Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-03-14

I there Il moment like a huge watcry
column swaycd by wind then dropped
back to the ocean level instantly rose
again to its tremendous height, glis-
tened in the sun like lofty white pin
nacled rock; swayed and fell; rose,
glistened, swayed, fell, all in quick
succession, each fall to the water being
followed by the upward splashing Of
great spumes Of foaming sea Around
this eccentric fountain several big blacl,
objects moved here and there. quickly,
and without apparent aim.
"Waterspout he blowedr the cap
tain said
Then he seized his glass and gnzed
through it ut the strange affair His
eyes had scarcely taken in the scene,
enlarged and made distinct by his
glass, when saw him turn pale Int
he couldn't cease looking
long would scarcely once 60 round, and
yet the serpent is coled about 1t full
score OF times! What seemed to be
spouting geyscrs from the sea are but
the rising and the falling Of the free
parts OF the serpent, this one now rear
ing aloft the monsters fearful head;
that one now being his convoluting ex-
tremity, tipped with an awful barb!
They rise and fall by the terrible I'M
pulse of the serpent's assault upon the
whale, which he spins and whirls and
churns in the deep us n mill wheel
might be spun by the rush Of impelling
watersl The black objects are other
whales, agitated and terror-stricken
spectators of their mighty fellows
deadly environment! HarkF the cap
tain still with the glass to his eye, and
growing paler and paler
at was not necessary for us TO heark-
en-. A deaf man could almost have
heard the sounds that came to us over
the sea from the scene Of that awful
contest. Doom! booml boom! Like the
hoarse intonations OF a saluting can
non.
"'By the rusty key Of Davy Jones'
locher!' the captain shouted. The aw-
full compress of that serpent's coil has
bust the whale! Three times the great
leviathan's tremendous bulk has bust,
with noise like thunderl And now
they sink-the horrible serpent has
gone bclow-to gorge his mighty plum
der.
1.-THE glass fell from the captains
hand. Seasoned rs he was by forty
years afloat, and familiar with the APP
palling things the boundless ocean
breeds, he tainted dead away upon the
deck. In tho excitement following the
captains collapse all save the fetch
ing of him to was forgotten, and when
at last he was out Of his swoon and
somewhat himself again the whales
that had been tcrror-stricken witnesses
of the sea serpent's capture OF their
mate had disappeared. This chagrined
the captain. According to his descrip-
ton of them, any one Of these whales
would have been IN unheard-of prize.
But they had slipped away and were
out Of sight.
"'Well chase thcmr said the cap
tain 1 will not leave these mysterious
seas until kill whale"
"Sa we sailed in the presumed wake
Of the whales. Two days we sailed
Mot a s!rht or trace Of whale. Then
lie caf.aio changed his course and
e,Nel sou'west, The third day we
rlr...s. something At first sight and
FRA l3ns iinc as we approached 1t
uetln'fii ia the projecting summit
e. eol.i reef, formed Ike a iattened
rglamal and covering many ynrds OF
IA, arcaa, surface In height 1t rose,
Il, Il seemed to me, almost to tho clcya-
ton of our malnmast We would havo
sailed by il without comment or fur
thcr thought, but just as our course
BROUGHT abont hundred feet aport
there was a Hnllen movement In the
mass. II began to unfold, and to our
horror we saw tho trightful head OF
The SEA serpcnt rear itself and shoot
rp@ard until the fierce eyes OF the
monster glaral down at US from a tre-
ln,aioul height Before the captain
could sha1t ~ order The serpent sank
like failing meteor into the sea, and
with a roaring hiss rushed toward our
vessel. Its monstrous head held high
abeve the water, It's jaws apart Ike tho
opening to some great cavern, its eyes
glazing fire
"'T'o your axesr shouted tho captain,
Every man of rs seized an ak. The
sea monster quicAly covered the space
between where he lay and our vessel,
and thrust hts horrible head over the
gunwaie As TO dill SO he stopped ASH
brought up by something that held him
baels. And something did Away out
on the water. where his middle was,
bis body doomed up Ike watcr-loggcd
wreck. But We had no time to wonder
ut that. 1t was my privilege to strike
the awful serpent The first blow My
Ak sank to the helye in his back, Quick
" every sailor followed with telling
| blows. until we hacked and hewcd the