The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-06-14

North of the Bermuda islands is an eX
tepsve aud intricate coral reef which tends
of the sea like a breakwater and extends
ina .micircular belt to a distance Of from
two to three leagues beyond the land. This
reef is cut with winding channels which
can be nayigated only by the native boat
men, who are familiar with the twists AMI
turns of the treacher0us waterways Many
vessels driven among these reefs by storms
have been battered and wrecked by the hid
den ROCKS, and in former days band of
men lived on the islands and subsisted by
4 plundering such unIucky craft as adverse
fate doomed amid the coral spurs. They
We're called wreckers.
j 1t was some years before the war that the
I trim little bark Arrow OF New Orleans,
Commanded by Captain Walter Armstrong,
was fairly caught amid the reefs, like fly
IN c99WeJ, and there seemed no possible
& way OF getting out OF the scrape. The ski~-
per was beginning to despair when he saw
"a boat approaching containing a single
\ nan. This man boarded the Arrow and
&CaaMed himself pilot who WAS thor
Oagliy coayatsarr with the passages amid
Pc reefs On beng ,mplored to render az
distance by the captain the fellow said
What will you give me to get you out
Oftais placer"
Anything you ask" was the immediate
feply Name your sum-"
rive hundred dollars"
The skipper instantly recognized the fact
lat he was dealing with scoundrel, but
III lis situation was desperate he paid the
0n asked The man kept his promise IL
~ way, for be took the bark out Of that
Pace but he simply steered it still deeper
&nd the petlous reefs. Then, with mad
sllns nsoIeEca, he declared he WAS not
sIPelleI topilot the Arrow to open water,
I'D ' a1 Aad made no such bargain.
81 n0t, headed, there never was a yes
81 ! ID IolS hole that was known to get out
Salu' IN TACT, there is but one man living
ny could possibly extract you from this
rP7a9d am that man For $500 more
MN MI place you safely III the open sea.
Iue captain stormed little, but the ras-
was lhlmovable, and he received the ad
i'laI 500. Then he steered the bark.
WI mastery skill, through passage be
unseen, barely wide enough for the
n ,pOse ana with only six inches of water
s''Iu Jne Keel at times In half an hour
arrow was out of soundings, in blue
T nv quite beyond danger
Eir 1tu Ile captain called his men, and
cc@l8 1.-THE treacherous pilot thundered
T hue tAa5villain and put him in irons!'
oroer was promptly obeyed, despite
En ,<-S'ance OF the rascal, who demanded
~. NV what the captain meant.
H. r. '. . /. ever fooled with me and got the
mt was Captain Armstrong; grim
hi see there is black blood in your
bo ~Ig "nIEel am not d slave dealer |
60. 70 set my 81 eco back with inter
snsrJ and me strong fellows as you are IN
snra IA =, American plantations, and
bv rf5 4 VIII be Going all seamen a serv-
sPcio lung this coast of one infamous
t l5st"ItJed scoundral begged so pitt
tain ,-" at. On On the return of the money the
Wy ~ MN free, dropped him into his
lr1n 'o''.cn was cut loose, with a final
|2a M M ~ tne wrecker to mend his ways
Of 'Ie TO be more careful about the
= man with whom he tempered
ClsJianu99 oc,hee. Beer is for sale by j. Il.
Tl6p ad' NJ. G. Minis F. Bethune,
ket Ss silaS d Co., j. W. Bynum and