The sun., 1894-08-19
WEIRD TALES OF THE SEA,

A Haunted Bark In Demerara-A ohoss
from salvador-In the Chain Leoker.
We were eating dinner one night on tho old
cargo ship and talking Of the happenings at SEE
and on shore that are called supernatural, when
the Captain saidi
"One sees some things at sea not supernatural
which are ft TO make nervous man SEQ ghosta
There was that case In one Of Green's linen 70
the colonies, where o man was sent down TO
clean out the chain locker. The locker had
seemed foul all the passage homa and 90 they
hoisted out the chain and sent this fellow down
with his brush and soap and bucket, with lamp,
to clean It out III wager he saw ghosts for .
year after that for when he'd got down on his
knees to begin scrubbing he found himself bend
ing over the skull Of dead man.
"Itwas most likely man that had slowed away
out in the colony and had been caught under the
cable TheP N they were running It down quickly.
However, / did know OF a case that seemed
supernatural right enough Il was In the Deme.
sa rsFs trade 5 and was sS9uamiptted ali with the first
loaded and ready TO sail the Captain had trou6is
stabbed him 10 death then and there, Tho mate
afterward took her home, but on the way pas
and up and died very suddenly.
"Of course, she was haunted ship when she
c5ryed n home and SO the d SWnsTs s hsd her name
entirely different from what abe had been.
Then she sailed away with . new Captain, but
she reached Demerara he was off his head and
killed himself with revolver.
could believe the mate. Mind you. after She was
RENTED the mate said never q word TO the new
Captain about bout what had happened In her before
home 20 take charge of her, believing that the
last CAPTAIN was naturally a drunkard instead
ship, this fret officer said . word. because
he did not believe In ghosts or even In 9 future
However, the frst night the new Captain
was on board the trouble began. The Captain
An hour later he was calling the mate and tell
ssIEakened BY light IN III The room. ON 0Deni99g
WHISPER in N the sEmehsir st The desL, leaning
SssTee6 ms S11ds and oh
That was enough for the mate. He left the
tain knew nothing OF the style or manner OF tie
one who had killed himself and yet the picture
ghost or what you may call tin the chair
suicide, and had complained in precisely the
words and voice Of the dead man.,
This brought out the story or an exile from
Salvador whom the narrator met In Guatemala
Having got into trouble with the authorities,
fleeing TO Amapala, Honduras many another
exile has done, and there tax ing steamer north
involved in like manner Was 70 have reached
Amapala by different route In time for the
Same steamer, and to prevent any possible de-
lays Molarleta engaged staLerOoms and secured
passes from the AmapalR 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 the usual hour, on the first night out, y the
story teller went on, "Mojarieta retired and
IN the next staterOOm, which he had supposed TO
be empty. Leaving his berth he went out into
the passags"Ay aud opened the door TO the Ad-
tOining 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 one In the right cheek.
At that MOiarteLa tainted. and was found
on the deck BY the steward and put 70 bed
again Thereafter Il was most miserable pas
sage. for the weasel touched At both of the sal
Iador ports, and was about = week reaching
been shot and expected force TO come on from
each OF the Salvador ports 70 demand him
borrower, he WAS haunted continually BY that
picture OF his dead friend.
Once In Guatemala he obtained employ
ment quickly, aud then began 70 recover come
thing Of his former spirits. Ne Asoribed hls
vision 70 his oyerWrOught Imagination and WAs
begtnnins 90 hope that his friend would yet ap-
pear, when letter Was received from q relative
Ia salvador. II not only told that the friend
had been shot by the Government soldiers, but
desCribed the Wounds OF the body after Ii vas
dead. MOjarieta declares that the description
accurately portrayed the vision he had OF his
friend. and he believes that his friends spirit
being unable 70 rest or wholly throw on its do
sire To take pasaASe on the steamer, had cozas
On board and WAs occupying that berth"