Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-02-24
A Day on Shore. No. 20.

| their paddles in concert. gradually
| bringing us nearer to the broad beach
whose sands glistened and sparl1cd in
| the rays of the morning sun. just risen
| from the sea Inside the coral forma-
| ton was sandy bottom. The water
! sh0alng rapidly until we could plainly
see scores of silver scaled mullet dart
| ing from under our bow, with small ar
| fishes following i'm their wake. The
motionless sea cucumber (holothuvia)
| in it's black jacket, was scattered here
| and there, looking like anything but
| an edible product of the ocean. Occa-
| Sionally small brown shark looking
| after his breakfast, lodged under our
| keel. while on shore the ducks squaWked
| in concert with the cackling fowl, the
| bleating goats. just being MIXED. the
| hoarSe lowing of the buffalo that have
| been brought from their Asiatic home
| to work in the rice fields, the barking
| of native ours, and overhead the birds
singing among the palm trees, created
a change from the life at sea, where
| silence reisns supreme.
| A two wheeled cart without springs
between the thils a broad hornal
steer line from each horn with which
in whose brown hands the lines were
firmly held. together with a club of no
mean dimensions, is a short description
| of the conveyance that was to take Us
| to town. Like an omnibus. there vas
always room for one more in this
vehicle, but it would not carry US all
The emergency had been provided fo.
Ivy half dozen -YcarS-pld heifers
With saddles and bride complete. and
were found to be no mean substitute
as far as speed was cencerned-to a
trntting horse. Il train of cars or chain
| lightning itself Those that preferred
a bovine mount Went out Of sigh in a
jiny that is. if the sailor hung to his
craft-W hich in majority of cases II
failed tx do and falling. Jack Mas
StreWn All along the road the condi-
tionS in each mans case being entirely
different Here We found ship
wrecked victim that had been rolled in
the dust until his blue rig had hecom-
a mass of decaYcd vegetation. thrr-
another Gilpin, that had lost hat if not
Mig ana had sustained injuries to his
dignity. that found Vent lib snmen hat
uncomrlint ntary remarks about Wild
cattle ana salt mprcgnated FOOLS. while
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