Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-11-30
TALES OF THE SEA.
WEIRD YARNS o. THE sUPERNAV
URAL SPUN BY THE CAPTAIN.

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Was said to BE Iauat. 1.-The story of AN
Exile From Salvador.
We were eating dinner ono night on
.he old cargo ship and talking Of the
| happenings at sta and on shore that are
/ called supernatural when the captain
said
Zone sees some things at sea not SUI
pcmatural which are fit to make nerv-
Gus man see ghosts. There was that case
in one of Green's liners to the colonies,
where a man was sent down TO clean
out the chain locker The locker had
seemed foul all the passage home, and
so they hoisted out the chain and sent
this foliow down with his brush and
soap and bucket, with a lamp, TO clean
it out. III wager he saw ghosts for a
year after that, for when he'd got down
on his knees to begin scrubhing he
found himself bending over the skull of
dead man.
1T was most likely man that had
slowed away out in the colony and had
been caught under the cable when they
were running it down quickly, and so
had the life crushed out Of him.
However, did know of a case that
seemed supernatural right enough. 1t
was in the Demcrara trade. end was
acquainted with the first officer Of the
bark where it all happened.
I'm the first place. while she was out
there loaded and ready TO sail, the cap
tain had trouble with ono of the seamen,
who drew ont his knife and stabbed him
to death then and there. The mate after
ward took her home, but Oh the way
passenger took to afling in some mysteri-
Gus fashion and up and died very sud-
denly.
"Of course she was a haunted ship
when she arrived home, and so the
owners had her name changed, and she
was refitted and painted up entirely
different from what she had been. Then
she sailed away with n new captain, but
on the way out hc took 10 drink, and by
the time she reached Demerara he was
off his head and killed himself with
revolver.
"Now She was haunted sure enough,
if You could believe the mate. Mind
you, after she was lcdttcd the mate said
never a word to the new captain about
what had happened in her before, and
even when new captain came out from
home TO talc charge of her, believing
that the last captain was naturally q
druukard, instead Of one who had taken
to it after coming on this ship, this first
officer never aid aword, because he did
not believe in ghosts or even IL future
state.
However, the first night the new
captain was ON board the trouble began.
The captain at about 0 o'clock went TO
his room and retired. An hour later he
was calling tho mate and telling that
he had gone TO sleep and then had been
awakened by light in the room. On
opening his eyes lie saw "a short, thick
set man, with side whisl,ers, in the
armchair at tho desk leaning over, with
his elbows on the desk, holding his
head between his hands and saying:
ooh, my poor head! OH, my poor head!
THAT was enough for the mate. He
left the vessel that night with all hands.
This new captain knew nothing Of the
style or manner of the one who had
killed himself, and yet the picture
ghost or what You may call tin tho
chair was tle image IN appearance and
dress Of the suicide and had complained
in precisely the words and voice Of the
dead man.
This broughtout the story Of an exile
from Salvador whom the narrator met
in Guatemala. Having got into trouble
with the authorities, Souor Don Sebas-
tian Moiarieta saved his life by fleeing
TO Auapala, Honduras, as many another
exile has done, and there taking a
steamer north to San Jose, Guatemala.
A friend of his who was involved in
like manner was to have reached Amap-
ala by q different route in time for the
same steamer, and To prevent any posi-
bic delays MOj1ricta engaged staterooms
and secured passes from the Amapala
authorities for his friend and himself as
soon as he arrived. But the steamer day
came without his friend, and Mojarieta
was obliged to sail alone
AT tho usual hour on the first night
out, tho story teller went on, mo
jarieta retired and went to sleep, but
had 40 sooner dozed off than he awoke,
hearing his friends voice, as he says,
III the next statoroom, which he had
supposed to be empty. Leaving his berth,
he went ont into the plssageway and
opened tho door to tho adjoining room,
and there, he says he saw lying in the
berth the body of his friend fully dressed,
but with three bullet holes in the breast
Of his coat and ono in the right cheek.
AT that Mojariota tainted and was
found Oh The deck by the steward and
put to bed again. Thereafter it was
most miserable passage, for the vessel
touched at both OF the Salvador ports
and was about week reaching San
Jose. Mojaricta was sure his friend had
been shot and expected a force to come
off from each Of the Salvador ports to
demand him. Moreover, he was haunt
ed continually by that picture of his
dead friend
'Onco in Guatemala he obtained en-
ploymont quickly and then began to re-
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