing whatever
out of the hold. though iattered myself that
o the barrels OF ,iGne o, were al rGht they
On the third day I,overhaued the CABIN and
in both places. but everything was mould as [
touched 1t now The cabin was small. but the
fo'castle was SO, large that l figured on ac-
men. OF some things there was great pien-
rusted and eaten that it would hardly support
its own weight. | boarded the wreck on the
fourth morning with the intention OF getting
into the run under the cabin. where anything
in the shape OF treasure would be stored
away. but l was hardly on her decks before a
boat load of sailors pulled ashore from a
Dutch ship bound down the coast for Batavia.
She was about to pass the island two miles
away when she sighted my signal and the
hulk and stopped to investigate. The men at
once took possession of the wreck as a lawful
prize and carried me off to the ship. was not
trpatpi Indifference
GERS. but some OF the sailors wore positively
brutal in their conduct The ship was sailed
in rs near the shore as they dared 20. and for
fol r days every man was busy at the wreck.
They took out l35 barrels OF wine and brandy
and u great amount OF what thought was pig
lead. but which aiterward knew to be silver.
/ was not carried to Batavia with the ship. but
transferred to n trader going up the coast. nm d
OF all tho treasure never got penny. The
claim which fled with the British Consul at
Batavia was pigeonholed from the start. and
tho only satisfaction have had ur to date was
the information that my share OF the rlupder.
If justice had been done me. would have
amounted to several thousand dollars.